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With the new companions in Tasha's, the Beast Master can use a bonus action to command the beast to take an action, typically Attack, but Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Hide are also possibilities. At 7th level, the ranger gets "Exceptional Training" which grants the ability to use a bonus action...

For more than 30 years I've been awarding half XP for players who miss the gaming session. What are considerations for changing this approach and awarding the same XP to everyone, absent or present? ETA: Playing 5E, don't care at all about characters all being the same level. Part of me...

I have an opportunity to help set up and run a short D&D game (maybe 4 hours?) for a corporate team building exercise. I'm figuring mostly newbies. 1. What are some good ideas for a dungeon to run for them? 2. What are some things you'd consider adding to make the experience better...

I searched and didn't come across anyone else's computation, so I ran one myself. In Tomb of Annihilation, I make the King of Feathers to be a CR 10 monster worth 5,900 XP. If anyone has come up with a different CR, please share it. Thanks!!

I'm drafting up a document to give to effected PC's. I've actually got a wereboar in one campaign and a weretiger in another -- and they're sisters IRL, too. Here's my current draft for the weretiger PC. What am I missing / what do I just have flat wrong? Thank you all in advance for your...

The base human really doesn't excel at anything, getting a nice, evenly distributed +1 to all stats. This doesn't really reflect how humans specialize in real life. The current solution to this, the Variant Human, becomes almost the only way to play a human, and I'd like to do away with it...

I was a little surprised to see Elven Accuracy go down so quickly in the Survivor thread. Is there some particular reason that this racial feat is not worthy or should be shunned? I'm considering using it, but is it broken? Uninspired? OP? What is the reason for its lack of popularity...

I believe the PHB is explicitly clear that your ASI / Feats are tied only to your class levels. Thus a multi-classed Fighter 3 / Rogue 3 has zero ASI's / Feats (assuming no Variant Human feat). That said, I know of at least one DM who is purposefully "misinterpreting" this rule to allow ASI's...

Search failed me, so I apologize if this has been covered sometime in the past. I've been awarding XP to my PC's after each session. Occasionally this has meant someone would be able to level up whilst still in the dungeon, and I have resisted this telling the player that they need to wait...

What, if any, scheduling assistant / app do you guys use for your FLGS AL games? We have AL games at our store probably 3-4 nights a week, but we are still facing the "sorry, the tables are already full" issue just about every night. There are plenty of players and potential players who...

My FLGS has a large number of new players, particularly in Adventures League. It really took off after I ran Vault of the Dracolich last year. Unfortunately, I'm seeing a general lack of knowledge of the rules. Everyone is just playing, which is great; but even the new DM's don't seem to have...

I skipped right over 3rd and 4th editions, but have just learned about skill challenges. I've read the applicable section in the 4th edition DMG. I have a bit of an idea how I might use them in my game. But they seem to rely on a player saying "I'll use diplomacy" or some such, instead of...

One of my parties want to try a one-shot evil party. I'd like to oblige them, but I'd prefer to use a published adventure rather than homebrew something like this. Anyone know of any suitable modules I could use? (The "one shot" could be over multiple days, I just don't want to run a whole...

How large of a tribe of hobgoblins would it take before the leader was a "captain", or a "warlord", type? I assume there isn't a "correct" answer, but I'd welcome thoughts and opinions.

I want to use some of my older monsters from the AD&D Monster Manual. Not sure how some of these ought to work with the new Death Saves rules.... 1. Green Slime "will attach itself to living flesh, and in 1-4 melee rounds thereafter turn the creature into green slime (no resurrection...

Hi, guys. I've returned to D&D after something like 20 years away. So glad to have found this forum to help hash things out, too. I've been reading diligently, but I'm wondering how different DM's decide whether or not to allow a certain race and/or class? In our initial start-up adventures...