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I play in two groups (I'm the only overlap between them) and eldritch blast is always in use by somebody in both groups. Each group uses EB the same way: all the beams fire off simultaneously (not RAW, we know, but has Mike Mearls support). You name your targets and roll your attack and damage...

How about Princes of the Apocalypse? Wizards released the low-level chapter of PotA for D&D Encounters play: https://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/DDEN_PrincesoftheApocalypse.pdf There are a few stat blocks in the adventure that aren't in the basic rules, but WotC also released a...

Depends on your definition of canon. Living Greyhawk retroactively placed module I2, Tomb of the Lizard King, in Greyhawk. If you accept that, then Aulicus is a named black dragon with his lair in the great swamp south of the Dreadwood. He is almost 400 years old, so according to the 5e MM he is...

Dice...tray. Don't let your dice bounce around, knocking over minis, lost under the table. Easy to make with a box and some felt from Michael's. No excuses. Here are the ones I make for friends:

Character quirks cross the line for me when the player intentionally creates complications that the other players' PCs have to deal with, especially if they ruin the fun of the game for other players. Finding loot is fun. Adventuring with someone who insists on destroying the loot is not fun. We...

I have the opposite problem in the game I DM. In a party of six 4th level characters the highest passive perception is 12. Three PC's have Perception proficiency paired with a wisdom score of 10. One PC has a wisdom of 14 but isn't proficient in Perception. As a group they are much better at...

Welcome back. I was out of D&D for a similar length of time. You couldn't have picked a better time to jump back in! I can't begin to list all the great resources available from Wizards, third parties, online, etc. Adventures, miniatures, accessories, online and local gaming communities - you'll...

I want a Head of Intellect!

Rappan Athuk. Have the party enter RA through the Cloister of the Frog God (Tier 2) or the Cavern of the Kraken (Tier 3).

PEMDAS. Do the multiplication first, then the addition. OR handle it just like Con modifiers to hp?

PEMDAS. Do the multiplication first, then the addition. OR handle it just like Con modifiers to hp?

Dwarven Thrower 2 - throw it away Mace of Disruption 14

I doubt there is a big market for Greyhawk, but it might be comparable to the market for Art & Arcana. I just wish they would decide to do something with the setting one way or another - either publish something, hand it over to a 3rd party partner like Goodman Games or Kobold Press, or at least...

Today's Dragon Talk podcast interview with Kate Welch, lead designer of Ghosts of Saltmarsh, offered a few more nuggets about this upcoming release. I pre-ordered GoS so I'm eager for any specifics about it. Some of this may be common knowledge, but here are some highlights that were new...

Announcing that what is or isn't in the text of the rules (RAW) is not a valid reference point for discussing the rules, or that people's explanations of the rules as written are not worth considering if they don't work for WotC, is maybe not the most inviting approach to a forum discussion...

If you think it will be fun and cool to try to set up the Eldritch Strike hold person/action surge/critical hit combo then go for it. You're a long way from level 10 so it's not anything to worry about at this point. If that's your goal, the Alert feat could be a good to give you a better chance...

What's better than Tasha's Hideous Laughter? Find Familiar! The other two you chose are perfect for an EK. Prot from Evil/Good is a great spell. Against the right creatures it gives you everything blur does and more for a lower level spell. And the list of creatures is works against is...

I still use a DM screen which allows me to hang player initiative cards on the screen. On the back of each card card I have a space for skill, tool, and language proficiencies and their bonus. This lets me use a passive check for proficient skills. If the player built their PC to be good at a...

It's encouraging to see so many opinions about Greyhawk. It's the setting I use because it's the one I started with way back and my current group enjoys the nostalgia of playing classic TSR modules with 5e rules. My selfish reason for wanting WotC to update Greyhawk is that, as I've mentioned...