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Oh no, they made Eberron Minis, but nobody here seems to have pushed them as far as I can remember. I ended up buying a brick of them with my tax refund play money for a new campaign, and then COVID hit and I've not played in person in 4 months.

I once had a campaign derail because of it. Players were tasked to retrieve a helm that would be used to legitimize a goblin clan's claim to leadership. When they got to the tomb, they found lots of other treasure and loaded everything back up onto Tenser's. What took a few hours hard ride on...

Thanks for the advice and info everyone! I think I'll end up using a mix of everything here.

Mainly because I think the class itself trains the character towards certain paths. It's why they have their Save proficiencies the way they are. A trained Fighter is going to be stronger or more accurate with a bow than a Sorcerer would.

I have never liked the idea of Ability Score Increases tied to race, which I know is a pretty sacred cow of D&D over the years. In my last game I tried to adjust a bit and had Class give the bonus to ability score rather than race, based on either saving throw proficiency or on main attack...

I happen to like Critical fail tables- I use them as DM and they definitely apply to enemies. I don't like overly harsh failures- missing the attack is bad enough, my crit fails range from: first attack against you has advantage, to your speed becomes 0 for the rest of the turn and all the way...

I was playing through a conversion of Seekers of the Ashen Crown about a year ago and when the party had their first BBEG fight I had some awful dice rolls. We were using a homebrew critical hit/miss chart, and my BBEG crit missed is first attack, which knocked him prone at the feet of one...

These are amazing! Someone should compile them all and put them up on DM's guild... 100 living spells and story hooks

I think the use any CR 1 creature rule was easily abused, much like my group has done with the Nilbog. But a generic sidekick isn't that much fun either. I'm going to be running a game for my 7 yr old son, and he wants to be a Druid with a small treefolk sidekick, so he can use his Wildlings...

Like I said, we have a Nilbog Spellcaster already, and the DM thinks its a bit powerful. Nilbog counts as humanoid, and it speaks a language, so Spellcaster it was. Consider that you need a DC 12 Charisma save when you target it for a damaging effect, otherwise be charmed, AND it can reduce...

The game I'm playing in has a sidekick, using the UA rules and I think we've made that creature a bit OP. I'm wondering what the difference is between the UA rules and the official rules from the Essentials set, because I have some questions about a potential replacement character. We're...

I'm sorry, it was rude. No excuses, just an apology. I get your reasoning, but I don't think WotC should expect players to buy 2 books to cover what 1 should. We've had material reprinted from one book to another- look at Elemental Evil and SCAG spells that were reprinted for XGtE. Granted...

The people who are mad about Wayfinder's being obsolete or paid playtest or whatever can go suck an egg. WotC were up front about what Wayfinder's was from the very beginning. I am glad to have had the material available for the past 18 months as it opened up Eberron on the DM's Guild and...

This idea is the basis of Eberron's magical economy. You may not have low-level wizards running about, but you've got people who know how to use these rituals as a sort of skilled workman. The Dragonmarked houses have commoditized the use of certain spells and abilities and have the greatest...

Have you seen the alternate Character sheets, specific for each class? Here's the link on DM's Guild: Class Character Sheets - The Bundle - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild They are form-fillable PDF's, and most of the magic classes have a section for most often used spells, so the...

I end up repurposing my son's toys. He has a ton of Skylanders, and they make great giant sized baddies. I've used his toy snakes and crocodiles too. Scale is a little off, but it works out fine. My players have laughed when facing off against a Little people gorilla and croc. I've used an...

I recognized that rather quickly with my English Major, so I went on to be a Lawyer.

Here are some of my recent favorite encounters: Party infiltrates a warehouse, eavesdropping on a rival adventuring group and planning on stealing most of the treasure the rivals had gained. The party's necromancer, who had been converting dead enemies into zombies and stuffing them in his...

Although I've not played with either of them, I lurked and followed their posts way back from the old WotC servers in 4e. iserith has taught me a ton about DM-ing and I've used many of his scenarios in play. I remember the post-wars of him vs SageAtopTheMountain or some pretentious name like...

In my current campaign, on of my players is a chainlock/Rogue, with a psuedodragon for a familiar. I don't ever have him roll the familiar's initiative, and the familiar pretty much hangs out in his rogue's space. We figure he has auto-on advantage and either advantage on magical saves, or...