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This is a less-ghoulish take on a Will-o-Wisp; a tiny fey spirit that does tricks with light. Originally conceived as a thematic Chain pact option for Undying Light warlocks, but fits well as an Archfey or Great Old One familiar, too. http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/SkbHae-xKx

I made this a while ago but it got removed from the site when the databases went kaput. I thought I'd put it back up, especially since someone is apparently playtesting it. http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/BJZAJlxeYl Archivist Archivists are the theological scholars and occult...

Eldritch blast can only target creatures, which can seem a little weird since the description makes it sound like a destructive beam of magical force that damages whatever it hits. I don't foresee any significant game balance problems with allowing the spell to work on inanimate objects, but if...

I created this monster primarily out of a desire for Undying Light warlocks to have an appropriate familiar, something like a will-o'-wisp but less powerful. With the myriad legends surrounding ghost lights, I felt there was room for another interpretation. This one gives them qualities that...

So it looks like we'll be getting some rules for the Ravenloft setting. I'm pretty excited. One thing I'm really curious about, though, is what connection (if any) the Realm of Dread would have with the Shadowfell. In the DMG, the Shadowfell's description sounds very Ravenlofty, with mention of...

I was examining the reviews for the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide because I was curious if the average was misleading. This is the grade distribution for all ratings cataloged on the site: 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 The fast majority thought this product was pretty good...

Well, somebody's gotta rescue all the stupidest build threads, so I guess this falls to me. Originally posted by chrisasmadi: Posted a while back on the old forum, due to various reasons(GCSEs and going on holiday), I never actually got around to moving this to the new boards. Thus, I present...

I sometimes find myself looking for a skill to represent mundane, scientific knowledge. Something akin to the architecture and engineering skill. What would that fall under right now? The rock gnome stats sort of imply it would be History, but that feels super weird. I'm half-tempted to just...

The flavor of force damage has always seemed a little unclear to me. It usually doesn't go any more in-depth than "this is pure magic damage," and that's not really helpful if you just want some idea of what it's actually doing to your body when it hurts you. I was puzzling over how force damage...

I've reached a sort of conundrum here. I know some D&D creatures are based on very obscure monsters, but never has one so completely stumped me and my internet searches before. The Vaati are a group of air elementals, yeah? Where does that name come from? I'd just write it off as a made-up word...

This was a fun thread with some cool ideas. I dunno if Foxface goes here too and would rather do it him/her self, but I'm sure it won't ruin anything if I do it now. Hey, maybe we can even keep working on it here! Source...

I only just recently learned that ranged spell attacks do not add your Dexterity modifier to the roll. I've been doing this wrong for like a year, adding both my spellcasting ability AND Dex to my ranged spell attacks (and adding Strength to melee spell attacks). Did anyone else make this...

This has been bugging me for a while. It is impossible to go from the description of a spell to the main list of spells in one click. The Spells link is blacked out, and the Spells Database link takes me to an empty void. If I want to go back to the list of spells, I always have to first go to...

For a while, the "Why does 5e SUCK!?!?!" thread was actually just people talking about different aspects of the game in a friendly manner. I'm not sure if it stayed that way, but one thing I got out of it was finally getting a chance to share my ideas on pricing magic items. I'll move it here...

I started attending a D&D encounters thing, and I've always wanted to try doing a campaign journal (ever since I read these amazing ones from GitP), so when this one turned out to be very... unusual... I decided to record my memories eternally on the world wide web! I hope you find the...

I was noticing that the PHB states a divine spellcaster can make holy water by expending a spell slot and 25 gp-worth of powdered silver. I'm trying to understand why that would be useful. I mean, powdered silver sounds like it would be almost as hard to procure as holy water, and it costs just...

UPDATE (2019): Oh jeez, tinypic done bit the dust and erased everything here! I've reuploaded the missing images just for the sake of archival purposes, but to be honest, this version of the system is super-outdated anyway. There is a new version now! Fralex's Expanded Alchemy v2.0. I was...

I've been trying unsuccessfully to convince my friends to play D&D with me all semester. The semester is almost over now, but there is hope! A new friend I made says she and her friends have been wanting to play a game but aren't experienced enough to DM. I offered to make an adventure for them...

This is just an idea I want to try out that uses wounds to make HP loss more meaningful than just a score decreasing. -HP doesn't represent any one particular thing, but in this case I'm interpreting it as a measure of how much "fight" someone has left in them. Normal hits are just grazing...

The difference, as I understand it, was supposed to be something along the lines of "Conjuration creates or transports matter, evocation creates or transports energy." But there seem to be tons of evocations that sound like they'd be conjurations, and vice versa. Like, wall of fire is an...