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This is the start of our 5e campaign. I never ran SJ back in the day and honestly thought it looked ridiculous. Fast forward decades and this is the wackiness I've been wanting and didn't even know. It's also a complete tonal shift from anything I've ever run before. Some thanks to @Morrus...

I don't usually post real life articles, but this was a 7000 word essay I thought some of you might enjoy. If you like the essay, please let me know. Any feedback is appreciated!. https://vocal.media/criminal/the-true-story-behind-mazes-and-monsters

It just came to me out of the blue that "dweomer" hasn't been used in D&D since...what, 2nd edition? Ist? I thought Gygax invented it, but a quick Google search says Borrowed from Middle English dweomer, from Old English dwimor, from Proto-Germanic *dwemrą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-...

I'm prepping Call of the Netherdeep for Roll20. We won't play for a couple months yet, but I want to incorporate some of the A5e rules. Which ones can be most easily incorporated into a hybrid game on Roll20 without needing a dedicated character builder? What is most useful that would make O5e...

This is a one-shot I'm running for about a month. It will probably be three or four episodes. I do love how easy it is to adapt old TSR stuff to 5e, and this is a pretty solid little adventure. I really liked reading it and fitting the story into Roll20 visually. The Created - Session #1...

PCs have the baddie tied up and questioning him while the bard has Detect Thoughts going. What is the difference between surface thoughts and deeper probe that should allow a save to resist? They're asking him detailed stuff, such as "Who do you work for?" The baddie doesn't want to answer...

Yeah, I should know this by now, but it came up the other day and stumped the group. They wanted to throw a grappling hook on a knotted rope 80 feet up and snag a small window they'd broken. We were trying to figure out how much the knotted rope would help, but the best we could find was that...

Here it is: MACHINE'S LOAD 1 transmutation (clockwork) Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V S M (a 1-lb weight) Duration: Up to 1 minute Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard You touch a creature and give it the capacity to carry, lift, push, or drag weight as if it were one...

This is the Kobold Press Midgard campaign setting, and in particular the adventure book focusing solely on the Margreve Forest. We started at 1st level and the campaign is still ongoing. There is no set end point, but probably won't go past 7th or 8th level. The adventure is being run in...

These are all eight sessions of our Roll20 Alien adventure by Free League. The sequel "Destroyer of Worlds" is currently being prepped. Estimated length of campaign: 14 hours total. Chariot of the Gods - Part 1 Box Chariot of the Gods - Part 2 Box Chariot of the Gods - Part 3 Box...

Not 5e, but people who read my other 5e recaps might like this one. Not sure the best place to put it. Anyway, it is not a particularly long campaign. I was actually running it for two groups simultaneously, but one of them petered out and crumbled, but I still had the other group. So the...

I didn't write this, but someone else posted and I am putting the link here. So, my party has just reached 4th level and I'm trying something different. I'm letting them choose from the revised Feats in the document, and I'm also adding Character Options: Talents by Dragonix (who also wrote...

So, I'm thinking of branching out and trying something different on Roll20. I've been wanting to run Numenera for years, and I've got the hardbacks and the PDFs. Roll20 supports the character sheet but not official adventures, but I've been looking at The Devil's Spine by Monte Cook and it...

I used to do this some in 3e, but for some reason I haven't thought of doing it in 5e. I guess because the rather bland character advancement is definitely spiced up by feats. But I was thinking today that the array of feats is so wide, and generally uneven, with broken feats on one end, and...

So we started Forge of Fury some months back just before quarantine started. I didn't know Roll20 at all and had resisted online play for years because A) I prefer in person, and B) I didn't want to learn a new difficult system (hint; Roll20 is difficult and I was right, it took me four weeks...

I'm well versed in 5e and have run plenty of games, but I have a slight problem in Lost Mine and wanted to ask how others would handle it. The PCs are finally in Wave Echo Cave and have been through a few encounters and a couple of them are beat up. They found the storage area at Room #7 and...

I recently picked this up. Although a few have been converted to 5th edition (meenlock, quickling) I'm somewhat surprised by how many monsters I don't remember from anywhere at all. I'm sure it's because some were from other settings I didn't play much, like Ravenloft and Al Qadim, etc. Some...

Prompted by another thread; if you were involved in a new D&D game and were aware up front it would NOT be a combat heavy game, or hardly any combat at all, but rather exploration and mystery and horror, would you still play? Assume you do not know the DM and he is not a friend, this is all...

So last session combat broke out inside a tall tower, and the monk wanted to climb up from the ground. It's 80 feet to the window. She moves 40, so that's climb half speed, so 20 feet. The DC wasn't hard, DC 10, but she wanted to get up there fast and burned a ki point and rolled a 20 and said...

So myself and another DM were mulling over some options. We don't like the default roll d20 and add Dex. It works, but it's also boring after years of the same thing, and it puts a ton of emphasis on Dex which is already super important. So we thought about stealing Perception skill as...