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The geomantic art of feng shui is an important component of Chinese culture, has anyone developed rules for it in D&D or other RPGs? Is there a fang shih class?

Okay, a Wizard casts Wall of Force to defend himself from attack, creating a dome over his location. What spells from the published materials can he use against an enemy located outside of the dome? I just need a solid list of standard options.

I live in Beaverton, near the Nike HQ, I am looking for a regular D&D game, any edition, somewhere near me, so Beaverton, Aloha, Hillsboro, or SW Portland. I don't do mornings. I may be open to other RPGs, tell me what you are playing. I'm fully vaccinated and I expect you to be as well. If you...

What are some things you can do in real life that you think should be accounted for in the rules but are missing from the game? What do you see as gaps in the simulation that take you out of the immersion of gameplay, things there should be rules for but aren't?

Delving into OSR videos on YouTube has me intrigued by the idea of racial classes for non-human PCs. Are there any good conversion for Elves, Dwarves, and other races to racial classes? Also, monstrous races like Centaurs, Minotaurs, and Bullywugs that can be turned into PCs interest me. What do...

Tome of Magic really shorted the truename section on magical items. Has anyone homebrewed some magical weapons, armour, or other items based on utterances and truenames?

The stuff of childhood nightmares, the Thing that disappears when you turn on the lights, that bites off your toes when your foot dangles off the edge of your bed, the monster under your bed, what is it really?

I am a fan of historical role-playing games, but there is not a lot of good content from a Jewish point of view. So I have started a group for sharing and collaborating on Jewish oriented content in RPGs, both D&D and other systems. I am interesting in seeing any content anyone has featuring...

To honour the late Chadwick Boseman let's collect any Black Panther related RPG material out on the internet here. Do you have stats for T'Challa or other characters from Wakanda? Post them here. Any edition, any game. Don't forget Wakandan tech either, post your conversions for their ships...

So the description of the Charm Person spell says that a target of the spell realizes that it has been used on him or her as soon as the spell ends. How does this not make every user of this spell a slew of enemies? What Wizard would want to use the spell knowing it will make an enemy out of the...

The D&D game in every edition has always had an ever-growing roster of spells, but if you look at folklore and mythology, the spells in the game are not used for the purposes we see in lore. Part of that is the obvious orientation toward the needs of adventurers, but to make a world that feels...

There is a common trope in movies about helping a ghost or other undead creature to move on and "go into the light", so it never harms the living again. I never seem to see this in games. In RPGs the answer to an undead problem is always combat related. Have you ever helped an undead creature...

I am sketching out a campaign setting where reality just isn't what it used to be, characters can alter their fates almost retroactively, choosing to evolve into an extinct race or monster. My idea is that characters would gain levels in a creature class, slowly gaining attributes and abilities...

In a number of novels like the Elric series and The Book of Five Magics spellcasters have access to only a single category of spells. Has anyone tried a similar approach in D&D? I am think it could be balanced by adding more interesting special abilities to each specialist class, maybe giving...

Comic book writers who do not necessarily know very much about martial arts have repeatedly said Batman just knows all the martial arts. Since more are created regularly, and there are many stylistic variations of most arts, this seems ludicrous. Trying to be as realistic as possible, if you...

I have yet to see a psionics system for any edition of D&D that I like better than the ones in 2E. I don't like psionic spells, I don't think psionics should be magic. So how much of the system in the Psionics Handbook and The Will & The Way can be translated into 5E? I want to see tangents...

Looking back at a lot of kits, especially Wizard kits, it seems like a lot of them should have been full classes, not kits. The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook (Al-Qadim) has numerous extremely complicated and powerful kits that radically change the way Wizards are played. To me, they always looked...

Do you use diseases in your campaigns? Are there good non-magical cures and treatments? Do you deal with all of the consequences of pandemics? Is there proper sanitation and hygiene in your campaign setting?

An idea hit me as I was trying to go to sleep last night, the "Black Door", a portal to the Plane of Vacuum so big it sucks a world's atmosphere away, destroying all life on the planet. Have you thought of a spell or device that could wreck a planet? What are your Armageddon devices?

You are writing a story or game adventure, what is the nastiest thing you would let a villain do? What vile deeds have your characters committed? Where do you draw the line? What is taboo in your writing?