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Non-sentient undead are sort of just ammo in the archers quiver... It is the Archer you need to concern yourself with, not the arrow. This is one reason why I like to rule that killing the necromancer who raised the bones... will also drop the bones.

I once gave my sentient blade to a new player at the table because it had helped me be more engaged in roleplay . (sigh... I still miss my Blazey)

Thanks Stephan! Good feedback here - and also good story plot ideas! You are right... it might not be that fun to fight against a character you created.

As GM, I try to build up some mystery around each PC character which the other players may be tempted to try and figure out. For example... I had a player whose PC was secretly a follower of Bane (by their own backstory). I decided to try to find a way to challenge this character with a...

I have this idea for a future adventure series for our group but I'm not sure exactly how to play it out so I thought I would solicit some ideas. Background: The groups patron suddenly goes missing from their base of operations in Athkatla in the Sword Coast. They discover he was arrested and...

We run combat by the book most often... but occasionally I mix things up to keep them from becoming tedious. Party is currently at lvl 7... but I will sometimes throw low-level monsters at them.. Gobbys for example. When the monster is more than a few levels lower than the PC, we don't even...

I DM'd an adventure in a labyrinth. This was the kind of labryinth which, local legends claim, no one has ever made it out of alive. As I was planning, I thought to my DM self "Hey... wouldn't it be fun to have an NPC - that one individual who actually did make it out alive - to guide the party...

My example, if I did this at a table, would not have been presented to players beforehand. However when I do DM, I try to not always use a simple pass/fail but instead make up gradient results on the fly. Nat 1's and Nat 20's are hardly ever critical for skill checks or saving throws... but...

I do some solo adventure writing over at Heroes Gate (nowhere near ready for prime time... but fun for me) This would be difficult, I think... in real-time at a table but for textplay I often write out more complex "Result Tables" when a simple pass/fail seems dull and boring. Here is an example:

I have not done it yet... but some time back I had the idea to use a 24 hour rewind. I take a lot of liberties with time as it is... an enchanted gem sent the party back 500 years to an underground dungeon that has been stuck in a time loop. The objective was to stop the time loop, which would...

I'm a fan of the flashback... it does not always go over well at the table but the folks I play with have learned to expect the triggers. For example... "You approach a merchants cart in the town market. There an aging human woman sitting on a stool who greets you and asks what you might be...