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I'll start out by saying I really dislike how 5e has treated naval gameplay thus far. Most of the time, player characters will use a ship basically as a "fast travel" (in the video game sense) option and barely interact with it at all. Not to mention combat, which boils down to being normal D&D...

UNO, Kirk, Elhaz, Kora Tana, Berry, don't read this. My players have been chasing the Blades and House Tarkanan around Sharn trying to figure out what they're up to. What they're up to is a heist: they're going to break into House Kundarak's central facility in Sharn and take some documents...

We've all seen the treatment the Paladin's Smite spells got (and you can give your opinions on that if you wish), so I started wondering if the Ranger was going to receive similar treatment, particularly in 2 areas: Ensnaring Strike and the Horizon Walker's Planar Warrior feature. I think the...

I'm looking for some fun/easy-ish modules for a player of mine who's starting to DM. Since I'm going to be a player, please at least spoiler your spoilers. I was looking around at vague outlines of published campaigns and saw that Dragon of Icespire Peak is considered pretty good. Just from...

It's hard enough to make a passable naval combat system. It's basically impossible to make a passable naval combat system that is still recognizably D&D and is also close enough and simple enough to pick up that WotC would print it, seeing their "we want d&d to be accessible to new players and...

I'm preparing a oneshot for a group of 5 fairly experienced players at level 11. I was just wondering what other DMs would think of the day they're about to head into (ideally). All players have 2 rare magic items at their disposal, plus the Aberrant Dragonmark feat, which I've souped up for...

I was planning the beninning of the next campaign I'm going to run the other day and started asking myself how I was going to believably bring the characters together at the start and how to make a hook that was easily tied to a fixed feature of their backgrounds (for this Eberron campaign, I'm...

Basically, I'm planning a campaign where the party immediately comes into direct contact with the BBEG's minions and from then on proceeds to keep getting dragged into the various steps of their "I'm going to destroy the world" plan and stopping them. The problem is, if the party stop every...

DISCLAIMER: The poll is just to see if my assumption about Timeless Body is correct, please don't make it a focal point of discussion. I am not setting out to reshape the Monk into a Fighter or Barbarian. It has different unique selling points, I hope to reinforce these while making it still...

Here's the link: PF2e Scribe Basically this class wants to be an always-on buffer for the whole party, and offensively it takes control of enemies (or willing allies) and uses them to strike in its place. I'd love to hear feedback especially on any broken wording that doesn't interact as...

So after playing through ToA as a player (with our party suffering 25 deaths throughout the course of our campaign) I am prepping to run it myself for another group. However. I like to add modules I DM to my homebrew setting, giving new flavors and explanations for things. And I wanted to add...

Alright, so this was supposed to be a poll, but apparently I'm stupid with computers and didn't notice I posted it while checking the poll thing etc. Anyway. In a recent thread I started, (this one...

So I've been running Curse of Strahd with my group lately, and the players are not very keen on going up against him. And it's not that they're scared; let me recap. -Players get lost in the mists after running away from a village attacked by a giant pack of wolves and get picked up by Vistani...

Wassup my dudes? I've always liked the idea of magic items that scale as the characters do, and one item in particular has always seemed ideal to me for this: The Nine Lives Stealer Now, I really dislike how it plays on the DMG, because it's basically just really useful against low...

Alright, so my group (lvl 3) reached Old Bonegrinder last session. I had prepared for this, and the hags ripped the group to shreds, but they stabilized the whole group and tied them up, then proceeded to engage in some (very one-sided) negotiation. One of my players (sorcerer) tried to get...

Man, I'm back with a vengeance! In this thread, I tell you a bit more about my campaign world, and how I tweaked Curse of Strahd's (which becomes Curse of Drazhan for me) story and characters to fit in it. Alright, so, Ravenloft, the demiplane of Dread. In the official fluff, the Dark Powers...

Alright, I'm back posting! (Though you may not have noticed or rejoiced at the absence of my too long-winded questions). Anyway, let's get to it: how do you tweak written adventures (right now I'm preparing Curse of Strahd, but you can share anything if you like -maybe not ToA, since I'm...

Sup dudes. I was thinking about your classic barbarian: big, hairy, smelly, stupid, great-axe wielding, and usually a static damage sponge for the squishies out back (yes, he's fast, but he usually moves in short bursts to chase fleeing enemies or reposition quickly once his current enemy is...

Alright, so I'm writing down a rough timeline for my campaign right now and right now: -All the races available to PCs and big bad races (orcs, goblinoids, Yuan-Ti) have been created (the others just pop up in the background at some time, I don't really care) -The elder races (Elves, Dwarves...

Gneh, the name kinda sucks, buuuut anyway. I was thinking about how to make a world low-fantasy/low magic without limiting the starting options available to players. So I started digging around a bit on the interwebs and, after barely scratching the surface, I see this one idea, which is...