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You know that awesome line in Star Wars IV where Leia says "General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars" completely without elaboration on what the Clone Wars were--and how much that line draws you in. Well, this module does that really well (I mean the non-bowdlerized...

At this point, we have a pretty good idea which subclasses will be in the new PHB, though we don't know all of them yet. What do you think of the ones they ultimately decided to include? Are there any excluded that you think are unfortunate omissions? You're welcome to answer in mechanics or...

Hi all, considering how heated the discussion here has been since WotC stated they would not revisit Dark Sun, I thought I'd ask how many of you would have liked them to do so (in an ad-hoc unscientific convenience sample). The poll is deliberately simple, so that you can answer, on balance...

The separation of 5e PC's into tiers of play is one of the many things I find elegant about the 5e system. The designers observed that access to certain spell levels--3rd, 6th, 9th--dramatically expand the power and capabilities of PCs, so they gave PCs without full spell progression power...

I created this thread to suggest a campaign setup—a rubric for creating factions and conflict in D&D games. There are some great ideas in this vein already out there on the internets, such as the Powder Keg or The Price, and this “Icons” campaign setup is one that I have used and like. So, in...

A while back there was a thread called "What Would Your Perfect 50th PHB Class List Be?" It had an interesting exchange in it: To the challenge then! Can you come up with a list of 6 mega-classes that elegantly contain the essentials of every existing PHB class? (bonus points for including...

I was thinking while reading the Can we salvage Toril? thread that I would like the Forgotten Realms setting a lot better if it didn't include Kara-Tur and Al-Qadim, if those settings were each treated as their own thing, and if none of them shared the same world map. While, in the past, I...

Hi all, Over in the necroed thread about saving throws, posters past and present (post #8, sorta post #28) suggested a system to replace saving throws that is similar to the defenses in 4e: Instead of a spell (or other effect) giving its target the chance to make a saving throw, the...

So @Kobold Avenger started an interesting thread about diversity in D&D--in fantasy worlds broadly, really--and the degree to which 'races' that are not humans ought to be more representative of IRL humankind than they tend to be. I wanted to reply to that thread with a long and pedantic post...

I really like the Dark Sun setting and especially the 1991 Dark Sun Boxed Set—though, sadly, I have never played using it. This is my attempt to rationalize the Dark Sun setting as it was originally described, while ignoring content that came later. Fair warning: this post is LONG, pedantic...

The new Tasha's custom lineage is one of the strongest PC options published--pick a feat, potentially choose an Ability to start at 18, have darkvision. Why not have it be conventional practice that players always build a custom lineage, regardless of the 'race' they want to play i.e.: wanna...

The perennial problem with sorcerers has always been a lack of spells known. Lets look at what a 4th level sorcerer gets from the new UA's Fey Touched and Shadow Touched feats (also super thematic, btw). Fey Touched +1 Charisma (i.e. 17-->18 Cha) new 2nd level spell known: misty step (a really...

The rule: "If a creature is within 5 feet of two hostile creatures of its size or larger, it is flanked. A flanked creature has disadvantage when attacking a target that is not also flanked." My conceptual justification is that flanked creatures would need to invest more effort in being...

Hi all, I'm enthusiastic about the ranking threads that have been started in this forum of late. However, I am currently playing in a featless and multiclassless game, which makes several of the builds under discussion, i.e. the -5/+10 jam, considerably less relevant. For those of you playing...

Hello, I'm a new poster. I would appreciate any and all feedback. I am considering trying out a method of ability score generation that I have not used before. Instead of using 5e's standard array, using 4d6 drop the lowest, or using 3d6 in order (god forbid), I intend to use a group-based...