Recent content by Maialideth

I haven't, mainly because I'm kinda allergic to anything related to Magic the Gathering :ROFLMAO: though I have to admit that Ravnica had some ideas that I've used for my game. I'm assuming you have something specific in mind? I must admit I have no clue what is in that book except an owl PC race.

I agree, especially about the flexibility. When I use skill challenges, I make sure to have a few examples of things the players can do that are relevant to the situation, but also just go with the "yes and" approach. The rule of cool is the main ingredient to a great skill challenge in my...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'd love to see skill challenges included in the DMG. I've had great success in running skill challenges as a story device for my group. Build a scene consisting of 3 or 4 smaller scenes, each scene requires a certain number of rolls (not successes) to...

Edgin gave bardic inspiration to Simon, so that's a bard class ability.

He definitely looks like a god-slayer. At a quick glance I'd note that Parry should be a Reaction, and he has extra attacks from both God of War trait, multiattack and bonus action... personally I'd include all of them in the multiattack action (maybe specify in the trait that they are included...

I recently bought Monte Cook's Ptolus: City by the Spire for 5e, and the level of detail in it just blows my mind. Every page includes cross-references to relevant stat blocks or descriptions elsewhere in the book, and the amount of material is staggering. There's enough material in that one...

The whole thing about monsters don't crit is going to suck for Grave clerics....

I haven't played in any other campaign setting since Eberron came out, both in 3.5, 4e, and 5e (except when I ran Curse of Strahd, but I used The Mourning as the trigger that sent the players to Barovia, and they returned to Eberron afterwards, where we continued the campaign for 2 more years).

It is not stated in the description of Magic Missiles, but in the section for Damage Rolls on page 196 in the PHB. "If a spell or other effect deals damage to more than one target at the same time, roll the damage once for all of them". I believe it was Sage Advice that clarified it.

One of my players pointed out to me recently, that it is possible to do 0 damage with an attack (for example an unarmed attack with a -1 strength modifier). I've always thought it was minimum 1 point of damage, which it was in earlier editions. Though I decided to keep the minimum 1 damage per...

I enjoy watching CR. It makes me happy to watch other people enjoy the hobby that I've loved for nearly 30 years. CR, and Matt Mercer particularly, inspires me to be a better DM and person just generally. I don't get why people get so worked up about being able to do the same as CR or not... Be...

I did a 5e skill challenge with my group not too long ago, so I'll just chip in with my experience of it. The PCs had to lure an astral dreadnought through the astral plane towards the githyanki city of Tu'narath, without it getting too close to them or losing interest. I set the DC to 10 +...

I use "Please go ahead and describe it" when my players get a killing blow. I actually started doing it before I had watched Critical Role, just not very consistently, and not with the same phrase every time. Matt's "How do you want to do this?" inspired me to do it more consistently and...

Reduce number of races (lineages) to Dwarf, Elf, Gnome, Halfling, Human, and Orc, and use more space to describe what makes each different from the others. Place more emphasis on Backgrounds, maybe have ability score adjustments at character creation be more based on Background than lineage (or...

There are lots of Easter eggs in Player's Handbook, just saying... look in the index for thac0 for example.