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The Eladrin as dryad idea is great! For my game I plan on using the triton and lizardfolk races from Volo's represent merfolk and viashino respectively. Using fire genasi as a kind of lesser flame kin might also work. While I probably won't get to play Ravnica for a while as I plan on running...

Well with Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica opening up the possibility of seeing Magic creatures statted up there are some interesting options: -Platinum angel could function something like a shield sentinel but with an even better defensive buff to the controller. -Dark angels like angel of...

Unless the enemies were actively searching the area then you would just go against the passive perception of each creature. The highest in this situation being the Gish with 16, while the knights have 12 and the warriors only 11. It's not too big a stretch that the party all passed this...

I didn't really start getting into D&D until the end of 4e's life cycle so I am not intimately familiar with the Nentir Vale setting but it has always been the setting that I found interesting, and I love the pantheon so much that I adopted it for my own game. One of the things that I did like...

I once had an encounter composed entirely of quicklings from Volo's. They are labelled CR1 but they've got more bang than some CR 2 creatures I've used. They have 3 attacks, each with +8 to hit. AC 16 is already fairly respectable but on top of that attacks have disadvantage unless they are...

Terrak was an Earth Genasi Eldritch Knight Fighter I had made for a Planescape game. He was a fledgling member of the Transcendent Order and he was very proud of his planar heritage believing that it was a sign he was destined to become a great warrior. He had a fun dynamic with his twin brother...

Using a puppet master type villain might be a good way to go about things. The crimes are carried out by innocent civilians that have been dominated. This way the true perpetrators never have to get their hands dirty themselves so they can't be identified by witnesses. The victims will not know...

1) If a product advertises itself as 5e compatible I would expect the full stat blocks and 5e conversion to be there so that I don't have to do the work myself. But if it was billed as a more generic adventure my expectations would be different. 2) A summary of setting details that are...

If the beholder is solo and it doesn't have any minions serving it that need to get around the lair that means we can really abuse it's flight. The entire floor should be hazardous. At the very least have each tile have the caltrop effect, but for higher level you could fill the entire lair with...

Most creatures with Lair actions are intended to be bosses, but they seem to be willing to experiment with it. Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes as the Merrenoloth which has lair actions. It's only CR 3, and it's lair actions are more utility focused abilities on giving boons to a ship that it is in...

If you relax the restriction on the spells being able to have an indefinite duration per the spell description in the book you can get some interesting options. -Illusions like Major Image can make a room seem more dangerous than it really is or hide the real dangers. -A room with an...

High level monsters typically also get more supernatural abilities in order to keep up with the capabilities of the adventurers. You can scale up the numbers on a bear so that it will be CR 15, but even then it still won't pose as much of a threat as other monsters at that CR. And once beast...

Agreed. That poor poor Tarrasque doesn't stand a chance.

Many staves in the DMG are restricted to certain classes (example: Requires attunement by a Sorcerer, Warlock or Wizard) or just to spellcasters in general. You qualify as a spellcaster in these cases if you can cast at least a level 1 spell which can be from anything from a class feature, to a...

They've confirmed that they will not be adding any mechanics to the game to reflect the mechanics of the card game. So there will be no rules that mention mana or colours. What they are using from the card game are the places, people, creatures and objects depicted on those cards and statting...

The biggest effect this will have is freeing up more spell slots for use in combat. If the typical scouting spells like scrying and arcane eye don't cost spell slots it becomes less of a trade off to cast those spells preemptively when at an adventure location and thus would probably become more...

I believe the Eldritch Knight and the Arcane Trickster also fall into this category. Which I think is flavourful. These classes aren't usually dedicated to magic so they don't fully comprehend it enough to channel magic through a focus, they need the original components. I also once saw a...

I played a wizard up to 10th level so here's my recommendations from that particular list -Arcane Eye, intelligence gathering can be very useful and this is one is very useful to checking out sites that are potential ambushes -Scrying, another stand out divination spell good for getting...

I find a lot of casters develop their own style which spell choice is very much a part of. Players evaluate things and favour things differently. Some people prefer to buff and heal, others like to deal damage and debuff, some people like having just the spell for a given situation. There are...

I rule that a failed insight check represents failing to find any meaningful evidence of deception. It is then still up to the player what conclusion their character draws.