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OneBookShelf recently changed their website, ending batch downloads - unless you use their app. I am sick of my devices getting cluttered by scores of proprietary apps trying lock customers into corporate walled gardens. So i am not going to use it. Which means that purchases with lots of...

Jacob Vardy submitted a new resource: a5e magic item animal components - Who to kill to get (x) magic items Read more about this resource...

I'm pretty sure that somewhere i saw a list of monster body parts that are listed under magic items in T&T. I had been making up my own but i thought i better include the "official" ones in case players are relying on the manuals. But i can't find the list. I checked T&T, tried the forum...

I was helping a newish player level up with the online tools. We came across the dreamers morel. So we looked it up in the DDG. It has the plant type, Its under CR 1/2. It looks pretty powerful against anything that breathes. I think it is going to be hilarious to fight. Are we missing...

I GM for a group that includes occupational therapists and social workers. Apparently some of them have been doing some reading on the use of tabletop RPGs in group therapy. Because one of their managers has asked for a casual chat about paying me to run sessions for some of their clients. It...

Has anyone used one of these in a5e? I've got a player who just discovered them and she really wants to use one. I vaguely recall some from 1e but i'll be buggered if i know where. The obvious mechanic is to bump javelins from 1d6 to 1d8 and double the range. But that seams a little...

A great many societies have a prelude to battle. Boasting poetry, singing, war dances, or internet troll farms. The point being to weaken the enemy's resolve. Nor was it reserved to battle, Celtic bards and hip hop artists have epic rap battles, a short sharp satire could destroy a man in...

Is there a specific rule about waking up? Like if a party only has one sentry, a cheetah is currently biting through that sentry's skull, and neither of them are making much noise, when does the rest of the party wake up? There is a hint about a Constitution + Perception check in the ability...

These have been in games i've run for years. I stat'ed them up for a5e, so i thought i might as well share them. tl;dr - this is the biggest change from water elementals Alcoholic fumes. A creature that starts its turn grappled by the elemental, touches it, or hits it with a melee attack...

An artificer player pointed this out to me. 1) An artificer can make magic items if they have the schematics for the item. Crafting time is halved. 2) An artificer can make a schematic of an item by studying it, using 1/10th of the gold and materials to create that magic item. 3) Having made a...

In the otherwise great Well-Equiped article the armoured corset is described as being like a breastplate plate but imposing disadvantage on acrobatics checks rather than stealth checks. I know i am being pedantic but corsets are not particularly restrictive or uncomfortable. This is a...

I was wondering how a dragonborn's claws would work with an adept. And then wondered what an adept would look like in heavy armour. And it turns out a lot of their features still work pretty well when grafted on to a fighter base. So, a level one fighter, level three adept. In full plate. I...

One of my tables is all newbies to RPGs. Young adults having great fun riffing off the YA Rangers' Apprentice series. But that means we have three archers and a warlock. And we've just had our second permanent player death. I joke about being a killer DM, but i don't actually try to do it...

Sorry, i couldn't help the alliteration. Twilight-Touched halflings have telepathy as a feature (AG p38). Can a creature they communicate with telepathically respond telepathically? The only rule i could find was about monster languages (MM p 11.), which says that creatures can respond to...

I was populating the random encounter table for my current campaign, when i had the idle though "what if i used the squad template for some for some of these?" A pack of hyenas could keep a low level party on their toes. A flock of axe beaks could be a nasty surprise. A lion pride could...

Did a5e keep the compel duel spell? I couldn't see it in the spell lists or combat maneuvers. I know a lot of people think it too CRPG but i like giving it to the heroic antagonist or their body guards. "At the knights words the PC feels self loathing and shame as they turn away from the...

How much XP is an extra feat worth? I'm running a couple of parties outside an Islamicate inspired city packed with schools. So instead of XP the PCs are leveling with cash and days of training. But i just know that someone is going to ask if they can buy an extra feat. I know i could just...

The bard table (AG p121) has battle hymn specialisation listed at level 8 and 12. ¿Am i missing something, because i can not find anything about level 12 in the text for battle hymn specialisation?