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I still use my 3.5 and 4E DMGs. I might spend a weekend collecting and updating useful stuff from both of them.

All of them, really, but 3, 5, 11, 17, and 20 are of special importance. Compare it against a class that does a similar role. Check if it's at-wills damage falls between rogue and fighter. Make sure there's trade offs.

I meant like commissioning one. Then again, asking the blacksmith to make something custom when they probably have important things to make for the village could necessitate extra.

i swore on the angels above that I wouldn't touch minecraft... digital legos... i'd be lost

They're a home base for the players. PCs can have them individually or they can put them together as one unit. They provide gameplay for downtime, giving PCs facilities for crafting or running a business, with most of the minutia handled by NPCs that the players get to come up with. It's just...

All this talk has me really wanting to put together a community repricing of at least the PHB items (gotta check how much, if any, change was done in A5E), just for this kind of simulationist daydreaming. 3E had its gold thresholds for communities; what if in communities village and smaller...

Heya. My first 5.5 game is gonna focus around Bastions. The players are going to get burdened with given title of a keep and be thrust into the mobility, with all the privileges and responsibilities that comes with. Over time, a settlement will grow around their keep and they'll get to be the...

I like damage threshold or damage reduction a lot more than damage resistance. Sure, subtraction can be oddly harder than halving, but DR solves so many flavor issues.

I got better rest when I got a mattress. And when my hotel was next to the train line, I hardly got any sleep and didn't rest well. It's hard to rest with a neon light in your window and sirens blaring; rich people don't deal with that. Also it's very easy to rest well when you're richer than...

For my next game, we're going to focus on the Bastions and spend more time with downtime, time, and money and such. One thing I'm considering is switching the game to a Silver model, and having the coin conversions be 1/100. 100 CP equals 1 SP, 100 SP equals 1 GP, 100 GP equals 1 PP. The beauty...

I live in Seattle. Everyone SAYS they don't drink Starbucks and that they drink local coffee houses only, but every star bucks DriveThru is constantly full, so either those drivethrus are filled with tourists or everyone is a liar. Also, why is this thread about coffee and not long rests?

Maybe being semi sedentary, or at least relaxed, would have a different effect on your accumulation and recovery of exhaustion. Adventuring is hard work, but the sleep is reeeeeaaaaaal good after a day of hiking and laborious activity. A relaxed civilized day, or a day at home with books and...

Yes there is a difference; the Artificer has less slots than the Bard or Cleric until spell storing items come into effect. Which may be room to improve; make spell storing lower level and help serve the dual purpose of being their Arcane Recovery/Channel Divinity value ability, but also to give...

Half caster damage spells need to either be riders added onto of their base attacks, or the half caster itself needs a floating spell damage boost to split the difference. I personally like spells being a fixed level, but yeah a level 3 fireball is less helpful at level 9 instead of 5th, and a...

Moving Spell Storing to level 2, or even potentially 1, is a great idea. Give them their virtual expanded spell slots earlier and make that a core feature. I like it. And Alchemist being able to make certain spells into potions would be a neat way to expand it... I wonder if many of the...

I only just now noticed that Paladins were changed to 1 per long rest preparation switching. That's wild! I thought they were still using the cleric/druid style. Yeah, I'd keep Artificers preparing all their spells. If I were to switch them to anything, it would be Wizard style; prepare X per...

Level Up A5E's Artificer is great, but what to D&D players think of the Eberron/Tasha's Artificer? How do they feel? What are the pain points? Is there anything that should be improved to bring it in line with 2024 classes? I've seen 3 Artificers played, but I've not been the player or the DM...

Hi everybody! Playing BG3 again has reminded me of a little frustration I've had with 5E. Until you get extra attack, Light Crossbow is better than Shortbow and heavy Crossbow is better than Longbow. They're supposed to be the same profiency, so that's annoying. Maybe this is intended. It...

Way back when, I did a spreadsheet calculation test convinced me a paladin using their spells for all smites was reasonably comparable to a battle master fighter using their dice for simple Maneuvers (the ones that add 1 die of damage after a hit). I feel like paladin has a slight edge over...

I was using it to consider reverting paladin smites to not taking a bonus action and just limiting them to once per round.