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Maybe do a high fantasy riff on Rick and Morty and Star Trek: Lower Decks. In a world dominated by megalomaniacal archwizards ruling flying cities, the heroes are lowly but ambitious but probably doomed apprentices, running errands and trying to stay alive. The party's patron is not...

Always liked the look of those guys. I'm doing a one-shot this weekend where the big bad is a Feydark fomorian (I'm the only guy who really dug the 4th edition Feydark), and something in my head just clicked that the fomorians are just a fallen tribe of eldritch giants. And now I came up...

I always like the idea of PCs who don't fit into the regular PC classes . . . especially the various thinky and talky professions (sages and courtiers and whatnot). What I'm looking at is a variant Rogue, with a scoop of the Expert sidekick class. So starting with Rogue . . . Hit Dice Die...

I really don't get to play that often anymore, but I just got offered to guest DM a one-shot in a few months. So then I happen to see these miniatures. And I think, obviously, this one-shot should be about a crew of bear-riding dwarves. My further thought is that this is a crew devoted to...

Now if I have this right . . . back in Days of Yore, the established method in Faerun to become a fully accredited bard was to attend seven different bardic colleges in a specific order. Nowadays, only two of those colleges are still around (and even those are more like modern revivals than...

Just looking at Urban Arcana, which is somehow 17 years old. That right there, 100%, should be a priority project for WotC, as a D&D campaign sourcebook. And as a D&D sourcebook, it should be 100% compatible with the existing system. My current thinking is that real world "mundanes" could...

What would you do about a sprite sidekick's supply of poisoned arrows? Weirdly, the basic MM sprite doesn't have any skills or proficiencies to back up the flavor text about how they brew these poisons from simple natural ingredients. At least some sidekick classes would get around that, and...

If I understand correctly . . . Tasha's Cauldron will introduce a new fighting style granting blindsight, and a feat that allows any character to take a fighting style. According to the SRD, "A creature with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific...

I see that there's a new set of Magic cards on the way, dealing with the Viking-inspired world of Kaldheim. There's been a little bit of rune-related stuff in Unearthed Arcana over the past few months. As long as they're commissioning all that art of beardy axey people, seems to me that it...

I kinda like the notion of a classic Steve Reeves type. Could be a heroism paladin, certainly, but zealot barbarian would keep things loinclothy. Might make that guy a demigod, and give him an all-mortal half-brother companion. Maybe a rogue inquisitive, for a brains + brawn combo? Or a...

For a couple years in the late 1980s, Top Secret S.I. was my jam. Just got to looking at the three-part "Web Wars" campaign, where a team of agents gets involved in espionage shenanigans on a fictional Caribbean island. Now that would be a hell of a campaign to try in the year 2020 if you...

Something for the high-Charisma types . . . the charmers who talk their way out of problems. Because I'm rewatching "Leverage" while reading "Primeval Thule," and I love the idea of a swords-and-sorcery campaign about a guy with a silver tongue, as opposed to the customary iron thews.

I'm thinking a reverse Achilles kinda thing. Folk Hero Oath of Glory Paladin. He actually wants a simple life as a fisherman / family man, but his fate is such that he must go forth, walk the earth, and do great deeds . . . and maybe someday, if the Fates are satisfied, he can finally know peace.

Just a notion I've been kicking around since I watched "Daredevil" on Netflix: 1. Blinded = disadvantage on attacks, and people have advantage on attacks against the PC. Tough stuff. 2. No official Blind Fighting feat for 5e, but Alert (as clarified in Sage Advice) at least means attackers...

That was nice. Once a month, a little bit of crunch. Not official, but . . . pre-official. Official-adjacent. It seems like the best way to playtest in the year 2019, especially on stuff with a lot of moving parts like the mystic and the artificer. Getting away from the constant influx of...

I don't even have the box yet, but I'm really hung up on checking out these new sidekick rules. For younger players --- like my kids --- I have a notion to stat up an expert, with character concept of a know-it-all sage, who can explain monsters and magic and other unfamiliar concepts, but...

Can anyone tell me a bit more about this new barbarian path? I understand it's a barbarian that runs on adrenaline rather than rage, which intrigues me. "Xanathar's Lost Notes to Everything Else" has a "Path of the Courageous Heart" barbarian, which supposedly runs on reckless courage rather...

WotC's Kate Welch and Nathan Stewart talked on the Spoilers & Swag streamed chat. They mentioned that in 2020, there will be a couple of products that will touch on cultures that don't usually get exposure in D&D. Just going on record that a psionics book in a Realms-based analogue of Tibet /...

So me and the kids got a X Box One and Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 from Santa, and it occurs to me that a little bit of this gaming style would be a nice addition to D&D. Specifically . . . 1. Puzzles / problem solving. Beat the traps and overcome the obstacles through player ingenuity, not...

"As an envoy, you were designed with a certain specialized function in mind. You might be an assassin, a healer, or an entertainer, to name a few possibilities. Envoys are the rarest of the warforged subraces, and yours could be a unique design." So . . . an integrated set of tools. Combine...