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Was kicking around an idea, curious what others think: actually bounded accuracy. The idea being that every PC stat that adds to or is opposed by a d20 roll has a maximum, beyond which the PC gains no further benefit. For example: Attack Rolls: +9 (+4 with SS/GWM) AC: 20 Initiative: +9 Spell...

Donning my flame-retardant suit and submitting my first pass at house ruling some of the feats I consider to be outliers in power level (either two low or high), to help prevent them from breaking encounter design and reducing their impact for Variant Humans at early levels to keep them more in...

On the AL DM's Facebook group, someone made a joke that Strahd is not a legal character option, which is funny if you play a lot of AL, because there are both a lot of weird rules and a lot of rules pedants in the community. Thus the idea for Brad Von Zarovich (no relation) was born. Brad is a...

I started running Death House yesterday, and figured this would be a good opportunity to catalog some of the fun, challenges and issues while running. You can follow along via our Adventure Log, and I'll add posts here for interested DMs that want to compare notes. FOR SERIOUS, EVERYTHING...

I'm considering the following house rules for ranged combat to make it a bit more balanced risk/reward compared to melee. Would love feedback: Puts your guard down: Using a ranged attack when an enemy is within 5 feet of you does not grant disadvantage, instead it provokes an opportunity...

Has the release date for the Player's Guide for S4 been announced? I'm looking to start a Death House game pretty soon that goes into Curse of Strahd and just want to know if I should wait for it or not.

This guide is available on Google Docs. This guide was originally posted on the Wizards of the Coast community, and was removed along with the rest of the content there. As a number of members here feel like its information is valuable, I will keep this post here. I'm new to the community and...

I don't get out to play AL as much as I'd like, but this weekend's our big local convention, so I'm all jazzed about D&D again. And I'm curious. Often at AL tables you see a lot of repeating things: bards, fighters, warlock 2/* multiclass. Everybody's a Crossbow Expert. I like to be a unique...