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A black hole is a singularity, so a Singular. But there's only one of them.

I think the point has been made well enough about the risks of basing something on a real-world / historical society or setting, even if it's been ignored and would be really cool. It's much safer to leave that up to 3rd parties. Then it becomes: "What is different about this world that...

I'm only passingly familiar with Dark Sun. The thematics on this are based partly on superheroes, as MCDM mentions. A power available at 1st level does let up to 4 creatures go without food or water, and become immune to exhaustion caused by mundane environmental effects. You might want to ban...

There are between 100 and 120 powers. They are presented in alphabetical order, sorted by Order(level) instead of as one big alphabetical mass like the PHB. That should make it a lot easier to select powers at levelup. 1st Order (cantrips) The damage dice are generally a bit lower than regular...

Specialization is for insects, and spellcasters When rolling to attempt to copy/learn a power within your specialization, you roll twice and keep the better result. You get IntMod re-rolls on your manifestation tests for powers within your specialization. Specialists get a number of powers as...

I have it and am reading through it. Psionics works mostly like magic, but they recommend not having it be impacted by antimagic field, dispel, etc., or Identify. Trying to make it a bit more different than in 3.5. Magic Resistance applying to saves is optional, same with DR/magic. No changes...

My boys and I recently did a real "lost in the woods" maze and had a lot of fun. They're getting close enough to being able to handle D&D instead of the simpler Hero Quest that I want to start looking for what to run them through first. I think a nice multi-level "Mad Mage's Maze" maze type...

Teos is on fire with posts this week. He posts irregularly so I don't check his blog frequently, so thanks for highlighting the posts here. I only discovered him through posts about the creator summit.

Good poll. I am fine with making Ranger a fighter subclass. I could see completely throwing out Druid, and instead creating a couple of Druid-type Warlock patrons that replicate the same general ability set. This would also expand possible invocations to include different types of...

I realized today that I seem to have some favored enemies in the modules I write as a DM. Castle Dracula (Castlevania): Undead, including lots of skeletons and some vampires. Secondary: Constructs Against the Idol of the Sun: Humanoids, specifically Aarakocra and their priests. Death...

I recently posted Ghost Farm, a 5e module for 6th level characters. Have you ever considered how hard it would be to fight a tractor with a sword or greataxe? Your players deserve to find out! This adventure traps the player characters in a small pocket plane set up by nefarious forces. They...

I'm about halfway through and this is really good stuff. Kid-friendly with no bad language, too, which I appreciate. I'm going to share this with some of my players in case they get interested in DMing. Chris is also a good speaker in terms of vocal variety, pacing, and keeping it...

I was good with all of it until you got to the part where "all magic is bad, delete 2/3 of the PHB unless you want to make the problem worse." If you want a system where magic is saved for rare occasions instead of used daily, D&D 5e is not the game you want to play.

Before you do any pricing, be sure you get your packaging, shipping and inventory management costs together. Packaging and shipping over 4 rentals will probably outweigh your cost of acquisition for the minis. Billing/recurring billing for rental is also something you'll want to automate.

Uncommons at level 12? Stinks to be a martial in that kind of environment. Magic items are the only way non-casters can gain mobility options like flight and spider climb, as well as (aside from certain class features) all kinds of defenses like resistances, save bonuses, better AC, and miss...

PG-13 for violence, PG for pretty much everything else. There may be allusions to adult stuff happening, but never onscreen. I run it at my house and my kids are awake and in the next room for half the game. No-profanity rule although people don't always remember it.

I agree that he will generally commit up to half his meatshields to the battle. He also has awareness of the location of all creatures within 2 miles, and should be able to vector his forces to kill any individual scouting githyanki and guide the party past any guard posts so they can make a...

New setting? Right now, I'm considering "fixing" dinosaurs (I feel they are too weak) and a setting where dinosaurs are the major beast threat seems interesting. It'd probably be a points of light setting, and would need a lot of technologically primitive sections, although you could also have...

One classic example that did not result in losing the war was the Coventry dilemma (WWII). In short form: The bad guys are going to bomb Coventry. You know this because you've been intercepting and decoding their transmissions. A) If you evacuate Coventry, it'll be too big to hide, and...

I really like the Consequences concept and how you describe the implementation. I'd like to use something like that, but it would have to be at the right time and place. I've recently started a Baldur's Gate II in 5e, so perhaps the point where souls are getting stolen back from the BBEG and...