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Love: I love spellcasting so any item that lets me cast more spells is wonderful. The ring of spell storing is the best, but pearl of power and the spell gems from OotA are great too. Hate: Any of the weapons that offer a bonus to a specific creature type but are otherwise just +X magic...

There was a comment on the video with an idea that I find very interesting. What if there was a village where they accepted the Oblex? Near the end of their lives elders willingly let themselves be absorbed as a way to preserve their memories and wisdom for future generations. In times of need...

I like that each new book contains a variety of content from lore, to monster stats to PC options. Within each book the organization I find to be quite good. I can always find what I need in Volo's after a few quick flips. But I agree that with each new book it gets clumsy to use my physical...

If you'd like to read up more about the Dawn War setting I found a fan compiled timeline that has a ton of info. Unfortunately, the author didn't include their name in the document for me to give them proper credit, but whoever compiled it many thanks...

I'm not really familiar with Spelljammer, but reading the descriptions here I'm reminded of the recent Guardians of the Galaxy movies where the tone is overall light hearted, but the plots can get pretty serious and the stakes are pretty high. Would that be a close comparison? Because if so...

This was the path that I had in mind (or picking up spell sniper even later if not going variant human). I had already accepted that I would be just using polearm master attack routine for the majority of the character's career. I suppose it is also heavily campaign dependent to take spell...

I was thinking over possible build options for the Eldritch Knight and since I like halberds I was wondering how it would do with Polearm Master. At first I thought it would be fun to combine reach weapons with Booming Blade until I realized that BB has a reach of 5 feet and the enemy must be...

An encounter building technique I like to use is to design the encounter in such a way that the enemies cannot bring to bear their full combined strength initially. So I will design the fight to have vague phases where more of the enemies can contribute as the fight goes on. Typically this...

REQUEST: My next arc involves a chimera that has been uplifted in intelligence by demonic influence. With her newfound awareness she has named herself Queen of Beasts and she wishes to build a kingdom for monsters. She favours followers that are bestial humanoids, monstrosities, and of course...

Adding minions is the simplest solution as already pointed out by many others. It helps the boss not get focus fired too much and overall adds complexity to the battle which for the climax is probably a good thing. Another method would be to add some additional goals/stakes to the final fight...

I was only able to play my underdark land druid for a handful of sessions from level 2 to 3, but I was also pleasantly surprised at the number of things I was able to do. As a land druid my shape shifting wasn't as overtly powerful but at level 2 a panther can hold it's own in melee for a bit...

The rules on being revived from being knocked out seemed interesting and is something that I have seen quit a lot of discussion about in 5e forums. A character must be stabilized before they regain consciousness, even if they receive healing. This requires at least two actions to be performed on...

Granting advantage or disadvantage as circumstances dictate is well within the rules of 5e. I see no reason that having another help you overcome something be treated differently. That said, like the others above, I would only allow it when it makes sense. Making a dex save to grab a ledge you...

This change makes the spell function like Aura of Vitality, but at a lower level, able to be doubled up as you describe, and doesn't require active use of a bonus action if you aren't moving it. So it's probably still a bit too powerful. But I think this is an interesting direction to take the...

From the wiki thread over on the Pathfinder board they've said that PF2E will feature a unified single bonus to rolls and less reliance on magic items in order to scale. So I agree that there seems to definitely be some inspiration here and there. Which overall I think is a good thing for games...

I'm not sure how WotC handles their surveys, but I do know that large surveys with free form text will often perform analysis by looking at the frequency of certain words or phrases. They can also have the responses to the multiple choice questions so they can see how many people mentioned X...

First thing that comes to mind is some kind of festival. You can have the festival traditions include wearing costumes, fanciful decorations, dancing, eating and all around merrymaking. But of course the festival has some dark secret purpose and the fun is just to lure unsuspecting victims in...

Web has become one of my absolute favourite spells since picking it up on my wizard. Throwing it down at a bottleneck is a real encounter changer, and even in the open will force some enemies to rethink their positioning. Restraining enemies is quite good, but even if they succeed their save...

For actual play my go to is Roll Play, a series of games streamed on Twitch at itmeJP (archives available on YouTube channel of same name). They always have a number of different games going at once with a rotating cast. It's difficult to keep up to date on these games, so I generally only catch...

I don't play a lot of mobile games, but I do check stuff out every once in a while if it's something related to my interests so I'll probably give this a shot once it comes out. It's free to try after all so it's not like I have much to lose.