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I think player's should have session prep, too, and read How to Piss Off Your Dungeon Master.

I wrote up a guide for my campaign world with new feats that I felt not only fit the world but created options not currently available in 5e, but should be. Like a feat letting a character cast non-concentration spells while raging, a domain that allows a cleric to increase the radius of fire...

I started this thread because I'm curious of methods on how to achieve party synergy. An optimal party to me is one where each player's abilities increase the effectiveness of their fellow players. Also, an optimal party is effective at handling combat in multiple forms, social encounters...

I would, but haven't finished thinking of them yet. Still at the drawing board. I didn't stat out the Tempest cleric because there really isn't anything complex to it. Be a cleric, pick a race with a wisdom buff, and choose the tempest domain. If you were going with the Cleric rider you could...

So the first pillar of my party would consist of a Tempest Cleric. You've got healing and AoE wrapped up in a nice bow. The second pillar would include this: Var. Human Fighter 1/Warlock 4 Str 16, Dex 8, Con 14, Int 8, Wis 10, Cha 16 HP 40, Str Sv +6, Con Sv +5, AC 21 (Full Plate, Shield...

yeah but that thread devolved into an old edition vs new edition fairly quickly. i didn't quite find what i was looking for there. If you could make a Dream Team out of 4 or 5 characters what would it be? The other thread only had like 3 posts where people put forward they're builds.

After looking at some of the character optimization builds and guides out there, I started wondering why are there no "optimized parties" or "party optimization guides". So here's what I'd like to know: what is your definition of an "optimized party"? and what would that party look like. Is it a...

That does seem to be the challenge: creating a good sandbox which is easy to run for new DMs. It's something I'd like to try my hand at in the near future.

No that's not my viewpoint at all. You're putting forth a reductio ad absurdum argument. The point I was making was that anything which forces a player to make a choice in order to advance a plotline is not a choice at all, no matter the means of coercion - illusionism, dead ends, etc. I'm not...

A sandbox doesn't have to be a whole setting but it can be. You could shrink it down to a city, a village, or any location you want to explore. It's a different way of DMing where player agency is maintained. The players aren't forced to pursue a particular storyline but instead have the options...

The problem with WotC's adventures for 5e is that they're all railroads. Whatever choices you make, in the end they're meaningless because of the formula to sell an adventure that picks up where the last product left off and has a defined endpoint for the next product to pick up on. Wherever you...

You know seeing a game of thrones in D&D would be interesting. I wonder how a low magic 5e game would look since magic is tied up in so many class abilities.

you know i'm really surprised Elder Scrolls hasn't gone into tabletop rpgs. its kind of a no brainer from a business perspective. they could even launch simultaneously with some expansion for ESO.

Thanks! I'll have to add Dying Earth to my reading list. Also: Latinate prose as a vehicle for comedy? I always had an interest in the classics so I'm curious how Dying Earth accomplished that.

Fall from Heaven for me. It's a mod for Civ4 based on a 17 year D&D campaign. The lore is just so fascinating I can't stop running all my campaigns there. In fact I started a blog about my current game there and how to run it as a sandbox. What's your favorite unpublished setting? I'd like to...