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Generally I view a d8 hit die as the average option since d10 hit die is the tanky option for martial characters. But if a character lacks other suitability tools they still might be considered squishy. Primarily here I'd be talking about Bards and Warlocks that wear light armour and don't take...

Your suspicions are correct. The Dune board game was originally published in 1979 by Avalon Hill. In 1984 it got a second edition to tie into the movie along with a couple of expansions and then the game goes out of print for a long time. In 2012 it was kinda sorta reprinted when Fantasy Flight...

It's super weird considering that both your spell DC and persuasion check scale off of charisma. So no matter how high or low you buff your charisma it cancels itself out and you have the same probability of succeeding. And you'll want to take proficiency in persuasion to ensure that your spell...

Path of the Beast looks fun. A totem barbarian probably could have sufficed to refluff to a beast shapeshifter type barbarian, but hey it's neat. The monk is not the class I would have chosen to give a plague doctor subclass to but alright. For the Oath of Watchers I feel like the entire...

Expertise allows one to consistently overcome certain types of challenges but generally skill checks don't derail the game like some magic can. Some DMs may be annoyed about removing uncertainty from things like disarming traps, picking locks, or spotting hidden things, but in my opinion...

Do we have confirmation if graviturgist is a brand new class or a subclass? And if it's a subclass what is it a subclass of? Also from what I remember the school of transmutation only had the subschool of polymorph that concerns the spells that transform a person. It didn't ever have a category...

Here's an organization from my homebrew that ended a few months ago: The Hunters of Valla are a militant organization dedicated solely to the eradication of demons from the material plane. The group was created after the demonic emergence had mostly subsided and it's founder, an earth genasi...

I said it's good as ultimately generic products are the easiest to adapt to home brew campaigns which is useful to me personally.But ultimately I think the edition needs a good balance. Once a generic baseline is established it's overall healthy to start serving wider tastes by offering...

If I get this it will probably mostly be for my own curiosity's sake to pick and choose ideas to implement rather than running a game set in Wildemount. With Descent into Avernus and Odyssey of the Dragonlords on my plate I've got a lot of content to get through. If there is a substantial...

The slot style of abstraction like this are systems that I hate the most. Heavy armour and weapons are given weight values that far outpace the bonus that a high strength score gives to the point where you are now penalized for playing a high strength character. In the example the small kobold...

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Shadow Blade from Xanathar's isn't overtly creepy, but it does allow you to conjure a weapon that is compatible with Green Flame Blade since it counts as a simple melee weapon, unlike it's lackluster cousin Flame Blade. (Also do note that Green Flame Blade isn't on the Bard spell list so you...

Since PCs in D&D are supposed to be empowered, I find that horror works best as a sprinkling in and not the main attraction or for only short bits at a time. I'll include body horror elements into the descriptions of custom monsters, or have NPCs describe monster attacks as horror stories. But I...

While bard the bard chassis is great I think you'd also want to do a face lift on the bard spell list to fit a dusk blade. As it stands bard spells instead focus more support effects or trickster oriented enchantments and illusions. If you want a more thematic spell list for a warrior you'll...

Ned Kelly is considered by some to be the Australian Robin Hood. He led a gang of bushrangers with the help of a vast network of sympathizers. He created a set of bullet proof armour scrounged together from farm ploughs to wear during shoot outs with police. Wearing heavy armour in an age of...

No, I'm not tired of the Sword Coast but I haven't played in a campaign set in the Realms since a bit after Out of the Abyss came out. I understand why they focus on the area. It's a fairly generic fantasy land which makes it easy to release accessible content for it. It also makes it easy to...

Volo's Guide to Monsters included higher level generic humanoids. Notably relevant to you there are mages representing each of the 8 schools of magic, some of them being high CR. At CR 9 you have the necromancer, evoker, and abjurer. At CR 9 there's also a stat block for a war priest which is...

So it sounds like you sometimes want the PCs and villains to merely throw each other around in a skirmish and other times life is at stake. Is it too gamey to have something like a tension level where at certain thresholds the rules of combat change? At low tension PCs are automatically stable...

Heighten is good if you plan to take the single target big damage spells like Disintegrate or Finger of Death. At the level you are casting those sacrificing a 3rd level spell slot to give your biggest spells a bit of an edge isn't a hard pill to swallow. I do wish heighten had the option to...

Seconding that the above build looks very solid, but I thought I'd throw in some thoughts from my experience playing a sorcerer. At low level Chromatic Orb can be quite powerful if you do want some blast at low levels. With variable damage type it even can fit into your draconic theme. It's...