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Two thoughts upon reading through this thread: 1. There are some amazingly creative and evocative ideas in here. 2. I am absolutely NEVER going camping with some of you.

You, sir, are a braver adventurer than me. If I had told my then-fiancée about my D&D purchases while we were planning the wedding, she probably never would have married me.

For starters… 1d6 items from the random trinkets table 2d6 pieces of mundane adventuring gear and maybe one roll on the CR 0-4 Treasure Hoard table from the DMG.

About a year ago, I was rehearsing a play for a local community theater. After rehearsal one Friday, most of the cast and crew went out for a drink, and we learned that almost half of us were current or former D&D players, and one cast member had a husband who played (and I think only two people...

Forge Domain 11 + 1 = 12 Grave Domain 24 Knowledge Domain 23 Life Domain 7 Light Domain 25 - 2 = 23 Tempest Domain 22 War Domain 20

Forge Domain 22 Grave Domain 24 Knowledge Domain 20 Life Domain 9+1 = 10 Light Domain 26 Tempest Domain 28-2 = 26 War Domain 26

I don’t know if this will give you quite what you want… but I’m playing in a game that incorporates firearms rules from a 3rd party product called “Steampunk DnD 5E,” which our DM found on The Homebrewery. It offers a larger selection of firearms (and lots of other stuff that I didn’t dig into...

I played B/X and 1E back in the 80s, then stopped just as 2E was coming out (my gaming group broke up around that time, because we all scattered when we started college). Fast forward to Fall 2014. I started seeing stories on the web along the lines of, “There’s a new edition of D&D, and it...

Realistically, the vast majority of players are going to either: a) put their ASI in their class’s primary stat, so that they can consistently be decent at what they do, or b) deliberately put the ASI in a secondary/tertiary stat for a specific character concept (“I want to play a Fighter...

OneD&D robbed my Dwarf Cleric of his heavy armor, warhammer, and battle axe proficiencies. Then it set fire to my house.

Your opinion is your opinion, and I’m not here to tell you you’re wrong, but… I recently started playing a Firbolg Artificer with Powerful Build, and I’m absolutely loving it. I envisioned the character as an inveterate tinkerer/packrat, and after every session I stock up on more mundane...

Hand the enemy a flute and Command them to “perform.” (My limited experience as an amateur musician leads me to the opinion that playing an instrument requires concentration.) Or, point to your buddy and Command the enemy to “bless.” Bless is a concentration spell, so it would break the earlier...

Artificer, Armorer 9 Artificer, Artillerist 10 - 2 = 8 Artificer, Battle Smith 10 + 1 = 11

Create Water is a first level spell that lets you dump 10 gallons of water on a targeted area. I’d let you use it to help your buddy bypass the damage (or at least grant a save for half) for one round. Most parties would have access to Dispel Magic by level 5. I’d even let you empty your...

Artificer, Alchemist 4+1=5 Artificer, Armorer 17-2=15 Artificer, Artillerist 11 Artificer, Battle Smith 18

In principle, sure. I’d even be willing to play a pre-selected class, since that could be an opportunity to get more familiar with the abilities of a class I haven’t played before (looking at you, Monk and Warlock…) I might even appreciate the RP challenge of playing a character I didn’t think...

Well, I got married in 2018. Right around the same time the PHB peaked, too. But I seriously doubt there’s a connection.

This was definitely the case for me. I started with the B/X box sets, and begrudgingly bought B and E. When the Companion set arrived, I was glad to finally have the expansion/extension of BX that I’d been waiting for.

I voted B/X. I haven’t played that system in almost 40 years. But the discussion threads about the sales figures that Ben Riggs has been posting reminded me what a powerhouse that system was, sales-wise. And it seems to be the basis of a host of OSR retroclones (which I have yet to try). But...

I did not multiclass at all in the first few campaigns I played in. But for a new campaign that started last month, I decided to try out a Bard/Rogue hybrid I had been kicking around in my head. And I have another campaign starting on Sunday, in which I’ll play a Battlesmith Artificer, with a...