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Technically, teleport requires familiarity and can't cross planar boundaries. The former prevents teleporting in, since the players just won't know about the interior. The latter can stop ingress and egress cold: have enough planar bleed from something suitable and you can claim --...

I wrote a thing you might find helpful! https://lackhand.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/illyrian-denizens-with-stats/ Good luck; I know how you feel :)

How "permanent" is your game, as in, if next session you decided to wipe out the runes and start over, would your players be okay with that? The more accepting of mistakes your players are, the more you can play around with this stuff. How fungible are runes? Once slotted, can they be pried out...

Depends :) With the newest Unearthed Arcana, below 5th level, etc, I'd go with immortal mystic (for Luke, Vader) or awakened (Yoda). It's sketchy, not all the rules are there yet. Let's ignore that. Jedi are space wizard ninja paladins. They cover a versatile set of roles: technologists...

I don't disagree with you, but that's why I listed all the different ways to derive the price; find the one that fits how eggs work in your campaign. I didn't say it, but I feel like the DM has a lot more leeway to hang an ongoing antagonistic plot (vicious, conniving, etc) off of a large...

We can consider the price in a few ways: * As an objet d'art * As a mount when it hatches * As a magical item of "Summon Dragon" As an art object, we can compare it to other art objects. The top tier of art prices at 7500 gp and I think dragon eggs fit there, or maybe below. 10,000 gp feels...

My wood elves are the druidic remnants of what was once an Empire of Elves, their clans living within, and in harmony with, the slumbering groves which were once the One Wood, stretching across the land. Humanity, in the form of a viking-like raiding culture, broke the spine of the empire and...

When I need quirks, I don't need stats. When I need stats, I don't need quirks. I want both, but I don't want to have to split out statblocks between those two purposes. Mostly I want battle stat blocks because I find it difficult to reuse personality-from-a-can.

I think the most important part of 5e wizardly schools are the granted powers for the wizard's specialization. Oh, there's a few oddball references to school in the rules, like the restricted spell lists for the arcane trickster and eldritch knight, but the rest of the references to schools live...

My PCs are the bondsfolk of a newly-minted Baron, looking to clear 2 hexes in each direction so he can finish building his keep and settle into his retirement. Their patron is a nice blunt former adventurer with a lax policy towards his underlings and a broad-minded approach towards...

Seconding +kamikazemidget (and +Mercule, and others!)'s suggestion, I think modeling them as feats is okay, but modeling them as magic items would have been great. We already have boons, which these basically are; yes, playing with these boons available from first level would make your...

For what it's worth, I think there's a slight mis-step here. You asked why they didn't provide a temporary "for-the-sake-of-argument" set of rules for allowing psionics (and Kalashtar) in Eberron. I say: That's not an unreasonable thing, but it's "more". At some point, I'd rather have them...

I noticed the effect of concentration as a GM and was annoyed by it. But I also don't want to make maintaining multiple effects even more of a time sink than it is -- it's already complex enough! One think I was considering was allowing multiple effects with Concentration up simultaneously, but...

My players, stay out! I'm writing a fifthcore adventure (do a google search for fourthcore, but in brief: METAL!!! in aesthetic, difficult in challenge, tournament-style in sensibility) for my players. I'm targeting 6 players at 13th level, and putting together a "beyond deadly" boss monster...

I like 5e Fighters quite a lot. I know what you mean about them being underpowered; I feel like that's common around 'casters; fighters get some nice tricks but they just can't raise the dead. Spellcaster-wise: Clerics are the clerics from 3e, toned down a bit. They're "full casters" in that...

Oh yeah, good point. LSD (okay, fantasy LSD: psychotropics and hallucinogens) in the wine; all the wine. Eventually one adapts and can function, but most first time visitors to the Great Shoe Tree find its inhabitants of child-sized rodents and insects and great walking mirrors quite confounding.

Another thought which might conflict: it might be a nomadic tribe, not a location. The city of illusions is a ruin; the caravan folk spend their winters there, then travel back to the mountain wastes for the spring through fall, to forage their goats (milk, meat, wool and labor!). Travelers who...

For me, illusion implies sensation, chicanery, wonder. I don't know how high-magic your campaign is, but in my campaign it would be hard for illusions to be so commonplace that everyone wears sumptuous dream-of-gold robes and eats gruel-a-la-rêverie; there aren't enough wizards and there aren't...

Hmm. I could see it going either way, but I look at it thusly: if the archer and knight suffer the same penalty, the archer is still coming out ahead: they can dictate the terms of their engagement with the dragon, get behind cover, shoot while the dragon is coming in for a breath and so on. The...

Yes, legendary dragons shrug magic right off; chaotic flux and legendary resistances both. They are a bear. Metaphorically. Iron hide has entirely the wrong benefits, so I'm going to declare it switched up. D&D is generally punitive to melee characters -- damaging auras, weapon and armor...