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From looking at it further, various sources state that souls lose their memories at some point after death, but the when and why varies. For example, in 3E a soul in the Hells lost its memories and became a lemure after being tortured in the Hells for long enough, but in 5E there are examples of...

I'm glad for that, personally. In practice, "rulings, not rules" often means that individual DMs have to spend time making up common things that ideally should already be in the books they've spent sizeable chunks of money on. I like homebrewing, but 5E leaves the DM to do the heavy lifting way...

Question: Could you use Sending to speak with the soul of a dead person? Sending says you send a message to a creature with which you are familiar, even if they are on another plane of existence. I'm brainstorming for a session and thought I'd have a villain know one of their allies is dead...

ne a good chunk of 5E DMs, have already been working on homegrown crafting rules and am curious how they'll compare. I don’t think mine are terribly complex, but I'll be surprised if the new rules are anything more than "spend x days and y gold to craft z". More interesting to me from this...

For my Spelljammer campaign I've decided to base various locations in Wildspace on locations detailed previously for the Elemental Planes and Elemental Chaos.

I personally would like a new Spelljammer book that focused on notable factions, a handful of Wildspace systems, and new creatures unique to the setting. The Spelljammer boxed set didn't really tell us much about the setting other than Bral, so it would be nice to get a greater variety of alien...

I'm hoping that the new Monster Manual gives most monsters new tricks. Creature design improved a lot even as early as Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, with many of those monsters having unique and interesting mechanics. The original 5E monsters are pretty boring by comparison and could really...

I will say that if this was a poll about which plane we most wanted to be expanded upon that I would pick Mechanus.

I initially selected the Abyss, but on further reflection I changed my answer to the Hells because I feel that the Abyss is a weird outlier among the outer planes. Whereas other planes have either no layers or a relatively small number of them, the Abyss has somewhere between 666 and an...

I'd just flavor it as knocking back a large enough number of the swarm that those unaffected scamper over to the others.

I like them all, though the Monster Manual is my least favorite because 1) it only has one monster, and 2) the PHB and DMG are show a scene from a distance while the MM has a close-up.

IMO the easiest way to tweak 5E without changing the game itself is with magic items that give unique abilities, including at-will abilities.

I'm generally not a fan of AI art and writing, but I will admit that ChatGPT has saved me some time in helping to come up with ideas for NPC dialogue and text for letters and such. It was especially good for making a slightly unhinged dohwar merchant for my Spelljammer game.

I do, too. I just think that the more individual effects there are the easier it is to either forget those yourself or having to feel that you have to constantly remind other players to keep them from forgetting. When playing a Peace Domain Cleric in 5E for a one-shot I ended up taking some time...

Has anyone played a Peace Domain Cleric in 5E? More than any other subclass it reminds me of the 4E Cleric with Emboldening Bond's always on Bless-like effect and ability to let allies teleport around to take damage for others. It was very effective, but I found I did have to remind some players...

I think one of the unfortunate drawbacks to 4E's design is that it assumed you could keep all players constantly engaged during combat instead of them zoning out when it isn't their turn. I looked at the 4E Cleric's powers last night and there are a lot of little short term effects with specific...

If the fiery vortex is an AoE created at range I would say that the creator of the vortex is a Controller. If the fiery vortex is a creature itself, such as some kind of elemental, I'd say it is a Soldier. Both roles perform crowd control, but the former does so at range and tries to avoid melee...

I like looking at and evaluating monster statblocks, but it would be nice to have an at a glance way of knowing what role they fill to save time when selecting. It also makes it easier to use mixed groups of monsters.

4E had orcs of the following roles: Artillery Alchemist Archer Bolt Thrower Bombardier Chieftan Crescent Hurler Pyromaniac Storm Shaman Brute Berserker Bloodrager Bludgeoner Champion Rampager Terrorblade Controller Eye of Gruumsh Pummeler Shaman Witch Doctor Skirmisher Beast Master Freak...

I was a fan of Tactics RPG video games before I started playing my first D&D edition (3.5). One of the first attempts at homebrew I created was a feat inspired by a tactical RPG called Disgaea that would let a fighter move three spaces and deal damage to any enemies whose space he moved through...