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THAT is messed up. It illustrates an interesting thing about the idea of Alignment: your alignment reflects what you want to do. I'm reminded of when people question people following the rules and helping people in open world games. What if my power fantasy is helping people and making the...

I've been reading a lot of Planescape lately, so I'd like to look at your "a CE critter doesn't think of itself as CE" in the context of Tanar'ri Demons. As exemplars, they do think of themselves as Chaotic Evil, and they think of that as the best way to be. What your saying does reflect on a...

I've recently been reading up on older D&D and OSR, and systems there often use a 2d6 to determine things. The differences in weights compared to a flat roll, like a 1d12, for those rules makes bonuses and penalties feel different. So, while I'm not actually considering switching to 2d10 instead...

I'd like Hunter's Mark to be a class feature, and to have their equivalent of smite spells be expanded upon (like hail of thorns and entangling strike). My ideal would be them having an animal companion as a core feature, but I understand that enough people don't like that (so maybe it could be...

Hi everybody! As always, I'm tweaking things in D&D. Recently, I was finding myself missing some of the distinctions between different spellcasting types. In 5E, everyone casts spells "spontaneously". Some are "known" and some are "prepared" (though 5.5 confusingly calls it "prepared" for...

Long thread already, so apologies if someone already said it. 5E's point buy is pretty close to the statistical average of 6*(4d6, drop the lowest), but it's just a little behind standard rolls IF the DM allows rerolling garbage sets (which 3E had defined as nothing above 13 or cumulative bonus...

I had worked on something similar a while back, but for crossbows at first. I wanted to have crossbows be simple and have firearms be the martial equivalent. Since combat is seemingly balanced around 3 rounds, I was trying to balance it so that if someone did Fire, Reload, Fire as their 3...

I said no, create your whole party, but that's not exactly what I mean. I don't like "origin characters", that feels like larian's thing. Bg1 and 2 style please: make your character, plus there are NPCs that could join you.

In "traditional" warrior/expert/priest/mage differentiation, the artificer would be an expert. I actually really miss them having expertise in all tools (but 5.5 has been using sleight of hand for lock picking instead of tool checks). They don't have enough skills to fill the skill monkey role...

IMO, RAW says choose a level 1, 2, or 3 spell and get extra castings of it. Free castings of a spell are at their base level, unless stated otherwise. If I were your DM, I'd allow you to choose a level 1 or 2 spell upcast to 3, if only to broaden the spells that are good with the feature...

This reminds me that part of me keeps going back to my 4E assumption that the Monk was going to be the Divine Striker.

It's funny. I've had a long standing 5E house rule that has really helped out. 1) All DCs are increased by +2 (formula is 10 + prof + mod) 2) All characters and creatures get proficiency in all saves. Then, saves scale with DCs (though some scale slower due to ability score scaling). I was so...

I personally find switching from "Way of ..." to "Warrior of ..." to be lame, actually. I think Monk got genericized in the wrong direction; I think they should have leaned into the mystical and religious side of the monk.

In my longest 5E game, which ran from 5th to 12th level, the party Warlock picked up Tiny Hut. It only got abused one time. The players were running away from an encounter and dove underwater (they already had water breathing on the party). The warlock actually used a spell slot to cast it...

Users on the discord. Staff I can understand, they're required to be positive and follow company plans. But plenty of users weren't letting others express their disappointment.

Im just feeling a little bitter towards all the defenders saying it wasn't being shut down when they initially laid off most of the staff. It really stinks for the staff who put in tons of work. They were given an impossible task.

I firmly believe that nothing should be a class unless you can think of 10 archetypes for it. That's why I love the current 13ish classes we have (though I personally liked the theme of the Mystic for D&D more than the Psion, but that's easily changed). So, here's my wishlist: 1) Some type of...

Necromancy is okay when you're bringing back ones you love.

I personally use investigation for active searching, so I would use it for searching for traps or secret doors. Stealth rolls against Passive Perception, and active Perception is used to notice hidden things. I'd let someone use Perception to notice that something is off, pointing them in the...

I waited years for the gargantuan green, and it never happened. Then I got the 5 new chromatics, and they started releasing Metallics. I'd had the anniversary Sapphire dragon for a while, but I assumed they'd never make gem dragons. The wait from the crystal dragon to amethyst dragon made me...