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I had an encounter last night against level 7 PCs using the dnd 2024 Gladiator. The gladiators did their job well, but I was surprised at party's reaction to them. My group understands that NPCs and PCs don't play by the same rules, but for some reason this one struck a chord with them. Though...

One thing thats notable in Baldur's Gate 3. Devils can pop in and out of the world, seemingly going back to hell and then returning to the mortal world as they need to to conduct their business. But in 5e the vast majority of devils have no such capabilities. No teleport and no plane shift. So...

The very quick jist. The party is going to find a solar's flying sword attached to a special stone that can mimic a creature type (think a very power nystul's magic aura). So...the sword believes it is being weilded by a solar. So treating this as a legendary weapon but it won't do the full...

The OG Thread: D&D General - The Big Thread of Interesting Combat Examples In order to keep that other thread as a nice tight reference, this thread is for any commentary on the fights, questions, things you think could be tweaked etc.

The purpose of this thread is to provide examples for people of combat's you ran (not just thought of) that went very well. Combat's that were interesting and exciting to your players. This provides a nice reference for DMs who want to add more spice to their combats. For people's convienience...

If I can see an ethereal creature with lets say See Invisibility, is there any effect, magic item, or spell that can actually injure an ethereal creature? Or do I simply have to be on the ethereal plane?

So I've been using my copy of the 2024 MM for a while now, and I can confidently say, I DO NOT like the organization. I want a devil, don't know what kind of devil I want I just want a devil. Old Book 1) Go to D for Devils 2) Peruse the devils, find the one I like. Or heck, maybe two different...

So in my last dnd game, it was meant as an extensive exploration kind of campaign, so I made a very detailed map for it. Distances and travel times were actually a big part of it. In my next campaign, it was a much more high octane campaign more on action and less on details. So I barely...

So just had to share this one. Last night's session culminated in a crazy combat and here are the details! The Background Action Hero Rules The Fight The Paladin after a brief cinematic discussion with this god and realizes that if doesn't hurt the BBEG's forces now that the rest of the...

A while ago, a did a take on what I considered "True Slaad", aka an enemy that is actually chaotic enough to represent the described paragons of chaos: D&D 5E - 5e Updates: Monstrous Compendium I have also run an altered version of Modron. While I generally like the modron, they still are not...

TLDR: If you haven't read Dungeon Crawler Carl..... read Dungeon Crawler Carl! (and actually even better....listen to the audiobook). I recently completed book 7 of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and it has very quickly become one of my favorite fantasy/sci-fi series. And so here are some...

Rereading Nystul's Magic Aura after a while I had forgotten just how incredibly powerful it is. It is no illusionary trick, it actually allows you to change your type for spell interactions. Remove your humanoid type and gain immunity to spells like charm person. Make your undead pet capable of...

SPOILERS FOR the new MI movie. My overall thoughts. Awesome new action scenes, in a day of big CGI battles, just watching Tom Cruise do Tom Cruise things in high action packed scenes is great, and the scenes do not disappoint. It also did a cool job of referencing the older movies to tie...

So if a fiend uses change shape to (the monster ability, not the spell shapechange) become a humanoid. Are they still a fiend for all purposes (including a Paladin's divine sense) or do they become a humanoid type?

Wow....am I really the first thread to report this? I never get the scoop!!! https://darringtonpress.com/daggerheart-is-officially-here/ Daggerheart is now officially out!

This is for 2014 dnd. 1) from how far away can the wizard place their familiar in a pocket dimension? 2) from the pocket dimension, they can summon the familiar. How far away does the familiar appear? Can it appear within a box or behind door? (Aka a quasi teleport?)

With all the discussion aroudn monster design, I thought it would be cool to look at the various bosses of 2024 5e. What monsters are bossing, and which monsters you should be tossing. This is a good chance to talk about monster design in actual examples. I will work through some monsters and...

So I know a lot of the monsters in the new MM just have resistance to BPS, no mention of magic. And we have seen a lot of "your attack is like a magic weapon" changed to "you now do force damage". Is that how straight up +1 magic weapons work now, or do they no longer help against that BPS...

Hey all, So periodically people tell me how great the dnd beyond Maps program is....but every time I have tried to use it, I just can't get it to do basically anything. I am sure I am just completely misunderstanding even the basics of how to get started. What I am trying to do is this: 1)...

First two episodes came out. So far so good to me, bold opener leads into an interesting setting. They managed to keep the events from Echo and use them without dwelling on them. The tone of the show feels similar to the OG, and I appreciate in a day and age where everything feels the need to...