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One of the rolling villianous enemies I use when I DM is a planar, multiversal Warrior Guild of warriors who travel the planes and settings, collecting impressionable warriors and magic equipment, and competing with the party for loot. (pretend to roll on a Random Encounter table) Me: Suddenly...

One thing I loved about 4e is it gave almost every race a racial power as a PC feature and the damage calculation of monsters per level was simple. So if you wanted to quickly diversify a group of enemies by race, you could swap in a power, do some calculations, and now the monster feels more...

So most fans are familiar with Wizard, Cleric, and Druid spells lists and the concepts of them being the basis of the types of magic: Arcane, Divine, and Primal unofficial. Many group weapon and skill classes together into the same group called Martials based on the Martial Power source of 4th...

So I am a fan of a spellcasting Ranger and very vocal about the community's and designers' poor support of Ranger spellcasting being the source of the dissatisfaction and upset over the class for decades. Favored Enemy being shifted to bonus spells IMHO was a genius move as Ranger has always...

Let's face it The fighter is no longer the Everyman. The fighter class has represented a well trained hardened warrior for 25 years now. 2024 went even further by giving them Weapon Masteries that enforce that focus and training. The baker or farmhand who follows the ragtag group of...

People often ask "Why do we still have ability scores?" 5E went out it's way to not use them after generating ability score modifiers. There aren't many formula that use them. Nor are there a ton of feats of various prereqs that use them as benchmarks. But Ability scores are a number value...

One thing I use as a failsafe against TPKs is wandering NPC parties or solo paladins who miraculously show up behind the wounded or dead party to chase off or slay the monster in the nick of time and revive the fallen. But I using give them a name that the townspeople can mentioned passed...

So I was just browsing as the Monk class table and I looked at the Unarmored Movement bonus. Then I began to ponder. Then I went back to other classes. And other editions. And many classes get speed bonuses or movement abilities at certain levels. And additional attacks. I asked my friends "If...

Ranger magic is highly divisive. And I believe the issues D&D and D&D like game has with rangers is that it draws so broadly from ideas of what a ranger could be that designers cannot condense down the many ideas into one cohesive idea nor do some fans what some ideas to be in the ranger. So I...

A while ago I mentioned D&D's over-reliance of having humanoid villains just being high level spellcasters or some version of lich. So I got the idea to ponder how a non-full-spellcaster humanoid or a small group of them could be a challenging threat that a DM could throw at a party to spook...

I know it's early and the 2024 version of the game isn't available to everyone yet but... ...I really see great potential with Weapon Mastery allowing WOTC, 3PPs, and homebrewery to create new weapons and add new Weapon Masteries to their games to customize martials to the liking of players and...

Recent discussion got me thinking. There's no real list of DC 20 skill checks for 5e because 5e wanted us to have a personal feel for the type of game and adjudicate skill checks to match. But as a community, what do us ENWorlders, especially us DMs, think a DC 20 check for a given skill could...

So I've asked for Tier 3 feats before and have asked what people what a Tier 3 warrior is. I've done it myself and am sharing my some of ideas with you all rather than clogging up other discussions. For no money. I like the concept of Weapon Masteries. I'd prefer actual martial cantrips but we...

So the 2024 versions of origins or species are likely close to locked. However I am both shocked and not shocked that Elf, Gnome, Goliath, and Tielfing have lineages that split them up into popular archetypes for the origins but Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc have no internal major cultural or...

After participating in some discussion recently on divine and non-divine classes, I've decided to bring us all into this thought experiment, As anyone who has read my posts here, I have always been a proponent of thinking bout one of our favorite games differently. So here it is. D&D has divine...

Base 5e and the 2024 version both use the Friendly, Indifferent, and Hostile as the base starting attitudes of encountered NPCs. Do you think the Unfriendly and Fanatic attitudes should return. Unfriendly would sit between Indifferent, and Hostile. An NPC that is unhelpful and will oppose the...

So Crawford said that the Ranger is done and not going out again for UA despite lower scores because they AB tested it Which A an B do you think is getting in? Expertise/Natural Explorer A) Expertise in 2 skills at 1st level and 2 more at level 9. B) Expertise in 1 skill and 1 favored terrain...

The druid who can wildshape unlimited times. The barbarian who can rage every turn. The paladin who can smite 5 times each combat. The monk who starts every fight with full ki point. The ranger who has hunter's mark on at all times. The wizard how has half their level of slots restored after...

I was both shocked and not so shocked that Baldur's Gate most popular race was Half Elf. Half Orc even beats Dwarf, Gnome, and Halfling. With Jeremy Crawford statement that they check social media for chatter along with the surveys to make decisions, there is a chance that hybrid races be...

There is a lot more talk about class, monster, and DMings right now due to the current playtest packets But I want to swing back to races err.. specieses.. ugh. Part of the rejection of Aardlings was that there was already a good aligned race, Aasimar. But 5e doesn't have a chaos tinted...