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Not to divert from the topic too much but this makes me think of all of the discussion recently over the Last of Us games. Without spoiling anything, pretty much every main character in the game has contexts where they're warm, loving, passionate humans with families, friends, and community...

Some people count describing character actions in third-person as roleplaying but doing improv acting at the table is definitely 100% roleplaying a character. EDIT: If you hate kitchen sink DnD, you'd absolutely hate genuine old school DnD. Blackmoore was literally a postacpocalyptic setting...

Sure, I have a feeling there's probably some named principle saying that having less to work with breeds creativity. In the context of DnD spellcasting though, having spells and combinations of spells allows you to come up with things you really couldn't have come up with otherwise. In a...

I'm working my way through the first campaign of Critical Role after going through the whole second campaign first. There was a moment like 60+ sessions in where a player was going to take a drastic action and Matt asked, "what's your alignment?" and the players looked at each other, confused...

Having a giant toolbox is always going to give you more room for creativity than trying to solve every problem with a hammer. The reason people love the wizard's versatility is because they have that big toolbox. I'm not seeing how being stuck with Eyebite, or whatever single 6th level spell...

One of my favorite spells is Wall of Stone because A. It creates a load of permanent stone and B. the text says you can make it any shape you want, which leave a bunch of interpretive space. The material component is a bit of granite, so at least in my mind, the wall is made of granite (30 hp...

Starting a restaurant would be cool RP but definitely a thing that would be an epilogue plot, the way I imagine this campaign going. My character is technically a warforged though, so I could spend 500 years turning my business into a franchise deal. Genie Gyros? I vaguely remember some 3.5...

Maybe "abuse" wasn't really the most accurate term since I've never seen a bunch of gold ruin a high level 5e game. Most games I've played in don't have an unlimited magical wal-mart and the inability to spend gold as the game progresses is a common criticism of the edition. Having a genuine...

I'm used to 3.5 where there were 350,465 ways to break the game wide open by 10th level. 5e is a lot more controlled and low-key but I'm wondering if there are existing money making strategies that are well-known that I'm unaware of. Mostly, I'm looking at spells off of other lists that would...

I'm about to start a campaign and I'm hyped to give Sorc/Warlock with The Genie pact a shot. At 14th level, the genie war gets Limited Wish - "As an action, you can speak your desire to your Genie’s Vessel, requesting the effect of one spell that is 6th level or lower and has a casting time of...

I'd rather take the battlesmith for sustained dps anyway. 1d10+1d8+5 at 3rd level isn't bad but it jumps to 2d10+1d8+11 at level 5 and scales better than artillerist. You also get your iron defender all day with disadvantage debuff every round while the artillerist has to burn spell slots and...

If the rules are changed so that one class has to pay money out of pocket for class features while other classes get free class features along with a lot of potions/materials to utilize with the money saved, that's precisely a nerf to the character as a holistic construct. The only way i see it...

I'm unclear what exactly the options for voting were. It seems like you're saying that RAW and the training rules are one thing. Was the vote between A. RAW, B. full training rules, and C. status quo with house rules? Did the non-wizard players get a vote to nerf the wizard player's character?

I'm just about to start a campaign at level one and made up a genie pact warlock with artificer as a side option. The artificer seems really, really bad but the warlock is doing 1d10 + 1d6 (hex) + 2 (genie's wrath) at-will, every turn. One of the better ranged 1st level characters around, as far...

It's never going to affect any game I run or play in, so I don't care that much, but it just feels corny. It's like when someone tells me how great their character was in some game from years ago when they "rolled" a bunch of 18s and the DM let them have a load of magic items. The funny part...

I like seeing concept art. I really wish there was more stuff like the knucklehead trout on a platter or plaque in DnD. The world-building stuff is what brings the game to life.

Throw a tabaxi on that build.

3 warforged with customized main ability score, and no need to eat, breathe, or genuinely sleep. Cleric for healing, Battlemaster Fighter for melee damage, Rouge with a fighter dip for ranged dpr with double skill prof.

My one buddy I used to play with was probably 6'3", 260 lb and he almost always played halflings, gnomes, and dwarves.

Yeah. I'm never going to spend my action trying to drag someone with my Cha character instead of dealing damage and removing threats. The big part of the issue is that i know EXACTLY how the mechanics of my attack works - I roll to attack, deal damage, and move closer to a point where the enemy...