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What advice would those of you who are experienced with DMing with one or more Mystics in the party have for DMs who are considering allowing one for the first time? I am talking about the most recent iteration of the 5e Mystic in UA. Any things to disallow, watch out for, or be wary/aware of...

Starting a new campaign tomorrow night, set in dual primes (one arid and desert, the other wet and swampy). Players will be rolling new characters, and I want to give each of them some sort of special background blurb like the ones in Out of the Abyss, that might tie them in to something...

So I think I'm going with a human variant hexblade in an upcoming "Curse of Strahd" campaign. She worships the Raven Queen and was taken from the 4e lands of Myrror Vale or whatever it's called. DM is adjusting the quirk of her binding the spirits of dead enemies to just summoning a "shadow...

So I am unexpectedly running a new campaign that may begin very shortly. I've been lazily turning an idea over (and over) in my mind concerning a pair of prime material planes that are "close together" enough that travel from one to the other is relatively easy, especially in certain spots. If...

Working on a new campaign whose main schtick is two worlds that are abnormally close together and can be shifted between more easily than usual; lower level spells might be able to bring people from one to the other and permanent gates left by an earlier civ dot the landscape here and there...

Tomb of Annihilation was the most recently published "official" 5E adventure book. Do we know yet what the next one will be, and when it is coming?

We're starting Curse of Strahd soon and I'm going to be a player instead of DM. Looking through Volo's I saw some intriguing stuff. I've been wanting to play a melee warlock for some time now and the Hexblade is perfect. Even more perfect, I've always loved the Blade bard (since 2nd Edition...

Making a character for Curse of Strahd (no spoilers please). Picked up Xanathar's and had a flashback to 3.0 when I tried to make an aasimar sorceress with a celestial bloodline. Also had an interest in playing a warlock. I'm open to bladelock or blaster, pure celestial warlock or pure divine...

The Alhoon in Volo's can cast both Globe of Invulnerability and Wall of Force. It also has a mind blast ability. We had a fight last night with three Alhoon. One cast Globe of Invulnerability, another cast Wall of Force as a hemisphere, slightly inside the Globe of Invulnerability. Then the...

I am not running ToA, but I did run OotA and I know that hidden away in the back of the book, near the campaign specific backgrounds, was a list of campaign specific Bonds. I assigned these to the PCs as it made sense to assign them, and I would encourage the DM who will be running ToA to do...

I always loved the Sultan game table by GeekChic, but they have gone out of business. I am looking to buy a similar deluxe gaming table. I need space for about eight players, and I do not care at all about being able to convert the table to a "normal" dining room table because I have a...

Eldritch Blast does not do enough damage, and is not interesting enough. What are some new invocations people have seen or can come up with that will remedy this?

I like the Society of Brilliance in OotA, and have used its members to good effect in my game. Blurg even travelled with the party for a time, agreeing to lead them to Gravenhollow if they would show him the way to Mantol-Derith so he could add it to his maps. I did not like how some of the...

Wow, chasme demons are NASTY when they crit! 22d6+2 damage, and most of it can't be easily healed! Running OotA, and a random encounter with some chasme was much more difficult than some of the scripted major boss battles like the Pudding King! First, does a PC have to save against the drone...

I know it is not in the text, but would it be unreasonable for a DM to allow a beholder to use a legendary action to refocus its central eye (antimagic field)? Seems like it would make sense for it to be able to do so, and also keeps the central eye power useful to the beholder rather than just...

See Invisible is a ritual spell, and lasts for an hour. Is there anything preventing a wizard from spending 10 minutes every hour of adventuring casting this spell over and over, "just in case"? Would there be any drawbacks to doing this, other than "wasting" a fair amount of time? Just...

At what level have you seen parties typically begin to have to deal with "attunement overload" -- the situation where the party has so many magic items that require attunement that it cannot possibly have all of them attuned at the same time? I ran Out of the Abyss until the end of the 1st act...

In 5E, Intelligence is a dump stat for almost everyone except Wizards. Because of this, we see entire parties full of Int 8 characters. In the game I play in, I gave my Circle of the Moon druid an Int of 12 just because I didn't want to play an Int 8 character -- he is the smartest character...

I have not read the FR books and am running Out of the Abyss. Party is about to reach Gauntlgrymm and I did some background reading to help me learn more about the city. Found information that led me to believe that the city has fallen into ruin and that Bruenor Battelhammer is dead. But he's...

Is the Blink spell essentially useless for a lone opponent? I ran a combat last night with three Blink-enabled opponents. All began combat by casting Blink. Other than some minor maneuverability benefits, the Blink spell did nothing for them. Every round the PCs just held actions to attack...