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Is Point Buy Balanced? I'm not asking if Point Buy is more balanced?, but rather, is it totally balanced? There are over 54,000° combinations°° of ability scores. From 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, to 18, 18, 18, 18, 18, 18; and everything in between. With Point Buy this gets reduced to a few hundred that...

What music was Gygax, Arneson, and the others in to? What was the 'sound track' of the 'Grand Auld Gayme' during that seminal period in the 1970s? The game feels like Hard Rock but Country was very popular in that time period too. From these fora I found an interview...

Has anybody heard anything more about the Shadow League? The shadow dark organized play. I filled out a questionnaire some months ago and I haven't heard anything more about it and I can't find anything on the internet

I am going to run a combat encounter in reverse time. Do you have any advice for doing this? I'm going to run initiative order from lowest to highest. Everyone starts the encounter dead, with 0 hit points. We will roll for attacks and damage but any damage will add to our hit point total...

The Prince of Darkness died today.

Who has sign language? Is it just for Player Characters or do Non-Player Characters have it too?

Simple question, do you allow flighted player characters to carry other player characters over obstacles and past encounters? Are there any rules that address this (other than adding up the weight of everybody's equipment and then deciding to fly them naked across the chasm one at a time as the...

I always imagined they did, but now I'm not so sure. If the rift can be up to 10 ft. wide I don't see why they can only stick a portion of their body through. Dimensional Rift. As a bonus action, the boggle can create an invisible and immobile rift within an opening or frame it can see within 5...

Are there any lists of Deities in the 2024 edition of Dungeons and Dragons? Similar to Appendix B of the 2014 edition.

I want to give my players a vorpal sword. They are fourth level. Do you think it's too early for a vorpal sword? I think it might be too early for a warpful sword. So I came up with the lesser vorpal sword. It does everything a normal vorpal sword does except it only gives a +1 bonus and you...

Is a xvart a humanoid or a monstrosity? The two Mordenkainen books disagree.

I'm on my way to Gen Con. Heading across Missouri right now. Anyone else on their way to the convention right now? Got a trunk full of games and a head full of dreams.

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If we are "off-target" when we cast teleport, we end up a distance from our intended target equal to 1d10 x 1d10 percent of the distance we intended to teleport. Interesting, why don't we just roll d%? Is there a difference between 1d10 x 1d10 and d%? Does rolling 1d10 x 1d10 generate numbers...

From the description for Bag of Tricks: "The creature is friendly to you and your companions, and it acts on your turn. You can use a bonus action to command how the creature moves and what action it takes on its next turn, or to give it general orders, such as to attack your enemies. In the...

Can a 6th level Sorcerer, who only has spell slots up to 3rd level, transform all of their 6 sorcery points into a 4th level spell slot, then upcast something like Magic Missile or Lightning Bolt into it?

Is there any need for a party of sleepy adventurers to set watches through the night when there's a trancing elf in the house? In the past, I've ruled against it, but I'm thinking of changing my position. I don't like setting watches anyway. It's confusing and complicated and rarely leads to...