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I mean, it's a much more apt name for my games to be sure. I've been playing d&d with the same group for 5 years now and we've ran what I'd call a "dungeon" maybe a handful of times.

This still doesn't address my core concern from earlier then: how to you propose you avoid punishing players who are not naturally charismatic? Why should an autistic or socially anxious player be effectively barred from playing a charisma character when we don't require the fighter to actually...

And you are welcome play as you wish. It is hardly a magic bullet by any means, merely a way for the players to check with me to assess if they think an NPC might be lying. My players don't ask to roll a check, they merely are expressing what they wish to do in character and I simply ask for the...

A couple of things could answer this: 1) Spells (aside from cantrips which are limited in scope/power) come at a resource cost where as ability checks do not. Something like a dominate person spell means the party isn't eating a powerful aoe damage spell and in 5e also often uses the caster's...

The thing about rules though, they are a useful metric and tool for keeping the game running balanced and fair with at least some sort of stakes being possible. The rules are there to make it so one a## of a player doesn't just go "I just poke the dragon and make it's head explode and then go...

I second the Idea for Arcane Initiate, though I suggest Firebolt and Control Flame. No need to take two attack cantrips when you can reliably use weapons, and frankly the idea of controlling fire cosmetically sounds WAY more on brand than summoning bonfires. Alternatively you could even just...

Except they've already done this. It's called Tyranny of Dragons and has been released twice already in 5e. Change the names and colors of a couple dragons and places and you have your campaign. Ironically ToD is even often subjected to the same criticisms the old Dragonlance trilogy of modules...

And a lot of people both comic fans and non-comic fans alike despise the inclusion of time travel retcons as well, particularly in the hamfisted and poorly written way both the MCU and the comics both handled it. Comic fans have long complained about characters not staying dead and utter lack of...

A lot of good ideas in this thread. I'm inclined to agree that an upgrade to their "mental" capacity is called for. I second the idea for something akin to "Awaken" or the idea to make it function closer to the spell Find Steed. To also borrow a leaf from the new drake warden, you could also...

In terms of game mechanics I don't give one wit about tradition. In fact it's the opposite. I get brand recognition as a concept but for me personally I am of a mind that it is often "tradition" that is now holding the game itself back. I.e. Why do we need to have ability scores instead of just...

I agree with this 100%. It's a terrible decision and I sincerely hope this wasn't just done from pushback from both WoTC people who want to shoehorn in all sorts of stupid retcons just to make every d@$% setting like forgotten realms and a bunch of fans who just want to replay/reread the same...

For myself I've always just done the base 10, where each coin up is worth ten of the previous (1pp = 10gp = 10sp = 100 cp). I always fluff the new Electrum as weird/odd currency that varies in value depending on where you trade it and is never actively minted anymore, so I save it for old fallen...

Not a single Dragonlance dragon on this list. You all doing my boy Khellendros dirty. Most certainly a Great Wyrm, survived many different wars and single-handedly helped a goddess steal a planet. He get's all of the points in my mind, but seeing as I'm stuck with what's listed here: Aasterinian...

Yes, as many have stated it various depending on the specific fight. I personally and running an altered version of the class where we nerfed storm rune from being blatantly overpowered to just "spend a reaction to grant advantage or disadvantage to ONE d20 die roll" and removed the level...

Meanwhile I'm just sitting over here reading this and thinking that unless that mage has subtle spell, he is not by rules of the game itself "unseen" after casting a spell with a verbal component and therefore targetable to try and break concentration. Behind cover and maybe being attacked at...

It is definitely originally only a Forgotten Realms thing, until the recent stuff of 5th Ed started trying to sort of homogenize / galvanize elements from all the settings to sort of unify them a bit. As a long time Dragonlance fan who did not even read many FR books until recently I wasn't even...

Honestly I wouldn't expect it to break the game. If anything handing out levels of exhaustion so cavalierly will have a far worse impact on the game as a whole as it is currently incredibly hard to remove exhaustion. Regarding the berserker barbarian. There have been numerous threads to suggest...

A decent product. I'll likely still be using my own homebrew built ruleset and stuff for the setting, but a solid work for a fan compilation. There are a few minor things I do find odd: 1) I can't for the life of me figure out why they didn't just make Dimernesti and Dargonesti the same...

I cannot speak for the colored ones, though we have ordered three Figures of the premium plastic option. All were well done, though the occasional fragile issues are to be noted. My girlfriends sorcerer arrived and had it's arm promptly fall off the moment after we took it out of the box...

Artificer Alchemist 10 Artificer Armorer 22 Artificer Artillerist 18 Artificer Battle Smith 22 Barbarian Path of the Beast 20 Bard College of Creation 18 Bard College of Eloquence 20 - 2 = 18 [Because you can't talk your way out of the most insane 3rd level class feature ever that should never...