Peter started his gaming career with GURPS back in the late 1990s, which imbued him with a great love of character customization abilities that, over 20 years later, has yet to wear off. He picked up D&D with third edition in 2000, and has been trying to wedge higher levels of technology into it ever since.
NOTE: In the light of information missed in the first version of this article, it has been revised. Spellcasting in D&D 5E is normally a pretty straightforward thing, especially at lower levels. But there are some tricky edge cases that can and do cause more play imbalance and more arguments than they need to. So how many spells can a player character cast in a single round in D&D 5E? As...
Multiclassing has been in D&D since before WotC bought TSR, but different editions have handled the nuances of it differently. Third Edition favored it to the extent that single-classed characters were rare at many tables. Fifth Edition is more slanted toward single-classed characters, with multiclassing presented as an optional rule. But like feats, it’s a very popular option. This is the...
One handy element of D&D 5th Edition is the concept of conditions. By codifying specific ways that a creature can be hampered, the designers took a significant cognitive load off of designing hazards and debuffs and made the rules more consistent. Most of the conditions are straightforward, with static penalties that apply when a creature is afflicted with the condition (potentially including...
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