What an ending!

Thanks. This was actually a published adventure path (first time running one of those. I normally run home brew games) because I mistakenly thought it would save me time. But between setting up all the maps and monsters in Roll20 and making changes to accommodate my much larger than expected party, it probably ended up being just as much work, if not more so. Then 5e came out and it felt like the solution to all the issues I was having running high-level Pathfinder. So we switched systems, which of course meant even more prep-work for me converting all the baddies over, but made the actual game sessions run much smoother.

But adapting the final battle to 5E probably took the most work of all (since treating the BBEG in his pocket dimension as a Legendary creature in his lair seemed to make a lot of sense and because 5e concentration mechanic pretty much invalidated the entirety of his published tactics) and I was really, really worried I had misjudged it, especially when it looked like a TPK in the making by the end of round 3. But credit to my players for never giving up and scouring their character sheets for whatever they could use to turn the tide.

RftG

Milords, ladies and other National Assistance holders, we interrupt this tale of epic tabletoppery to announce the beginning of game 8 of Race for the Galaxy. We have the same rules and cards as last game, and indeed the same players too. Everyone is about to receive a choice of two starting worlds, from which they will pick one; and a choice of six starting cards, from which they will choose four to be their starting hand. They will also receive the random goals for this game - as always, we have two "Most" goals and four "First" goals. Last game, Laga claimed four of them for a bonus 14 points, enough to secure victory. Will one player dominate them again?

Cards are going out now. Everyone, please let me know which cards you keep.

I realized going into our second Ravenloft session that my players were afraid of the room where they had elected to take an extended rest. Not wandering monsters, but the room itself.

I realized going into our second Ravenloft session that my players were afraid of the room where they had elected to take an extended rest.

Inducing generalized paranoia is a great achievement for a DM. Witness the famed horror of the gazebo.

Yeah, if you've got your players scared of inanimate objects, you're doing your job right.

The ranger actually removed all the taxidermized animals from the room 'just in case'. I rolled a D20 a few times just to freak them out before I told them nothing happened in the night.

Ah, the random die roll of taunting.

Yes. Nothing like responding to a player action by rolling a die and then pretending to either look something up or write something down before saying. "Okay."

I gave up on Blindspot about 5 episodes in because the main characters were boring me (even though I loved Jaime Alexander as Sif) but they dropped a nice D&D/Critical Role reference recently: [link]