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While not perfect, I do like the homebrew race balance Here. It considers darkvision worth 1/2 an ability score point. And some equivalent replacements: 1 damage resistance(not bludgeon/piercing/slashing), 1 cantrip, brave, lucky, nimble, mask of the wild, trancelike abilities. Really you...

This will probably only work once and the pcs will get wary of it, in the goblin room past the caltrops, have the goblins only fire once, then retreat to the next room, because they can hide as a bonus action (and talk as a free one) they can have the entire next room hide then ready attacks for...

I think it is more of a fact skeletons have traditionally been weaker to bludgeoning, and making them resistant to the other types of damage raised their CR beyond the desired level. As for werewolves, I think since they removed damage reduction as a standard concept, a DR 10/silver translates...

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Keep in mind you have Very powerful spells at that level. You could cast Antipathy (Orcs) on your robe. You could stroll up to the place while the 1/20 or so orcs that don't flee in terror are easily dispatched. You could also alternately cast it as sympathy on a fighter who has polearm...

I would categorize the per turn damage categories into a grade of damage per 3 points of damage dealt, per tier of content. The damages listed below are assuming you are doing the damage total for the turn, so fighters or cantrips automatically scale, but other classes might need to use their...

Obviously Tons of Spoilers below.. The biggest thing you should realize is that if the party is formidable, Strahd excels at hit and run tactics. Notes: Strahd should start without his link to the Heart of Sorrow. Strahd has regenerate 20, every turn his heart takes damage instead of him...

Keep in mind a Ancient Red Dragon is gargantuan, which is 20', the spell mentions anyone within 15' of the dragon, meaning the total diameter of the attack is 50 ft wide. This is important considering the dragon could be flying over the heroes 10 feet off the ground.

I run AL stuff typically, so...... If I were running something outside of AL, then probably would allow Basically any Unearthed Arcana as long as I looked at it first, specific things like tunnel fighting style breaks action economy so would be flat out, the 2d6 HD ranger with their ambuscade...

Unearthed Arcana in general is to test out ideas with the players and see which ones get support before they devote resources to further develop the concepts. Also rumor is that they have a more substantial crunch book soon. But its just a rumor.

Its a feat that when used, the player is using it, and there's not really a way to even imply the character itself is using it unless you are willing to RP someone who gets precognition visions of the future. Also it inherently doesn't work too well with secret rolls, which is a valid play option.

Also Shadows are listed at 1/2 CR(same as an orc) which means 5 of them isn't unreasonable for a party of 4-5 level 2-3 characters. But the fact they could all gang up one person and attack before the players means they are much more dangerous than mere CR would suggest.

Death house... maybe the name should have hinted. It is an intro into Curse of Strahd which is a very unforgiving campaign if you run it as written and playing the NPCs as intelligent. Another fun part is the specter can 1 shot kill (not unconscious) a player if they are unlucky. Also if they...

The question isn't really is a build viable. 5e is extremely generous in encounter design so that unless you do the most foolish building of all you can probably get it working. Its just is it comparatively as strong. Starting fighter gives you all armor, weapon, and con prof. Which is...

Lucky feat can cause huge potential swings in a given scenario. You can literally turn a critical hit against you into a miss, without even using an action. Or turn a failed save vs disabled into a successful one. The halfling lucky trait really isn't a big deal unless your table uses critical...

90% of rituals are non-combat minor utility things. And 10 minutes is a meaningful drawback, its 1/6 of a short rest. If you have unlimited time to complete your objectives then most objectives become trivial.

How to RP it: Blood-lust - if the fighter is particularly barbaric, he may see the damage he inflicted and give him a rush of adrenaline to quickly follow with another attack. Cleaving/follow-through - Slashing entirely through an enemy and carrying onto a nearby target. Additionally, if this...

Keep in mind this is applying your STR/DEX Mod as damage once per turn. You are granting the same bonus of Two Weapon Fighting Style (Adding ability mod to damage) to Great Weapon, except rather being limited to once per turn, you are applying it to every single attack. This means as say a...

You know Kenku are officially available in Volo's Guide right?

Just depends, my warlock/paladin for example always kept his phantom steed up this way, but considering he was wearing full plate and riding a white horse he wasn't exactly trying to sneak up on anyone.