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The way I handle this in my current campaign is as follows: I define all casters in the setting as either "Focused" (they gain their powers from an external source) or "Primal" (internal spark of chaos). Basically it's a slight tweak from the "cannon" but it makes the classes broadly speaking...

I am currently playing a character with fast healing in a Ravnica game. I'm playing a Simic Hybrid and the DM let me switch out both racial "adaptations" for it at level 5. The mechanics we use are that I regain hit points at the start of my turn equal to my proficiency bonus, so long as I have...

Paladine 20 Branchala 20 Habbakuk 5 Kiri-Jolith 1 Majere 18 Mishakal 23 Solinari 18 Gilean 22 Chislev 20 Reorx 21 Shinare 21 Sirrion 20 Zivilyn 20 Lunitari 22 Takhisis 18 - 2 = 16 Because she dead and should stay it. Chemosh 11 + 1 = 12 Hiddukel 18 Morgion 18 Sargonnas 16 Nuitari 5

Honestly with all the new statblocks updated I care far more about getting updated monster cards rather than books. Those things are a godsend when running a fight with multiple monsters and until I get the new statblocks in that form I'm significantly less likely to them.

This is more or less a good summary of what happened both in and out of setting, at least without really getting into the details. I happen to be one of the fans of the Fifth Age/Age of Mortals. Overall it brought the game into a more updated ruleset and did a great deal to fix a lot of the...

It's downright blasphemous to not see Jergal's name on a list of names all involved in a deathmatch and his story about giving up his power due to boredom is amusing. He gets all the upvotes in my will. Instead... Auril 24 Azuth 16 Chauntea 29 Deneir 14 Ilmater 32 Kelemvor 19 Lathander 23 - 2 =...

I'm well aware of the existence of larps and groups akin to Dagorhir and the like and I have been to several myself. What those groups also do is NOT tend to even have stats for characters because the assumption is that one physical and mental abilities are determined by the player. They are...

Pretty sure that's just called "being a player". resigned DM noises

I mean, it's a much more apt name for my games to be sure. I've been playing d&d with the same group for 5 years now and we've ran what I'd call a "dungeon" maybe a handful of times.

This still doesn't address my core concern from earlier then: how to you propose you avoid punishing players who are not naturally charismatic? Why should an autistic or socially anxious player be effectively barred from playing a charisma character when we don't require the fighter to actually...

And you are welcome play as you wish. It is hardly a magic bullet by any means, merely a way for the players to check with me to assess if they think an NPC might be lying. My players don't ask to roll a check, they merely are expressing what they wish to do in character and I simply ask for the...

A couple of things could answer this: 1) Spells (aside from cantrips which are limited in scope/power) come at a resource cost where as ability checks do not. Something like a dominate person spell means the party isn't eating a powerful aoe damage spell and in 5e also often uses the caster's...

The thing about rules though, they are a useful metric and tool for keeping the game running balanced and fair with at least some sort of stakes being possible. The rules are there to make it so one a## of a player doesn't just go "I just poke the dragon and make it's head explode and then go...

I second the Idea for Arcane Initiate, though I suggest Firebolt and Control Flame. No need to take two attack cantrips when you can reliably use weapons, and frankly the idea of controlling fire cosmetically sounds WAY more on brand than summoning bonfires. Alternatively you could even just...

Except they've already done this. It's called Tyranny of Dragons and has been released twice already in 5e. Change the names and colors of a couple dragons and places and you have your campaign. Ironically ToD is even often subjected to the same criticisms the old Dragonlance trilogy of modules...

And a lot of people both comic fans and non-comic fans alike despise the inclusion of time travel retcons as well, particularly in the hamfisted and poorly written way both the MCU and the comics both handled it. Comic fans have long complained about characters not staying dead and utter lack of...

A lot of good ideas in this thread. I'm inclined to agree that an upgrade to their "mental" capacity is called for. I second the idea for something akin to "Awaken" or the idea to make it function closer to the spell Find Steed. To also borrow a leaf from the new drake warden, you could also...

In terms of game mechanics I don't give one wit about tradition. In fact it's the opposite. I get brand recognition as a concept but for me personally I am of a mind that it is often "tradition" that is now holding the game itself back. I.e. Why do we need to have ability scores instead of just...

I agree with this 100%. It's a terrible decision and I sincerely hope this wasn't just done from pushback from both WoTC people who want to shoehorn in all sorts of stupid retcons just to make every d@$% setting like forgotten realms and a bunch of fans who just want to replay/reread the same...

For myself I've always just done the base 10, where each coin up is worth ten of the previous (1pp = 10gp = 10sp = 100 cp). I always fluff the new Electrum as weird/odd currency that varies in value depending on where you trade it and is never actively minted anymore, so I save it for old fallen...