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In response to the thread on Matt Coleville's take on large published campaign adventures I found myself wishing he had instead focused on some of the more recent and excellent short adventures written by dozens of 5e publishers. What are your favorite short adventures, publishers of short...

Bob World Builder posted a video in which he took up the project of building a Google Forms replica of the survey Wizards of the Coast posted a few days ago (which has since been taken down) regarding WOTC's and D&D's overall popularity and future outlook. Watch Bob's video here: And take...

As happens in my campaigns, the characters in my 12th level Empire of the Ghouls campaign have hit the point where they're able to mitigate a lot of the threat of big battles. With ten years of D&D 5e behind us – what are your best approaches for keeping up challenging combat encounters for...

Kobold Press just previewed the Tales of the Valiant Marilith. I think it looks great. Its stats are in-line with the benchmarks Scott Gray, Teos Abadia, and I came up with for Forge of Foes. It's a real powerhouse – both simple to read in their format with some cool tactical stuff going on too...

For the past nine months, I’ve heard from a fair number of people, including people close to me and people I’ve worked with, say they don’t want anything to do with Hasbro, WOTC, or D&D. Unfortunately, they’re piling all of 5e in there too. 5e isn’t D&D. Since its release into the Creative...

I've seen more use of the phrase "5e24" to identify the 2024 revisions to the D&D 5th edition core books. I get it. It's nice and pithy and easy to type. But I think it's inaccurate. Instead, I propose using "D&D 2024" or something similar for referencing the upcoming D&D core book revisions...

Hi friends! There's a web-based and app-based character tool called https://reroll.co that has a data import feature using JSON files for classes, subclasses, backgrounds, spells, feats, and races. I wondered if anyone had considered building such files for Level Up Advanced 5e. It seems like...

What are your best tips to help players use paper-based character sheets? What tricks have you personally found helpful when using paper character sheets? I’ll offer a couple: Write page numbers next to spells, powers, class features, and anything else you might want to look up at the table...

The whole recent collapse of Reddit has me thinking a lot about where new DMs might go to get help with their games. The /r/dmacademy was a fantastic subreddit for this sort of thing. Hundreds of new DMs would go there, ask questions, and get answers to their sometimes common problems. As a guy...

Hello! I am conducting a survey for 5th edition Dungeons & Dragons dungeon masters to get a better idea how DMs prepare and run their D&D games. If you are a 5th edition Dungeon Master and have a few minutes to spare, I would greatly appreciate your response. You can take the survey at...

Good day to you! I am conducting a survey in order to get a better idea of how dungeon masters prepare and run their D&D games. The results of this survey will help us all receive objective evidence on how we prepare and run our games. If you have a couple of minutes, please help me out by...

Hi Folks, If you were to list out the most straight forward feats you would use to build pregen characters, convention characters, or characters for players who don't spend the time working on their own characters, what feats would you choose at each level? I'm looking for feats out of the two...

After reading Robert Schwalb's excellent article on Re-examining the Dungeon: Reexamining the Dungeon I was struck by the idea that there is still something missing in 4e in regards to scenes. In a typical adventure we can have roleplaying, exploration, skill challenges, and combat. Combat...

Hello all. I put together a new DM crib sheet that contains the new DCs, defenses, attacks, and other standard math expressions onto a single 5x8 printable page. I wanted to get you hardcore guys to verify that my monster damage math is correct. I based it off of Jhaelin's awesome work in the...

I received my preregistration Gencon badge but my wife, who registered at the same time and ordered event tickets for both of us, received no badge and no tickets. Has anyone else not received their badges and tickets? Anyone know the process to get them?

Hi Folks, I wanted to announce the release of my first D&D-focused book, Sly Flourish's Dungeon Master Tips. This is a completely original book focused on giving D&D 4e DMs tips for storytelling, encounter design, and running your game at the table. It's a short book focused on providing...

I've had this discussion before but the situation is about to come up again and I need help. We have a level 24 paladin in our group who is sticky as hell. When a challenged creature attacks anyone else, they're at -3, become weakened, takes a pile of radiant damage, and the target of the...

I'm hearing that some folks already got their Harrowing Halls dungeon tiles. Does anyone have any pics of the 3d terrain pieces from this set?

Howdy, I'm seeking input for more Monster Optimization articles for Sly Flourish. I'm looking for nasty combinations of monsters that you've found particularly effective, creatures that just seem to work really well together or have effects that play off of one another particularly well. You...

With the recent change to Hospitaler's Blessing in the errata, a question came up that I want to get people's take on. Does a multi-attack action, like a dragon's triple-claw attack, count as a single attack action for the sake of run-away interrupts or hospitaler's blessing heals. For...