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Bit of a necropolis, but I thought I'd share how my own implementation of Spelljammer ship to ship combat went in a playtest I performed yesterday with two players: I had two players who took the role of elite vampirates leading an advance force as their fleet's home base was approached by...

Personally I once played through the EA with only Lae'zel and a male githyanki fighter as my character. It was hard, I died a lot, and I had to make good use of the horn that summons ogres, the iron flask, and the oil and fire AoE items, but it was super satisfying to me. My favorite part was...

In my past Early Access playthroughs I've had several times where I decided that my character wouldn't stand for one or more of the companions. For example, despite Astarion being my favorite, I've at least twice had my PC react to the revelation of him being a vampire by telling him to leave...

Personally as far as 5E Spelljammer is concerned I'm depicting Astral Dominions as being effectively outposts of the Outer Planes by taking the concept of border islands for the 4E Astral Dominions and upgrading them to Dominions of their own.

A lot of these responses are echoing what I've seen elsewhere and my own concerns. One idea I saw on Reddit that I might test out privately before my next session is the concept of protective fields surrounding ships. If I recall correctly, the poster said that in their game they had it so that...

I've started a Spelljammer campaign and pretty soon the players will be leaving the Rock of Bral. I've looked online for impressions on ship combat and would like to see how it's played out for others here, as well as whether the rules for ship combat in Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Spelljammer were...

I'm not getting my hopes up, but I'm hoping for a surprise reappearance of the primordials. There was one that was basically an immortal fire giant archmage (Balcoth) and another that was a combo of hill, fire, and frost giant (Piranoth).

IIRC Nintendo is also at this moment aggressively seeking out the leaker for the art book of the upcoming Zelda game.

Is one of those a kruthik? If so, I appreciate that they considered a relatively more modern monster.

IIRC the 5E Spelljammer boxed set has one Wildspace System with a Dawn War-esque backstory. Plus a primordial is statted up in Storm King's Thunder that is stronger than any of the Princes of Elemental Evil from Princes of the Apocalypse. So, some tiny bits of Dawn War lore have shown up...

I miss the absolute mountains of content we got during the 4E era, personally. 5E is sorely lacking the magazines, and Dragon+ was mostly promotional material with very little new content. They could hypothetically supplement Spelljammer and Planescape with articles on D&D Beyond if so inclined...

In terms of mixed-heritage characters, would it help if the designers gave them consistent names across settings even if they didn't give them actual stats? I know in Critical Role the name for people of both elf and orc heritage is now uniya, and in Dark Sun the name for a human/dwarf is mul...

My longest write-in section can be summed up as "I'd like every class and subclass to have as many options as the warlock or battle master fighter, magic items to be like those in Baldur's Gate 3 (specifically mentioning the magic ring that applies Blade Ward to any target you heal as an...

Has anyone prefaced LoX with something other than Spelljammer Academy? Personally I'm thinking of having the PCs start as Captain Fel Ardra's crew (unknowingly helping her uphold her end of an Infernal contract) and doing some short adventures for her before the main plot kicks in and Commodore...

I think this has stumbled upon what some people find "problematic". There's a concerningly common trope in "isekai" (people from the real world finding themselves in a fantasy world, usually permanently) for slavery to not only be an institution practiced by society, but for the hero to...

A single article in 4E introduced the concept of a primordial-worshiping cult called the Broken Builders. Their basic gist is that they wanted to restore the primordials so that they would destroy the world as it is and make it new. That might be an interesting enemy faction with some more...

I came up with an idea for this:

Can't be a coincidence that he ran a 4E campaign last year and that his newest 5E monster book is heavily 4E-influenced. Man, how wild would it be if a spiritual successor to 4E took off fifteen years later and succeeded while the original 4E was extremely divisive and treated as the black...

They're not that much different than the many class and race variants we've already gotten over 5E's lifespan.

My only problems with the new druid are that waiting until 10th to turn Tiny is very weird and that it would be more interesting to be able to customize animal forms with some of the better beast traits. I was more negative about this at first until I remembered how recently when prepping a...