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I've played D&D from the beginning and I'm starting to take 5e a bit more seriously. Can anyone recommend a good Character Creator/spreadsheet to make it easier for me to quickly come up wit PC and NPC characters? Ideally free would be nice, but I'm not too deeply married to that. Add...

I play 3.5 most of the time, but regardless of rules set, it's a simple question. Still, I'll spell it out. The "Heavy Hitter" is typically a melee type with a two handed weapon (Great sword of great axe in 3.5), using the skills/feats/abilities to do a lot of melee damage. The down side of...

I'm running a game right now. We're using D&D 3.5 rules, but this is an opinion question so it should be independent of versions. An Assassin is trying to stir up trouble in a mining community, to enflame frictions between the miners and the iron-workers. He snuck into a smithy and added salt...

This is a sort of counterpart to the Adversarial DM discussion. What traits would you say define the "Adversarial Player"? I've seen two flavors of this. Some player seem to play as if they were in competition with the other players, and strive to make the most powerful character. I had a...

This is another attempt to provoke a little thought and discussion, in a system-independent way. In D&D 3.0 magical bonuses to bows and arrows stacked. They ended that in 3.5 The difference was interesting. I pick these versions because the systems were similar enough that a comparison is...

I normally play 3.5, though I've played 5e, 4e, Pathfinder, and every earlier version of D&D back to the three saddle-stitched books. This question is more general, and the answers might vary depending on the rule set you prefer. What I'm hoping for is to prompt a bit of discussion I've seen...

This is a simple question: What do you consider a level appropriate Armor Class for the different roles in D&D 3.5? Those roles being: Front line fighter Secondary fighter/combat Cleric Rogue Ranged specialist (some call this the DPS) Wizard My own thought is that the minimum AC should be PC...

In our D&D 3.5 campaign, the game world ends up calling for a lot of seafaring. The jump off point for the campaign, and the group's base of operations, is part of a major land mass, but is bounded by nearly impassable swamps, so the only real way for the PCs to move about is by ship. We share...

While this is labeled as 3.5, I thing just about anyone can chime in on this. Every skill in the game has an ability score it's tied to. That's standard through every edition since 3.0, and it works. Sort of. The fact is that sometimes it seems like it's hard tied to the wrong ability score...

We're playing D&D 3.5, though the system is actually irrelevant for this discussion We play in a style where the DM duties rotate amongst the group, all in the same game world and continuity. To do this everyone (including the first DM) is supposed to create their character, and define/prepare...

I know we've beaten Alignments to death, over and over. This one is a bit different. There are creatures in the D&D worlds that have an "Always Chaotic Evil" type label, though the alignment referenced may change. So let's think about what a society would look like for creatures like that...

I've probably mentioned this before (a few dozen times), but my campaign uses a "Round Robin" system for DMing. We pick a campaign theme, the grand goal of the adventure, and then each player comes up with both a character and the city/state/region/country where that character hails from. As...

The campaign I'm playing in is a 3.5 game, but the question is far broader than that. When is it okay to TPK the group? My group made some serious tactical errors in the face of a serious enemy, are split up and will most certainly die. We've carried this campaign on for 18 levels and I hate...

This one is system independent, so feel free to jump in. Since early role playing (cough-D&D-cough) I've seen a few hundred answers to how/where PC's turn loot into cash, or where they go to find needed items or specialized supplies. The classic "You meet in a Pub/Bar" was the way PC's got...

I'm currently the DM in our 3,5 campaign, though this discussion is more or less system/revision independent. In my game the party is on the Elemental Plane of Fire. In D&D terms, the predominant society is "Lawful Evil". So what does that imply, in terms of the way society works? When the...

Hey, this involves a 3.5 campaign, though conceptually the ideas may apply to just about any other edition. My character is a Wizard of 17th level. He just finished crafting a Ring of Telekinesis, which took months of down time, a small fortune and a ton of Exp. Now that my character has the...

This is a system independent question, so we don't have to worry about offending each other, at least not that way. I stopped by a local game shop and ran into an old friend, and as gaming friends do we began swapping gamin stories. What we both ended up agreeing on is that different players...

I was reading through the DMG while researching another topic when I came across something unexpected. According to the DMG, page 221 under Ranged Weapons and Ammunition.. well read it yourself. If I'm reading that right (the highlighted part) then a +whatever bow, sling etc. gets its...

I was DM in our regular D&D 3.5 game yesterday. The party is 15th and 16th levels. Thy faced two Elder Storm Elementals (MM III, CR 14) an Air Elemental (CR 7) and a Fire Elemental (also CR 7). According to the EXP chart in the DMG, the two CR 7s are worth exactly zero EXP to the party, yet...

In many fantasy games, such as Pathfinder or any of the D&D editions, there are items that work "Once per day", or people who get spells or abilities renewed once per day. In common parlance this usually means that it happens at a particular time, like sunrise or midnight or some such. I'm in...