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So I've been throwing together a Dark Souls-inspired gothic fantasy Snow White campaign. I've got some good initial legs, but I'd love to get some more brainfood. So help me riff on the idea! Big ideas I've got so far include In this version of the story, the Queen won. Though the Huntsman...

One of the things they seem to be gunning for in the playtest is adding more ways to gain Inspiration. According to the interview on YouTube, they are looking for "a way to feed people inspiration through the system itself" and generally encourage gaining it and using it. Rolling 20's and being...

Got my loremaster's PDF today, and so I figured it'd be a good opportunity to talk about all the cool ideas from the game - from either of the books! No Long Rests in the Wilderness AiME basically says you need three things for a long rest: safety from threat of an attack (so no long rest in...

DM's Guild came out mid-January 2016 with a bang. I've spent about a year making and releasing products on it, as kind of a side-thing (about 10 hrs/week on it, or so) Here's what I've found. Some surprises: Pay What You Want doesn't necessarily mean more people pick up your product I made...

The goal here is to give a character a friggin' monstrous creature, loyal to them, that they can ride around on and fight alongside. The question is: how? How to do it in a reasonably balanced way? The closest mechanic in the existing game is the ranger's animal companion and, let's face it...

I'm describing a few locations for my Astral Plane campaign and cleaning them up for general consumption. In doing so, I'm appreciating that location descriptions in editions of D&D tend to be varied and not always the most useful... So, in addition to maps (because maps would be nice, but I'm...

I need some commands to give a golem, so I figured I'd ask ENWorld to help me compile a list that I can roll on! Why do I need this? Why can't I just command the golem to do what I want? Well, I am playing a mad gnomish wild mage in a Dragonlance game whose goal is to build a better universe...

I've been thinking about how psionics might look in Official 5e recently, since it plays a pretty significant role in my Astral Campaign (githzerai, shardminds, psionic sorcerers, mind flayers, psurlons, neh-thagglu, etc., etc.). We know bits and pieces from the Mystic playtest, but I think it...

The DMG presents these optional rules - is anyone using them? If so, why and how's it going? If not, why not? I'm mulling it over myself. I like some measure of mechanical fear / horror, but I don't know that these mechanics really do what I'm looking for. They read more like a way to force...

I really like it when Crawford talks about what makes D&D awesome to its nearby satellite audience. He does so here, on the Expanding Mind podcast (a podcast that hits the intersection of philosophy, religion, and pop culture).

So I'll be starting Curse of Strahd with a party of 8. Hoo boy. Any advice? (I've got a few tentative early ideas, but happy to learn!)

Spoilers! From the adventure: Death House is aware of its surroundings and all creatures within it. Its goal is to continue the work of the cult by luring visitors to their doom. ...but how? The scenario presented in the adventure might work on heroic-minded adventurers, but what about...

So I posted this in another thread, but I figured it'd be an interesting idea for everyone to play with and see what it inspires. The high-level idea: XP exist as a physical substance that clings to the souls of those who become heroes and villains of myth and legend. Envision it something like...

So, not to bog down the convo happening in that thread, I've made a new one for actually discussing the books! The article is http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/march-2016-review, and it includes three products: Blood Magic, Book of Beasts, and Battle for the Undercity. You could buy all...

I'm not totally shocked that the move from encounter-balanced D&D to daily-balanced D&D is catching some folks off guard. It's different than the last 15 years of D&D have been, for a lot of tables. But it's meshing really nicely with how I DM, without feeling limited or constrained at all, and...

One of the things I'm REALLY fond of in 5e is that it has much less of an "encounter" focus than 3e or 4e. One of the things this makes viable is NPC's running to get reinforcements. One of the things I'm noticing with one of my groups is a tendency to not really stop that. So there's a lot...

I figured this could use its own thread. One of the things that has always got under my skin about FR was that if you didn't pick a patron deity for your character, your afterlife was to get stuck in a wall, regardless of your actions in life. The earliest mention I can find of this is the...

SCAG's got some mixed reviews and opinions, but noting that, I'm of the opinion that there's some really good parts of the book, and some really awesome decisions. For instance, I think the choice to narrate Chapter 2 in the voices of FR natives was awesome. It preserves that line between...

Complete Fighter's Handbook Complete Thief's Handbook Complete Priest's Handbook Complete Wizard's Handbook Complete Dwarf's Handbook Kit conversions, new weapons and armor, new feats, new adventuring equipment, new spells, priesthood conversions all the good stuff. Lemme know what you...

I appreciate that one of FR's "virtues" as a setting is that you can port whatever you want there. For me, that's kind of a weakness. I can do orcs and ruins and swamps and volcanoes almost anywhere. What I want to know, as I disembowel HotDQ for my party, is what I can do in the Sword Coast...