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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)...

So I am running a very loose adaptation of T1-4, starting with the Village of Hommlet, of course, but despite the characters being on the verge of 4th level, they still have not investigated the many clues and rumors always pointing back to the Moathouse. Instead, because I run a sandbox style...

Anytime I am creating either a stat block for a spellcasting NPC I want to follow the rules the PCs use or building a spellcasting PC for a game i am going to play in, I get annoyed that the table that tells me how much of each spell level I can cast is halfway across the book from the lists of...

When I started my 5E campaigns in 2019/20, I decided to not set them in my old homebrew. I had already gone through a lot of work to tweak 3E to fit the world I started at the advent of 2E, and while I had no plans to run 3E ever again, converting to 5E just felt like too much. Rather than a...

So the discussion of Bob World Builder's recreation of the "Do You Love Me? Yes/No" WotC survey got a little sidetracked with the discussion of which, if any, D&D you tube channels are worth watching. I love You Tube in general and find a lot of fascinating stuff to watch/listen to while I do...