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https://daemonsanddeathrays.wordpress.com/ features a bunch of sci-fi elements and crunch.

I've only seen totem barbarians in play, and my players have liked them. They've all shied away from the beserker over concerns about the exhaustion. Glad to hear others are doing well with it, though!

I've been adding NPC stat block abilities to humanoids for awhile now. They fit perfectly as templates to add to another stat block.

I think it really depends on the game, the group, and the feel that you are going for. In games I play with my kids, we play a more heroic, fast paced game. We really don't track much, and others are merely hand-waved. Keeping count of everything is not fun for them, so we don't do it. I...

I had previously run several older adventures, and had pretty much converted them "on the fly". Maybe checking to see if I had monster stats or something close before hand, but nothing else. I got the White Plume Mountain one in preparation for play. Read thru and, and thought that it was...

Chromatic Dragons, Dinosaurs, and a few more D's... http://medievalmelodies.blogspot.com/2017/07/creature-loot-d-is-for-dragons-and-few.html

Exactly what I was thinking. I haven't DMed a wild sorcerer in 5e, but I did have a player with one back in 2e from the Tome of Magic. Had a lot of fun with him, and pretty much let him surge almost every time. To add more variety to surges, I pulled from a Dragon Magazine article (I forget the...

For sorcerers in my game I use the spell point variant from the DMG. I add the sorcery points to the spell points, and make it one pool, called sorcery points. PHB sorcerers can pretty much exchange sorcery points for spell slots (and vice versa) anyway, so it reduces bookkeeping to just...

I use a small dry erase board laying flat on the table. No grid, and usually just draw on terrain with different colored markers. My players use Lego minifigs for their characters, while I've printed out a variety of paper minis. If I need a specific opponent, I'll just find an image online that...

C and the beginning of D is out.

I know this has come up before, but how do you copy and paste from Dragon+? I use Chrome browser. I really would like the list of lich phylacteries.

I agree. This is something I totally dig.

Medieval Melodies blog has started a series on this recently. He's working thru the MM letter by letter. Explanation of the system. Monsters A Monsters B

In many historical cases (the vikings in particular), the shield was often used more than the axe or sword in combat.

This sounds more like your players need to find a solution, not you. As the DM, you present the challenge, and they have to figure it out. As for how the current crew does it? "Trade secrets" that they don't want possible competition to know. They may claim that it is only the two of them...

Yes, they would use these rules to swap out a spell known, or to fill a slot when they level up. Just throwing my option out for others to check out, and use if they like. Yours look good to me as well.

Here's some spell research downtime rules I put together for my table. https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/spell-research-downtime-activity/ Spell Research A spellcaster of 5th level or higher may use spell research to gain access to spells that he does not have access to from scrolls...

XP for the stat block.

Google docs works well for me. You can invite people with either read-only status, or give them the ability to edit as well. You could also use a play-by-post type of site, such as tavernkeeper.com Set up a game as invite only, so only your players are involved.

In my homebrew world of Eska, the dwarves have been driven from their halls and wander the surface. There they have domesticated herds of axebeaks that they use as mounts. https://jonbupp.wordpress.com/2015/09/01/surface-dwarves-of-eska-sabrak/ Like this, but with beards.