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I have a player who wants to play an elf barbarian (or at least a primal instinctual woodland warrior - PC is a kagonesti in a dragonlance game) but more a fast and graceful fighter rather than a high-Str beefcake. So, Dex. Barbarian is obviously built on the assumption of high Str, and there’s...

I've seen in a few different threads recently people wanting WotC to do something new and novel, setting-wise, rather than reskin old AD&D era settings for 5th ed. So, imagine tomorrow that someone at WotC gets nostalgic for the old days of the Setting Search competition which originally...

So, I’m currently travelling internationally, staying with friends who have 5 kids from ages 14 to 5. The older kids (at least) have expressed interest (mania?) in D&D. Partly cos I talked about it, but they’ve got a long-running vaguely rpg-like make believe home brew game going on, and a...

I've recently started a campaign with a new group, that's perhaps a bit more character optimisation focused than I'm used to, and with a DM that's a bit more lassiez-faire. Two of the five PCs have turned out to be of races with a natural fly speed. I'm playing a human artificer, focused on...

Hoping there's some Dragonlance loremasters on here who can help me out a bit, as i brainstorm a possible expansion/reinvention/mutilation of SotDQ. (Note that these are questions about canon, especially pre-5e canon. I know that asking questions about canon on here is just asking for answers...

I've never really liked how D&D puts fences around the character concepts for spellcasters, by making so much of their effectiveness dependent on a single pre-defined spellcasting ability score. Warlocks are the obvious example. Surely a quintessential warlock concept is the resentful...

In an interview with YouTuber 'Bob the Worldbuilder', WotC's Kyle Brink explained why the classic Dark Sun setting has not yet seen light of day in the D&D 5E era. I’ll be frank here, the Dark Sun setting is problematic in a lot of ways. And that’s the main reason we haven’t come back to it. We...

Spinning off a bit from some discussion in the Dragonlance thread. D&D derives a lot of its aesthetic and assumed setting from the medieval to renaissance period in Europe. I've just been thinking about some of the historical factors that were enormously prominent, everyday, and important in...

Spinning off a bit from a discussion of kender wizards in the Do You Plan To Buy Dragonlance thread. Kender tend to attract a lot of hate for some well-understood reasons. If hypothetically you had to play a kender PC, in a 5e Dragonlance game that you wanted to succeed and be enjoyable for...

So, way back in the mists of time, Kobold Press ran a kickstarter for the product that became Midgard Adventures, a Pathfinder module compilation set in (clearly...) their Midgard campaign world. One of the exclusive backer rewards for this kickstarter was Freeing Nethus, a high-level module...

As a rule, most people when creating a wizard PC will put the highest stat into intelligence, and then the next highest into dex. Wizards don't have many hit points and so avoiding getting hit is a priority, obviously. Has anyone had any experience with not doing this - with instead putting...

So the book announcement inspired me to do a bit of rereading of some of the old Ravenloft material. Heavily focusing on flavor, because that's what's relevant to the upcoming 5e implementation, and the 3e incarnation of the setting, because that's predominately what I own. And since all the...

Is anyone aware of any sort of D&D setting or sourcebook or similar that draws mostly or entirely from indigenous Australian myth and legend? Any edition, or Pathfinder, or even any other fantasy RPG? I've seen the odd Australian critter in monster books here and there - bunyips, thylacines...

(... and awesome alliteration!) So, this is the situation. The PCs have entered a black dragon's lair and are beating up on the dragon. Their motivation is pure greed - the know (thanks to a tenuous alliance with one of the dragon's rivals) that the dragon has a Ring of Wishes (1 wish...

Simon etc, keep out! Or I'll set Quenge on you! So, the player of the wizard PC in my current game has decided he wants to consult the greatest libraries in the multiverse to research various current goings-on. I provided a list for him - the Great Repository from Necromancer's City of...

Situation: a monster with reach (half-fiend shambling mound in this case) attempts to disarm a PC - who doesn't have reach - from 10ft away, using natural attacks. Making disarm attempts provokes attacks of opportunity. According to the RAW, the PC only threatens the squares in which he can...

So, the cleric PC in my game has just discovered 'nauseating breath' from the Spell Compendium. Insert halitosis joke here. Is there any rules-as-written immunity to nausea? Plants, undead, elementals, constructs? Creatures immune to stunning and/or criticals maybe? Poison-immune creatures...

From a little while ago, but did a search and couldn't see any threads where it'd been discussed. http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=159 Respected sci-fi writer gets angry about Dragon's submission guidelines. Has very big problems with a tight-fisted per-word rate as compared to the rest of the...

When a character attempts to cast a spell from a scroll and fails the caster level check but avoids a scroll mishap, is the scroll expended? The SRD is a little unclear. and I'd always seen this as analagous to a Concentration check - if you fail the roll, the spell fizzles and you lose...

Is there any way for an evil cleric to call (not summon) a good outsider? Planar Ally can only call an outsider that shares the caster's alignment, but I want an evil cleric to be able to call a celestial in order to sacrifice it. If not, are there any other ways an evil cleric could get his...