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I've been playing an Arcana cleric and I would consider Magic Initiate for Find Familiar. I know it sounds sub op but there's value in having that little scout. If your DM allows some of the alternate familiars like a quasit or a Gazer even more fun.

Each tier has a cost range in the DMG. In my game, consumables use the low end figure. On time, the calculation is the max time I'll require as a DM. I also let the heroes find valuable ingredients as treasure and allow that value to count towards the time. Most games in 5e have a lot of gold...

Anybody know where to find character portraits sorted by description? It's the same conundrum as with minis; you never seem to find one that's just right. There are many images out there but narrowing the search is problematic. In this case; a blond baby faced human male cleric of Vecna. Any...

I've not heard of any DM using the D20 for stats. I think you likely rolled the wrong dice. That said, in RAR the ways to get higher than 20 are the various magical items that can do it, a Wish spell or Divine Intervention might be allowed, and the barbarian 20th level ability bonus to Strength...

May be my own Karma biting me in my fantasy world butt. We played an encounter where 8 or so rolls were made and the d4 made zero difference on any.

I've been playing a Cleric in the Arcana Domain. So far at low levels, my takeaway is that Bless which the guides call gold is not that useful. With bounded accuracy, I've found that 1d4 doesn't really matter often. Characters either hit by a lot or miss by a lot. I don't know if that's been the...

In our 5e campaign, I translated the Shinomen to 5e for players to use, and (much more difficult) the Shugenja class.

Falling damage has always been a proud nail. In my game as DM I use d6 per square which I think works fine. Hazards, including falls have a lot of leeway for the DM though. I might say a fall from here won't be healed without magic, or that falling into a river means half damage but you're...

I am sensing that it could be too easy at higher levels. I like the material components adding to the cost. I was thinking too that I might say invention only occurs so often and that if you create a new spell it must be one of your spells known which makes sense to me.

If the spell slot you have would let you cast it, you can.

What has your experience been with 5e in creating new spells? The PHB allows the Wizard to record spells that he finds, but 3e and older editions allowed creating new spells. To align with the rules in the PHB for copying spells, my thought is to allow (with DM approval) a character that can...

It's true, I neglected to include the strength bonus, but if you effectively take 10 or 11 there's still not much chance of failure on any strength check you're likely to face. The level 18 ability to do this is only as valuable as strength checks are important in high level play which is not...

It is instead of the roll and modifiers. Been playing a barbarian 19 and an 18 Str. So with proficiency 6 it's as if you can't roll less than a 12 on strength checks. If you have a 24 then you effectively can't get less than if you'd rolled an 18. As the DCs tend to go in most games, that's...

I personally don't think it's as awful as some may find it. The Paladin in one of my games had warlock with the Infernal pact. Which made him a lawful good icon who secretly once F@#%d up and had one day to pay the piper. It wasn't unbalancing game wise and creating the 'character' in the role...

Normally, saves are at the end of your own turn. Effects that say you save when x happens mean you save after x happens. In the case of a bite attack, it's still an attack, and still harmful. The bite attack after a charm is what makes it dangerous, and most townfolk are going to be unconscious...

there are a couple of ways I see to deal with the 9th level vs. Balor 'problem'. The balor could bail, Plane shift or whatever when the party becomes a serious threat. Dramatically, if at least one party member was in serious shape so that it doesn't just feel like he was a weak opponent. Or in...

Yes, the sim is a creature and can be affected as a normal creature, but a creature is unaffected by having a sim made of it. The DM could just rule that the sim doesn't get to have sims made of it, it's an illusion as per the spell description, and when you cast simulacrum on it, you're casting...

Simulacrum is an illusion, so I would just rule that it isn't a valid target for spells that need creature. Wish can trump those limitations, but that only works a limited number of times.

It was Skip Williams as the Sage who once mentioned two rules in his games one; no joke names, because you and everyone else will get tired of it, and second no names from classic literature even obscure ones. Don't call your barbarian Conan or your wizard Merlin or Gandolf because the more...

Because the DM isn't an idiot. When Manshoon cloned himself 7 times, they started fighting each other. Game play wise, if I had an epic player trying to duplicate this, or any other variation of the 'Army of Me' scenario; There'd be problems for him as a consequence of trying. By the book is OK...