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"Yea, I dabble." "Dude, you just cast a Meteor Swarm!" "I dabble pretty hard."

This is just pure speculation on my part, but as a DM sometimes you don't want to actually have your PC's helpless, but at the same time you want them to think the authorities in your campaign have the ability to do so as an option other than killing PC's. Like in real life, if the PC's think...

I borrow ideas and NPC concepts quite liberally from "The Dresden Files". Unfortunately my players have all started reading them now so I have to start being a little more circumspect with the new material. But still, great series, if reading it doesn't inspire your DND creative juices at...

I don't think the author found the overall concept of music as powerful an issue so much as the absurdity of someone doing so in the middle of combat. The Barbarian swings his trusty Great Axe, the cleric banishes the evil spirits with his glowing holy symbol, the paladin smites the demon with...

I'm fine with all of them except for Sorcerer, they seem really narrowly focused. You either choose combat, or out of combat stuff, or make the best of trying to split the difference with already limited selection. No one I've played 5E with since it came out has enjoyed playing Sorcerers for...

This is a good question. I'd rule that no, it couldn't be dispelled since the target of the spell is no longer there to be targeted by the dispel. There is magic affecting the creature banished, just as there is magic affecting someone with say, Haste on them. But if the creature with the...

I really like that PDF, the magic item pricing always kinda flumoxed me, which is rare as I take my godlike powers as DM to alter anything in any way I see fit pretty seriously if I don't like something, but I haven't really come up with a better way to get my head around it. The pricing...

Honestly, I think the idea of Dragonborn and Tieflings as everyday characters in anything approaching a standard DND setting is just absurd. Total fanboi crap that just can't seem to be avoided it seems. Don't even get me started on warforged or those crystal rock thingies from 4th ed. /eyeroll

Actually I am the DM, and was wondering what other's take on it would be. When I wish to customize certain bad guys I basically add character levels to fit the flavor of what it is I want to do. But if I do that, I just think it's odd that a human fighter would have base D10, and a Frost...

I would say hoping that mundane manacles would be much use in restraining someone who can teleport with a mere word is a bit optimistic. I would rule that the caster can take them or leave them.

Ok, so I was noticing that at 18th a Barbarian can substitute their STR score for any STR based check roll, and at 20th they get +4Str and Con, which means they can have(almost certainly will have) at least a 20 STR and more likely a 24 STR on top of that. If the barbarian also has athletics...

Best class is Wizard, they can do just about anything. Abjuration specialists are REALLY tough to kill, especially with magic, and able to dispel a lot of stuff. At 18th level they can cast a 1st and 2nd level at will, which means Shield every round! But really they can tool up for fighting...

I would imagine that a single waterskin meant to be carried on your person would be that size, but when traveling for any distance I would assume a larger skin or container would be used and probably carried on a pack mule or something if you were planning on going long distances into the wilds...

So monsters have hit dice that correspond to their size category, Med - D8, Large - D10, etc... Question is what if I have say, an Ogre Fighter? Does the normal D10 Fighter hit die bump up to D12 since the Ogre Fighter is Large?

True Strike, Longstrider or Expeditious Retreat, Prot v. Evil/Good, Misty Step, Blur, See Invis, Animate Dead, Water Breathing, Haste, Slow, Banishment, Conjure Minor Elementals, Evards Tentacles, Greater Invis, Stoneskin .

Funny you should mention that. I was on the receiving end of just such a situation one time, it was pretty harrowing. Also the first encounter we had in the dungeon and we had to rest right after it which had us being almost absurdly careful the rest of the dungeon, which turned out to be...

I've never like either of the Sorcerer options listed. Wild Magic makes it seem like you are an out of control lunatic, and the other option is to be covered in scales and have wings spouting out of your back. If you're into that sort of thing great, but both are pretty niche flavors for a...

Be careful using young dragons with lower level PC's. Or at least keep one thing in mind, young dragons breath weapon is only 1 die of damage weaker than an Adult's breath weapon. Not sure if that is a typo or not, but if you have more than one and don't take that into account, round 1 can...

Well, my group of murderhobos isn't into Sorcerers as is, can't say I blame them. Had one guy willing to try it out for a half dozen sessions but they are just so short on options. House Rules as follows: 1) If you go with the standard Sorc kit, get an additional spell whenever you can cast...

Yes, that is what it means. Makes grappling monsters that much more difficult.