Recent content by DeviousQuail

I remember hunting ankhegs in BG1 because their shells could be crafted into really good armor. Upping their AC to reflect that is a start. Giving them an ambush ability with bonus to initiative and advantage on attacks when they pop out of the ground would be cool. Claw attack is a good addition.

Updated: -"X Savant" let's you prep up to wizard level spells from your chosen school. Effectively the same as a 5e wizard. Also, we use a few divination spells from 3rd parties to ensure divination wizard have more than 20 spells to choose from. -"Book Casting" is limited to 1 use and...

I don't mind if they fail a few times before succeeding at book casting. The idea was to give some utility with enough of an action economy cost that it's probably not worth it in combat or fast enough for split second decisions. But it sounds like a use limit is needed. I figured as much but...

Marked as 5e 2014, but if you see anything that applies to 5e 2024 feel free to include it. I've got two mechanical changes for wizards that I like. I'm putting this out there incase anyone can think of anything that would make these changes broken. 1. Spell Prep At 1st level wizards are able...

This reminds me of a funny homebrew item. The dimension 20 show misfits & magic used the kids on brooms rules for their game. Whenever you used magic you rolled the appropriate die and a d4. The system uses exploding dice so that d4 was really handy. Anyway, they would use the term "do magic...

I think warlocks with their pact magic/boons and invocations are probably the closest thing to this idea in 5e. Slots are way more limited, while invocations and boons are quite magical without being a spell (most of the time). After the warlock I would point to many of the subclass features...

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I think I would just change extra attack to extra die of damage if I used this house rule. It's cool that their experimenting with the rules.

At times it can be. I used Control Water with a cleric to take an entire ship out of combat with a Cleric one time. Any wizard or druid could do the same if they're 7th level or higher. While I've never seen it I've heard a similar thing happened in a season of CR (at least I think it was CR).

For ship actions I think it's more fun for the players to do group rolls. Either additive against higher than normal DCs, average or median roll, or count successes. One way I saw it handled in another system was the player(s) can use their character abilities to aid a group roll only for their...

I like how Dragon Age: Origins did it and implement that approach in many of my games. First, 100cp = 1sp and 100sp = 1gp. I've changed all my 5e prices to match this and it feels a lot better. Mechanically it's no different, but handing a Smith 15gp to make me plate armor instead of 1500gp...

5e, players were all polymorphed into monsters as part of a some genie shenanigans. Werebear, vampire spawn, otyugh, and flesh golem (all CR 5). They maintained their personalities, but otherwise had the stats of the monsters. The goal was to undo the polymorph while navigating a town where all...

Homebrew 95% of the time. It's mainly that we have so many people who want to make and run their own stuff and getting burned by some bad pre-made stuff (HotDQ and Strixhaven being the big culprits there).

When I design cities for my campaigns I like to include a design "flaw", a major historical event, a quirk, and the current talk of the town. Four to six bullet points that give it flavor. Otherwise I assume things like water, food, government, etc. are roughly standard fair. In a campaign where...

I think the joke is that Fournival has been telling the dragon, and maybe others as well, that they are the one true love and soulmate of Arisen. Not sure if Arisen is a name or a title. Anyway, Arisen says that's not true and the dragon starts floundering because this ruins their whole "fight...