Recent content by Sotik

@Bluenose that's pretty much what I had in mind. The idea is that the two kingdoms use to be at war over land rights. They fought many wars along this channel where now stands many war torn buildings. Recently the High Priest of the ruling religion kingdom A had the long killed and disguised it...

So what I largely take away from this, is to just do as I see fit in my world. Since it's not really going to be set to any time period it doesn't really matter how historically accurate I am trying to be. I think I will just settle with what I came up with then. The whole idea that everything...

In what time period would you put the Forgotten Realms in? That's really more or less what my campaign world resembles. I always took the Medieval era to be more in tune with what fantasy worlds represented, but it sounds like it might be more in line with the Middle Ages. Would that be a...

TLDR: Outside of plundering and pillaging, what kind of effects did war have on society and the economy of a kingdom as a whole? Hey everyone I was wanting to pick the minds of others and see if I could get some tips on my setting. I have a world in which a war is brewing between two kingdoms...

Yeah this is my biggest concern. If I was to print out a book, and let players use it at my house it would be no big deal since I am just letting them use my personal copy. However, if I made a book using D&D stuff and started handing out copies at comic book stores, I know I could get in...

I am working on a homebrew PDF that I will be handing out to players who join my game. I made a world for a book I wrote long ago, and have decided to change up some of the races to better fit with my world. To set the record straight, I do not plan on publishing this book, I will only be...

So I am looking to run a haunted manor type game for my group as a Halloween celebration type of thing. The idea or goal is that the group will hopefully be driven into the manor to seek shelter from a pretty nasty storm. They will find it empty and abandoned for who knows how long, with...

This is true, it really is hard to gauge these types of things when it comes to D&D for the very reasons you brought up. My group goes for 3 hours, and when those 3 hours are up they want to stop even if they are in the middle of combat. That's why I heavily suggest not to worry about what the...

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Going to see if I can add those to my Amazon wishlist and buy them as I get the chance.

So I run my own Homebrew based on the 5E rules and I have the PHB, DMG, MM, Volo's Guide, and the Tome of Beasts. Yesterday I was at the comic book shop and found a 4th edition book "Open Grave Secrets to the Undead" and figured that while it is 4E it gives me some ideas of lore and I can always...

Well thinking about this, the best example I can think of is Critical Role, so be mindful of some SPOILERS here and sorry in advance if you hate CR lol. But when Grog had Kraven(sp?) Edge he didn't know what the curse was or what it was doing to him. It was a real complex relationship offering...

From what I understand, mind you I am a new DM, Protection from Good and Evil would not effect a curse. However, the point of remove curse is to remove a curse, so it is just something you have to be aware of when giving players cursed objects. To me they don't show up enough that players will...

As it has been said, 5E heavily suggests 6 or 7 combat encounters per long rest, and a long rest to heal from combat is expected to be done one per session. Though some cases like traveling over long distances break this, because every time a group camps they are taking a long rest, but it is...

So during an encounter, my ranger was going to attack a creature that was at max HP. It was asked, since she gets an "extra attack" after the first attack, would colossus slayer apply to the extra attack. As I read it, extra attack lets you take another attack when you take the Attack Action...

Well I guess this is a case of learning something new everyday. As a admitted new DM and new D&D player I was under the assumption that cantrips were spells that a certain class knew and could cast out of habit, that other classes could cast but had to follow the spell. After reading your reply...