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Running away is really screwed in 5e. Besides the lack of proper mechanics, most monsters at high CR can also can take Legendary Actions to move/teleport. You are totally not getting away from them.

The DM can do whatever he wants, as long as its in good faith. There's only 1 thing that is a big no for me: Fudging. You do it, you a bad DM. Respect the dice, if you dont want a probability of success, don't ask for a roll.

I think its complete horseshit. Roleplaying and Solving problems aren't mutually exclusive. What does he expect? Sit around all day, do funny accents and play out his character's quirks all day long? Usually the PCs have a role, whether they are heroes, mercenaries, or even evil baddies, we...

I find Tasha's powercreep to be acceptable. Its better to have small amouts of powercreeped subclass, than have trash that nobody uses like Purple Dragonknight or Arcane Archer. There's no Hexblade level of power for subclass, or Healing Spirit levels of broken for spell. On my first reading of...

Its funny because in one session alone, my Skull Lord gained 2 heads from 2 party members. One guy fell for the "I need your help, but only you can come with me." The 2nd guy tried to save the first guy alone but failed when he tried to Dimension Door out of the cube. They were so trusting of...

https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/dragon/21/DRA21_sixfacesdeath.pdf I am currently running this for 5 players, can't find many discussion on this online. Its on wotc website, and also DMsguild. Anyone run this before? What is your experience with it?

I don't like it, its obviously nerfing the players, and players dont like nerfs. Plus, most people have trouble remembering too many house rules. A better way to do it is be more liberal with giving out Exhaustion levels. Long distance travel at fast pace? Exhaustion. Lack of food/water...

There's always MORE Ochre Jellies, you can kite 1 but surely you can't kite 20 all at once. Or you can throw the Super Ochre Jelly at them, it has flying, telekinesis, and fireball.

One thing i learned when playing D&D is: When it comes to magic items and loot, always discuss OOC. ALWAYS.

Statblocks are like the least of any DMs worry, they are not rules. Your Vecna can be as powerful as you want it to be, it can do anything you want it to do, unlimited times if you want, use spell points, mana points, whatever. I have no idea why would anyone get worked up over such things...

For casters, i would like Ring of Bless. The +1d4 attack will help in not wasting spell slots when casting Chaos Bolt or Scorching Ray.

Well, to what end? "DM, my elf has blue skin, can i have something special?" "DM, my character's daddy is a god, can i have a super power?" The rules are there so that players don't bombard the DM with endless questions. I do like the idea of a 'special request within reason' for each player...

What? I thought it started from a hexblade warlock who didn't use shields, so he ask for the proficiency to be swapped with an Invocation. That's like a blind man asking to swap his his eyeballs for extra guns.

Sometimes the rule is not dumb, the player is.

Everyone has something they don't make use of. Maybe I'm just cynical, but giving up something you don't care about so that you can gain a powerful thing, that's like asking for a buff without trying to sound like you're asking for a buff. You would simply be getting a free Invocation.

I would say no. Everyone else in the party created their character within the rules, why should you be different? Lots of paladins, rangers, clerics and barbarians don't use shields either, but i never heard of them asking to swap the proficiency for something else. If your character doesn't...

I played in a homebrew campaign that had those. Initially i thought it was a cool idea, but later on when we became very rich, we bought a lot of those potions and the spell casters were just spamming big spells all the time, while I'm here counting my superiority dice and hoping we get a short...

Without any action economy or cost, isnt it essentially a +2AC aura?

This is why hoplites rule supreme back in the day.

Don't be surprised if your players aren't impressed. Most players don't like the idea of a super powerful NPC babysitting them, its one of the red flags for terrible DMing. They might even ask if Big John was one of the PCs you played before. Not saying you are like this, but most DMs who do...