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One that I've heard of is War/Tempest Cleric 1/Wizard 1-19, because you get free proficiency with heavy armor and martial weapons while retaining the casting capabilities of a full caster (and the Spell Mastery feature).

I'm currently playing a 4th level moon druid, and I've never had my concentration broken, but that's mostly due to luck: I've only ever taken a few hits while concentrating and have always gotten high rolls on my saves.

Even with TWF or extra attacks the rogue can only get Sneak Attack since per turn... So unless you get to attack with Commander's Strike or an AoO, chances are you'll only get it once per round anyway.

For the most part spells don't need to be more powerful: for example, a level 3 druid using moonbeam can utterly annihilate most swarming enemies (such as kobolds or rabid badgers). 2d10 for 10 turns is a hefty chunk of damage even against higher-level enemies as well, especially since it only...

4 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Basic Rules It's a given that something given for free won't be as good as something you have to pay for, but the basic rules are an excellent starting point for jumping into the 5th edition of D&D. You can play a full game without ever touching the...

Blights can be interesting too! Consider a village in a forest clearing, long since overgrown with tangled vines and creepers. Dead shrubs are scattered around the outside, and the bodies of the villagers have been overgrown with strange coniferous plants. As you walk past, a cry for help...

Depending on your players, it could be an interesting challenge to make it the Vault of Compassion: the kobolds in it are dying out or mutating from a magical influence in the vault, so they initially try to drive the party away for their own safety, being hostile but not violent unless...

You could always go the old-fashioned route and make a chart with a pen and paper: The character names on one axis, and the crits/fumbles/kills/etc. on the other! Or make a spreadsheet instead (behold my epic work of 5 minutes! :P ).

That definitely sounds like those odds are a bit out of the ordinary. Giving a DC of 25 and then adding disadvantage on top of that seems a little punitive-- depending on how much the player wants to know, of course.

Do you mean you have one list of 100 achievements, or do you make 100 per campaign? I'd love to see (one of) the list(s) though, it seems like a really cool idea.

Brilliant! I agree that monsters like the beholder are best to keep as close to the established lore as possible (Not to mention that I'm not sure whether to make a hook for a possible adventure involving the monster, or the lore of a monster in my own setting, or what have you). One thing...

I've yet to have a PC die after first level, but in the game I'm currently in the DM told us that we'd lose 40% of the experience to the next level when we die and reroll, but keep their level. For example, the difference between level 2 and 3 is 600 XP so if a 2nd-level PC die they'd lose...

The distinction you have to make is the one between ranged attacks and ranged weapons. Although daggers, handaxes, javelins, light hammers, spears, and tridents can be thrown to make ranged attacks, they are still melee weapons-- so they don't get the benefit of the fighting style.

It may not be exciting in and of itself, but if a critical hit maximizes all of the first dice and then roll the extra dice as normal (e.g. a critical with a greatsword becomes 2d6 + 12 + modifiers instead of 4d6 + modifiers) would make your players more excited when they get one...

You didn't forget about this thread, did you? I dislike posting twice in a row, but you slackers have given me no choice :P Behir

How low of a level is "low level" for this BBEG? Other than that, it seems powerful: ridiculously so. Seeing as it looks like it's meant to be used by a PC as well as the BBEG (character level as well as CR in some of its abilities), I'm thinking that you should drop the advantage on saving...

I started in 4e when my brother ran me through Keep on the Shadowfell... He gave me an NPC companion (and later a second PC to control), and kept it interesting by not sticking to the book. DMing for a single player has a lot of similarities with a group, and you will see that most of them work...

Basilisk Once upon a time... No, maybe not for the basilisk. And @steeldragons, I would have replied sooner, but I dislike double posting on stuff ;)

If you'd read a little back in the PHB entry, it says that "Unlike other saving throws, [a death saving throw] isn't ties to any ability score"... So the dwarf's Con shouldn't matter unless you're house ruling it that death saves use Con. Although the saving throw CAN be modified by Bardic...

@jrowland, I agree. Just because the thread says a monster a day doesn't mean the days we post monsters have to be consecutive...