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Since I'm going to be getting the guide on DnD Beyond anyway, interesting. If the feats aren't official, no big deal - always nice to get new homebrew content to play around with, and that's basically how I'll treat it. If it is official content, I'm sure Wizards has already reviewed the...

Since I'm going to be getting the guide on DnD Beyond anyway, interesting. If the feats aren't official, no big deal - always nice to get new homebrew content to play around with, and that's basically how I'll treat it. If it is official content, I'm sure Wizards has already reviewed the...

A certain bard-fan in my groups will be going crazy over this - beware the Gnome Heavy Metal Bard.

System without a doubt. I would have never known a thing about the world of Shadowrun, in example, had I not been intrigued by throwing a handful of d6s all over my table.

As an alternative, you can take the 'Talents' approach. In my game, I made a list of talents available at certain levels (some games it's every level, others its first and every 3 levels). These are baby feats that just add flavor and new capabilities for customization. I believe someone on...

I can definitely agree here. A lot of the fights are pretty short, so that's why I've taken to the solo tactics mentioned above, and increasing the APL for determining encounter difficulty. I typically just add an imaginary extra PC to the math for determining how rough to make an encounter...

I posted on this yesterday with a thread talking about ASIs, but for our table, I stack Extra Attack as follows, without any balancing issues arising: Classes that have extra attack are added together to determine when you get extra attack, but only to the lowest level of extra attack. Since...

Plot Points Every player begins each session with 3 plot points. A plot point is used to redirect the direction of the story or softly alter a situation. In example, an acrobatic rogue is stuck in an ally with two different factions of enemies closing in on him from each side. Because we use...

5 out of 5 rating for Tomb of Annihilation "A death curse has befallen everyone who's been raised from the dead. Its victims are rotting away, and all efforts to reverse the decay have failed." The first paragraph on the back of the physical version of this book I purchased says more than a...

Some quick things I use from the top of my head: - For larger creatures, let's take a dragon in example, I'll add a 'swipe' ability to them with a recharge. I won't use one that's tremendously higher level than my party for a big solo encounter, or throw in a ton of NPCs to help out (like SKT)...

The rule is more than fine - it's what we play with at most of my tables, and have pretty much since 5E launched. Most of my players are a happy middle of Role-players and min-maxers, caring more about their story than their power, but at the same time wanting to maintain relevance. With the...

No, @OP, you are not alone. I was never huge on 4E, but it had some innovative and brilliant aspects of it, diamonds in the rough, so to speak, that just called to me - so I use them no matter what game I play. Monsters are the primary source of this - if I want the characters to face a...

- Make an enemy: (Social-related skills mid chase are some of my favorite). While barreling down an alley, you can't help but to shoulder someone. A quick apology without slowing you down might cost you in the long run. Perhaps that person joins the chase and provides a constant obstacle...

I'll admit I'm not completely able to grasp the other side of the coin here - I play with my immediately family as well as friends, so I've not had the need for online interaction to enjoy 5E - I'm sure that jades me to the point that digital content (or the lack thereof) hasn't really affected...

Then don't buy them multiple times. I buy one copy of the media type I want it. If people want it in multiple forms, more power to them. It's nice to have options.

I use a projector at my tables to cast digital maps onto the table, and that's how we play D&D. When I found out D&D Beyond has hi-res digital maps for the adventures, I pretty much buy the 'core' books in physical form, and all the campaign books on Beyond, for the simple reason I no longer...

I use Maptools, found at http://www.rptools.net/. Free, open source, and an amazing community of content creators. You can create your own campaign frameworks, or get them from other users who've already done all the scripting by hand. Obviously, it doesn't have all the content of the pay...

I've created similar in the past. My solution is to roll your initiative at the end of each turn, after you take the actions. Rob the ranger fires his bow. After all effects are applied, after Rob ends his turn, he immediately rolls X - Y, gm writes it down, move on. In the new round...

5 out of 5 rating for Volo’s Guide to Monsters I can't be overly wordy about this product, so I'll keep it simple and concise: For all the greatness there is in WoTC making more monsters, the lore they provided for the classics put me over the moon. My favorite 5E product (to date).

5 out of 5 rating for Tales from the Yawning Portal Honesty - I had already purchased the hardback collection 'Dungeons of Dread (S1 - S4)' a while back and converted them all to 5E for my tabletop. With that in mind, the White Plume Mountain and Tomb of Horrors being extracted, instead of...