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My campaign is set in an elven colony, grown to a human city, now conquered by a force of orcs and giants. I'm happy to lend you some of the setup I did. How to organize your notes on a city: https://lackhand.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/taking-a-city-door-to-door/ The specific demographics of my...

Share it please! I'm super interested.

How far away are they? Rounds, minutes, hours, days? Depending on the scale, you might just run the adventure with no special rules, it just has an overland component. The overland rules work, there's a bunch of 5 mile hexes between here and there, and you have exactly enough time to cover the...

Invading their world, or invading their nation? Perhaps one or more of the priests are guilty of crimes in some neighboring nation, and NOW is when the Emperor-over-the-Sea sends his justiciar to execute his will and bring the accused to justice? Pleas that "this could be the end of the world"...

Ravenloft means so many things to so many people! I think it's important to remember what we are getting here. It's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft_(module) not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft . I'm actually pretty happy about that myself, but I can see how others wouldn't be --...

shidaku -- yes, but it also removes some of the Gotta Catch 'em All from the spell -- both good and bad. Back when charm's duration depended on intelligence, a chance encounter with an ogre (I think they used to be valid targets? Assuming they fail the save) meant a devoted follower for the...

It seems to me you don't 100% need NPC spellcasting rules -- I think you actually need NPC ritual and crafting rules. I draw the distinction because, even in your initial query, you want a guideline which lets you stick a Gem of Hallow into the game without having to deal with remove curse or...

You say that like it's a bad thing! The way we resolve bless often involves the cleric handing the d4 to the beneficiary (at least the first couple of times, before they remember). Thereafter, they're rolling damage already, the fighter just pipes up to remind them. The DM making the saving...

What might be interesting to me are giving fighters a literally greater ability to use terrain: allies deal 1d4 extra damage to enemies you threaten, always and forever. Enemies near windows which you hit have to make str saves or trip out of them. Enemies in difficult terrain get speed 0 when...

Late but perhaps helpful, I've transcribed (very, very, very badly; stripping out all of the beauty of your design!) this sheet into a google doc, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EhZQpjoVAmS6WW-dSrOMuf0RjZuCwhElmgbOVgQ2xok/edit#gid=0&vpid=A1 . This makes keeping a consistent copy...

I'm not the OP, but I think you have a lot of good stuff here. One correction, though -- there are a few relatively low CR legendaries. The big example is the Challenge 5 Unicorn. I think the OP just wants a high CR legendary for this project; I don't think it's a general requirement :)

Immunity to standard weaponry and regeneration unless silver weaponry feels too... feast-or-famine for me. If the regeneration is running, then nobody's hitting the werebeast; if the regeneration isn't, then at least one person got through, and got through the immunity too. I like "this...

There's an alternative if the paladin doesn't want to waste that much mutton on the hoof: use the paladin as the bait :lol:!

This matches how I've always thought about it too... Except then, shouldn't it be magical bludgeoning damage? Great against skeletons, bad against oozes? Even if it doesn't really match the name, I like the idea of it being "disintegration" damage.

In practice, all this system does is encourage the players to stick to near-DMG levels of short rest per long rest. No additional counterbalancing needed in practice -- while, yes, the warlock can cast more spells per long rest than the wizard, their selection is severely limited, they cannot...

I made long rests take a week in a safe place -- so they short rest at least 7 times between long rests in the trivial sense that they sleep each night, and more if they're actively adventuring (so they hole up in a side room for an hour and bandage wounds, take a nap, catch their breath). The...

I want "B", and I said as much in the survey. Sorta. I guess others are discussing it as F (Barantor, pming) , but honestly, that "F" feels pretty B-y to me. I hate the formfactor of hardcover adventures. I think we should be buying adventures in (small) boxes (a box the size of the current...

I really have to recommend this one. From the comments over at patreon, Jester Canuck recommended that hiring a seasoned hireling cost twice the normal rate, and a veteran cost five times the normal rate -- useful for giving a little more guidance to the DM in contract negotiations, IMO.

One interesting thought here: the important seeking of advantage that Inspiration somewhat curtails is mostly a pre-game activity. When a character build provides you with advantage, it's not due to something you created at the table; it's a foundation you laid before the game and then...

Hmm. It's true, but 5e conflates rarity with complexity -- it's also quicker, cheaper and easier to get the recipe for winged boots than boots of levitation. I just assume there's some bugs on the rarity table and move on with my life :)...