The new DMG likewise has a big table for figuring out how many rolls would succeed given a target number and number of rolls.

I have two approaches I prefer these days:

1. The damage pool. Instead of tracking individual damage, you pool damage in a single tally and remove the last monster hit when it crosses the HP of a monster. Add up all the damage and remove a bunch of monsters with an area attack.

2. Group up sets of monsters into four groups and then roll once for each group. If sixteen skeletons have to save versus a turn undead. Group them into four groups of four and roll four times.

We have a handful of ideas like this in Forge of Foes and the Lazy DMs Companion and released them under a CC license here:

https://slyflourish.com/lazy_gm_resource_document.html#runninghordes

The Black Flag SRD also has some simpler spellcaster NPCs.

https://koboldpress.com/black-flag-reference-document/

I gave my opinions about it here: https://youtu.be/_v-jnQCTZ1Q?si=yOklCEzs4gkqg4n1

Awesome stuff! The one thing I’d consider adding are some random names. They’re the number one improv tool.

I don’t see anything in here about them removing the art.

Awesome! Thank you!

Regardless of motivation, spending the money to translate the 5.1 SRD into four languages and then putting it out into the CC opens up a lot of expansion of 5e into other countries and people who never would otherwise play. And it does so regardless of what WOTC does in the future. It’s prudent that we don’t trust WOrC. With this out there, we don’t have to trust them.

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I’m putting a lot of hope in the extra 32 pages the sourcebook gets. I’m hoping for more text and tools to help me run my own Planescape adventures.

I really didn’t know anything about Lemmmy. Things are moving fast. I did mention Mastodon, blogs, podcasts, and rss feeds.

Thanks for the post!