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I'm looking at using the new Weapon Mastery Properties to introduce an active Defense variant (refreshing the current option I've been using in the 5e version of the Tome of Variance - the A5E version is good as it is). Both variants here use contested attack rolls. This gives a defense that...

Sorry to inflict a OGL thread here, but today's EN Publishing tweet has given me hope that something positive may come of this OGL mess: "So what are we doing re #opendnd? Still having crisis meetings but our thoughts are along the lines of (a) de-OGL-ifying Level Up and moving to a true open...

It’s early days for house rules in LU: A5E, since it already brings so many great changes to D&D. My groups have mostly now converted to A5E and are loving it. We’ve tweaked our usual rules to fit in with some of the unique features of A5E and we’ve found the transition really easy going. Our...

So, all you clever people, I hope we can all agree that the Great Dalmuti is the greatest card game WotC produces [ducks-and-covers]. Can I enlist your help in working out which D&D creature each of the 13 D&D Great Dalmuti card represents? Here are the card pictures (all in Harry Conway's...

I'm a huge fan of the new parrying property mechanic - it's a a surprisingly close match for the defense homebrew that we use. However, is the intention that it can be used against ranged attacks? It is limited to a creature you can see but melee attack is not called out. I'm good with adepts...

Unfortunately the DMG's "Degrees of failure" isn't in the SRD but, formally or informally, I think many tables consider the degree of success/failure when a Skill Check is rolled. It also often appears in modules as a sliding scale of outcomes if succeeding against a DC of 10, 15 or 20. Some...