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One thing I dislike about 5E is the blurring between these two magic types. There used to be a certain amount of Niche Protection. There was a clear way arcane and divine powers were not only used but gained. Divine Magic came from the Gods or Godlike forces and you had to have faith to use...

My friends and I like coming up with strange little funny ideas about the D&D world that are comical. This was one of them. The King awarded lands and prestige to the Order Of The Blue Ostrich. Not only were they given certain tax free advantages but also holdings all over the kingdom. In...

If you were going to try and run a D&D campaign with the feel of Rick and Morty, What house rules options or changes would you make? I'm torn myself because it seems their are some better rpg's to base that kind of game on.....however, my players are much more interested in D&D 5E with this...

So here we go again. In my game tonight a player with a 20 Cha and Expertise in Persuasion, who plays the face man of the party was role playing his character and trying to talk another pc into doing what he wanted(helping some villagers). The other pc was a really slow witted barbarian half...

We had several close calls even though 90% of the encounters were easy until the first real major boss. Don't know how to hide spoilers so lets just say it was a major bad guy who was WAY over the pc's level 1 ability and even though he tried to (get away) the party forced him into a fight and...

A real life situation that I have seen at the game table was two people trying to remember a game rule and one of them was on the right track and starting to remember but the other guy helping him went down the wrong thinking trail and the guy about to solve it got all mixed up. I've seen the...

Say you are playing a rogue in a full group of platmail junkies going through a dungeon and so you want to move ahead of the group a bit to scout. How far do you need to get before you can stealth and move in front of the group without having them mess up your stealthiness? I'm thinking you...

Milestone Leveling is a time saver and gets the job done. There isn't a lot of doubt that it's become widely used especially in Adventure paths. Even so I have a heavy dislike for it. See to me D&D is a role playing game and the PC's should have the freedom to play their characters however they...

I DM a few 5E games. Some of my players love to play monster races like goblin,kobold and Lizard man, but regardless of what I tell them expect to be able to just walk on in to any town and city. This has lead to a few pc deaths. Also it seems to be the general thought that I'm home brewing...

Ok so yeah I played classic D&D and had a great time. Yes I could just go play Classic D&D and be done,finished. I realize that BUT....lets take it for a given that I don't want to do that. Lets say for instance that I love buying new stuff and my players scream 5E on waking every morning...

I love 5E but joined another group and playing Classic D&D. It was so different it wasn't even close to 5E. It was horrible in every possible way. People Died left and right, like sometimes for almost no reason. I felt like I was in the middle of a warzone. The 1st level cleric had no...

What would this character be like? I mean 8 is like the opposite of 12 so I would think that someone with a 8 in Int and Wis would just be slightly below average in both those regards. One way I told the player to think of it is that he is perfectly normal but often slightly wrong. He knows...

What if your group all died by Tiamat's hands? Then they all died fighting Evil Elemental cultists? The next group after that went vampire hunting in Ravenloft and meet their bloody deaths. One group of adventurers even went mad far far below in the Underdark and attacked a Demon Lord and had...

Is the Berserker Barbarian broken? Everyone seems to dislike it due to the exhaustion issue. Is it really that bad? How have you fixed it in your game? Or is this something you only see on message boards and in peoples home game it's not so much a issue? In my game almost every time Barbarians...

My players think 5E's exp advancement is way too fast. They don't want to have a stable of characters or create a new character with every adventure path( or even do adventure paths for that matter). They want to play their characters for years and years through many story arcs and adventure...

One of my players has come to me asking if his Pirate themed halfling beast ranger can have a monkey pet. It certainly looks fine on the surface of things but talking to him I became a little uneasy. He wants to arm it with daggers and even eventually a friggin flintlock(I allow those). I...

In fact,INSERT RULES HERE was a key part of the 3rd edition, and it means 5th edition is still missing full support for this previous edition. I keep seeing this over and over in tons of different forms. Posters wanting 5E to give them all the rule support of other editions. There seems to be a...

I want magic items coming out of the Wazoo! I just love tons and tons of magic items! I don't want them to be rare and mysterious but instead to rain down all over the place! Now I'm not saying my way is better or that i can't see some benefits to the other way. I don't want to start a debate...

Everyone in my group hates playing healers BUT one guy. He always loved being a 3.5/Pathfinder Cleric. He always did tend to be a melee cleric though. He loves to wade into combat and dish out the hurt by hand and use his spells for buffing before a fight and healing mostly afterwards. When...

So I use a lot of premade settings. It's just what I have mostly done. I make adventures ect..but tend to play Greyhawk or The Realms ect.. Of late I had extra time on my hands and so i created a couple of settings. One's I thought were good but a little different. Not like the other settings...