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I would absolutely use Lifestyle as a gate: Lifestyle is too often ignored in D&D, and it would be nice to give that expenditure a concrete value. Make sure to also play up the role-playing value of lavish clothes, food, lodging, your own private carriage, etc. I'd probably make Lifestyle a...

Maybe this isn't the thread to be brainstorming Western Genre Rules, but I can't help myself... Assume a guns do reasonable damage similar to melee damage (d8 for a pistol, d10 for a rifle, or thereabouts). Aim: If you don't move on your turn, your ranged attacks deal double damage...

What if the 1st-levels dogpile (grapple + shove + keep grappling so he can't stand up)? The rules are unclear on whether a single Escape Action is capable of freeing you from multiple grapplers, but for the sake of argument let's say it is. Maybe half the grunts focus on grappling -- with 4...

This. Some people find that attrition-based damage doesn't jive with their expectations of how firearms should work. (Which people? It doesn't matter. But there's enough of them that this debate keeps happening.) So you can either get rid of attrition-based damage (e.g. hit points) or try to set...

5E: - Bounded Accuracy. - Subclasses. - Streamlined rules in general ("rulings not rules"). - No magic item expectations. - No "System Mastery" garbage -- min-maxing has been reined in quite a bit. - "Close enough" game balance. This is actually very complementary to the above point. The...

Name: Tiny Race: Hill Giant -- but, he is only Large size, only two damage dice per attack, proficiency bonus +2, and only 57 (6d10 + 36) HP. CR 4. Sex: Male Appearance: Short but plump hill giant with colorful patchwork clothing and a cute baby-face. Experience: Tiny was the unofficial bouncer...

Is this survey legit? The link is a redirect through Facebook, and I don't see the survey mentioned on dnd.wizards.com or dndbeyond.com. The survey has the standard "Dungeons & Dragons" survey image at the top, but that's easy to fake.

You might try fighter 1/abjurer wizard X -- the abjurer's Projecting Ward shields allies in a way similar to aegis. You can use mage armor and shield to have a really great AC without heavy armor. Unfortunately, 5E doesn't usually allow substituting ability scores, for the most part. So unless...

It's definitely ambiguous (that's why we're here) but let's look at this little gem from the Multiclassing chapter: "You determine what spells you know and can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class" (emphasis mine). So you determine your bard...

I once had a dream about a D&D setting in the roaring twenties -- orc gangster, elven bard who runs a speakeasy, human private eye ex-paladin ("I knew she was trouble the minute she misty stepped into my office..."). I think I called it the "Roaring d20's" or something like that. It was totally...

My favorite edition is 5E: Slow release schedule. Frequent mention of multiple classic D&D settings (instead of picking just one, like 3E picked Greyhawk, or trying to pick none and failing, like 4E produced Nentir Vale). Monster Manual descriptions that are story-based. Each monster...

Wellllll.... The text says, "A spell you choose must be of a level you can cast, as shown on the Bard table, or a cantrip." To me, the mention of "as shown on the Bard table" is not merely a redundancy, but a specificity which overrides other methods of determining "a level you can cast" (such...

3E. That edition totally nailed the dragons' look so thoroughly that it was basically copied for 4E and 5E.

The thing I miss, oddly enough, is astral diamonds. They are a unique D&D thing, and I really love the idea that the most valuable of gems are mined on another plane of existence. Plus, there's room for them in the gemstone tables in the DMG -- diamonds, emeralds, rubies, etc. are 5,000 gp, so...

Desert of Desolation - 18 Isle of Dread - 8 Castle Amber (Chateau d'Amberville) - 2

Sanctity of the grave isn't just a taboo in D&D worlds: The gods might actually curse you for such acts. So I'd imagine a successful grave robber has some way to propitiate or "trick" the deities involved, so as to bypass certain divine security features and repercussions. Good knowledge of...

How about: A feat that lets you learn two artificer infusions. If you're an artificer, this increases your number of infusions known. If you're not an artificer, you get two infusions, and you can infuse one item at a time. This would be analogous to the Martial Adept feat. If it's too weak, you...

Desert of Desolation - 23 Isle of Dread - 13 Castle Amber (Chateau d'Amberville) - 7

Torture is out-of-genre for the heroic-cinematic-fantasy sort of adventure stories that D&D is meant to tell. In those stories, the hero grabs the fallen mook by the lapels, and demands to know "Who hired you!" The mook either spills the beans and begs for his life, or responds with "I'm more...

I worked this up once, inspired by MicroLite20, which does something similar: https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/ryshugSRr4