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Some good ideas. Personally I think that anyone with proficiency in the Animal Handling skill (or is it Handle Animal?) should be qualified to have and use a pet. Whether for small things or big things like combat, depending on the animal of course. Rangers (and druids one could argue) would...

That's a good idea, I'm going to steal it if my players don't make their way to Thundertree. My players were on their way to Thundertree to look for the druid to see if he could tell them where to find Cragmaw Castle, but on the way they ran into a random group of goblins and decided to...

The Unapproachable East campaign setting book for 3.5 Forgotten Realms included a write up on the Volodni. Here are some bits from their description: They had some pretty buff stats, but also a +2 ECL. Basically they were a lot like Wood Elves but with a lot more resistances. I've been...

Same here. Honestly 5e reversed so many troublesome trends from 3.x and 4e. It brought me and the two gaming groups that I'm involved with back to D&D after nearly all of us had sworn off D&D because of issue with either 3.5 or 4e. And frankly, I'm not at all concerned with the slow pace of...

Yep, that is definitely one of my favorite parts of the DMG. When I first got it, I was fiddling around with the tables and had my wife just give me some random numbers and applied the results to a simple +1 longsword. Created By: a Fiend The item is made of black iron or horn inscribed with...

I'm currently running the LMoP starter and the PCs so far have found Talon and and Staff of Defense. What's amazing is that with just a few rolls, the items can be so completely different. For instance for Talon (which you named "Claw" above) I let my player roll for the Minor Property and she...

As with nearly all things in 5e, that's your call (or your table's call). Honestly I might allow such a thing, after all where do dragon-blooded sorcerers come from? Although along those lines, where do dragonborn come from as the MM write up for Half-Dragons say they are sterile...?*shrug*

What really muddies the waters on elven heritage is that many cultures like to break down the partly cloudy elves into strict and discreet categories based solely on their partly cloudy elven percentage. And to make matters worse, some cultures eschew the partly cloudy name altogether and...

Dont' forget the Keebler elves or the Cobbler Elves.

Halfling Diviner with Lucky Feat....

One of the greatest resources for DM advice that I found years ago was Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering by Robin D. Laws. I think it was published around 2005, but it still holds up as one of the greatest resources out there. I'm sure you can find it for download or a physical copy.

That is actually a very good point and not a derail at all. The classic idea of a voodoo practitioner seems like it might fit more closely to a Warlock sub-class. Although this might require a different patron. Essentially the "witch doctor" or "voodoo" path would be someone who pledged their...

Another great recap as always. I've been meaning to ask for a while now, Where do you get your character portraits for the NPCs? Do you have a list of them already stored or do you have an online resource that you use? I've started my LMoP campaign and I'd love to put some faces to the NPCs so...

There is some really great discussion of the Shaman class. I agree with a lot of people that it should be its own class. While at a cursory glance it seems that a Warlock subclass might work, the tone of the Warlock is one of subservience, where as I feel the Shaman has a tone more of bonding or...

Just started running Lost Mines of Phandelver. We are two sessions in and the players (and myself) are having a great time. I plan on expanding a couple of the locations, specifically Old Owl Well and Thundertree mostly because two players chose backgrounds for their characters that had their...

I played quite a bit of 3.5 and I never, ever played a Fighter. 5e was the first time I ever actually wanted to play a Fighter.

How about that she has to be killed with some specific dagger/sword/etc. or possibly needing a wooden steak made from a very special tree that grows only in one specific spot in the Feywild. Of course matters would just have to be complicated as the tree grows in the other queen's domain.

I'd say do what is most fun for the group even if the spell descriptions might make it undoable...hey, it's magic, there's always a loop hole. We had a similar situation in an Eberon game a while back. Some important agent for our side had been captured and turned by a vampire. We were able to...

Not at all. Once 5e came out I immediately regretted selling all my 2e class books because I think the kits could very easily be converted to character paths for all the classes. I still had several of the 2e small adventure books and plan on using them in my upcoming game.

Revisiting the idea of using exhaustion for damage, here is something I thought of: This came from the latest UA article where they attempted to make a rule using Vitality and Hit Points, but honestly that thing was way to complicated to implement. An alternative using Exhaustion would be...