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I'm creating some homebrew spells that scale from cantrip to 9th level, and I'm working on Telekinesis right now. The idea is that cantrip level is equal to Mage Hand but without the limitations of conjuring a physical hand to move things around and just moving them directly ala the 5th level...

Indeed, and I have run an earlier version of this creature before with three melee mooks as support against a party of newbie players, and it went down in three turns without dealing a tremendous amount of damage, even though it got the drop on them casting Stinking Cloud. In practice, a melee...

Using the Monster Statistics by Challenge Rating from the DMG, it has 91 HP and 12 AC, putting it squarely in the CR 2 range. The Tough trait (Undead Fortitude) adds 7 effective CR according to the DMG, so it's definitely on the high end but still CR 2. Offensively, it can do 14 damage with its...

Copy/pasting from D&D Beyond where I'm building this. It's a Plague Priest, from Warhammer: Fantasy, that I'm converting to 5e. I want it to have a version of the Vermintide spell from Total War: Warhammer where they summon a unit of clanrats, but in this case I'm thinking Giant Rats (Diseased)...

I'm working on some homebrew spellcasters, and I want them to have Conjure Animals on their spell list. The question I have is, how do I balance an encounter with this in mind? The spellcaster is only CR 2 by itself, but it can conjure 8 CR 1/4 beasts which immediately turns a Medium encounter...

What are some of your favorite, effective builds that don't really fit the usual mold for the class? I personally love my heavily armored, lawful good Rogue. VHuman Inquisitive Rogue STR: 17 DEX: 10 CON: 14 INT: 12 WIS: 14 CHA: 8 Moderately Armored @ level 1. With scale mail and a shield your...

I’ll keep you posted, though it will be some time before the scaling takes effect. Thanks again for the feedback everyone!

Well to be honest, I’ve always considered it a fantastic feat, but also that it seems to massively drop in value at higher levels. Now that I’m really thinking about it and hearing from y’all, I realize my analysis might be wrong. That being said, the players in my new campaign are pretty...

I’m trying to think of interesting ways to make the Healer feat more relevant in the later levels. I’ve considered higher quality healer kits to add more d6s, as well as incorporating various flora that can be scavenged to remedy conditions or provide buffs. A new idea I just thought of would...

Alright, comments noted, thanks for the feedback! I don’t feel compelled to adjust the damage type so much, but I do still want to fix melee. I’ll adjust the wording so that you have to take the attack action in order to gain the bonus damage so there’s no chance for Booming Blade cheese, though...

I have a new player in my group that has decided to play a CoS Druid, and in the interest of making her experience as much fun as possible, I’ve done a little research into the class and come up with some minor tweaks. I’m thinking that in order to compensate for the inherent weakness of the...

In my hombrew setting there exists a mountain civilization called the Kingdom Underhill where Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings (oh my) coexist. Their government is a parliamentary monarchy, in a certain sense like Britain with a figurehead monarch, with a council of three elected officials, one for...

In my experience, most DMs run relatively low magic settings, where spellcasters of any level are extremely rare. I’m curious though, if that’s the case, how you deal with brazen murder hobo PCs? If your players threaten a village with violence to get their way, do you have high level Fighters...

I typically use this encounter calculator to build my encounters, but it lacks an option to measure when the party has monsters fighting on their side. Does anyone know of a similar website or just have their own formulas for determining the CR of an encounter with this in mind?

For my homebrew setting, I have been converting the various factions of one of my favorite tabletop war games, Warmachine/Hordes, to 5e. This is a first draft of my Cygnar conversion, which in my setting is known as the Kingdom Underhill, populated by Dwarves, Gnomes and Halflings (oh my!)...

By my estimation, it should be possible for a caster to use Mold Earth to make a small trench that can be used as cover. I've placed this ability on a homebrew monster that I'll post later, but what I'm concerned about is whether or not the ability to create cover at-will on a monster with...

Blink would be 30 ft. at 1st level for most characters, 35 for wood elves, 25 for dwarves, etc. As I said it's a first draft, and I figured just using your movement range would be simplest. Perhaps your idea is better, to limit it to 10 ft at 1st, or perhaps 15 so it's equal to Misty Step at 2nd.

I've been tinkering with a homebrew system based on 5e, and figured I could playtest some spells in a standard D&D game. The idea is to have spellcasters become experts in their chosen cantrips that scale up into spells, rather than have a limited number of cantrips and a broad variety of...

By RAW, I don't know if Zombies are technically allowed to take special attack actions like Shove. However, I think that's kind of a dumb rule. I was watching the zombie battles in Game of Thrones and noticed how the horde was particularly dangerous because the sheer mass of bodies slamming into...

Thanks everyone. I keep forgetting to specify the setting, but I’m asking about the Forgotten Realms. He’s a great tragic deity for my homebrew campaign setting, but I won’t be able to use him in my story. Oh well.