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In a world with standard D&D healing magic, how would you mechanically handle the healing of congenital conditions, or birth defects? Things like a club foot, cleft lip/palate, etc, or even gigantism and so on. It's obviously not a wound, so hp-restoring spells wouldn't help. Greater...

So, now that orcs are proper full-blown PC races, amid many other lore changes, I got thinking a bit about the old legacy non-human pantheons. I don't know how dar back these go in D&D history. Certainly a very long time - waaay before i got into the hobby, and I'm old enough that my bald spot...

So, I have a player in my game who is playing a dhampir alchemist artificer. His character concept is of a studious doctor (this is War of the Lance Dragonlance, so healing magic is largely unknown and doctors/healers are actually useful...) who was deliberately infected with dhampirism by...

Does anyone have any recommendations for alternate crafting rulesets? My PCs (3rd level) are thinking about brewing some healing potions, but are finding the rules for crafting so thoroughly discouraging that they're wondering whether it's worth the bother. An entire full-time work week to...

I have a player who wants to play an elf barbarian (or at least a primal instinctual woodland warrior - PC is a kagonesti in a dragonlance game) but more a fast and graceful fighter rather than a high-Str beefcake. So, Dex. Barbarian is obviously built on the assumption of high Str, and there’s...

I've seen in a few different threads recently people wanting WotC to do something new and novel, setting-wise, rather than reskin old AD&D era settings for 5th ed. So, imagine tomorrow that someone at WotC gets nostalgic for the old days of the Setting Search competition which originally...

So, I’m currently travelling internationally, staying with friends who have 5 kids from ages 14 to 5. The older kids (at least) have expressed interest (mania?) in D&D. Partly cos I talked about it, but they’ve got a long-running vaguely rpg-like make believe home brew game going on, and a...

I've recently started a campaign with a new group, that's perhaps a bit more character optimisation focused than I'm used to, and with a DM that's a bit more lassiez-faire. Two of the five PCs have turned out to be of races with a natural fly speed. I'm playing a human artificer, focused on...

Hoping there's some Dragonlance loremasters on here who can help me out a bit, as i brainstorm a possible expansion/reinvention/mutilation of SotDQ. (Note that these are questions about canon, especially pre-5e canon. I know that asking questions about canon on here is just asking for answers...

I've never really liked how D&D puts fences around the character concepts for spellcasters, by making so much of their effectiveness dependent on a single pre-defined spellcasting ability score. Warlocks are the obvious example. Surely a quintessential warlock concept is the resentful...

In an interview with YouTuber 'Bob the Worldbuilder', WotC's Kyle Brink explained why the classic Dark Sun setting has not yet seen light of day in the D&D 5E era. I’ll be frank here, the Dark Sun setting is problematic in a lot of ways. And that’s the main reason we haven’t come back to it. We...

Spinning off a bit from some discussion in the Dragonlance thread. D&D derives a lot of its aesthetic and assumed setting from the medieval to renaissance period in Europe. I've just been thinking about some of the historical factors that were enormously prominent, everyday, and important in...

Spinning off a bit from a discussion of kender wizards in the Do You Plan To Buy Dragonlance thread. Kender tend to attract a lot of hate for some well-understood reasons. If hypothetically you had to play a kender PC, in a 5e Dragonlance game that you wanted to succeed and be enjoyable for...

So, way back in the mists of time, Kobold Press ran a kickstarter for the product that became Midgard Adventures, a Pathfinder module compilation set in (clearly...) their Midgard campaign world. One of the exclusive backer rewards for this kickstarter was Freeing Nethus, a high-level module...

As a rule, most people when creating a wizard PC will put the highest stat into intelligence, and then the next highest into dex. Wizards don't have many hit points and so avoiding getting hit is a priority, obviously. Has anyone had any experience with not doing this - with instead putting...

So the book announcement inspired me to do a bit of rereading of some of the old Ravenloft material. Heavily focusing on flavor, because that's what's relevant to the upcoming 5e implementation, and the 3e incarnation of the setting, because that's predominately what I own. And since all the...

Is anyone aware of any sort of D&D setting or sourcebook or similar that draws mostly or entirely from indigenous Australian myth and legend? Any edition, or Pathfinder, or even any other fantasy RPG? I've seen the odd Australian critter in monster books here and there - bunyips, thylacines...

(... and awesome alliteration!) So, this is the situation. The PCs have entered a black dragon's lair and are beating up on the dragon. Their motivation is pure greed - the know (thanks to a tenuous alliance with one of the dragon's rivals) that the dragon has a Ring of Wishes (1 wish...

Simon etc, keep out! Or I'll set Quenge on you! So, the player of the wizard PC in my current game has decided he wants to consult the greatest libraries in the multiverse to research various current goings-on. I provided a list for him - the Great Repository from Necromancer's City of...

Situation: a monster with reach (half-fiend shambling mound in this case) attempts to disarm a PC - who doesn't have reach - from 10ft away, using natural attacks. Making disarm attempts provokes attacks of opportunity. According to the RAW, the PC only threatens the squares in which he can...