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1. Do a victory dance. 2. Target another PC.

2022 was the year I made the switch to online gaming. The in-person group that I played with disbanded in late 2019 due to real-life demands, and as of a year ago, the gaming stores in my area had not resumed in-person sessions. So I got crash courses in DnDBeyound, Roll20, Discord, and now...

Copy paste copy paste … Welp. Don’t need to do any prep for the next several sessions. Thank you, robot overlords.

Currently playing an Artificer (Battle smith), with a one-level dip into Forge Cleric to double down on the theme. For the next campaign, I’m brainstorming a Bard/Warlock combo. The concept would be a musician who struck a deal with an otherworldly entity for greater power/talent (a la Paganini...

My group may be starting up a new campaign next month. We often start at Level 5, and I’m considering playing a Bard 4/Warlock 1. The character concept would be a musician who cut a deal with an otherworldly entity for more talent/power (think, blues musician Robert Johnson).

One of my DMs created a similar situation for our group. In a recent campaign, he made magic items fairly easy to purchase, so one of the players bought a Deck. This almost always had the effect of sidetracking the game whenever it was used: The character would suddenly go up multiple levels in...

I think a lot of people are over-estimating the difficulty of mixing and matching 5E and 1D&D. I mean… yes, there will certainly be competing rules in places, and individual tables/DMs will have to decide which version of a given rule they want to use. But I remember playing in groups where we...

I can’t speak to any of the other pet classes, but I am currently playing a 7th-level Battle Smith Artificer. When I first got access to the Steel Defender, I was intrigued to see how it would play out, and I’ve been very much underwhelmed. The 1d8 damage per attack is awfully anemic against...

I currently play in one campaign on Roll20. Another campaign is on a brief hiatus while the DM shifts it over from Roll20 to FoundryVTT. Both campaigns use Discord for voice chat and messaging.

One idea I’ve kicked around in my head would be to give characters one additional save proficiency whenever they would get a Feat/ASI—so, new proficiencies at levels 4, 8, 12, etc. (This would be in addition to the Feat/ASI, so I’d probably nuke Resilient altogether) All characters would...

“For a minute there, we didn’t think we’d be able to sweet-talk our way out that tavern brawl. But fortunately, the Halfling is proficient in Argentinian Tango…”

Keeping Up With The Kender

Since nobody reads the DMG… there’s no way to know.

To quote a recent episode of She-Hulk: “Henchmen believe in the cause. Goons [Hirelings] are just there for the paycheck.”

Hasbro is a profit-seeking entity. It currently generates profits by printing physical rulebooks. Hasbro will continue to print physical books as long as it is profitable to do so. Now, it is certainly possible that, as some future date, Hasbro’s market research will indicate that… let’s...

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In my headcanon, it comes down to a couple of things: 1. Actual rulership is way more boring than it looks on the brochure. Few high-level wizards want to spend their time mediating disputes between squabbling barons, sitting through budget meetings, or solving the capital city’s perennial...

Fixed it for you.

Among comics fans, this is known as the Liefeld Paradox. If we start with the two following theorems: 1. Liefeld cannot draw feet. 2. Liefeld always draws pouches. Then, the question is raised, “If a character has feet that are pouches, would Liefeld be able to draw them?” Debate over this...