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One little thing, make it unsummonable. Imagine the combat slowing to a crawl if somebody summons 8 of these and they all make 3 attacks with disadvantage each. 48 dice rolls per round per summons spell.

I find that pretty infuriating. Maybe it comes down to the DM wanting to make a fun game for you and the other players, but missing the mark in your opinion? My mind boggles about the sort of games or people I would have had to interact with that would make me assume a plot twist I don't like in...

I ran a level 1-10 adventure in the Chaos Scar, it was great. I think I have most of those adventure PDFs on my old PC. Just PM me if you need some.

A cultured gentleman from a more technologically advanced culture than the norm. It is the gnomes' burden to bring the other lesser peoples under the guiding light of the one true civilisation. Pretty much look at any book or paper from the British imperial era. You can be a world conquering...

I'd say that Gnomes are savants when it comes to this stuff. Their brains simply don't work like human brains do. They see cogs and just know how they fit together and where a tiny spark of magic, or a spring, is needed. They have a part of the brain that senses that stuff, the same way that...

I played a Chaotic Evil pacifist. He was a terrible guy under a geas from a LG artefact. He could not hurt people. He sure wanted to though, and encouraged the party to do so at every opportunity. As such, I never had the trouble that other players do, where you feel like a hypocrite for healing...

...I call him, Fister Roboto....and he is learning... I do like the idea of a latrine-bot that gains sentience an decides to do something else with his life. The C3PO idea is a good one too. I like the idea of somebody pre-programmed for diplomacy, but physically built for war.

I just model general ill health as meaning that you have disadvantage on rolls needed to avoid exhaustion. Or that you roll for exhaustion twice as often. Your overland travel speed drops accordingly. It's not going to stop you fighting, but it will stop you trekking through a jungle at your...

@AD_hoc is right, I forget what is a houserule sometimes. I just remembered that I also houseruled that Blade Ward makes it almost impossible to lose concentration. That gave it a use at least. If you have a spell up that you really can't afford to drop, you spend the turn doing Blade Ward. It...

I seldom play my NPCs as well coordinated as the OPs goblins were. I play them as confused and scared after waking up being attacked. My goblin at 2HP would have begged for his life, done a sneaky disengage and run for his life. If he really liked one or more of the other goblins he might have...

So far casting Blade Ward is for use when walking down a corridor you are pretty damn sure is trapped, but you can't see it or disarm it. Same with opening chests or doors. So yeah, it sucks. I gave it to my PCs for free (a friendly magic kensai taught them) just to see if it would ever get...

As a very experienced player in a less experienced group I tend to make jack-of-all-trades precisely so that I don't take the lead in many situations. I play skill monkeys who are the second best at everything. I follow the Rogue sneaking, make the Insight checks to help the Warlock in...

cbwjm The reason I came up with that example is that I actually played a Dwarf from a clan that prided itself on never having been in sunlight. They felt that sunlight would weaken both them and their culture, like it must have done to humans. He of course saw the sun for the first time and fell...

To me it is like having a LG Drow Paladin of the Sun. When I say I don't like it, I am not saying you cannot do it. I am sure that you have a special reason for it that is rich in your own backstory. I'm allowed to not like it though. A campaign is only made up of 4-5 characters through who's...

I am guessing that the play is all about metaphor and the monsters representing issues in the girls life. I would suggest running an adventure around a similar theme. Rather than being about the specific PCs (since they are not developed yet), the monsters could be used to represent vices and...

I'd set the DC to know that something is terribly wrong with the zombie to be pretty low. It should be very hard to pass it off as an alive and OK person if they are standing right in front of you, but doable from a distance.

I like it, for a 5th level spell it is not inherently powerful. The usefulness will come in via creative uses of it. Walking the dead guard past his mates to unlock the gates, getting a delayed fireball spell into just the right location, walking him across the trapped floor to set off the trap...

It seems that most power jumps come in as 1 or 2 level dip, but if you take those before level 5 you are seriously putting yourself at a disadvantage. No fireball, extra attack etc for two more levels than your party members. If you take them after level 5, then you are late enough into the game...

- Nobody cares about your spell components, you either have them on you or you don't. We don't want to track them. - The actual weapon you chose to use does not matter much for damage. A martial character will do d8 with a spear/rapier/shortsword/whatever barring any special abilities etc. You...

It occurs to me that in my groups it would be good to ask the other players if they are OK with this. Are the players OK with children being hacked into by orcs with swords? Before I was a dad I might have been a little more OK with it in narrative, but now I have a very low tolerance for any...