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Looking for feedback on this rogue archetype. It's a (mainly thematic) conversion of the 4e Avenger class. Rogue archetype fits it pretty well as a maneuverable, stealthy type. I tried to keep it comparable to the arcane trickster. I didn't go all the way and give them the ability to use a heavy...

While perusing 2e books for material to convert, Prayers from the Faithful was particularly useful. To those unfamiliar, it's a catalog of Faerûnian holy books dedicated to specific gods of the Forgotten Realms, each containing unique spells and abilities. That got me thinking. In 5e, divine...

An issue has come up in my campaign regarding the Cube of Force's 4th function: "Spell effects can't pass through the barrier." First, everyone in the group agrees that in this mode, the cube prevents spells from taking effect on creatures on the opposite side of its barrier. So someone inside...

What are some minor ways in which you've tweaked a monster to give it a whole different feel? Not looking for major mechanical overhauls or complex stat blocks, but just simple things like a modified ecology, an added power, or similar such things that leave the monster largely the same but...

Since it's unlikely there will be an official warlord class anytime soon (because reasons), I've been working on my own. It's an attempt to retain the flavor of the 4e class while being conscious of 5e balance, including limited in-combat healing and the expectation that the class be usable...

This is an idea that I've been mulling for a while, and a couple of quick searches here didn't turn up any matches. I really like the 5e bard, but I also wish there was a nonmagical option. To that end, I've put together this rough draft. It combines most aspects of the college of lore and...

Since I am playing an avenger in a 4e game, and the vengeance paladin isn't really a good fit for the class, I thought I'd try recreating 4e's avenger class as a rogue archetype. Here's the introduction: 5e Avenger (Rogue Archetype) Some religious orders have need of skilled, discreet...

You see it all the time in sports, where teammates help each other stand up after diving to the ground, yet D&D rules never supported it. My group had this houserule in 4th edition (where being prone was fairly commonplace) and I thought I'd port it to 5th. Thoughts? New Action: Help Up If...

Interesting situation came up last week. I'm normally the DM, but I am on a brief hiatus from DMing with this group and another player is running his game. I am attacking with a daily melee power which has half damage on a miss. My attack hits. Enemy uses an on-hit immediate interrupt which...

Reducing falling damage: Playtest rules mention that you stay standing after a fall if you avoid taking falling damage, but there doesn't appear to be any way to do so other than magic. Acrobatics doesn't mention it. I'd probably rule it a Dex save with Acrobatics skill proficiency adding...

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Is there a functional difference between an ability check and a saving throw? It seems saves are a subset of ability checks: All saves are checks, but not all checks are saves. For example Cause Fear lets the target use its action to make a Wisdom check to try to remove the spell. Is there a...

Characters in my FR Neverwinter campaign are starting to acquire some rare weapons. So far the majority of the items in this campaign are homebrewed or houseruled in some way. Here are three of the more interesting ones. They are designed for 4e, but shouldn't be too hard to adapt to other...

I'm going to be starting up a FR Sundering campaign sometime next month and have been thinking about ability scores and some ideas are filtering in from 5e playtesting. I have never been a fan of 3e and 4e's "dump stat" phenomenon and how the combat systems encourage one-dimensional characters...

Edit: Hmm, never had a double post before. Please delete.

First off, this post contains spoilers for the Dungeon magazine adventure Vault of Darom Madar. Ye have been warned. A few weeks ago my group put our epic FR campaign on hiatus for a while in order to start over with a 1st-level Dark Sun campaign. The FR game was a heavily-modified...

My next 4e campaign is going to be Dark Sun and will be starting up in January. My group had DS games in both 2e and 3e previously and will now be using 4e. The last few 4e campaigns I have played mostly by-the-books but now I feel confident enough to do some homebrewing. We will most likely...

We all know that HP and Healing are one of the biggest hurdles for WotC to overcome in D&D Next's development. The number of threads on this topic on this forum alone proves the point. Some people want it gritty, old-school, realistic, simulationist (or whatever you want to call it). Others want...

Apologies for the wall of text :) Friday night I ran the Caves of Chaos playtest for some of my veteran players. Full disclosure: we are currently all 4e players who are pretty happy with the game (barring some known issues), although most of us started in 1e or basic and have been playing 20...

Anyone have good stories of groups letting pride get in the way and TPKing (or nearly so) themselves despite multiple opportunities for escape? I'm running heavily modified P2-E3 for my group set in the Forgotten Realms. King Foril of Cormyr summons the party (Level 18) for presentation of a...