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Being "still in the fight" while making Death Saves is extremely dangerous. In your case, the spell turned out in the players' favor. However, it could have gone a much more lethal direction! While the PC benefiting from "Never Surrender" doesn't suffer the Unconscious condition – which causes...

Hedningarna is a Swedish/Finnish folk/indie rock band that I adore and much of their music fits in well as gaming backdrop sound.

The two kobolds hasten to do Lumrolur's bidding, picking up the body of the fallen kobold and pitching it down the shaft. Tossing bodies in this way seems to be second nature to them, and after what they've just seen happen with the ghost, they're not about to question the deep gnome's resolve...

But are the arrows magical or aren't they? If I turn the quiver upside down can I pincushion besieging hobgoblins on a ladder? Or provision my entire militia of seventy-seven longbowmen? If I trick a thief into sticking their hand in the quiver do they prick their finger on one arrow or on an...

You... stole the words right out of my mouth. All of them. ;) Edit: Wish Aero Hobbies was still around in Santa Monica - would have been great to visit.

That made me chuckle. Very very true. 5e's writing style (doubled down on in 2024 it seems) is trying to have the cake and eat it too – I can imagine ways to blend those two approaches (difficult but possible), though so far I don't think they've succeeded.

I recommend getting familiar with some individual creators – instead of, or in addition to, company names. In my experience that's going to be the ultimate metric to evaluate future quality at a glance. Kelsey Dionne is one such writer I can recommend. Before Shadowdark, she was a prolific...

GM POST After Jack flies up, the rest of you – Alma, Logrim, Zeth, and Russet – manage to ascend either with the help of Aric shapechanged into a giant spider or climbing the hand-and-footholds on the western wall. Down below the wide-eyed ice toads watch you, croaking with low rumbling...

Man, you answer a question with a question, huh? Yes, once they regain their memories.

I would echo the same issue on Featherweight – it's somewhat OP at first, but then at 5th level once Extra Attack kicks in it's waaay OP compared to other fighting styles. Because then it's not just +2 to +6 damage. With two attacks starting at 5th level (+3 prof bonus) it's +6 to +12 damage per...

Indeed. It's the sort of thing I can see being divisive. I know there are ways to massage it – provide good stuff along with any bad outcomes, make an effort to tie outcomes to aspects of the characters / character sheets, create "encounters" / "memories" that can be explored to add to the...

So you'll note that my wild idea circumvents playing through random encounters. This is not a question about the broad topic of random encounters as they typically are done - not in the way you're describing. I want to nip that in the bud. Plenty other conversations about that. EDIT: A better...

You are probably accustomed to the typical D&D random encounters approach - day by day, checking, rolling, playing it out, etc. These encounters can serve to build suspense, foreshadow things at the destination, expend resources, dispense clues/treasures relevant to the destination, or simply...

I for one am thrilled about these innovations for 2024! Learn to play sections, glossaries, indexes, strongholds, random tables in the monster book? D&D is way ahead of the curve now! … “do you want to tell them or should I…?”

Do you have a thread talking about the early bits of 2024 monster design we've seen? Because...uh...I have thoughts, but don't want to derail this thread on the DMG.

Wow, I never would have guessed from your avatar... ...Emirikol the Chaotic!!

I would love to read or watch a deep dive into the 2024 PHB’s actual usability at the table focusing on typical choke points of 2014 D&D: how does hiding work? how does casting multiple spells work? how do grappling and two-weapon fighting work? Etc. At least when I was watching flip through...

That’s just what the illusionists want you to think.