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Can anyone suggest any published material I can use for a tier 3 setting, either wholly or to pick stuff from? I have a long running campaign and the characters are strong 9th level characters and there are 8 of them. They are likely to end up on a different world for a while. An alternate...

I’m new to running Traveller and am looking for advice. One of the conceits in Traveller RPG (all the ones I’ve looked at) is that melee weapons are commonly used in combats aboard a spaceship and the reason generally given is to avoid damaging important equipment. Has anyone seen or homebrewed...

How have people handled (or suggest handling) characters defeating some elite drow warriors and looting them for their poison? I am aware of a sage advice comment along the lines that the poison damage is a monster effect like a snakes bite but you can get poison from a dead snake in the game...

I run a game and the player of the wizard has a tendency to find a thing that works pretty well and specialise in it then get bored. He doesn’t try other stuff because of the opportunity cost vs casting his specialisation. He is an evocation wizard who had taken elemental adept fire and he tends...

I’m building the lair of a beholder who is meant to be smart connected and powerful. I see that animated object monsters like flying swords have anti magic susceptibility but golems don’t. Does this mean that such a creature works as normal in an antimagic cone? So the beholder could say...

In a game I run one of the characters who is a tempest cleric of a chaotic good deity attracted the attention of a succubus. I decided she would try and corrupt him with the three elements as stated in the MM. The first one was to commit an evil deed - she tricked him into releasing a lich. I...

By bait and switch what I mean when you allowed the players to think that the plot or theme or basis of the campaign or adventure was one thing and then partway through it turned out to be another. A common method is where they might think they’re playing normal people but they turn out to be...

I’ve played D&D since 1e though skipped 4e and played 3e/pathfinder during that era and have played 5e close to RAW since it came out. Two of the rules which are supposedly in place to keep a lid on characters getting too powerful are the magic item attunement limit and concentration mechanic. I...

I have just finished watching Stranger things 3, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and reading the recent article about increasing sales of D&D and found myself being slightly concerned about the portrayal of D&D in the latest season - if such things matter to the industry, which the article suggested...

I know some won't agree with me on a number of fronts but I believe that the Paladin class is the most powerful of the 4 or 5 melee classes (barb, fighter, ranger, paladin & monk). To address this without simply permanently removing some of their features I am contemplating playing a stricter...

Matt Colville posted on YouTube that he is working on house rules to help get past the "5 minute adventuring day" and to address what seems to be a fairly common occurrence being that games tend to have only one or two encounters before a long rest. I'd link but I don't know how. His solution...

So I'm running my first Forgotten Realms campaign since I briefly gave it a go when the original grey box came out so I am a realms novice but have DMed a lot. I grew up on 1e as did most of my players and as a rule we prefer a slightly slower advancement. I like most of the WOTC adventures. So...

I'm not saying it's going to happen but if it did what are a bunch of good pre 5e (Oe - Next) adventures that could be reasonably be compiled into a book of adventures to be produced next. They should be mostly dungeon crawls. Here are my suggestions. 1. Keep on the Borderlands. Level 1-2 This...

In a campaign I am GMing the party of 7 4th level characters were defeated by mind flayers. I decided that rather than a tpk the Mind flayers would turn the party into Manchurian Candidate style sleeper agents. I have told the Players that their characters have no recollection of meeting the...

In the old days the DM built the campaign and the players explored it. This is pretty much how I prefer to play whether as player or DM. The players were in charge of their character and little else. Apart from killing stuff and getting loot a big motivation was to explore the world the DM had...

I have a decent collection of stuff (1e-5e but almost no 4e) and am always looking at reusing or adapting stuff that I have. I just read a post about a reskin of Sunless Citadel adventure to make it a jungle ruin with grungs replacing the goblin cohort which sounds great. What other reskins of...

I'm interested in tabletop 5e, non AL stuff. Did any news for future releases of upcoming product (game resources) come out of Pax east 2016 ? Or is the latest thing still a possible rumour about an adventure path with Shakespearean Giants? when should we expect new announcements?

I'm in the process of incorporating the Githyanki Incursion campaign into my campaign and I have read a fair bit about the Githyanki but I note that the lore says that essentially Githyanki grow to maturity (at about 16) on the prime plane (because you can't mature on the Astral) and then have...

In other editions and games there is a skill called streetwise to use when -gathering rumours, -finding the likely location of the thieves guild,- tracking down someone who might be selling a desired item,- knowing the affiliation of some n'er do wells you bump into;or just finding a lost puppyI...

I suspect this has already been discussed but I couldn't find it so if is I apologise for bringing it up again Whenevr I think I understand grapple a PC does stuff that needs further thought. If a PC grapples someone (X) on round 1 and X fails to escape on his turn: - does the PC have to do...