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While D&D traditionally had all the trappings of a medieval setting, swords, armor, kings, and castles, I always thought the feel was always more wild west. In fact, for new players I always described it as a western with swords and magic instead of six guns and technology. I've always wanted...

I use spell points, but only for sorcerers, where I just add their sorcery points into their spell point pool. I've always liked spell points, though it does increase the caster's ability to nova. Though this may be an issue, I feel it fits in with the sorcerer class. The wizard is more...

Here I always just assumed it followed you, up to 60' away.

I do a "When we last left our heroes..." followed by a few sentence summary. The players usually throw in comments of their own before I start in.

Paizo has poster maps of Greyhawk available on their store for $10. https://paizo.com/products/btpya20e?Greyhawk-Poster-Map-All-Four-Quadrants I bought them a few years back. I had replaced the books from the boxed set on ebay, but couldn't find the maps. I'm quite happy with these!

It's not just display, but meant for a beginning player or DM to use the box to carry around character sheets, dice, pens, and other gaming needs.

I've always wanted to run a West Marches style game. I started with an idea for one once, but it never took off. I called it "It's Wizard Time". https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/play-report-lurkers-in-the-library/

Totally love the Arnold K. take on druids mentioned above. I also like the umbral beast shape. Visually a nice take.

Check out this article. http://dungeonsmaster.com/2011/10/7-tips-zombie-campaign/ I've run Dead by Dawn, an adventure for 4e that I converted for 5e. A flying shipborne campaign I set it in a monastery on a remote floating island that the characters needed something from. It's a classic defend...

I wouldn't do anything different with kids than I would with any new player. I taught my kids to play a few years ago when they were 13, 8 and 8. In the past year, I've taught a group of 30-40 year olds. Honestly, I think the kids grasp the mechanics better than the adults do. Video games and...

Black Shark Enterprises is a good source of nautical stuff. Their blog has a bunch of random charts on it that you could use for inspiration. https://www.blacksharkenterprises.com/blog I've picked up a few of their pieces on DriveThruRPG that I've found useful. (Note: my affiliate link)...

Put your melee rouge next to a wolf totem barbarian (While you're raging, your friends have advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature within 5 feet of you that is hostile to you.) Sneak attack damage with every hit.

I hate 'em. Hate Christmas music as well. I've worked retail, restaurants, and now for UPS. Not a fan of the holiday season. I do like spending time with my family, exchanging gifts, eating good food, and all that stuff, though.

We're scheduled to play all day on the 28th. Once the last two pick their guilds, I plan on picking one of the unused guilds and making them the antagonist. For example, the Gruul Clans are organizing in the Rubblebelt, and are planning a major attack on ____. Some of the guilds caught wind of...

Here's the stuff that I've worked on, though I'm not really happy with the Personal Mana article. https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/category/world-building/plane-shifted/ Some of them are D&D versions on of magic cards. I've kept colors on some things as a placeholder. Not sure what I'm going to do...

A little of both. I've noticed some indifference towards GGtR, so yes, letting people know I'm making use of it. Feedback is always appreciated as well.

It's not perfect, but the best Magic style spellcaster I've seen I reviewed here: https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/plane-shifted-the-channeler-class-review/ As for planeswalking, I see it as an Epic Boon type ability, like in the 5e MM style write ups for some Planeswalkers...

​I've been approached with starting a new group. One brand new player, two fairly new player, and three experienced players. My three experienced players, and myself, are avid Magic the Gathering players. I was wanting to play something epic, and felt like Ravnica is an excellent starting point...

One house rule I've seen is making the darkvision situational. Dwarven and drow darkvision only works underground, while elven darkvision only works under an open sky.

In 5e a ran a 3rd level warforged tome warlock for one session, who was straight up a sci-fi robot. Agonizing blasts fired from his forearms. Eldritch sight was nightvision, while comprehend languages was translator programming. He had a hologram projector for minor illusion, prestidigitation...