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I will be buying the new PHB if only because my PHB is disintegrating.

You use the last class in which you levelled.

This is a thing of beauty.

Not Lovecraft but Lord Dunsany.

Try not to railroad; players instinctively rebel and fight to the bitter end. If the adventure demands a particular set-up, start there and take a step backward. "You all wake up in a prison cell / you are standing in front of the baron accused of X / whatever. We're now going to game how you...

If you all are having fun, you're doing it right.

Since this thread has been resurrected after so many years, let me weigh in again. I ask people to consider a spear-wielder with the Duellist fighting style and PAM. A one-handed spear does 1d6 + Str + Style (+2) so an average of 8.5 damage at Str 16 for a base attack and a first level PC can...

There's nothing stopping a DM from restricting cantrip damage from spellcasting classes (as opposed to feats) by class level. It's neither RAW nor RAI but Rule Zero applies. It's your campaign. You could similarly restrict a Barbarian's Unarmoured Defence to a maximum of the lower of their Con...

Many years ago I found a fanfiction which was a blatant plagiarism of one of his short stories and emailed him about it. He was gracious enough to reply.

Tod recreates a weird weapon from history:

You could avoid that by making the PCs multi-classed (4+1 or 3+2). It would give them some extra survivability and flexibility.

I'm not sure what you mean by a 'plus thread' and I'm 20 pages late but anyway, for me a big problem is that the Fighter isn't actually very good at fighting, both offensively and defensively, and you have to use Action Surge for combat instead of one of its many non-combat uses. Fighters also...

Do you have the Mythic Greece sourcebook? It was written for the Hero System but it's an absolute gem.

[Aside alert!] The real advantage of Meteor Swarm is its one mile range, outside the range of Counterspell and hard to detect the casting in the first place. You have an enemy spellcaster flying or teleporting around with a bunch of these on scrolls and your party is toast if they don't start...

If everyone - including yourself - is having fun then you're doing it right. Everything else is secondary.

Some years ago I suggested that spellcasters should recover some spells - up to their Proficiency Bonus -1 for full spellcasters - on a Short Rest and 1 spell per spell level on a long rest. The base number of low level spells got halved. So you just restrict the number of long rests that the...

Don't be afraid to apply the Mythic trait (from Theros, 1/day instant resurrection to full HP) if things go too easily. Possibly along with the dragon's mate arriving. Remember that minions can have lair actions too

Since the thread has been resurrected, let me offer that a good way to go is short mini-campaigns. Say one tier. Then you can finish relatively quickly and do something else and maybe come back at some point (like this thread) or segue straight into the next mini-campaign.

Jill Bearup's short review: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4LgmPGLebAw

Oh well. But while I think that's fine for the Archery fighting style I think that with respect to Sharpshooter it fails to mark the difference between a weapon that just happens to be thrown - think of Robin killing the Sheriff at the end of Prince of Thieves - and a weapon that's designed for...