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Just playtesting last week. Our Barbarian was last man standing and was chopping his way through goblins and when half were down he tried to Intimidate the remainder to retreat. I went back to the old goblin stats from 2e and took their morale score from the compendium - average 10 - and...

I begrudge using an attunement slot for a Ring of Protection when the Paladin gives out higher save bonuses without breaking a sweat. Bracers of Defence and Rings of Protection never used to stack with magic armours but the 5e wording is sketchy, especially surrounding Barbarians or Monks and...

Just finished watching Revelations (no spoilers) and find myself speculating about the characters. Some are more obvious than others - Evil Lynn appears to be a 17th level Illusionist, Teela a Battle-Master (10th - 13th level perhaps) and Orko appears to be a wild-magic sorcerer (he hasn't...

Given the bounded nature of 5e, would it be possible to bring back name level for player characters? Essentially, this limited the hit points, narrowed the gap between high and low Con characters and limited hit point bloat once the PCs had a decent chunk of hp in the bank. At Name level...

Our current campaign includes an optimised tunnel fighting polearm master paladin and it's becoming obvious that the build is too powerful compared to the other PCs. Are there any simple solutions that could reign in this build without screwing over other similar builds? Options I thought of...

I'm dissatisfied that shadow magic has been nudged out of 5e. The shadow sorcerer is flavoursome but has no real shadow spells to pick. What recommendations would people make to form up a shadow mage's spell list?

One of my players tried to design some homebrew feats to expand on the existing weapon styles. I'm not especially adept at assessing unforeseen synergies or balance issues so I was wondering if anyone else had any input: BATTLE HARDENED v1 Prerequisite: Character level 5 or higher Your...