Recent content by J-H

I'm assuming the character doesn't actually have the Staff of the Magi at low levels, given the power of the item. What level is the player starting at? I like the Imbue Magic function. Even at 15th level, giving the party Fighter the ability to cast Eldritch Blast 5x/day equips him with a...

Agreed.... pick a couple of artifacts to work with. I would skip Find Familiar, as that's redundant to Chain boon. Perhaps Magic Missile? That's not on any Warlock list, and fits "is general magic and Force effects" theme. In general, the Warlock patron feature pattern is Level 1 Thematically...

WOTC is silent on it, but I think it would be entirely reasonable from a worldbuilding standpoint to say "There are lots of spells that exist that are not in the PHB. " Player characters simply don't need to prepare "Deliver Baby," "Epidural," "C-section," "Harden Brick," or "Dullman's...

It may be hard to categorize some monsters, but I think it would be helpful for both new and veteran DMs to have these tags on monster entries. A) For new DMs to get an idea as to how to use the monster B) To pair with an index or search tool to help with encounter building. I wouldn't hold out...

Probably around 12-14, but it also depends on how stingy you are with magic items. If they only have a couple of non-consumables each, they'll need to be higher level and you probably will get a bunch of casters/half-casters. I've seen some high level one shots start off with only 4 items...

It arrived! It's fantastic and turned out even better than I expected. It seems like it's pretty sturdy,too. I can post zoomed in photos of the individual pics if anyone's interested.

I wrote, tested/ran, and published a 13-20 campaign called Against the Idol of the Sun. Here's the campaign log if you want to read it (it's long!). -The 5-8 encounter adventuring day definitely went away. 1-2 encounters per day, tops, even with overland travel. -Most combats had at least one...

This is now live on Kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/silvercompassmaps/devabhumi-a-dandd-5e-setting-inspired-by-ancient-india/

Goliaths were in 3.5 Races of Stone. They had a Powerful Build trait that made them count as Large where it was advantageous, so they were useful for some specific strength based builds, including making it easier to get into Hulking Hurler so you could throw moons around.

If I were doing it, I'd create a multiple-choice list of 8-12 previous adventures that individuals have had (2-3) and that the group has had (3-5). Each choice has a relevant magical item, potion, etc. associated with it. Once they've made their choices, everyone has an individual history of 2-3...

How many combat encounters are you running per day? The Sorcadin only has 3-4 1st level slots for Shield. If you have 5 3-round fights, that's only one casting of Shield per battle. Enemies with high grapples: Crocodiles, constrictor snakes, large dinosaurs, giants, trolls, dragons, etc...

As of level 8... The sorcerer has swapped out 1 cantrip. The cleric has changed a prepared spell twice, and otherwise just added something on top of his existing list. The Arcane Trickster has changed out one cantrip, finally, for Booming Blade. All they're doing at levelup is picking...

5e's subclasses make the system much more customizable than 1e/2e, but less than 3/3.5. I have no experience with 4e. The forum population doesn't represent typical players. I have an 8th level storm cleric (playing from level 1) who doesn't remember most of his class powers. My wife is...

I'm fine not knowing all the spells, although - how do you even keep track of 5,000 spells? I have to look PHB spells up on my phone sometimes while DMing! "You're casting X? Cool, I've never seen it used before."

Have you tried looking on Adventure Lookup?