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Being an inexperienced GM/DM, I have difficulty getting the group back on track if they focus on the... wrong thing in an adventure.  For example, characters were hired to protect a caravan with the promise of payment on the other end.  They arrived and the caravan "owner" didn't pay them the agreed-upon sum.  They didn't put the clues together that the caravan "owner" 1) got there ahead of them when there was only one road between the towns, and 2) when their detect evil spell "failed" they decided to focus on the caravan owner instead of investigating the cargo.  (The real owner was still in the original town.  A doppelganger just started operating as the owner in the other town without owner's knowledge.)  We spent an entire session of them trying to track the "owner" instead of following the cargo, which continued with the caravan.  That's the example.  The question is how does one allow the freedom to explore yet keep the story moving forward?  My friends gave up as me being the GM/DM because the session wasn't fun for them (it was only my 2nd or 3rd session).  I wasn't prepared for them to follow this rabbit trail.

 I had a problem a lot like this, where the players decided to steal two barrels of ale from a tavern's cellar in the middle of the day just for fun. It took the whole session to get back on track, and in the process they killed four guards and destroyed the tavern wall. Players are unpredictable and there's nothing you can say to stop them being so, as that would take the freedom out of the game, so the best thing to do is to accept that this is the route the players have taken and try and keep the fun going as best you can through improvisation and logic. If you have good reason to tell the players to change their style, talk to them, if not, then you'll just have to make do.

Well, from what the books say, a person can infact be born with lycanthropy as long as at least one parent was a lycan. Wether they were infected or also born with it.

A Guide to Mounted Combat

I'm in interested in how to optimize role-playing as a player and as a DM.  I'm also looking for how to sell a player, NPC, or even the setting's cool factor as a player.  By selling, think of it like wrestling.  I'm not just talking about during combat, but during social role-playing and problem solving.

PER DM's Guide page 140 Magic Staffs:

"Unless otherwise noted in the description a staff can be used as a Quarterstaff." 
My only concern is that a magic staff may have an ornamental top with might be damaged when used as a quarterstaff.

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My only concern is that a magic staff may have an ornamental top which might be damaged when used as a quarterstaff.

 But... it's magic.

So I want to make a barbarian subclass like Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight, but can’t figure out how to do it. The adding spellcasting part I can’t figure out.

I'm interesting in learning how going to a wizzard school would work. Is there a online campaign for it or something or do you do it yourself and make it up?

In a recent UA, fighters were given the ability to fight unarmed. Could we possibly get a revised version of Unarmed fighting in general? Like adding bonuses for having certain stats, like with 16 Str with Unarmed Fighting, they are treated like one-handed light weapons for the purpose of off-hand attacking for example? Even with that bonus they'd still be a diet monk with tank stats, without it just doesn't make much sense to me. Edit: Added the last sentence

I’ve always been interested in the cleric, but I’ve noticed when making my first cleric that although they’re mostly known as healers, they’re more of religious people. How should my cleric act, anyway? Should he just act super religious and pompous?

I mean, in the players handbook there’s a list of gods and stuff so you could read about that, but a lot of the time the gods are made up for the campaign

Can you provide som tips on how to scale encounters for larger groups other than just giving monster more hp?
I DM a group og 5-6 players, and often experience my monsters getting super nuked (too little xp) and they prove no real challenge because their +hit is not high enough.
Do I add higher lvl monster and nerf them, or do I add more low lvl monster at buff them?

thank you :)

Why does it clear out the information that you put in fields when you leave a page and go to another one? You should put a SAVE button at the bottom of each page to remind people to save. DO you have anyone doing UI testing or evaluation of this website? For the amount of money you charge it should be better designed.

I would like to see some optional systems for magic, especially a decent Mana option that has different suggestions for heavy, moderate, and light magic and encounter campaigns.  If these could then be integrated into the online character builder, that would be especially useful.

is there a way to make a new actual class?

Not on DDB (that I know of).

Using the homebrew thingy

An entry on advance studies of Stealth and Hiding and application of determining  Surprise at rolling for initiative. 

How exactly we play this game?

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Using the homebrew thingy

 I concur. Also there are some bugs in the homebrew creator as I used it