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In 4th ed one of my favourite characters was an Eladrin Knight. All that teleporting around every time I hit someone, using my Int as my attack stat and generally being a very mobile heavily armoured knight. There was also the added advantage of buffing up my Cha instead of Con or Str to make...

Recently I was Dming a 5th edition version of Zenopus's ruined tower dungeon for some new players. Always love the classics when I can use them, and the dungeon is really very simple and relatively easy to convert on the fly. In rolling up treasure I decided that I would every once in a while...

So part of my 5e DnD campaign is going to take the characters through a Tar Pit/Pond Swamp. Oily black tar and asphalt will be bubbling up from the earth and create hopefully a very sticky situation for a few combats. Just need a few ideas from the crowd here to flesh out the location, here...

Finally I can play my house Lyrandar dragon marked wind captain. Now is he a storm sorcerer or a swashbuckler.... I agree the dual wield options don't look the best for the classic musketeer feel, however two dirks look pretty good on a pirate or the cutlass hand crossbow combo etc.... This...

The Steel Empire has for years been constrained from fully expanding its borders. To the east lies the magical realm of Ryvyn who's floating fortifications bar all passage. To the west are the mountains and the twin fortresses of the Jade palace of Pain and the Oblivion wall, both manned by...

I went off on the warforgew, changing and esp horrible artificer design. My main beef with the artificier is the complete lack of realistic benefits. Other than infuse potions which is pretty good, the other class features are crap. Master artificer especially is terrible. Most of the magic...

Geographical and historical influences can add a lot to a game. Not everyone is greatly creative and inventing new cultures can be difficult. As such a little research to give an overall feel to cultures is often useful. In my current campaign world: Eladrin - Japanese influenced cultural...

Frostburn is an excellent resource for ideas and interesting monsters and races. I also like their take on hazards such as razor ice and black ice. As for winter living from someone who has worked and lived in the high arctic it's remarkable how with some precautions you can survive fairly...

It's to easy to give out even numbered amounts of "pieces" of whatever (2000cp etc...). Like the monsters have them all in coin rolls for bank deposits... Trade goods bring some reality to the game and a really interesting variety that most PCs appreciate. Pelts, furs, equipment, pack...

As a long time DM I rarely get to play as a PC and over the years have developed a long list of "wish I hadda/can played" characters, which sometimes jump out as NPC but not always. For 5e I'm finding my list is growing again: Mountain Dwarf Infernal Bladelock - a Masochistic dark dwarf...

If you spent some time reading the ebberon fluff you might also notice that power of the dragon mark rarely coincides with being the head of the house. There are a few houses where that might have been true but not all. IIRC house Thraashak even had an unmarked scions as part of its...

I find it interesting some of the responses here regarding the survey, particularly the ones complaining about comparisons and the survey not being specific enough. Specific surveys don't work in this context. At all. There's plenty of research on this. If you want specifics then you...

By adult situations I'm referring too all the uncomfortable stuff that comes along with playing DnD that is more like the Westeros than Forgotten Realms. Sex, prostitution, uncomfortable violence, torture, where half-orcs actually come from (nicely put - forced "mating") and also the other side...

We have a dwarf bard as well. Shaved off his beard but has the worlds most badass mutton chops you've ever seen. As for my guilty pleasure character its gotta be my human fighter with no stat above 12. Gambling issue and incredible sense of self confidence. Owns a mansion haunted by a vampire...

No need to type dragons. If they are unique powerful and rare then they can each be an individual vice a "forest" dragon as an earlier poster has stated. In the current campaign I'm running the dragon that halted the advance of a huge empire has not been seen or heard for over 100 years. The...

As stated in the PHB the tiefling curse follows through human bloodlines. What would happen if a tiefling had offspring with elves or orcs. I'm assuming you would get a tiefling offspring. However would a half-Orc tiefling be more bestial with a little of the orc blood showing through? How...

Can you make a viable Blade Pact Warlock without taking Eldritch Blast? Or even a viable warlock at all without that particular cantrip? Seems like the DPS takes a hit but perhaps you're opening oneself to the other potential interesting options available and force yourself into a different...

Urds.... lots of urds that just fly over and drop rocks, and ceramic jars filled with poisonous creatures, and green slime which eats through the airship holing it. Gargoyles are always fun. Giants throwing rocks at the ship in a great game! Giants throwing gnolls at the ship in a great game!

Eberron probably has the best take on druids there is for philosophy as they were in the world from the ground up (well Darksun too I suppose) Ashbound hate magic and want it destroyed. Children of Winter want everything to die and start the cycle rebirth cycle of nature. Gatekeepers want to...

Its funny, this story reminds me so much of my first adventures as a 12 year old, going to the Savage Land with the good ole' masters kit back in the day, fighting Allosaurus and dealing with weird new races. We never played the game correctly, DM fiat was painful but we had a boat load of fun...