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“I disintegrate the king’s pants.”

...but can we find beauty in their eye?

By the book, combat is literally a THIRD of the game. In most cases, it’s actually far less because of the detail involved in dungeon crawling and social engagement. If your game is spending that much time in combat, you’re going to shortchanging a number of the classes in the same way that a...

Shadow Magic made an appearance as the Shadow Sorcerer and Rune Magic as the odd Rune Master PrC in UAs. One could look at those to see how WotC was seeing those concepts in 5e (I've actually been toying with how to convert that failed PrC into a feat as a test on how to turn other older 3.5...

I think that the question of “new settings” is going end up being different in an edition that so openly talks about “the D&D multiverse” while focusing on one world qua world. Some former settings are likely to end up becoming part of the broader multiversal setting — we’ve had mentions already...

When the DM describes the dank, horrifying dungeon around the party, your Illusionist begs to differ and describes the psychedelic gumdrop kingdom that the characters see instead. Those aren’t trolls, they’re dancing gorilla butlers come to serve you tea — a fact the regenerating fools...

Mending will always remind me of the one 3.5 game where we were all pinned down behind an overturned cart by goblin archers. When things got too quiet, we wondered whether the coast was clear, so the rogue grabbed the bard’s lute and (like a classic cartoon moment) stuck the head of the...

I think that there’s also a good balance of the amount of product available. Many D&D stalwarts who were used to the avalanche of books in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th editions (and that continues with Pathfinder) have expressed either concern or exasperation at the slow release schedule. However, that...

A non-charismatic paladin. A “rage mage” or spell-casting barbarian (in the shaman or witch-doctor sense). A fighter with a focus on Intelligence and knowledge skills

The next time one runs an adventure inside a dream, here’s the list of monsters to include!

I’d prefer to see what was Spelljammer and Planescape both integrated into a common 5e sense of planar travel and campaigning, rather than having multiple conflicting models within the game itself). Where traveling around in ships would be so useful would be among “lower-level” (comparatively...

No, he’s describing features that can be substituted in the MM Cambion to simulate half-fiends of other parentages. Still monsters, but more variant options for uses of the stat block.

Organize your collection of random tables into a random table!

Nice work! Thanks especially for the InDesign file — including that was an awesome idea (makes resizing anything or such for use with other screens much more elegant)

But did they blast Led Zeppelin while welcoming the embrace of death as they dragged their enemies along with them?

Fairy Needle: The eye of this needle only opens up under the light of a new moon. When open, the needle can be used to sew or repair clothing or armor the same as any other needle of its size (although it won’t break, even in tough leather). A character with the proper tool proficiency can...

Any idea yet on what the rest of the party is going to be? If the question is over an early focus on offense vs defense in combat optimization, it’s probably matters if you’ve got a fighter or barbarian next to you or if everyone else in the party is a wizard or rogue.

Shy lurkers from 2002? It’s the 3.0-era me!

Being a Faction Agent background gives such a player possibly an easy way to survive as a low-level character: simply “team up” with another higher-level character of the same faction as a sort of adventuring intern, being shepherded along the way of serving the faction in the field by his/her...

I’m not familiar with the adventure, but a snake-like creature heading with the party to a Fire Node should lead to some “warm rock!” hijinks, as it decides it’d rather take a Short Rest in the middle of a big battle.