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Speaking of learning new spells, can multiple wizard PCs spend downtime teaching each other new spells?

To be honest, the whole creepy puppeteer idea feels more survivable than a lot of other character concepts in Ravenloft simply due to the xenophobia one has to expect when jumping into the Ravenloft setting. Your only real worry would be locals mistaking you for a true vistani, which will be...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone! The general impression I'm getting is that a +3 is useful, but not necessarily required immediately at the start. So a tiefling cleric is still very doable even though it doesn't have any ability score synergy with the class. I have a similar situation with...

As a new player, I often find myself reading posts from other players talking about the crunch of D&D, yet I really don't have the experience to put their assessments into proper context. Some would say you can't go wrong by starting with a +3 modifier in a key stat, but that is a very expensive...

I ended up turning into a power gamer in 3rd edition due to how the game was presented, I suppose that taught me how to recognize when and where optimization was needed. For instance, there isn't a stressing need for a healing-focused cleric to worry about having his wisdom score being optimal...

Well, it's also going to sell better on DMGuild because the buyer will be comparing a professionally made product versus material being shared by DMs. Not that DM shared material can't be professional, just that everyone "knows" it has to be good. People also use it for material in 5th edition...

I never really gave it much thought, since I considered greater restoration to be the goto spell for removing insanity, but realized it actually doesn't refer to it anywhere. Is there a different spell that might be able to remove, or temporarily suppress, insanity?

These are some of the reasons I will remember 5th edition. 1. Being the only guy who brings a tent. 2. Then everyone trying to cram themselves into my tent. 3. Devising a reward system involving tent-time. 4. Strahd breaking my will by only letting the vistani sell tents for 10x their normal...

The best way to understand how to introduce more social play into D&D may be to understand its roots. At its heart, it is the 5th generation in a legacy birthed by Gary Gygax and the Chainmail miniatures war game. In a game system focused on investigation or social play, there is usually only...

I'm currently playing a dambrathan half-elf knight-hospitaler of Ilmater (cleric) for an online Curse of Strahd game. He serves as a temple knight for the Order of the Gauntlet, wandering from place to place in support of a wider campaign against evil. Working at the edge of his order's...

The simplicity of character design and the game in general. Also for failing to put DM fiat in the right places in regards to magic. Aka, letting DM decide when wild magic surge will happen instead of random rolling dice, or the "they just turn hostile afterwards" nonsense of some enchantment...

I'm more fond of "reverse clown" given the makeup component.

So, I gave others the benefit of a doubt and have attempted to use this in a few games. Unfortunately, anyone saying this cantrip is powerful or even at all useful is not thinking straight. A cantrip is supposed to make some aspect of the game easier, but this one does the complete opposite. 1...

Half-vistani are referred to as giogoto by the vistani, and its more of a cultural thing than an actual race. In older editions of Ravenloft, vistani culture was different enough from other ethnic subgroups to cause culture shock, resulting in fear and mistrust. The nomadic lifestyle and...

Although 3rd edition players tended to experiment somewhat with other systems, so many of us learned how to roleplay like the OP is suggesting. I don't think it is a generational or edition based difference. Instead, I think its a bunch of people who are new to roleplaying games, so they draw...

I think a cabal of wizards possessing a host of evil artifacts are more than capable of performing such a feat. We're talking about a fantasy universe where a single wizard can casually create a demiplane once he reaches a sufficiently high level of experience. They're also being treated...

In the case of Hoard of the Dragon Queen, they probably outsourced the maps. That may not be possible with CoS due to copyright issues, or some other legal issues of ownership. That's just my guess though. To Smiteworks: Thanks for porting CoS over!

I remember playing a Pathfinder game when it first came out and being alright with it. I tried playing a game of it recently and couldn't make a single character that didn't conflict in some way with the kind of campaign my GM was conducting. I'd normally say it's the GMs responsibility to make...

But... why?

If its D&D compatible, can we nickname it Middle Oerth? :) Edit: This is of such incredible importance, I should make a forum poll for this! No, wait. I promised myself to avoid the crazy sauce for a while.