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I like what we have so far, just to flesh things out, the inn owner sees how good they were in the bar room brawl and asks them to clear out the giant rat problem he is having in his cellar. Once there, they see that the rats are coming in from a hidden passage that leads to the dungeon. A few...

From personal experience, I loved my Bladesinger. It was a playstyle thing, not their power level that made the PC great for me. The main things I loved were: A) I could lead with a big fight changing spell, then mop up decently. I did not like the way my other wizards felt lame at mopping up...

This is what I did when I was in this situation as a DM years ago. I also apply it to turning to stone and such. A potion made of the eyes of a medusa etc is a great starting point to turning somebody back to flesh. Components + Herbalism + Arcana + Medicine = letting Lesser Restoration do...

I love intelligent items, I just think that using them as a domination thing is lazy and not very fun in most circumstances. There are lots of cool things you can do with an intelligent weapon or item that does not remove control of the PC from the player. - The item can activate and deactivate...

I'm just thinking about the Paladins and Clerics we have had in our group, as how they handle it would be quiet different between them. We had two fierce nature Paladins, I think they worshiped Tempest and Umberelle. A life at 0 int would be an a front to nature to be ended. One of them would...

When my PCs ask how often Sunlight Sensitivity is likely to screw them over, my answer is "about as often as Darkvision is going to aid you significantly over and above Nightvision". It hasn't come up yet as nobody is playing a Drow, but if as a DM I think a disadvantage is included as a...

I'd insist OOC that anybody kill my character in such a circumstance. Very few, if any, of my characters would leave their friends to live out the rest of their lives as drooling vegetables, even if they were not in a dangerous area. If you are in the underdark, I think the coup de grace almost...

Actually level 8 :) the game involves exploring lots of small islands in an archipelago. Being able to turn into a fish and a bird in a seafaring exploration game just eclipses the usefulness of other classes surprisingly often, even if you are otherwise useless. On a side note, my next...

I was actually in the same boat as the PC barbarian in my latest game. Against my fervent warnings, the group all wanted to roll for stats. I rolled the most ridiculous set of stats I have ever seen, before racials I had two 17s and lowest stat was 14. I made a Barbarian tank and like in the OPs...

80% of my gaming is single player single character adventures. They are great and there are really no balance concerns. It is really easy for the DM to adjust the plot around one character, combats are not too hard to gauge with a little experience. Balance stops being such an issue with only...

The thing is, you can't pick a lock with your bare hands, so that is why it is not a skill. Its an odd distinction, but that is how 5e does it. Like riding a horse, you can't do it without a horse, therefore it is a tool proficiency, not a skill. The lines get blurry with things skills like...

The leadership feat that gives the THP could be useful to reflect the oracle pre-warning everybody about what dangers are coming up next. It is better with high Cha so would suit a bard well.

A bit of a side note. I suggest that the gang initiation involve partaking of a 'potion', this has quasi-mystical overtones and is a rite of the wererats. The thing is, the potion is highly addictive, like 'claw your eyes out in withdrawal tremors' type addictive. You only need it once a...

Don't forget the Lucky feat, you can see the future after all. I think that RAW you are on the right track, either of those suggestions would work. What about a Background option that let you read omens, it gives you vague hints about the coming day. Making new background options is pretty...

Why not go Goliath, then use a Tonfa as a weapon? I could see a Goliath using a SWAT team door ram as a huge tonfa. That way it would still be a weapon so you could get your proficiency and it would look pretty badass too. If you see The Force Awakens, you might find some inspiration for the...

Hi folks, for my game Dwarves use a lot of runic magic, particularly based on putting it on their arms and armor. A Dwarven Runesmith tends to be a fairly scary combatant as they have great arms and armor modified by magic. They also call upon the power of runes to straight up smite the enemies...

My players wanted to roll stats recently, all but one of them ended up with pretty terrible stats. What I ended up doing was letting them take the +2 attributes as well as the Feat when given the option. They could do this up until their attributes reached the expected average. That way, the PCs...

Looks like the author has been playing a lot of Witcher games. The class captures Witchers pretty well, though most of the ones in the game would have all the abilities of all of the colleges. I just finished Witcher 3, so am pretty taken with the idea of the class. The class looks good and...

Blackleaf was my first thought :)

The trees in the bottom right of those pics look as fake as can be to me. They must be the trees that bad model railway/aquarium miniatures are often based upon. I always thought the models were crappy, turns out they are fine and trees really do look like plastic sticks with neon green leaves...