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In light of Pathfinder 2E putting out a playtest for a Warlord-like class, the Commander, I can't help but wonder why such a wildly popular class concept has not been introduced to 5E. A number of abilities in the spirit of the Warlord are available throughout 5E, including the Battle Master...

I've been a DM for years now, but a feeling I have fairly consistently is that I never have enough time to prep, even when I'm only running a game every other week. I know part of this is because I am pretty much incapable of running an adventure as written, but I'd like to figure out what I can...

Since 5E doesn't really have extensive magic item crafting rules, what approaches have you used or seen used, and which are your favorites? Some sample implementations I've seen: From the Bastion UA: A Masterwork weapon retains the effects of a Magic Weapon spell permanently. Building off the...

I'm working on expanding a minor planar location called Mutas. As presented in the 4E source book Secrets of the Astral Sea, Mutas is a colossal goblet once belonging to Moradin that he tossed away, somehow growing to proportions large enough to hold a small city's worth of buildings in the...

I'm trying to put together a list of what I'm calling "magical science resources" for D&D. By this I mean that an attempt is made to try and explain aspects of D&D in a way that mirrors scientific literature. I'm especially interested in Dragon and Dungeon magazine content and content from 2E...

A player in my current 5E Spelljammer game has a pirate background. To try and flesh out my take on the setting more I am working on creating content related to piracy, such as perpetrators, targets, potential adventure hooks, etc. I thought it may be fun to share ideas related to this. To...

I've started a Spelljammer campaign and pretty soon the players will be leaving the Rock of Bral. I've looked online for impressions on ship combat and would like to see how it's played out for others here, as well as whether the rules for ship combat in Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Spelljammer were...

I'm planning to run Light of Xaryxis. I'm already aware of several issues with the adventure and have been planning modifications (which I would have done anyway), but I'm curious to see others' experiences either playing in or running the adventure.

I've never used 3rd-party material and honestly have always thought the OGL was absurdly generous on WotC's part to the point of foolishness (even before Paizo used it to make D&D's most significant competitor) so that's a no from me.

New spell ruling questions, this time about Rope Trick: Is the portal that is generated intangible so that creatures and objects could move through its space? If cast while on or in a moving object, like a vehicle, will the portal stay in place or move along with the object? I ask because a...

I was thinking of taking Cloud of Daggers for my Wizard but I can't seem to find a clear answer on what the AoE for the spell is intended to be. Based on these, I'm imagining this as the spell's AoE: However, the spell's description states that it is a cube, an AoE mentioned in the PHB...

I've neglected using puzzles in my D&D games due to a few bad experiences while playing in other campaigns, but I'm curious if any veterans of published adventures have had positive experiences with them that I could look into for inspiration.

AI image generators such as Dall-E 2, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion allow anyone to enter in a prompt for an AI trained on potentially billions of images to have it produce artworks that would take human artists far longer to create. Though they currently have shortcomings such as difficulty...

I was introduced to D&D in my junior year of high school back in 2006 (wish it could have been sooner, TBH). A senior in an art class I was taking had the 3.5 PHB out. I asked to take a look, and a few days later a friend and I were running through a sample combat encounter the senior prepared...

Of all the content you've ever seen from Dragon Magazine or Dungeon Magazine, what really stood out to you? I'll go first: The various features on different famous/infamous beings of the multiverse were always a treat. I loved the Demonomicon of Iggwilv series, and during the 4E era I...

The thread title and poll question are fairly self-explanatory, so I'll go ahead and state my own position. Personally, as a DM I am very much against taking away a spellcasting PC's powers. The way I run things, a PC who offends their supernatural patron retains their powers, but at a price...

Since I started DMing back around 2007 I have only run one published adventure, the one that came with the 3.5 Beginner's Box. I've bought and looked at plenty of published adventures, and sometimes I've thought about running them as is, but so far I always end up choosing to make things harder...

In the 4E Monster Manual 3, which introduced yetis to that edition, the lore for the creatures notes that the keen sense of smell that yetis possess also makes rotting meat utterly repulsive to them and can be enough to drive them from an area. While this bit on information about yetis is not...

I've been thinking for a while that D&D, if it wanted to, could just shift a lot of the negative traits ascribed to goblins and orcs and whatever to certain low CR demons and make them more common as low-level enemies. It would also help give dretches and what not more personality. Part of the...

Gizmodo IGN Inverse NPR Polygon The gist I've gotten is that the first two episodes suffer a bit from trying to emphasize that it's not a kid's show, but once the Briarwood arc gets started in episode three it's excellent.