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My D&D group tonight will be fighting the Krampus, so I made holiday themed magic items that are hopely both funny and ridiculous. Globe of Snowing -- This orb magical implement adds a +1 to spell DC and caster level of any cold, snow, or frost related spell cast with it. When shaken gently, it...

First, WOOOOOOT! Second, Morrus, it would be really helpful if you annotated the radio button options with the relative prices of the options. It's been a couple years (I think?) and I couldn't rightly remember what I selected at the time. I finally dug up the old KS campaign site, and with the...

In one of my games, I play a conjurer (ported to 5E from Pathfinder), and I don't believe I have ever actually used my summon elemental spells in combat since the changeover. The one minute casting time ensures I can only use it when I 1) know a fight is coming immediately and 2) nevertheless...

I have been trying to think of how to balance 5e for a single-player campaign. My primary thought is that missing party elements are supplied by me, as the DM, as NPC's. However, in a single-player game, I naturally want the PC to shine (but not necessarily a "Mary Sue"). But a wizard cohort...

It's Saturday night, everyone wants to game, but I have absolutely nothing prepared. I bring a Monster Manual and whatever adventure I'm running. It starts out okay, I'll go through a section of the adventure related to where they are, and I'll see in bold letters six skeletons. I realize...

I mean in the implementation, not the high-level design goals. What would you expect from a sandbox that is not delivered by an AP, and how would you expect a published sandbox adventure to be laid out? Are there any examples of published sandboxes? (I can't think of any, but I am also not...

This is an attempt at converting the 1st Edition AD&D kensai from Oriental Adventures as a fighter archetype for 5E. Take a look and let me know what you think! Suggestions and criticisms are welcome! Kensai Fighter Archetype The kensai, or “sword-saint,”is a moral ascetic who has mastered the...

The character I'd like to convert to 5E my old 3.5 whirling dervish. Obviously I can't directly convert it but I'd to capture the spirit of it. The base of the character was a fighter/rogue, and relied on multiple attacks. With the more tightly restricted action economy of 5E how would you do...

Dispel Magic seems a lot more powerful in 5E, as it works on EVERY magical effect on an object or person, each one being rolled for with a pretty easy check. Even a level 9 spell is easily dispelled at level 5! As a DM, how can Dispel Magic be blunted as a magic "I WIN" button? Not trying to be...

I love it! I really do. Monster stay blocks and presentation are the best I've ever seen. But there are a couple critical, crucial things missing that I really can't live without as a DM: Robust monster creation guidelines. It's got a few pages that give a couple tables for size and hit dice...

I've played in a couple sessions of a custom campaign, and I supposed from that experience that 5E was going to be another super-heroic game. Tonight I took a stab at running it, using HotDQ, Chapter 1: Greenest in Flames. Holy crap. In every fight, at least one person went down. In every...

Hey guys, I'm looking for a DM screen. Is there one publicly available? I know there is this one, but it was last updated in June. Is it still current for the PHB release?

Check out the 8th-level Clone spell. Consider that the clone can be any age. This gets me wondering, what wizard of 17th-level or higher is not going to live forever? Or even stay perpetually young? Every ten years, check yourself out and into a young, virile body. And then there is the...

My players are chomping at the bit to play 5E ASAPOMGWTFBBQ, and they plan to have characters ready for next week's game. BUT... I got no monsters! Even the last playtest packet seems to omit them. I'm picking up HotDQ, so that will hopefully have some creatures, but I'll be limited to that...

I just came off a long 1E kick (year long ToEE campaign) and I have to say I loved the troupe style of play, both in combat and in roleplay, and was hoping I could capture some measure of this in 5E. The things that prevent this from working in 3E and 4E are: Long, complicated fights Fiddly NPC...

So I've gotta a little obsessed with "Jaquaying the dungeon", and I've been thinking about how to apply those general principals to adventure design, in general, to change linear adventure paths into proper sand-boxes. I've also been inspired by Sly Flourish's "The Lazy Dungeon Master", which...

For those that have run 5E games: what fundamental conceits are necessary (or maybe even just more synergistic) for world-building in 5th Edition? I had trouble fitting a lot of my campaign ideas into 4E because the rules (at its release) ruled out certain tropes I'd gotten used to in 3E, such...

I got a few questions about O.L.D.: 1) What will the eventual license be? Will people be able to publish 3PP content? 2) How married will the default setting be to the rules? If I needed, say, a custom list of player races and places, can I swap out the default setting in its entirety? 3) At...

I'm thinking about running Ghosts of Dragonspear Castle, but have never one run anything in the Forgotten Realms. In fact, my only contact with that setting heretofore is the game Baldur's Gate and the Drizz't novels. I picked up the 1st Edition FR boxed set and the 3.5 setting guide at 2nd &...

I love having access to 1e and Next PDF's, but I hate digital devices at the table (and I hate reading from a screen in general). What is the best way to have a 300 page PDF printed and bound?