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Hi folks, I am coming up with a campaign idea. Sort of Men in Black meets the fantasy multiverse. The idea is that an AI has become self aware, and an unforeseen consequence of that is that the walls between the real and the imaginary are weakening. Fiction is seeping into the world, whether it...

Hiya, I don't like how mounts work in 5e in combat. I'm thinking of this for a houserule. Any feedback? Mounts and riders act together on the characters turn Mounts and riders share a move speed while the character is mounted If untrained in animal handling, a character can choose either...

Inspired by @Nebulous and their excellent campaign recaps, I've decided to post mine - set in the same world of midgard. This is Empire of the Ghouls campaign and so far it has been excellent. We are running it most weeks on roll20. I've been too lazy this time to write up a campaign journal...

Hi everyone, with the release (not so long ago) of Eberron: Rising From the Last War, I will be starting a new campaign in a couple of weeks. I thought I'd start a thread where everyone is welcome to post about their Eberron campaigns. Not only will this give you an interested audience (even if...

Hi all, I have been running the Lost Mine of Phandelver for some time (and more than once) with my kids aged 11, 9 and 7 using the pre-gen characters. They are now keen to roll up their own characters and start a full campaign like I play with my friends. Can anyone suggest a good campaign for...

We are currently playing through the Tomb of Annihilation, and one of the characters has picked up a floating skeleton called Yakka who constantly spouts bad jokes. Constantly. The problem is, I'm tapped out of skull and skeleton themed jokes. Anyone know any terrible jokes that would be...

Hi all, I'm just thinking about my next campaign (currently in the last chapter of Tomb of Annihilation) and the concept I have come up with is: Set in Stormreach, Eberron - so crazy jungle frontier port town on a jungle continent where time and distance are really weird and everyone is...

Good news for DMs like me that use Roll20 a lot: https://wiki.roll20.net/5th_Edition_OGL_by_Roll20 This will make prep a whole lot easier. The new character sheet is so much more simple to read and to use than the old one too. What's more, it enables me to use any monster as a template, as...

I just found this while randomly browsing the interwebs - A homebrew Warforged for 5e. I don't think I've seen it on here. http://imgur.com/a/kha8A I like it. Interestingly for me, it looks as constitution becomes a much more important stat for this creature as it is the only thing that...

I'm thinking about starting a running gag in my game, where nameless mooks (as they get cut down) say something that adds to their character and is amusing. Such as: "Tell my wife I love her..." "But the treasure, you didn't ask me about the treasure. Urk". "It's just a flesh wound" "Bury me...

I played D&D with my 7, 5 and 3 year old kids this afternoon. We have been playing lost mines of Phandelver and they have been loving it. However we reached the cavern with the Nothic. The Nothic communicated telepathically with the wizard, Sensai (Sensai is his character name - the 7 year old)...

Hi all, I know I like reading through other people's runthroughs so I thought I'd post my own. This time I am trying to be more organised with my campaign and am keeping a wiki and adventure log through obsidian portal. I am running Princes of the Apocalypse, but have set it in Eberron 30...

I find nothing in the rules that says you need to wait till your first turn to take a reaction. Does that mean you can take a reaction before your first turn (if you are not surprised)? This would have a big impact on some characters with a low initiative modifier but special reaction abilities...

Hi all, we are just putting together my first 5e campaign. If it is anything like my 4e campaign it will last about 6-7 years. We've decided to set it in Eberron and one of the players is interested in having the mark of the Sentinel. This is what I've come up with. I kind of want dragonmarks...

Is standard/move/minor the best way? I believe standard/minor would work better in that you would have to make more considered choices each round looking tactically to which way you think the battle would flow. Of course rogues would have abilities/powers/whatever to move and attack in a...

In terms of class mechanics, two things I have heard are: The classes are now balanced - this is brilliant The classes now all work the same way - this is vanilla and boring What we need in 5E is a way of having classes remain balanced, while working very differently in gameplay. The big...

It's been an interesting week. My town, Christchurch, New Zealand, was destroyed by an earthquake on Tuesday. I'm one of the lucky ones - most of my family and friends are safe. I have power back on now, but for my gaming friends I don't think any of them have power or water. We'd all love to...

Hiya, we are just starting up a 4e campaign, but would like to have a larger group than our current 3 players. We are all around the age of 34. We try and play every week, but cancel games if too many people have other family/work commitments that week. It doesn't happen too often. If only one...

Well, it's bedtime on Friday June the 13th, and for the second time Amazon have not kept their word. I ordered the box set on Feb 2nd, was told it would be sent on the 6th. On the 7th I was told it would be sent between the 9th and the 12th. I WANT MY BOOKS! Waaaaah. I'm so worked up by all...

Just wondering if anyone knows, since it looks as if I'll be getting the second printing (despite pre-ordering in February), will I get the bonus that the second printing has had some of the errors fixed. It would be nice to know that my short term pain will lead to long term happiness. ;)