D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 12 - Giant in the Playground Forums

5/23 Unearthed Arcana: Giant Options (223 replies)
Utilizing tortle AC for unorthodox builds (8 replies)
Player Help What Race with rolled stats? (6 replies)
Player Help Heavy Metal feeling spells for Heavy Metal Themed Lore Bard? (8 replies)
Rime's Binding Ice is Ridiculous (57 replies)
Detect Magic in a sense (8 replies)
Rime of the Frost Maiden difficulty (17 replies)
Optimization Level 3 one-shot (19 replies)
Frenzy Changes? (19 replies)
How to Make a True Gish (9 replies)
Bladesinger ranged weapon build (18 replies)
Campaign Settings for 5e, a couple questions (55 replies)
Theorycraft: Moon Druid with Astral Self Monk (9 replies)
Arms of the Astral Self and features that affect Wis checks (16 replies)
What is the worth of a feat compared to hp? (12 replies)
monk of mercy with healer feat, herbalism kit, and healer kit wants to make ointment (6 replies)
Optimization Build for a lvl 20 moon druid, with pvp in mind (12 replies)
Shepherd Druid versus Twilight Cleric (31 replies)
Feat selection in Curse of Strahd (19 replies)
I may be an intelligent sword, but I'm also a philosopher. (8 replies)
Plane shift vs force cage for hexblade (3 replies)
Optimization Good race for controller spellcasters? (20 replies)
Player Help Arch moon druid? Unlimited Elemental Wild Shapes? (4 replies)
Homebrew help; magic monk (5 replies)
Moon Sickle - RAW damage to spells as well? (7 replies)
Do Not Look Up (11 replies)
Ideas for Dhampir Battlemaster (5 replies)
Question regarding Candlekeep (1 replies)
Player Help My level 10 CG winged teifling lore bard just got infected with weretiger lycanthropy (11 replies)
Half-Orc Barbarians, the walking siege engines of 5E. (9 replies)
True Multiclass 10/10 (63 replies)
Lava damage (11 replies)
Optimization Arcane Trickster/Warlock Help (7 replies)
DM Help Spearfishing Mechanics (5 replies)
Optimization Dual wield or steady aim/crit fish? Might be number crunchy (18 replies)
GWM better for Sword and Shield Fighters/Paladins/Barbarians? (140 replies)
Monsters of Multiverse. Is the new layout more friendly? (5 replies)
Help name my toon (19 replies)
Forgotten Realms history question: Did Magic always exist? (10 replies)
NPC prereqs to crew a ship/vehicle? (0 replies)
Getting rid of Short Rests......... and Bards (31 replies)
Tavern Brawler and "I'll beat a mf with another mf!" (17 replies)
Player Help Spelljamming Gun Toting Izzet League Artificer (11 replies)
Perception is overrated (but not really) (0 replies)
DM Help One man Evil Campaign - Be the BBEG (advice?) (5 replies)
Fun or interesting Gith builds? (28 replies)
Teaching history/culture/mythology through DnD? (10 replies)
Clarification (4 replies)
Campaign introduction rework help (1 replies)
Free Acquisitions Incorporated book on DNDBeyond (3 replies)
War Caster (6 replies)
Speculation Dhampir as template (10 replies)
[Let's Read] Keep of the Kobold Queen, a JRPG-inspired adventure (0 replies)
Fizbans made Dragon Fear A Lot better (22 replies)
When is "early enough" for Resilient(Wis)? (52 replies)
Healer feat vs Inspiring Leader (76 replies)
Gargantuan isn't really that big (31 replies)
Barbarian ASIs are for feats (110 replies)
What if Rangers got a little more magic (22 replies)
[THEORYCRAFT] Can a mirror made with the Silent Illusion spell reflect an image? (54 replies)
Untraceable Messages (35 replies)
Optimization Heavy Armor Master vs Piercer (24 replies)
Sneaky Bard/Showoff Rogue (0 replies)
Rules Q&A Dashing (12 replies)
Eberron One-Shot Ideas? (4 replies)
Roleplaying Could someone suggest a good point of origin for knowing giants/rune knight? (8 replies)
What the heck is with Shadar-Kai (67 replies)
Wild Magic Barb Magic Awareness feature. Huh? (6 replies)
Guns - experience? (33 replies)
DM Help Can Hallucinatory Terrain hide altered terrain? (5 replies)
Playing against your own Alignment (22 replies)
Jumping over an enemy? (29 replies)
[Adventurer’s League] Bugbear Monk Brainstorming for the new MoTM AL rules… (25 replies)
Player Help Gestalt-ish character (10 replies)
Rules Q&A Adding same ability score to different affects on one action (2 replies)
Optimized Two Man Team for a New Campaign (Levels 3-8) (16 replies)
Combat sucks... for the DM. Tips to make it less so? (69 replies)
DM Help Murder Hobo advice (52 replies)
Backstory idea help (2 replies)
Elven Accuracy becomes Accuracy (44 replies)
What balance changes would you make (107 replies)
MotM fun new race and class combos. (14 replies)
Any issues giving both deft and natural explorer? (5 replies)
Spells for Palard (9 replies)
Player Help Totem Barbarian Reskin Help (11 replies)
Optimization Possible New Character. Trying to build a Vash the Stampede(Trigun) like character (4 replies)
Fun characters for a series of one shots? (5 replies)
Help finishing this L20 barbarian for a fun 1shot/Mini campaighn (10 replies)
What is this specific fallacy called? (72 replies)
Fellow DM question for Mounted Combatant (3 replies)
Probably not optimal; But viable? (1 replies)
Frontliner Gish build help (20 replies)
Optimization Any backgrounds with overly odd/useful abilities? (19 replies)
Astral Bag Bomb Servant (6 replies)
Player Help Numerical values of focus vs non-focus (7 replies)
Player Help Need help understanding how to build a concept (34 replies)
Does climbing in combat require an action? (12 replies)
Does the dual wielder feat and the weapon style feat need fixing? (17 replies)
So what spells SHOULDN'T be concentration? (72 replies)
Making a useful earpiece out of the Magic Mouth spell (19 replies)
Please explain to me why the Tasha's rules aren't optional? (196 replies)
Is there a list of non-deity clerical patrons anywhere? (57 replies)
Can ability recover outside of short/long rests work in 5E? (7 replies)
Speculation A New Interpretation of Illusion Discernment Rules: Overpowered? (26 replies)
"Minimal" interventions for reasonable martial damage? (17 replies)
Optimization help me build a melee healer (16 replies)
The Legendary Rod of Initiative (1 replies)
Monk Weapons? Mildly Irksome. (77 replies)
Warlocks should be able to CHOOSE their casting stat. (62 replies)
Max amount of melee attacks in a round (32 replies)
fey exports (14 replies)
Cleric build advice (or druid?) (10 replies)
Artificer Homunculus: Increasing survival (8 replies)
Speculation Researching Upcastings for Spells (And Silent Image for Blindsight) (10 replies)
Can a Ritual recharge a class ability? (6 replies)
How to make downtime tasks less of a "see if the dice let you succeed"? (24 replies)
Does an illusion have scent outside its area of effect? (48 replies)
DM Help 5e Modules- Hits and Misses (22 replies)
Player Help Thoughts on the Illrigger class? (7 replies)
Devils Eyes vs. Misty Visions (156 replies)
DM Help Populating a Jabberwock Treasure Hoard (6 replies)
Disguise self, but only changing the colour scheme... (13 replies)
STR drake warden v human (7 replies)
DM Help Should i let a use Anime 5e or Spheres of Power in a 5e game? (11 replies)
Rogue/barbarian help (17 replies)
Folklore/reference builds? e.g., CBE/SS BM (70 replies)
Do spells that target creatures also target objects? (77 replies)
Rules Q&A Stacking Metamagic (No, not different ones) (3 replies)
Which Warlock subclass for Sorcerer (2 replies)
Kensei's "Sharpen the Blade" and Darts (14 replies)
Judge my Dragon Dice rules (10 replies)
Kensai war wizard MAD multiclass (6 replies)
Optimization Might I ask for feat/ASI ideas for a lv 4 Soul Knife Rogue? (4 replies)
Half feats and the ability score they increase (23 replies)
Fear spell in enclosed cavern; best counterplay? (18 replies)
Player Help Potential Sorlock options? (6 replies)
A compromise about effects that only affect "unattended" objects (12 replies)
Undead Sorlock Advice (2 level dip vs 1 level + Eldritch Adept) (17 replies)
Soulknife/Ancestral Guardian Barbarian "Cowardly Tank" build - thoughts? (2 replies)
DM Help What's best to run for new players? (21 replies)
How would you rule this? (6 replies)
Anti magic fields and pseudo magical class features - also magical creatures? (43 replies)
How Concentration ruined spellcasting [Rant] (100 replies)
Making Skulker good (29 replies)
Which feats have you seen? (24 replies)
Player Help Tiefling Paladin - Oath of the Ancients. (11 replies)
Making nature's wrath not suck (15 replies)
1st level feat advice (23 replies)
DM Help Unusual combat constraints (6 replies)
DM Help Need help fleshing out a concept for a one-shot. (1 replies)
Which would be a better tank? (20 replies)
Can minor illusion be a cheap substitute for the Actor feat? (5 replies)
Show of Hands: Has Anyone Here Ever Taken the "Durable" feat? (27 replies)
Has anyone tried armorer/echo knight? (7 replies)
Chronurgist Progression Questions (3 replies)
Level 4 advice, descent avernus artificer (12 replies)
Optimization Scribe Wizard + Crusher feat: Meme or workable? (10 replies)
feat advice for Tempest cleric 8 (12 replies)
Advice for a Conquest Dexadin (9 replies)
Blaster master build (7 replies)
Legendary Resistance vs. Grapple (13 replies)
Stone Juggernaut thoughts (4 replies)
A pointless question: how do your healing potions work? (41 replies)
Rogue Options Via Feats Like Magic Initiate and Ritual Caster (28 replies)
what can Major Image do (11 replies)
Create Bonfire - does it produce light? Heat? (374 replies)
DM Help Curse of Strahd upscale? (13 replies)
The Glass Cannon build challenge (36 replies)
DM Help Ideas for exploring/traveling through a fey mountainous jungle? (2 replies)
Unseen Attackers is sometimes weird (40 replies)
Roleplaying Alternative Mounts for a small or medium sized Greater Steed (9 replies)
Need help being the fourth wheel (16 replies)
Is the dhampir's bite more of a ribbon? (28 replies)
Flanking is imo a bad houserule (114 replies)
THIS is why artificers are the best class: (Prank) (4 replies)
Advice on taking on ancient dragons (5 replies)
DM Help Is travel worth it? (36 replies)
Am I just bad at DnD? (Descent into Avernus SPOILERS) (41 replies)
How often should dragons really feature? (33 replies)
Vampire Build (5 replies)
A guile-less and stupid ranged whispers bard? (4 replies)
Bob the Human Fighter, but your backstory is kinda sus (with triple twist) (10 replies)
Auto-damage Warlock (13 replies)
Environmental effects you want to see more of? (0 replies)
5e: Could an undead Paladin work? (18 replies)
Rules Q&A Cursed items and passing attunement (10 replies)
DM Help Request: Creatures that can easily hide in human(oid) society? (11 replies)
About Encounter-Long Damage Spells. (25 replies)
Twilight CD and Skulker feat (14 replies)
Optimization Breaking the Creation Bard...with OIL SPILLS and Acid Blobs (32 replies)
Magic Resistance no longer relevant with MPMM? (22 replies)
Optimization Making Moon Knight? (8 replies)
Does anybody like a Mountain dwarf Swashbuckling Samurai multiclass? (4 replies)
5e consumable or not? (7 replies)
BIRDMAN- character suggestions (6 replies)
Is this broken for a player race? (17 replies)
Swords Bard/Hexblade using GWM? (12 replies)
Can we make a viable build from many dips for interesting features? (6 replies)
Monsters of the Multiverse: is it worth it? (7 replies)
Can the Echo Knight's echo go through walls? (26 replies)
What spells are better for monsters than for players? (22 replies)
'summoner' options (30 replies)
Rules Q&A Modifying +Stat items (30 replies)
Question: can I sell commercially a campaign or world I create for D&D 5e? (8 replies)
Optimization Bard with Destructive Wave as a spell secret? (10 replies)
Ways to Conceal Scent in 5e (30 replies)
Bless is Bad (sometimes, at low levels) (164 replies)
Allowing Warlocks and Sorcerers to learn from spell books? (16 replies)
Would your Good character consider using a Hellfire weapon? (159 replies)
Re-enabling poison (9 replies)
DM Help the price of Spice..how do I set a price for addictive substances in a fantasy world? (21 replies)
Double Booming Blade details (25 replies)
DM Help advice on slice of life session (3 replies)
Avernus - Devil deals (9 replies)
Down a slope - In a barrel (9 replies)
Expand on a world idea (4 replies)
All subraces of dwarf (2 replies)
Preventing Raise Dead (35 replies)
TWF Gnome Barbarian (16 replies)
Welcome to The Sanguine Isles (1 replies)
Rules Q&A Perception checks, really basic rules question (49 replies)
Campaign Premise: High magic, high intrigue magic academy. (0 replies)
Heroes of Krynn Revisited (111 replies)
Is smoke from Pyrotechnics a magical effect? (5 replies)
DM Help PCs getting lost? (Best Practices) (5 replies)
Nothing up my sleeves: Hat Magic (13 replies)
Quick Question - How many people here think that natural explorer bypasses travel? (71 replies)
Optimization Increasing the movement caused by the Telekinetic Feat? (5 replies)
Lore-Forgotten Realms-Most famous characters in each class? (44 replies)
Rules Q&A Monk's Unarmored Defense and AC bumps... (15 replies)
Phylund Hunting Lodge - Jurassic Park? (0 replies)
Rakdos Cultist or Prismari Student for a wildfire druid? (6 replies)
Rules Q&A Simulacrum, True Polymorph, and Dragons (11 replies)
Optimization Half-elf or custom lineage for peace domain cleric? (10 replies)
Immolation: Does it have any good or creative uses, or am I doomed to hate loving it? (12 replies)
Tunnel Fighter Needs Fixing, but we need more melee options Tunnel Fighter (6 replies)
Subclass metamagic (2 replies)
Roleplaying How to Roleplay a Dragonborn? (7 replies)
Optimization Weaponless beast barbarian viable? (36 replies)
Focus fire - how to get rid of it? (102 replies)
Stick with Enchanter or switch to Abberant Mind? (22 replies)
DM Help Intellect Devourers (16 replies)
Optimization Another Jedi Build thread (specifically Cal Kestis) (0 replies)
Player Help Plasmoid and Disguise Self (8 replies)
A little fun: Build a Genshin Impact character (0 replies)
How would you optimize this Wandering Merchant homebrew rogue subclass? (0 replies)
Could use some advise for the 5e Spheres of Might Homebrew system (0 replies)
Monk + Paladin, and other monk multiclasses (31 replies)
Shell Defense (12 replies)
Ways to optimize AoA. (31 replies)