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Keep in mind that a character's story doesn't necessarily have to be tied to their class. The last druid I played I took the hermit background and my discovery was "Something in the dark is out to get me." While often druids are hermits that backstory is generic enough that it could really...

Temple of the Gods from Xanathar's is an easy include for any deity. Antimagic Field or Globe of Invulnerability might be good if you want them to not be easy to mess with, but I could also see those being reserved for just the deity of magic.

It can be interesting to play up sympathy for the lowest level cult members by portraying them as victims. They joined in because to the rest of society they are outcasts but here they found a sense of community and belonging. Everything starts out innocent enough but once an individual feels...

Now I'm picturing a scenario where the party is doing some investigative work and gets stuck. Clearly the only way forward is to nearly kill the rogue...

Currently the bard is second best at a lot of things which is okay but I find in play they rarely get the spotlight as they don't have a lot of tools to make big power plays (apart from Magical Secrets, that is the only thing I find interesting in the bard but it looks like other in this thread...

Thanks for the compliment! While it's come up out of character the affected PC hasn't brought it up fully to the rest of the party yet. They had strong reactions to even little things so she doesn't really want to worry the rest of them. The party has seen their ally NPC purposefully expose...

In my current campaign I came up with a system called Corruption which is basically how often you encounter evil influences. These evil influences were very much by my gut as a DM. It could be anything from failing a few too many saving throws against the despair inducing Shadowfell to just...

I haven't completely read through Descent into Avernus yet but if I had to take a wild guess at some point you will be fighting devils which means magic resistance. I played through Out of the Abyss which similarly featured a lot of encounters featuring magic resistance enemies and I found that...

The Circle of Wildfire is structured very similarly to the Circle of Spores. Each receiving an extra cantrip, a table of extra always-prepared spells and an option to use wild shape in a new way. I like this format I just fear that with enough themes that the circle of the land druid will become...

I would consider sacred weapon to be one of the stronger channel divinity options. I'm currently a level 9 devotion paladin and while I don't use it as often as I should in the fights where I do use it it proves to be very useful. A single action to not miss the rest of the fight is good. If I...

Today I learned that my complaints have the potential to deal 3d4 psychic damage to someone. I need to be less of a sore loser on board game nights...

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Most of the time it will just be small roleplaying things like being recognized as a hero and given respect, but the same could be said of a member of any class that makes a conscious effort to do good in a community. In the game I play a paladin in the DM has given free favours that would...

Xanathar's will be the most bang for your buck if you want player crunch. I hadn't seen it mentioned yet so I'll bring up the Elemental Evil Player's Companion, which is a free to download pdf containing races and elemental themed spells. You said you aren't really into exotic races and many of...

I just had another interesting thought about the Oath of Heroism. The designers have clarified that for the purposes of Find Steed sharing a spell with your mount a spell that targets only you is "A spell that targets only you is one that has a range of self and no area-of-effect parenthetical."...

I like the paladin. Allows one to play a supernatural hero without the chivalry baggage of the devotion paladin. Increased critical hit range combined with smites is powerful. And as a bonus action to be able to smoothly open with it to boot. Might make some DMs groan.

Since I started playing Magic during Alara block it will always have a special place in my heart. The problem with Alara is that the shards are a lot more interesting separate than whole so it would have to be set during the early parts of the Conflux or even before that and just have 5 mini...

I currently play a paladin that is the 5th born child of a noble family. Since he was never going to inherit anything his parents sent him off to the temple to become a paladin in order to get the family's fingers into another pie so to speak. At first he hated it but over time he matured and...

The race creation rules in GeneFunk are great. With the abundant tables for enhancements and flaws as well as cherry picking some of the cyberware you could create some interesting things. Just have to keep in mind that the strength of the races skew higher than standard 5e so you would have to...

I've seen a couple times on Twitter that it is apparently a point of frustration for Matt Mercer himself that so many people compare their games to his. He tries to be very outspoken about how everyone should focus on their game for what they want and to not worry about replicating the high...