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I've been running Zeitgeist in 5e for a while now, and we've got some sessions coming up where we'll be down quite a few players - holiday season, and all that. I'm thinking of running a one-shot for a bit instead, and considered it might be a good time for Crypta Hereticarum. But I've also been...

I think Magical Weapon is interesting. I think it falls into a category of "very specific theme" feats, but that's not a bad thing. You should decide - and specify - whether spells affected by this feat can score critical hits. Presumably, and I think that's technically the case by RAW, but...

A few months ago, I started running the Zeitgeist campaign updated to 5E (excited for those Patreon updates!) During the events of the first adventure, someone fled from a boat by way of an allied kraken. One of my players is particularly impulsive, and since his orders were to detain her, he...

I really didn't expect you to go a theme route rather than backgrounds with features, but I really like the new feats. I've been running a 5E Zeitgeist game for a bit now, but we're only just now wrapping up the first adventure, and plan is now to shift my players over to these during the...

Not going to get into the question of whether the dm-pc is a good fit or not - I'm going to assume you know your [small] group, and you know what'll work best. But if you're looking for someone that'll put the focus on the other PCs by just offering support and healing, a pacifist cleric is...

Under a strict - and in this case, I think correct - reading of the rules, I don't believe so. A hybrid ranger can only use Hunter's Quarry "when you hit your quarry with a ranger power or a ranger paragon path power". You're not hitting your quarry with a ranger power - you'd be hitting them...

Sorry, I reread my post and I wasn't as clear as I should have been on the implement thing. I wasn't saying "let bards use it", I was saying "give it a specific property, like that of bardic instruments, that lets chaos sorcerers use it". Since they normally don't have either orbs or wands...

Those are fairly awesome, but I'd definitely peg them as a level 11/16/21/26, not 13/18/23/28. They are, for almost all intents and purposes, identical to a Magic +X ki focus - the "roll anything" is pretty nifty, but certainly no more powerful, I'd expect, than the shape-changing...

Ringmail is a new type of superior armor introduced in Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium. It requires a feat to be proficient with, and has a property - Durable II, as you noted - that separates it from other armor. The Durable property specifically gives a sort of one-use damage reduction...

Having done something similar in the past, my recommendations are twofold, and may be things you're not interested in doing. Obviously, whatever works for you, but in my experience: Get an omnidirectional, conference-room mike. If you really want the remote player involved, sound quality is...

Not to debate the point too much, but there are a few things I'd like to note that you seem to have ignored or missed. Dimensional Lock prevents teleporting out of the force cage. Or using Etherealness or Dimension Door or anything of the sort. Dimension Lock does allow Spell Resistance, but...

In response to this, I'd like to suggest that your DM is apparently a very gentle fellow. I'd expect a super-intelligent wizard casting Time Stop to kill you without you even getting to act. Use a maximize metamagic rod, Time Stop, then, oh, I dunno. Empowered Cloudkill, Dimensional Lock, and...

Because it breaks the action economy of the game. While the concept is more of a 4E one, the action economy is still the single biggest balancing factor in 3.5, as well. Meteor Swarm hits things hard, but to be honest, not that impressively hard on its own. Time Stop, on the other hand, gives...

It's an amusing visual. :D I suppose the distinction is that my group is a huge fan - as am I - of Sanderson's First Law. Handwaves of "its magic" aren't the most useful things ever for my group. Obviously your mileage may vary.

This is a really neat idea. Like many others, I might need to steal it for my game at some point. One thing here - the logic doesn't seem consistent here. Obviously you can say that "it's just magic" and wave it away, but if drinking the fire potion makes you immune (but spitting/pouring...

I voted "no", with the focus on "keep them in setting-specific locations". The key here for me is that, frankly, I don't care about D&D's "shared history" or anything of the sort. Despite having been playing for fifteen years now, and having played in Greyhawk, in the Forgotten Realms, in...

What I don't understand here, then, is why you've defined this character as a fighter - in any edition. If you're playing a cowardly weak guy who's always picked on, wouldn't he make more sense as a rogue, or maybe a warlord with "I don't attack" powers? In the former case, you'd have a...

I never really understand the argument that roles are in some way "anti-roleplaying" or "pigeonholing" characters. Roles are an entirely mechanical conceit - they have no bearing whatsoever on how the character is played, personality- and choice-wise. They exist to describe, at a glance, what...

I'm not going to be replying as eloquently as Celebrim, but my thought on this one is a resounding "no", for a simple reason. The PCs of a campaign are, at least in my mind, designed to be the protagonists. The people that you root for around the table. The DM runs both bystanders and...

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