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This is why I really like the warlock more than the cleric. ANYTHING can be a warlock patron, but "god" is essentially a specific genus of supernatural being in default DnD cosmology. Primordials, devils, gods; they all get distinct silos. I'm thinking about a Spelljammer campaign and one...

I really want to run a historical fantasy period campaign called Heroes of Iga about Oda Nobunaga's war in the Ida province. His son is leading the first invasion into the mountain region renown for the mythical shinobi and the party is made up of humans and folklore races like tengu, kitsune...

Have you seen the recent Army of the Dead movie? Possible spoilers ahead. It's a movie about a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas that gets contained after a literal war between humans and intelligent zombies. There's a wall around Vegas and the zombies are contained. A rich guy wants money from a...

Right now I'm planning on what to run next and my 3 campaign ideas are: An astral sea campaign. The party starts on a planet and discovers they they are part of a larger universe where the most powerful consciousness of any world dictates the rules of reality. High concept space fantasy. A...

"For the sake of discussion..." Man, I feel like a few folks took the OP as some kind of personal attack instead of a simple thought exercise on thinking outside of the box. I like seeing people presenting interesting line-ups and I can definitely see the baseline of the game shifting with the...

It's weird to me that they haven't tapped this obvious space in 5e. Since 3.5, I've had a homebrewed Mandrake race in my settings that are gendered plant-people (as a nod to real-world mandrake folklore) with ties to alchemy and sound magic. I had racial feats to cover different types of plant...

The 5e PHB has 9 "core" races that are assumed to be basic to D&D 5e in a general way. For the sake of discussion, let's say that you're putting out your own homebrew campaign setting and you get to choose 9 races but CANNOT include the original 3 demihumans - elf, dwarf, halfling. Your new...

Fantasy art has become a much bigger tent. Some folks chafe at anything new and different but, really, none of the old tropes have gone away, they just stand beside the guy with the turkey mount or the blue firbolg.

This is why I always play magical fighters.

I feel like the build diversity and flavor suffered for the switch back. We used to have Int-based weapon users and now we have, what, one subclass of one class in a splatbook that can do that? How many Wis based weapon users to do we have? Con based? No dedicated ones. We used to have a rainbow...

I probably shouldn't have used the word "wizard" since I don't mean that they were like the class. What made them good, and what 5e sorely lacks, was that they were designed as an entire class based around bespoke combat spells. Every thing they did was a spell, like any other spell-caster, but...

I did play the swordmage in 4 and it was much more of a spellcaster than the swordsage was. The swordsage was like an avatar martial artist punching people while throwing fire while the swordmage was a wizard that happened to use a sword. One of the big innovations that 4e introduced that was...

I'd go full gonzo and say that the real world was earth and the pocket dimension was a digital virtual reality world where magic is real. The arch-mage was a scientist and essentially an Oz figure that doesn't want anyone looking behind the curtain and traveling home. Hell, I'd literally make...

Have you read the flavor of the actual swordsage class from 3.5? Not that it matters but you could get some inspiration there. I've toyed with the idea of going battlesmith3/psiknight17 just to dump Str and go completely Int for all weapon attacks. I ran Hexblade3/Echoknight with full Cha...

As a huge Dark Sun fan, I'd be thrilled if they treated 5e DS like they did 5e Ravenloft. Pretty much every concept and story hook was enhanced.

When you play a character or specific character concept, do you ever recycle them in a different campaign? I just got invited to play the in first in-person game I've been part of in a couple of years and I'm struggling to think of a fresh character concept that I'm excited about. I have a...

This works well for people born there who are cursed to remain and certainly works as the particular mechanism by which the lord closes the borders. I'm on the fence as to whether I'd want to trap the party in the city for the whole campaign though, since I like the idea of going off into the...

I vaguely remember Masque of Red Death was a thing and planned to look it up. It was released after I had fallen out of following 2e but before I picked up the game with 3.5. In any other campaign, I'd have no problem coming up with a wild, fantastical magic solution to support the...

I think that a lot of folks forget that in both 5e and 3.5, rolling a 1 on a skill check isn't automatic failure.

Ravenloft was the first setting I ever played in or ran. I've been a long time fan of DnD since the early 90s but without a group I was a passive consumer of the brand/lore for a long time. In the summer of 2003 things finally came to fruition when I convinced a group of friends (with zero...