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    D&D 5E Ideas for a Crystalline Biome?

    So I wanted to introduce a crystalline biome for an upcoming adventure. Maybe a place like the crystal towers shown briefly in the Neverending Story 1, for all of you old geezers like myself who have seen it. Was thinking that the place is made from living and growing crystals that feed on...
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    D&D 5E When Players Are Indecisive

    So in my latest game session - for the first time in a goodly long while - I ran an episode where essentially nothing happened. There was no combat. There was no strife. No particular clues were discovered. No mysteries unraveled. There WAS some investigation and exploration of a fantasy...
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    D&D 5E Orichalcum?

    So I wanted to introduce a weapon made of an unusual magical metal for an upcoming game. Orichalcum seemed like a suitable legendary type. The only problem is - what exactly makes orichalcum special and unique? In the real world it was likely some sort of bronze or brass alloy. I believe...
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    D&D 5E Random Thought Exercise: Help me make the edgiest of edgelords?

    What do you all think? Race - Shadar-Kai? Class: Assassin (Rogue), Hexblade/Fiend Warlock, maybe Undead Warlock? Shadow Sorcerer? Vengeance Paladin, Conquest Paladin? Oathbreaker Paladin? Soulknife? Blood Hunter? Some combination of the above? Background: Something in which its parents...
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    D&D 5E What is your favorite part of playing D&D?

    I'm sure this has been done a bazillion times, but...as the title says. If you had to pick, say, up to three?
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    D&D 5E Weirdness: The more monsters, the less the XP.

    Something I've been thinking about in 5e: I've been DMing pretty much since the outset of 5e. During the process of encounter design, groups of monsters get an effective "XP multiplier" that counts toward encounter difficulty and XP budget; but does not contribute to the actual XP earned by...
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    Seeking ideas for a Religious Horror setting

    Looking for disturbing and/or horrific ideas for a large, multifaith theocratic city in my game world. I'm not opposed to a bit of cultish activity, but I want the core religious institutions to nevertheless maintain a gray to white morality. Some categories of example that I'm pondering: *...
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    D&D 5E Sorcerers and Versatility

    In a certain other recent thread it seems like I've been seeing hordes of armchair theoreticians who have been making assorted claims about the sorcerer despite obviously having comparatively little play experience. Now - I like the class, and I'm not personally certain that the errata is all...
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