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Hey folks, I'm posting on behalf of a friend and member of my D&D group, who has offered to run a couple of games for a few of the people who DM regularly and could use a break. (The world needs more players like her!) We're looking for a 5E adventure, or a short series of adventures, that: -...

Recently in my high-level game (15th level) the subjects of flying and teleportation have come up quite often. This has led to a number of situations and rules calls that the books only give sketchy guidance for. I'm really curious to see how you all would handle these situations. Here are the...

One thing that's pretty noticeable about D&D in general, and 5E in particular, is that it's often better to improve the things that you're already the best at than to shore up your weaknesses. Thus, when increasing their ability scores you'll often see your players boosting their 18 Strength to...

While reading a thread that mentioned the Athlete feat today, I realized that my group doesn't use the rules for jumping distances at all. That led me to wonder - what are some rules your group ignores completely? Here are some of mine: Jump distances - Usually I will either allow a...

Hi all, My college group has a tradition of, on breaks, getting together and playing through one of the published D&D games in 24 hours straight. We were actually able to make it through Hoard of the Dragon Queen and Rise of Tiamat each in 24 hours (if you're curious, here's an account of our...

I have been running a game set in the Nentir Vale for the past 2.5 years, and I've noticed that there is a definite imbalance of skills in terms of their regular use. Here are some of the "best" skills in our game: Athletics. This one comes up a lot. The PCs will inevitably have to do a lot of...

Hi everyone! I just posted an article on class design in Fifth Edition on my blog. It's pretty long and analytical, but folks around here seem to enjoy that stuff. I'd be curious to see what you all think of my analysis. Critique is welcome! Thanks! Koga305

... and I wrote a blog post about it! Curious to see what you all think. (RoT Spoilers, obviously) For those uninterested in navigating to another site, a few tidbits to discuss: By the end of the adventure, fighting dragons was downright boring. Their abilities were similar enough that we...

The Angry GM, a sort of RPG pundit, just published an article where he talks about D&D Encounters. Some fair warning before you read it: Angry's style is unique (his "Angry Rants" are especially, well, rant-y, with a lot of @$&%ing) and it's not for everyone. That said, he makes some great...

I'll grab a few extra posts to split this one up into bite-sized chunks. Originally posted by Koga305: The Art of War: A Fighter Guide "Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War Table of Contents Introduction...

The latest D&D survey got me thinking - what kind of short adventure products might WotC be able to offer in order to fill the void caused by their focus on level 1-15 adventure paths? Then the answer came to me - how about D&D Expeditions? For those not familiar, Expeditions is the "Living...

We're talking about Warlords over on the 5E board, and I brought up the point that there's no feat granting an "at-will" Warlord-style ability. So I wrote one! Tactical Leader You are an expert at leading your allies to victory, directing their strikes against the most powerful enemies you...

Over on the Warlord thread, the subject of the viability of the Fighter class in 5E came up. I feel this deserves a thread all to its own, so I'll say it here, loud and clear: Fifth Edition Fighters are amazing! Sometimes I feel that they are really underrated. Let's break down some key points...

As a fan of 4E, I particularly loved the Warlord class - the idea of a purely martial "buffer" sounded very cool to play (although I never got the chance, as I DMed the one 4E game I played in). Clearly others enjoyed the class as well - in particular, I get the impression that some 4E fans felt...

It's early yet, but now that we have all three core rulebooks and we've had the chance to play with them, we can start to make judgements about things in the rules that could use some revision. Note that I'm not talking about changing major aspects of the edition like bounded accuracy or...

As a disciple of two of Wizards' flagship games, it's actually pretty interesting to compare the marketing strategies of D&D to Magic: the Gathering. While D&D seems to have had a mixed record in terms of profits, Magic by many accounts is a huge cash cow for the company. They seem to have hit...

Hi everyone, Based on the DM's Basic Rules PDF, there are at least three items in the game that set one of your ability scores to 19: Amulet of Health (Constitution), Gauntlets of Ogre Power (Strength), and the Headband of Intellect (Intelligence). The concern has been raised that these items...

About to run a "lost library" adventure for my group of level 5 PCs, so I whipped up this monster (they will be fighting two of them for a "Hard" encounter XP total). Swarm of Books Large swarm of Tiny constructs, unaligned ------------ Armor Class 14 Hit Points 90 (12d10+12) Speed 0 ft., fly...

I've built quite a few D&D 5E characters over the past few weeks (got to love that fresh, new Player's Handbook) and I've come to the conclusion that the Warlock is the cleanest and most fun of the full casters to build. Why? It has a very focused and limited selection of spells. When I play a...

Hi all, As you may have seen in my other thread, I'm a member of a campus gaming club and for our RPG finale event this year we're running the mega-adventure Vault of the Dracolich in a few weeks. We expect between 20 and 30 participants (so enough for 4 or 5 tables) and as the planning ramps...