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You see it all the time in sports, where teammates help each other stand up after diving to the ground, yet D&D rules never supported it. My group had this houserule in 4th edition (where being prone was fairly commonplace) and I thought I'd port it to 5th. Thoughts? New Action: Help Up If...

As a DM, I feel that 4e empowered me. With its tight balance and codified rules I was fairly sure that no matter what the players brought to the table, the game would still run smoothly. I could focus on creating memorable adventures rather than pull my hair out trying to challenge the players...

Back in my day we made up our own page numbers and we liked it. We didn't have any of this premade auto-paginated crap. Kids these days, I tell ya. Oh, and get off my graph paper. PS: I agree.

For some reason this thread made me wonder if (as a house rule of course) two friendly casters could "trade off" concentration on a spell (grasping the threads of the magic weave away from your ally). Good use for an Arcana check. Of course the caster receiving the spell should be high enough...

Thanks. I have yet to do any playtesting with it, unfortunately. Hopefully the folks who are already using it in play can chime in eventually. I suspect it may be too durable at lower levels and too fragile at mid-high levels but don't have any evidence of that yet. I just picked up a monster...

Interesting situation came up last week. I'm normally the DM, but I am on a brief hiatus from DMing with this group and another player is running his game. I am attacking with a daily melee power which has half damage on a miss. My attack hits. Enemy uses an on-hit immediate interrupt which...

I'm a fan of squares for combat maps and hexes for overland maps. We do go gridless for encounters that are expected to be brief, and have all through 3e and 4e. I'm fairly generous toward the players when playing TOM, so they are more than happy to trust me.

4e monster vault for me, although the 5e MM is quite good.

I think there's a place for additional high-level backgrounds for prestige orders, but want them to be fairly sparse mechanically like the standard backgrounds. Boons and feats serve well enough for the major mechanics that prestige classes, paragon paths, and epic destines used to provide.

I really don't care enough one way or another to form an opinion of my own, but in general I see dragonborn as a hybrid mammal/reptile so it could go either way. Essentially I'd leave it up to the player.

Early on we were promised that all races which appeared in the PHBs of the past editions would appear in the 5e PHB. They kept that promise, so that's why tieflings are present. Aasimar never appeared in a PHB, so they got trimmed. 5e's PHB already has more races (and subraces) than any...

Most of mine are Chessex speckled dice. I also have a set of six of the Crystal Caste crystal d4s which I got at Gen Con (when it was still in Milwaukee). I don't like pyramid-shaped d4s.:cool: I find that dice roll better when you DM, so you may want to consider that option.

The titular murder is really just the spark that ignites a whole slew of political maneuvering. I believe it was supposed to have been seen as an act of revenge by that particular bhaalspawn against the one who had killed all the others, and then the matter was settled. Nobody expected that...

Couple of other things I have been pondering: Should the Spirit World Ambassador's sanctuary effect extend to fey as well? They are often heavily associated with spirits. Should the companion be fey or undead? Does the monster manual have any incorporeal creatures that aren't undead? (I...

This is another one of those 5e topics where I am confused by the idea that "less advice is better" mantra. If item price guidelines are not provided, DMs are left to their own devices and may or may not come up with reasonable values. If price guidelines are provided, at least those DMs who...

Added the domain to the database, but need more time to think about the feat. By the way, do bulleted lists not work in the archetype feature boxes?

Good catch. I'm going to update with the following under the general spirit traits: In combat, it rolls its own initiative and takes its own actions on its own turn. It can use the following actions: Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Hide, and Search. I'm also going to be adding the Spirit Guardians...

To add a little background, this is something that carried over from 4e. Some solo creatures had extra actions that occurred on fixed initiative counts every round.

I agree with the OP. I like a game that's internally consistent so that I can focus on the setting and adventure rather than spend my time making and recording judgment calls every five minutes. Otherwise, what am I paying for? I like both 4e and 5e. That said, 4e took a few years to mature, so...

There's been a number of threads about it in the last month or so, but it has died down lately. That works too. I just want to include at least one option as a sidebar to the domain.