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I'd focus on non-martial items and items used to capture/restrain anythingcoming through the portal. You have to figure any armor and weapons are high priority for the local garrison. A quick D&D beyond search filtering out armor and weapons and setting your preferred rarity should get you a...

I love these threads. OoG Guy: why is it evil to animate a mindless killing machine? I'll use its rotting, disease infested corpse to grow food and dig wells and stuff. Food service worker: you want it to do what? IG Tavern patron: why is there a rotting finger in my ale? Are you cutting up...

I can't get the bum to trim all my hedges, let alone carry me through Mordor while I whine about how tired I am.

Well, I've never had that kind of relationship with my gardner, but you do you. 😅

I'd like to expand on this a little. Gladiators, I'm assuming we are talking about gladiators, may have usually been slaves, but so were half the other characters. Slave is a social class. A background in today's game. It was quite common to start a game of DS with everyone as slaves. Their...

This tired argument again? It must be Wednesday. "Slavery is bad," was a pretty standard view when Dark Sun hit shelves the first time. That hasn't changed. DS never glorified slavery. It didn't sugar coat it. It didn't romanticize it. The portrayal of slavery in Athas meshes perfectly with...

It's literally a hub. I highly doubt you can't handle switching up the tone and setting for a few sessions of world hopping.

The best magic item is actually found in the Monsters Manual, and this guy needs at least one. The Iron Golem. Increased action economy, good defenses, and its best offensive ability is ignored by the lich. Other than that, cloak of displacement, ring of wishes, ring of spell turning, rod of...

I'd really like to see both Champion and Battlemaster rolled into the core class and have some subclasses with real substance. Honestly, I think ranger, barbarian and paladin should be subclasses of fighter, but that would probably cause a riot.

Well, poo. I guess that's on the to do list for today

First, go with a summoned spirit unicorn rather than a "real" one. That limits its effects on the game to just 10 minutes when the spell is cast rather than all day. Second, limit the unicorn to the "controlled" option for mounted combat. If it only gets dodge, dash, and disengage actions it...

Slightly different take after kicking this around with a few other DMs and players over the last couple days. The problem isn't that fighters aren't good outside of combat. It's that they don't have a specific mechanical ability that makes them particularly good. They do have the extra ASIs...

I think people are undervaluing all those ASIs. Fighters are glorious bastards, especially at higher levels. Sure Str or Dex always come first, but there are plenty left over for the mental stat of your choice. If you use feats, and you should, then they even get access to more skills AND...

Oh, man. There is no wrong answer. I love low magic, high magic, medium magic, black magic, white magic, hedge magic, high magic, darksun magic, dragonlance magic, eberon magic, ritual magic, psionic magic, arcane magic, divine magic, bardic magic... well, maybe not bardic magic. JUST STOP...

All of these have their place, and are one of the things I like most about 5e. Gritty realism is perfect for episodic or discovery oriented games. Epic Heroism is perfect for heavy combat games like dungeon crawls and warfare. Standard rests is swell for basic games. It all depends on the game...

If you really want to crack someone over the head with RAW, lack of sight or a thin wall doesn't obstruct the attack. I guess that's the "spiritual" part of SW. In the more common prone debate. I'm in favor of disadvantage for SW if the caster is beyond 5' away, but as long as the ruling is...

You just said "not a warlock," then went on to explicitly describe a warlock. 🤣🤣

This part of the conversation basically breaks down to, "what Planescape faction are you?"

In a gritty game with long term care needed to heal up from devastating wounds, this definitely has a place. I just don't think the average 5e game is that place

That's not actually how that rule works. Nothing prevents you from using 2 or 12 or 1200 spells on the same turn if you have enough actions to do so UNLESS one of the spells you cast uses a bonus action. Further, since reactions usually don't occur on your turn this also usually wouldn't apply...