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One thing I hate about the sorcerer is that they stole the inborn magical talent from the wizard. Now, everyone tends to treat arcane magic as: Inborn, you're a sorcerer Not inborn, don't worry, studdy hard and you can be a wizard. I guess you can have granted power (be a warlock) The way I...

Back in the Covid era, I ran some modules set in Thunder Rift, kind of turned it into a mini campaign for my friends. We haven't played in a while and they want to get back together for another run. I'm think of running In the Phantom's Wake, my problem is the starting location. It describes...

Still waiting for the next UA for another class group, my hope is that they keep the same subclass structure so that some subclasses can fit across classes. Some subclasses I'd like to see: Strixhaven subclasses recreated, might even recreate them myself for a strixhaven game. I thought these...

Out of interest, I was thinking about how an Artificer might access the arcane spell list since it seems that some classes have limited access to a spell list. While I'm not really assuming the artificer will get a revision in 2024 PHB, it might have a revision in a later book. Looking at the...

I came up with this idea when looking through the Even More Magic & Mayhem d20 fan made book for the WoW RPG while looking for ideas for my adaptation of the WoW shaman. In this book, one of the ideas was to turn the shaman into something like a 3e version of the paladin or ranger with increased...

With the new solamnic Knight feats from the Dragonlance UA out, it's made me start thinking of other feat ideas, that are similar in style. Something like: Bushi Benefit: Training with the katana (longsword) and wakazashi (shortsword). Benefit: Choose* from the brace, evasive footwork, or...

Probably a few of these threads around, but I'm curious what houserules people have for 5e. I have a small list, and I could easily play without them, but I like to use the following in my games. Double starting class hit points at level 1. This means that a fighter has 20 + constitution...

Something I've been thinking about is the 8th level ability for clerics and what other options there could be. Currently we have 3 options for level 8: Divine Strike (+1d8/+2d8 at 14th level) Potent Spellcasting (+ wisdom bonus to cantrip damage) Blessed Strikes (+1d8 to either weapon or...

There's a new MtG Kamigawa set out which I thought was surprising since I thought that setting didn't score very well with players. I've spent time looking through spoiler lists and looking at the art of the various cards, I'm not sure what genre (cyberpunk? Neonpunk, does punk even need to be...

I've been reading the thread on the recent errata and a few people dislike the great wheel. I don't consider thos a problem, but it has made me wonder what kind of cosmology people have set up, if they aren't using the great wheel. As an example, I have the following cosmology: The celestial...

Just thought I'd mention how I'm approaching faith and worship on my setting. I've decided that in my setting I'm going to combine my gods into a multitude of pantheons, by this I mean that you aren't an acolyte of the skyfather, the earthmother, or the war thane but an acolyte of the pantheon...

I've started to go over my martial exploits (was going to be manoeuvres, but I have trouble spell manoeuvres) and stances again, originally I was using attacks as a resource (spend more attacks on an exploit, get better effects) which originally seemed to work well but now seems kind of clunky...

I was just looking through some notes on my current campaign setting and, when looking through the Guilds and Groups section, noticed that I'd added something to one of the magical academies. Ironstone Academy (stolen from a 4e dragon magazine I think) is a dwarven wizard's guild which...

Just spotted this on Reddit, Amanda Hamon from Kobold Press is a new Senior Designer on DnD. I'd not heard of her before now, but apparently she has done quite a lot of work on Pathfinder and Starfinder and is leaving her former role as Editorial Director at Kobold Press. I expect she'll be a...

Does anyone else use templates for creatures in 5e to (fairly) quickly create a mixed group of enemies? I've created a few and am slowly adding in more, currently I have templates loosely based on the monster creation rules in 4e for Artillery, Brutes, and Soldiers which changes the stats in a...

Something I've been playing around with is the creation of quick avatars for the gods, one of those things that I may never use but I have the idea so I'll write it down in case I decide I want to use it later on. In my homebrew game, while I could create avatars similar to Tiamat or the Ice...

Just for fun I'm making up a wizard academy which while it will show up in my world, is unlikely that the current group would actually go there. What is like ideas on are fantasy sounding departments beyond just the schools of magic. Think about how the wizards of Unseen University had heads of...

So, seemingly unlike every other player of DnD on the planet, I actually liked the wizard psionic tradition and now that we have the Psi die I'm wondering how that would affect the tradition if the designers had kept it. I'd make the following changes (which might be too powerful but I'm not...

I saw a post over on Reddit, where they show a photo of the page with healing spirit which apparently has had a change so that it can only heal a number of times equal to 1 + casting modifier. I've checked DnDBeyond and, as of posting, it has not yet been updated. Do people think this is a...

A while ago I started working on exploits (for warriors with fighting styles) and war cries (for barbarians) I just opened up the document to have another look, below are the ideas I had for some war cries taken from 4e barbarians as well as the barbarian class in Diablo 3. Both war cries and...