Recent content by NaturalZero

I started really playing DnD instead of just dabbling during the summer 3.5e came out, back in 2003. I DMed the first campaign I was ever involved in and, right off the bat, I made my own tokens. I used photoshop to make grids showing the exact art of whatever NPCs, PCs, or homebrew monsters I...

I'd like a fighter that gets a dragon if the drakewarden never existed but since it does/did, I'd rather have the dragon pet class get that protected niche, especially since this PDK is pigeon-holed into one specific type of dragon. I agree with those saying that we should just get a...

They gave us at least 4 hairless monkey races with humans, halflings, elves, and dwarves, so I think having a small draconic race is fair. :cool:

I just started using Inkarnate on my latest campaign and it's pretty great. This is first map that I've made and I haven't added the locations they haven't visited yet. It's a smallish frontier town.

Hivemind is something I've thought about. A player in a game I'm running now was reflavoring GOO as an A.I. pact but we ended up just making an A.I. pact that can summon an "altar" that is a terminal with buffs/debuffs. I've also had a postapocalyptic game where the remnant civilization was run...

I think that regardless of power level, I have to change Find Steed too much to make it fit my vision of the subclass. If I do a custom stat block, ala the Beast Master or Battle Smith artificer, I can put the exact features in, including level-gated fly, without having to modify multiple...

I'm working on some homebrew and I'm trying to decide how early is too early for PCs flying around. For context, I'm trying to make a Warlock pact that revolves around the Find Steed spell and I'm realizing that the paladin would have to wait until 11th level for a flying mount while a warlock...

Man, the problem is that they made 5e the worst version of DnD (or Pathfinder) to make feat trees a viable mode of customization. It's just too stingy with handing them out. Personally, I almost always homebrew with subclasses or alternate class features. Effectively, alternate class features...

I'm on the fence about the Nick/Dual Wield combo. On one hand, the Nick property references changing the Bonus Action attack gained from Light and I feel like the feat is simply referencing the Light weapon rules and not adding an additional attack. On the other hand, if Dual Wielder doesn't...

Idk, man, I started DMing with 3.5 where we had flying, invisible wizards who would cast save-or-die spells against enemies that didn't have legendary resistance or Solo stats. Druids had Wild armor and shields with unhittable ACs transformed into animals while casting spells AND having an...

It also makes for a separate "character" that a player controls and can equip with magic furnishings. The party could always adventure for magic items to equip on their persons, but now there's a reason to for adventuring for magical tapestries, mystic wardrobes, animated statues, etc. It opens...

The thing is, as a DM, I love the fact that it's the players' responsibility. They get more invested in the world, they do some world building that I can springboard off of, and I don't have to do the heavy lifting of managing personalized hirelings for 4 other people on top of what I'm already...

Leaving it out of the PHB is the right move, IMO, because most groups won't use it. Players often assume that everything in the PHB is fair game, and there really wasn't any room to add a whole bastion chapter anyway. Keeping in the DMG clearly telegraphs to new players that it's an optional...

I took this as "off limits" in the same way that building your character is off limits. You pick your parents, the village you grew up in, your past trauma, you hair color, your race, your class, your starting spells, etc, but the DM is going to work with you so that it fits with the campaign...