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Sure, there's lots of fluff for Warlocks. Entering into forbidden contracts and needing to do a Dark Master's dirty work on the Material Plane. Stealing power from a Fey Deity and trying to avoid repercussions. Having a thirst for knowledge and power and willing to trade away your own soul to...

I don't think it should really matter. Trying to single out one player for trying to have an optimized build by imposing boundaries is not fair, but having a consequence for certain classes is fine. Choosing between a Fighter and a Warlock might not matter in some campaigns or tables, but some...

You can come up with a great explanation for why his Patron still gives him powers, but it sounds like the player doesn't care about his character's place in the setting. (Correct me if I'm wrong btw) He just wants to play his ideal character, with all of the powers and choices that from for a...

His Patron may be incredibly cunning and be playing a dangerous game with the Paladin. Maybe by granting the Paladin power and having him go off and adventure is benefiting the Patron without the Paladin knowing. So even as he is trying to hurt his Patron, he's actually being used. Depending on...

Spells like Dissonant Whispers, Blindness/Deafness, Vicious Mockery, Crown of Madness, Confusion... You can flavour a lot of spells as singing so bad it causes others to need to shut their ears or drive them wild.

Welcome! Guide by EvilAnagram http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?427508-Player-s-Gonna-Play-A-Bard-s-Guide Guide by Zardnaar http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?363601-Bardic-Lore-A-Basic-College-of-Lore-Bard-Guide Guide by mellored...

Potions/Alchemy/Items: Herbalism and Alchemy, by Dalagrath https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7CIGCMCtoETbEhVTy0zSnFJNEE/view -More Herbalism and foraging than spellcasting, but there is a variety of effects and combination. Sane Magic Item Prices [5e] by Saidoro...

Maybe an Alchemist would work? There are quite a few great alchemical, herbalism, and potion-making rules and pdf available that could really help you out. Combining different spell potions, or a potion with an environmental effect could give what you are looking for. They could start with basic...

Some of the higher CR monsters in the MM have Lair Actions and environmental effects. Even if you ignore the monsters themselves and just use the lairs as a seed for the moons or whatever, that might help describe the type of effects and obstacles the PCs might encounter.

For heat guns and the like, I think using cantrips as a baseline is a good idea to prevent them from being overpowered. A heat gun could be Poison Spray that does fire damage, or a Time Dilution Gun is Ray of Frost with force damage. Unless you give them set charges or limited ammunition, but...

Is doesn't have to fully reflect the power of a single creature, but draw inspiration and use a new race. Use the Minotaur from the UA as an example. They have some Minotaur traits (Horns, Labyrinth recall), bonus to appropriate stats, and a unique culture. Now a racial option rather than...

Casting 7-9th levels spells is reserved for full spell casting classes as well, so opening up the ability to pick high level spells for some classes could be tough to balance. It would be a bigger difference adding spells to a Barbarian or Fighter than to a Wizard, at least I would think...

Well it should work. You can either make a Mounted Knight trait or something and apply it to some NPCs and just use what works from the Mounted Combatant feat, or use as is. It could have interesting effects having an intelligent creature as a mount. Might be funny to have a singed Winged...

-More and tougher Fey creatures, they seemed to get the short stick in the MM. -Creatures that pose a puzzle or need a knack to defeat, not just bags of HP and resistances. A Clockwork Golem that needs to be disassembled, or a three-headed Chimera that can be provoked to argue with itself...

The 9th level one reminds me of an Indiana Jones type. Lots of mobility and exploration magic to get through dusty tombs, and defensive and enchanting magic to make a dramatic escape from the rival treasure hunters and natives who try to catch him.

The mounted combatant feat seems intended for one creature riding on top of another. So being able to redirect attacks or getting evasion wouldn't really make sense to me. But what exactly are you looking to get out of the feat? Getting advantage on all melee attacks vs Small or Tiny creatures...

I think giving information on the ecology and environmental effects of different hexes/regions can help. Going more in depth of how the 'natural' world works as a default. I think for a hexcrawl/exploration type adventure, the PCs are butting into things (at the start at least) of something that...

Using something along the lines of Dragonmarked from the UA Eberron could be a good source to look at. They start with low level spells, then add higher ones or more uses as you level up. There have been several threads lately about the abundance of characters having spells, and some casters who...

Rant/story time: I was a level 2 Bard with 5 other players (playing on Roll20). In this session, 3 of them were no-shows, so they 'headed back to town' to wait for us. We had decided to go to Thundertree to visit the druid, and had searched the village thoroughly, without finding anything that...

Using Intelligence for Attunement sense makes the most sense to me if you were to choose a stat to use, but if players are constantly dumping Int then they are valuing it the least for a reason. If Int checks came up more, that could encourage them to play more intelligent (not necessarily...