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So in my game, the players found what I thought was a neat item, a magic sword that projects light in a cone like a bullseye lantern, but this quickly turned into a bit of a problem- I don't use facing rules, and characters can change facing pretty much at will in the game. How then, is this...

In the decades I've been playing TTRPG's, one thing I've noted is that it's very rare for two groups to be using the same rules. Individual DM's have their own rulings, and usually copious pages of house rules. Even in public play, there's always some room for variance, so that your experience...

In my current group, a lot of 3rd party content from Kobold Press is allowed, though recently, my heavy-spellcaster party has been coming to me with some truly strange spells from books such as Deep Magic volumes I + II, and last session, one from the Tome of Heroes. I've run into my fair share...

This is apparently nothing new, but it's my first encounter with it, so bear with me. An enemy Wizard cast sickening radiance, and another enemy punts a PC into it. Like a human, I assume "moves into" means just that, and tell the player to make a Con save. Before the start of their turn...

Most of my experience with this sort of thing is D&D-based, but it exists in lots of other systems as well (Shadowrun and GURPS can be plenty egregious). Some systems have very sparse gear. You got your climbing gear, backpack, rations, light source, you're good to go! Then you have the ones...

I'm going to preface this with the fact that, while there are probably things I can do to prevent these kinds of scenarios, and that certainly I may have made some bad DM choices, I'm not really asking for criticism or advice (though you can certainly provide either at your leisure!). Nor am I...

I noticed that both the current and upcoming adventures in my 5e game have a lot of enemies with magic resistance. My party consists of 1 Fighter and four casters, so constantly rolling saves with advantage is going to slow down the game and be pretty obnoxious for the players. So I'm curious...

In a lot of discussions about AD&D (1e, for you purists out there!), a repeated concept is the idea of "secret rules". Things players were not meant to know. Whether it's your precise chance to hit (at least before the publishing of the Player's Screen in '85), or not telling your Assassin that...

Since I started playing 5e, and this includes Adventure League, so I've seen a lot of characters, I've seen a few Druids. And the vast majority of those Druids are Moon Druids. Turning into an animal seems to be something Druid players value highly. So it surprised me when I started running a...

Been diving into a lot of older D&D lately and while the exact implementation has changed over the years (infravision, low-light vision, darkvision, racial bonuses to Perception, free proficiencies in the same, racial bonuses to Wisdom, etc.), many races, and in fact, most of the "core" races in...

Life circumstances have given me a lot of free time. Sunday I begin the first session of my new game. I've been converting old D&D modules for 5e play (but this isn't really a 5e or even a D&D topic). Last night I finished up what I hope will be the fifth adventure. Not the fifth session...

Got a notification for a new post in a thread I was following, but every time I click on it, it says the threat cannot be found. Was it deleted or merged with another thread? Oops!

As part of my game prep, the players come across a Wizard's study...and books! There's a few threads like this around, but I figured I'd share my ideas so far, and if anyone else has a good idea, by all means, share! Some of these might be a bit too meta for someone's taste; while my campaign...

I'm working on an adventure and this came up. I know how I'm going to rule it, but I'm curious if this has been covered elsewhere and/or what other peopel think. In the adventure, Zora, an 11th level Drow Wizard, has been casting Teleportation Circle in a gold mine each day to deliver a...

To roll or not to roll? (This is a companion to the other thread).

Sometimes a monster seems like it will fold far too quickly for it's CR, other times it's quite the opposite (especially with third party creations). Do you ever adjust the hit points of monsters, and what is your preference?

I'm slated to start DMing again in four weeks and I've run into a very odd thing. How very different 5e and AD&D are! The adventure is HHQ1, Fighter's Challenge. I've always admired how it sets up a region to be a hub of adventures, and rather liked it's plot overall. It was designed for one...

I had this thought in the Ascending AC thread. How do people feel about AD&D ability checks vs. WotC ability checks? Just to summarize, in AD&D, the DM could call for an ability check, where you had to roll under your ability score on a d20. They could apply ad hoc modifiers, though I don't...

For a game I'm starting next month, I decided to try and make bookkeeping a little less tedious. Curious if I messed up and made an obvious exploit somewhere. Supplies Instead of tracking things like inexpensive material components, ammunition, or rations, this campaign will use the...

Something that just hit me while following a related discussion is why some optional rules are in the PHB and others in the DMG. At first I was like "well, it's probably best to discuss options at the same time you're presenting a rule"; for example, the PHB starts right in on optional systems...