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I have run into a very thorny question as I iterate on my game, Crossroads. What to do with spells. The question, here, is should the game include ready-made Techniques at all? Currently spells can be gained as traits or improvised as skill checks or as complex rituals requiring multiple...

I have in my home setting a city called Nea Thera, which is constructed on a small chain of islands in the Mediterranean Sea, in the near future if a version of our world where the 2020s - 2030’s see the revelation of The Hidden Folk, those people who are not human and whose existence is...

+ thread. Please don’t tell me to make it with an existing class or anything like that. If I’m making a thread, the basic premise of it isn’t something I’m willing to debate. So, in making a witch class I want: Full casting, with advanced ritual casting. Even better than Wizard at rituals...

I had an idea the other day while reading my recent ranged ideas thread. What if I combine the Ranger ideas with my homebrew Assassin class, with multiple subclasses that focus on nature, and design the whole thing so that existing Ranger subclasses can slot in. So the main things would be...

Okay, by + I just mean don’t derail with arguments about the premise of the thread or the goals of the thread, or about wotc or whatever. So, I have some ideas for the 2024 Ranger that I want to flesh out, possible for a setting book I’m working on but possibly just for my home games. First...

Here are some ideas to enhance boss fights, simplify the use of 2014 style conjure spells, and expand the utility of magic in a way that doesn’t sideline martials. ——————————- Boss Monsters. Instead of legendary resistances as written, legendary critters have Legendary Defense. Legendary...

So, I’m wondering if anyone is mapping out their Bastions, and if so what you use? Sigil seems set up well for it, but doesn’t run on my laptop. Maps doesn’t seem to be customizable enough. Any third party programs that are easy?

Okay so o have a character concept that is a changeling scribe and clergy of the Silver Flame. They’re also a divine assassin of sorts, blessed by the Flame to kill supernatural evils. Right now the mechanical concept is a Paladin/Warlock, no armor, dual wielding daggers because they’re easy to...

So one of the fun “missing thirteenth piece of a bakers dozen” things in Eberron is the Mark of Death. No one even knows what it did when it existed, and now it’s gone. But the Dragonmarks are part of the Draconic Prophesy, and so perhaps the Mark of Death will return. If so, what will that...

So I’ve been working on a 5e Assassin class since 5e came out, basically. One of the first things I noticed about the game was that The Assassin Rogue isn't great. I've gone through some pretty wildly different ideas for the class over the intervening years, either due to playtesting or just an...

So of the new stuff that we know will be in the revised core rules (RCR) this year, what items do you think will get some presence in a new SRD. We know from staff statements that everything in the existing SRD that gets revised will also be revised in the SRD, so stuff like the classes and...

Fantasy High DnD Game Character, Morrigan Blackthorne, would appreciate advice. My wife and I are organizing a new campaign that will probably only run for a few levels, from 2 or 3 to maybe 6. Hopefully our friend will be running it, otherwise I will somewhat reluctantly take up that job...

I am losing what confidence I had that wotc will put the base class and one subclass of the Artificer into the OGL and CC SRDs with the rules update. I am also more and more frustrated by what I see as shortcomings of the class, and with all the alternatives I've seen out there. Lastly, it...

Genuinely. I forgot that the UA Assassinate feature is just a very small damage bonus on 1 attack max in round one, and advantage on initiative and on attacks in round 1 against any target that hasn’t gone. So Rogue level damage once an encounter, advantage on one attack per encounter, and...

Okay so if you love exploration in 5e and think the idea of adding more meat to it is silly, that’s valid, but it ain’t what we are here for. I want to talk about exploration as a pillar of the game, what that means, how it falls short for each of us, how it can be expanded on while staying...

Soon we will have new updates to each class and race and many subclasses, many hugely improved over their 2014 incarnation. So what characters are you excited to make with the new builds, assuming the most recent UA versions are pretty close to what we’ll see? For me, I am dying to play a...

The time draws near! Sometime this year, we will have new PHBs for 5e D&D, and we likely know at least 60% of what it will look like, from the UA. The question is, what do you think the biggest unanswered questions, annd thier answers, are? What (if anything) will be included with no hints...

As the title says, I want to talk about training and reward as alternative to assumed advancement. This is a [+] thread because I don’t want clutter of like arguing about things that are super tangential to the point, and if you disagree with what I’m proposing, all I expect is that you do so...

So D&D isnt good at modeling the way fighters push eachother around, use footwork and body language to basically herd eachother in a constant dance for advantage, even things like bowling someone over, stop someone from advancing, or forcing an opening for someone. What if stuff like that...

I am working on a set of classes for a product that I've slowed down on as I really like a lot of what the UA playtest has been doing, and I want to design toward the 2024 PHB rather than the 2014 one. Thing is, I kinda hate making characters in dnd without a character builder, and I want to...