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Recently, my "Primordial Evil" campaign (an in-person group that meets until recently met every 3 to 5 weeks for 5 hours, but now meets every 3 weeks for 3 hours) completed my own conversion of UK4 - When a Star Falls (using the QftIS version to fill in blanks when I finally got my hands on it)...

So recently, the PCs in my home group drew some cards from the Deck of Many Things, and one of them drew the FLAMES card, garnering "the enmity of a devil." Unfortunately, in another example of the limited practical utility of the Book of Many Things, there is not much guidance for what this...

I recently joined an ongoing D&D 5E campaign. The characters were all 8th and 9th level when I joined and I got to make one too. They had been playing together for some time (actually not really sure how long or who else is "new" to this particular campaign - just longer than me). Last night I...

OK, so the tl;dr version of this post is the simple poll question, "Will using the Deck of Many Things in my 5E game blow up my campaign?" The party is 4th level, about to advance to 5th. My games usually end before 10th level. The longer explanation is as follows: So, I received the Book of...

This thread has a very simple premise. I will be posting pics of the books I consulted for the upcoming session(s) for either of my D&D 5E games. We only play each of these games every 3 to 5 weeks and I tend to prep enough for 2 to 3 sessions at a time, so this thread won't necessarily be...

I just thought people might find this as entertaining as I did.

So we had to reschedule our most recent in-person game (was supposed to be this past Sunday the 9th) because I (the DM) had the flu and another player got COVID and it got me thinking about the various reasons why a session might be cancelled/rescheduled. In my case, re-scheduled because we...

So the 2014 PHB says: and the 2024 PHB says: So I have no problem envisioning a web anchored between two or more solid points, but what does it mean for a web to be layered over a flat surface? I can't picture it. And if it is so layered, how does it keep from collapsing? It is just a 20...

So I was reading Find Traps. Both the 2014 and the 2024 version have similar descriptions of what the spell does, but do you find them as vague as I do? 2024: "This spell reveals that a trap is present but not its location. You do learn the general nature of the danger posed by a trap you...

The title is the question: Can you hear the audible version of the Alarm spell if you are more than 60 feet away? The 2024 spell reads: "Audible Alarm. The alarm produces the sound of a handbell for 10 seconds within 60 feet of the warded area." The 2014 version reads: "An audible alarm...

A relatively simple question as the title suggests. . . Given 56 sessions, each lasting approximately 3 hours (sometimes 15 minutes more, very rarely 15 to 30 minutes less), involving 4 players (and no deaths), what level would you expect the party to be in a 5E game? For the sake of the poll...

Matt Colville on the Elusive Shift and the continuum from 1970s zines to contemporary reddit screeds. . .

Hey all! While I have not gotten a chance to pick up Tales from the Infinite Staircase or even seen a version on the shelf I can page through at a store, I am running my own conversion to of UK4 When a Star Falls to 5e using the original version, which I’ve owned since the 80s and run twice...

Vanity Frankenstein 5E Intro Questions What is “Vanity Frankenstein 5e?” It is my customized house-ruled homebrewed ruleset that I plan to institute when my current 5E D&D campaigns are over. This document is a brief introduction to the project, in the form of an FAQ, except they are more...

This was PC status in terms of HP/HD at the start of the last session: This how they’re starting off today’s session starting in about 40 minutes. 😱 We’re in round 2 of a combat with a foe that still has a lightning bolt in his back pocket. I’ll let you know how it goes. 🥸

As I am working on my Vanity Frankenstein 5E rules, I also also developing a homebrew setting that the rules changes are built from - or sometimes creating aspects of the world to correspond with rule changes I am making - so it is a lot of back and forth that I actually enjoy (when I get tired...

So as part of my Vanity Frankenstein 5E project (i.e. building my own version of the game using any and all previous [and current] editions and variants and homebrew stuff), I am redoing every class and giving each 3 subclass choices. One thing I am considering is combining the two arcane...

Every time I start to feel down about the direction of D&D rules and default setting assumptions and the amount of houseruling/homebrewing work I have to do to make it representative of what I want to play/run, I remind myself that this is still preferable to the assumptions in the game as it...

Hey all! I am working on a new post for HOW-I-RUN-IT.com detailing my version of the Black Pudding, contextualized with previous versions throughout the editions. I was wondering if anyone either specifically knew who drew the Black Pudding in the AD&D Monster Manual (1977) or of a site where...

Maybe I just never noticed them before or my browser configuration changed, but starting yesterday I started seeing pop up ads hovering over the actual content at the bottom of the screen and in the bottom right. I can "X" them out (which is fine, I don't begrudge ENWorld needing to serve ads)...