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Several years ago on an AI thread thread I wrote that AI bans will help the major corporations and hurt 3rd party creators. I faced some criticism for this. Now we have exactly this coming to pass. Foundary recently banned AI art on its Marketplace. As a result, most of the small mom and...

I am putting together a character for a short level 7-10 game. It will probably be 3 or 4 sessions, so not technically a 1-shot. Anyway my character is a Halfling Zentarim Moon Bard 5/Warlock 2, I won't bore you with the backstory but we get 1 Uncommon Magic Item. For a Bard the obvious power...

So one of my players showed up with a Kobold Rogue with a Deer familiar (Find Familiar from magic initiate). Checking the verbiage on Find Familiar I notice any beast with a 0 CR is usable. So he is using it as a controlled mount with a 50 foot move (100 feet with dash) which is immune to...

Most of the Asterion don't seem very powerful at 1st glance but after seeing Putrify and Love Bites in play I realize that bypassing saves is a huge deal on enemies with legendary resistance, even if the effect is not awesome or persistent. We were fighting an Ancient Copper Dragon and the...

I am designing a character for a point buy 1-20 campaign. The campaign will be in the Forgotten Realms (Chult) and be heavy in the exploration and combat pillars. I am planning to do an Orc Bladesinger gish build with a Ranger dip. Primarily melee-oriented with some control and some AOE...

It has been a while since we have had a campaign. I think almost 2 years since Vecna, and that one started at level 10 and was relatively short. We have had a ton of new rules books in that time. When are they going to get back to epic adventures like Tomb of Annihilation or Princes of the...

So I am playing my first Aasimar and man I have been impressed with this Species. Resistance to Radiant and Necrotic, the Necrotic comes up quite often, add the significant damage boost I get for a combat from Celestial Revalation with options for even more damage, a 1 round Frighten control...

So this is what class you've played the most since 2024 rules were published, using the 2024 version of the class. I included Artificer, but that has only been out a few weeks and playing the old Artificer doesn't count. It is also only what you have played personally, not what you have seen...

Like most people I thought these guys leaving would be a big blow to WOTC and D&D. Then WOTC published the Fearun books and Asterion and they really knocked it out of the part IMO. These are the best rules/suplements they have published since Tasha's I think. Is it because they turned the...

The new Background system is as screwed up as ever. Best example - Dragon Cultist Background which boosts Dexterity, Constitution and Intelligence and includes the Cult of the Dragon Initiate Origin Feat and of course that feat's main ability keys off Wisdom (and only Wisdom). 😖 This pretty...

I am working up a character who is going to be a Scion of the Dead 3 Rogue. I have some of her backstory together - basically she was intended to be sacrificed as a child but was saved by a group of adventurers right before she was about to be killed. As far as the campaign goes Bane works a...

I am playing a Tiefling currently Warlock 4/Fighter 2 in a game. I white boarded it before playing it and it seemed like it would work, and it has proven better than expected. The campaign is going to go to 20 and she will end a Warlock 4/Eldritch Knight 12/Bard 4 She is sword and board...

Ok we are in a Dungeon full of secret doors that you need an Investigation check to find. The whole party dumped Intelligence. We do have a Rogue that has expertise in Investigation, so he is pretty good at it, but he is out for 2 weeks. The rest of us have a -1. The DM lets us use other...

So one of my players came up with a workaround today in a game I am DMing. The PC is an Eldritch Knight 6/Sorcerer 9. He used a staff of fire to fireball a group of Gith soldiers and then wanted to use it to action surge cast a wall of fire to prevent them from closing/damage them if they...

I am playing a Halfling in a Darksun campaign. There is some class and subclass restrictions to stay in line with the setting (no Eldritch Knights, Sorcerers or Paladins :mad:) and some species homebrew (no halfling lucky, but I get Savage Attacks from the 2014 Half Orc and fury of the Small...

I was playing a game recently and an enemy Dragon cast Hypnotic Pattern on the party from far away (I will say about 70 feet, he was on the ground though). Three of the four PCs failed their save. My Dance Bard is the only one who passed. My Bard is a back-liner and is pretty fragile so this...

One of my players just leveled in Warlock to Warlock4/Fighter1. Prior to leveling he had Pact of Blade, Pact of Tome and Pact of Chain Invocations and a Quasit familiar. After leveling he swapped out Pact of Chain with Agonizing Blast-Green Flame Blade, but his Quasit familiar is still...

So I am debating which of these spells to get on a Eldritch Knight/Warlock at 15th level (11 EK/4 Warlock) as part of the Fey Touched feat. The Warlock uses a homebrew subclass that is not relevant. The idea is using Action Surge and Extra Attack and then using an action to cast either...

I am trying to put together a build for a Rage-Mage multiclass Zealot Barbarian/Abjuration Wizard/Warlock and I just figured out you can no longer end your rage with a bonus action in the 2024 rules. This is a big problem because if you can't end the Rage with a bonus then you can't cast a...

The Hand crossbow is a light weapon, so by the light weapon property if you attack with it, you can use nick with another light nick weapon, for example throw a dagger, as part of the same attack action (assuming you have mastery). However you also need a hand free because a hand crossbow has...