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One could argue that smoke is not only something that you physically interact with, but something whose interaction is very apparent. Anyone whose ever waved a mosquito out of their face near a camp fire would know how smoke looks when someone moves around within it's boundary. Which raises the...

I'm gonna TRY to run Ravenloft I6 for the first time. Doing it in 5e. Kinda nervous about that map. Not looking forward to making a bunch of pre-gens.

Same here. Advantage/Disadvantage is the first thing I do to explain how much less "complicated" it is to people who tried D&D in the past and then gave up.

Any thoughts on the Rogue Mastermind in Sword Coast? He kinda reminds me of the Lazylord.

Looks okay to me. The only thing that jumped out to me was "Expertise" I dunno Warlords that well, so I was surprised to see they are kinda skill-y? It makes sense, but I never thought of them that way. It seems a little odd to invite such a direct comparison to Bards and do it a level sooner...

I use Investigation a lot. Basically, long story short, I just treat it as "search" because Perception gets too much love. It actually inspired me to add a lot of "crime scene" type situations to my quests. If a player just describes their character looking in the right place for the right...

My gut says that backgrounds, subclasses and maybe a FEW feats combine to do anything intersting a PrC could do and the game would benefit more from that than some other splintering aspect.

It'd be cool to find a very old and wounded creature of a really high power. Like, if you stumbled across (to roll off another person's idea) a dead group of guard or adventurer's. Or maybe just one might knight and the wounded Ogre he had ALMOST killed just before they arrived. Do they take...

The idea that there are DMs out there with players who WANT to play a LGBT character, but can't because their DM insists that it's somehow anachronistic with a world containing magic, dragons, elves and dwarves is pretty sad. I like the book having an official default stance of inclusiveness...

Well said. Honestly, switching this stuff up is really just a handy shortcut for making an NPC pop a little more. Whenever I am having to make up a stupid random captain of the guard or something I usually default to the same two or three tired templates. If he is a she, another race or just...

Yeah, that's another thing entirely. I have one player (a straight white guy) playing a character who was turned into a monster (Tiefling stats) by a mysterious event and is seeking answers. The character had their gender stripped away in the process, and while it's not a big part of the...

My group contains both a woman and a gay gentleman who had never had any interest before. I know multiple women (including an entire female group in Austin) who have came to 5e and are playing D&D for the first time. I also know multiple gay people in other games who came to D&D for the first...

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I am looking for advice on the subject. I don't mean to make any claims to knowing anything about it. Sorry to bug you. Thanks!

I feel kind of odd that I have never read an old book containing a legend about a dragon or goblins. Do such things even exist? I assume they've been translated from old english or something right? With giants we at least have Jack and the Bean Stalk and with vampires you have Dracula -- but...

Thank you! How helpful!

So they recently put the Adventurer's League Quest "Harried in Hillsfar" on Dragon+ which theoretically gives it some wider reach,Has anyone ran this yet? Any tips or ideas on ways to spice it up outside of AL play? Just flipping though, it'd be nice to link the different segments together more...

This is where my brain always goes.

Eh, any DM who tells me "no" can be replaced. :) It's for a podcast I produce. Anyway, it looks like I'll be running the game and offering pre-gens so now I'm in charge of just making some weird characters.

Yeah, totally. I am usually the DM - and I may just make a it one of the pregen characters I offer people in an upcoming one off. I'm okay with home brew or unpublished stuff. Just looking for some inspiration and ideas. I'm thinking of trying to do some early weird builds and seeing what works.

This is dumb, but I was thinking it might be fun to play/make an intelligence based martial character. I started to think it would be interesting to make a character who throws vials of acid, holy water, oil and whatnot. Any thoughts on what I should look at or consider? We don't play in a very...