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    D&D 5E Balancing Grung for 2024 Campaign

    Grung 2024 Size: Small Speed: Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed and climbing speed equal to your walking speed. Traits Arboreal Alertness. You have proficiency in the Perception skill. Amphibious. You can breathe air and water. Standing Leap. Your long jump is up to...
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    D&D 5E Balancing Grung for 2024 Campaign

    Thanks for your thoughts! The idea of charges for poisonous skin is great, since I think some other 2024 species use that model. RE: poison immunity, D&D has a certain RPG logic (or Pokemon logic, if you prefer) that if a monster is poisonous then the monster is probably resistant to poison...
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    D&D 5E Balancing Grung for 2024 Campaign

    My first character ever was a grung, and I would like to include them as an option in a 5E 2024 campaign. However, I don't think I should include them as-is because of changes in how 2024 species are designed, and because their original design was not necessarily for regular campaigns anyway...
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    VTT Recommendations?

    Foundry is tremendously complicated and requires a huge time investment (in watching 30-minute youtube videos and getting real friendly with the techs on Foundry's Discord) to learn how to set up and run a game in it. But since the systems you've listed are specifically not D&D* and you also...
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    D&D (2024) How's the adoption of the new Goliath types going?

    Niche use, but goliath mechanics work well if you want to make irda PCs in Dragonlance. You can rename the first 5 ability choices after each chromatic dragon color since irda were created by Takhisis, and rename Stone's Endurance to Ogre Endurance. Getting big is also a suitable ability for...
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    D&D (2024) Preoder of "the Crooked Moon" in D&D-Beyond.

    They did rehost the trailer on the D&D channel 10 days ago. It's very atmospheric, though I will be honest the reason I clicked is because I saw the word "Avantris". Didn't get quite what I was expecting from that angle, though there are certainly clowns in this trailer. :ROFLMAO:
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    D&D 5E Enhancing Vecna: Eve of Ruin *SPOILERS*

    Something I don't see in your list but that is in almost every thread on reddit about VEOR+2024 PCs is that for any unique 2014 monsters without a 2024 MM counterpart, use their max HP instead of average. Many posts also mentioned damage adjustments like what @Shardstone describes above. But a...
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    D&D 5E Enhancing Vecna: Eve of Ruin *SPOILERS*

    Another rework I've been looking at is GM Carlos's VEOR remix- VEOR Remix by GM Carlos v 1.2.0 I found the overall narrative concepts of this remix immediately satisfying in terms of explaining why the gods aren't helping (now they are!), giving the Rod something to do, and Mordenkasen issues...
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    D&D (2024) Stealth Errata

    If a monster attacks while hidden but doesn't beat player initiative despite advantage, what do you say to the players who have a turn before the monster? There are multiple monsters in QFtIS that will try to ambush players, for instance. So, assuming a case where no player has 13 passive...
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    D&D 5E Question for folks who use D&D Beyond: How well does it work with the new rules?

    I think to get people to use the options you want when building their character, you will have to show them a slide of the first screen in the character builder with appropriate options toggled. For example, in my campaign I want people to be able to use: 2024 species (can't turn this off...
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    D&D (2024) Anyone else dislike the "keyword" style language of 5.24?

    Heal 2014 doesn't specify that it's curing conditions of Blindness and Deafened, while Lesser Restoration 2014 does. So, do we interpret that Heal 2014 is capable of healing blindness and deafness that exist for reasons other than the condition? It is a 6th Level spell, and Regenerate is coming...
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    D&D 5E Rate Your 5E Rules Expertise

    I thought I was pretty slick, and then during the last session my character was trying to break open a magic glass pod (with a person inside!) and my DM said to me, "We'll use the rules for damage to objects." And I said, "The what?" After a couple attacks my cleric's feeble little mace did...
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    D&D General What simple upgrades would you like to see to Maps (DnDBeyond)?

    At @pukunui 's suggestion in the previous Maps thread, I used the feedback tool to submit some suggestions. After testing Maps and combat with a couple other players from my group, here's what ended up making my list: Ability to add a grid overlay to an uploaded map (or even an official map...
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    D&D General How the heck do you fight a medieval war in winter?

    I'd start with considering a single Level 6 Cleric who can provide all necessary food and water to 45 people a day* with zero supplies. *Under 2014 rules. The 2024 rules no longer specify how many people are covered by Create Food and Water. However, the amount of food and water generated by a...
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