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I'm trying to put together a list of what I'm calling "magical science resources" for D&D. By this I mean that an attempt is made to try and explain aspects of D&D in a way that mirrors scientific literature. I'm especially interested in Dragon and Dungeon magazine content and content from 2E...

A player in my current 5E Spelljammer game has a pirate background. To try and flesh out my take on the setting more I am working on creating content related to piracy, such as perpetrators, targets, potential adventure hooks, etc. I thought it may be fun to share ideas related to this. To...

The first time I ever learned of Tasha/Iggwilv when I started playing D&D was in the end of the Savage Tide adventure path, where she was capable of creating a portal powerful enough to let an entire eladrin army pour into Demogorgon's layer of the Abyss. Time travel comparatively isn't that...

Positives: Bonus Action teleport is way better than Action teleport, and the minor leadership Bonus Action abilities are nice and flavorful. Negatives: I don't personally care for the Demonic Resistance trait as it is effectively adding a paragraph to explain what it resists when it could just...

Speaking of Baldur's Gate 3 and its githyanki lore, I was very surprised to hear Lae'zel state that silver swords were made from fragments of the Living Gate, which as far as I'm aware has only ever been mentioned during 4E.

Bit of a necropolis, but I thought I'd share how my own implementation of Spelljammer ship to ship combat went in a playtest I performed yesterday with two players: I had two players who took the role of elite vampirates leading an advance force as their fleet's home base was approached by...

Personally I once played through the EA with only Lae'zel and a male githyanki fighter as my character. It was hard, I died a lot, and I had to make good use of the horn that summons ogres, the iron flask, and the oil and fire AoE items, but it was super satisfying to me. My favorite part was...

In my past Early Access playthroughs I've had several times where I decided that my character wouldn't stand for one or more of the companions. For example, despite Astarion being my favorite, I've at least twice had my PC react to the revelation of him being a vampire by telling him to leave...

Personally as far as 5E Spelljammer is concerned I'm depicting Astral Dominions as being effectively outposts of the Outer Planes by taking the concept of border islands for the 4E Astral Dominions and upgrading them to Dominions of their own.

A lot of these responses are echoing what I've seen elsewhere and my own concerns. One idea I saw on Reddit that I might test out privately before my next session is the concept of protective fields surrounding ships. If I recall correctly, the poster said that in their game they had it so that...

I've started a Spelljammer campaign and pretty soon the players will be leaving the Rock of Bral. I've looked online for impressions on ship combat and would like to see how it's played out for others here, as well as whether the rules for ship combat in Ghosts of Saltmarsh and Spelljammer were...

I'm not getting my hopes up, but I'm hoping for a surprise reappearance of the primordials. There was one that was basically an immortal fire giant archmage (Balcoth) and another that was a combo of hill, fire, and frost giant (Piranoth).

IIRC Nintendo is also at this moment aggressively seeking out the leaker for the art book of the upcoming Zelda game.

Is one of those a kruthik? If so, I appreciate that they considered a relatively more modern monster.

IIRC the 5E Spelljammer boxed set has one Wildspace System with a Dawn War-esque backstory. Plus a primordial is statted up in Storm King's Thunder that is stronger than any of the Princes of Elemental Evil from Princes of the Apocalypse. So, some tiny bits of Dawn War lore have shown up...

I miss the absolute mountains of content we got during the 4E era, personally. 5E is sorely lacking the magazines, and Dragon+ was mostly promotional material with very little new content. They could hypothetically supplement Spelljammer and Planescape with articles on D&D Beyond if so inclined...

In terms of mixed-heritage characters, would it help if the designers gave them consistent names across settings even if they didn't give them actual stats? I know in Critical Role the name for people of both elf and orc heritage is now uniya, and in Dark Sun the name for a human/dwarf is mul...

My longest write-in section can be summed up as "I'd like every class and subclass to have as many options as the warlock or battle master fighter, magic items to be like those in Baldur's Gate 3 (specifically mentioning the magic ring that applies Blade Ward to any target you heal as an...

Has anyone prefaced LoX with something other than Spelljammer Academy? Personally I'm thinking of having the PCs start as Captain Fel Ardra's crew (unknowingly helping her uphold her end of an Infernal contract) and doing some short adventures for her before the main plot kicks in and Commodore...

I think this has stumbled upon what some people find "problematic". There's a concerningly common trope in "isekai" (people from the real world finding themselves in a fantasy world, usually permanently) for slavery to not only be an institution practiced by society, but for the hero to...