"My first game of D&D 5e" Topic

After a long time planning, I finally got a game in of the latest addition of D&D. I got to use my Dwarven Forge Dungeon Tiles as well.

Players searching for the missing son of a local lord. Following tracks in the snow.

Snow worm surprises the party from underneath the snow. Trys to drag the Rogue under the deep snow.

The party defeats the snow worms.

They follow the tracks to a crumbling tower.

Searching the tower for clues.

The party disturbs a nest of Stirges

Stirges attack!

The Rogue scouts out the dungeon under the tower. The lit fire seems to indicate someone is home.

Swarms of Rats attack

The party discovers a secret door after and find a dark ceremony taking place.

The missing boy is rescued from the clutches of the evil cult.

I can recommend D&D 5e as a good set of rules. Even with looking up rules on the fly the rules play fast once you get down a few concepts. The players have tactical options without a laundry list of things to choose from. Combat was straight forward and quick. A good time was had by all.

More pics and write up on my blog:
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The rule of thumb for D&D5e is that if there is a complex or a simple interpretation to a rule, the simple interpretation is usually the one.

Damon.

Beautiful layout. The foot prints in the snow are "high class" additions to an already cool gaming area.

Lovely looking game! How'd you do the snow?

Doug

Thanks for the comments. The snow is Woodland Scenics Snow
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For the foot prints, I had a small hand pump, that I used just a soft squeeze to puff away the snow. I use it to blow off dust or clean figures.

It is something like this:

The snow is Woodland Scenics Snow

Wow – that really looks great. For some reason, I thought the WS didn't look that good. How was the clean-up?

Doug

Good stuff!!

Great looking table. I would never have thought of sprinkling snow flock then puffing out footprints. So effective, so simple it's brilliant.

Great looking game!

Great looking board and fugures. But too 'wargamey' for my tastes. Seems like D&D has become a solid set of skirmish rules.

@Zardoz, it is not the D&D rules, it's me.

Every DM has a style. I lean towards more skirmish with a story. Other DM's lean more Story with an occasional fight. Honestly I love making terrain and layouts. It's what YOU make of it.

The combat mechanics are pretty basic. In fact, I intend on expanding them. But then again I never met a rule set I didn't want to tinker with.

Don't dismiss them cause I like skirmish.

@elsyrsyn I'll let you know, LOL

Xin

Yes, 5th Edition is actually far less 'wargamey' then either 4th or 3rd were. My current group actually runs the combat without any models or visual aids at at all, other than sketching out a quick situation map in the cases where it matters to them.

-Will

Epic terrain!