D&D 5E Your Favorite 5e Houserule

[Fenris-77]

Man I think you would really like my TTRPG WIP...

although, the base of our system for favor/rep is that you can earn, owe, and call in, favors as essentially treasure, and build relations with Contacts over time, including spending downtime to strengthen relationships, gaining contacts who can provide favors pro bono every so often, as long as you use them sparingly (ie, 1 time between extended rests/downtime), and don’t betray them of blow them off when they need you in turn.

You just described my system perfectly, so yeah, I probably would like yours quite a bit,

 

[doctorbadwolf]

You just described my system perfectly, so yeah, I probably would like yours quite a bit,

If you’re interested, I’ll share the OneNote with you so you can check out what we have so far. We are in the middle of the alpha 2.0 version of the game right now.

 

[Fenris-77]

If you’re interested, I’ll share the OneNote with you so you can check out what we have so far. We are in the middle of the alpha 2.0 version of the game right now.

Sure, I like rules. I also do feedback so it sounds like a plan. Hit me up with a PM.

 

[miggyG777]

Yes, this is the type of information the DMG could/should have contained. How to modify single monsters for over sized parties. It would be great if it also had information about modifying monsters or encounter guidelines for OP groups as well. Regardless, I think @CapnZapp would approve.

I have been using it from almost the beginning of 5ed. It works quite well. Large parties are notoriously hard to manage. Some fights are set to hard and turn up to be easy and other fights that were supposed to be hard turn up almost deadly. Managing multiple opponents in 5ed is relatively hard. That is why I dropped the flanking rule (I know it's optionnal) almost immediately. Monsters benefit way too much from that rule.

The main problem with oversize party comes from the number of enemies. I'm still working a bit on it but as a rule of thumb the PCs seems to be able to manage about half their level in CR without too much trouble (that is for each characters). At the same time, other factors gets in. Are the enemies blessed? Hasted? Many factors complicate things but so far this seems to work out most of the times. If the CR of the creatures is over half the level of the PCs I might go for a 3 monsters for two PCs. Up to one for one if the CR is almost equivalent to their levels. A higher CR ratio means less monsters up to one monster vs the whole party.

One example I often gives is Strahd. In many other groups that I have met, they simply went to Strahd and rolled over him as if he was nothing. In my two groups, the players were terrorized and although both group succeeded in defeating Strahd, their victories were not easy ones. About half of both groups were killed or disabled.

You guys might be interested in this

Explanation is found here: How to F$%& CR: A Practical Example of Monster Building the Angry Way

(c) by AngryGM

 

[dave2008]

I was summoned, ...

Sorry to bring you in just for the rant.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Sure, I like rules. I also do feedback so it sounds like a plan. Hit me up with a PM.

Will do!

 

[Jediking]

Spellcasting Ability Score variant: At character creation OR multiclassing, spellcasters (except wizards, INT only) can pick one of two spellcasting ability scores to cast from (ex. Sorcs can pick CHA or CON; Clerics and Paladins can pick CHA or WIS, Bards and Warlocks can pick CHA or INT). This just opens up different character concepts players may wish to play.

Point Buy with Feats: Characters are created with 27 point buy. A player can pay 4 points to start with a feat.

Flanking: a creature gets +1 to their attacks for each adjacent ally to a hostile creature. If a creature (up to size Large) is surrounded on 4 sides, each attacking creatures gets advantage.
If creatures are back-to-back with an ally, or put their back to a wall/object, they cannot be flanked or surrounded. Gives a little more tactical movement to melee combats and encourages moving around, while keeping the attack bonuses within BA.

 

[Coroc]

I was summoned, but really, the "WotC should have" train has gone.

The harsh reality is that WotC simply abandoned any responsibility for their "optional" PHB rules (playing with feats, magic items etc), a decision that they should never have gotten away with, but clearly has.

Btw did anyone ever use (any edition): some mage conjurer bloke casts summon monster XY amd the party gets teleported to him?

 

[Weiley31]

-Ranger players (or any character with an animal companions/familiars) are allowed to use either the Revised Ranger's beast mechanics or the UA Primal Beasts mechanics for animal companions/familiars.

 

[Weiley31]

-Ranger players (or any character with an animal companions/familiars) are allowed to use either the Revised Ranger's beast mechanics or the UA Primal Beasts mechanics for animal companions/familiars.

*Update:*if you need for Animal Companions/Familiars to feel different, then use Revised Ranger beast mechanics for combat pets, and UA Primal Beasts mechanics for Familiars.