D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 14 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Player contracted lycanthropy. Now what? (39 replies)
Are there any good new world podcasts (0 replies)
whats the point of blowguns/darts (47 replies)
Breaking Bad: Silver Dragon edition (99 replies)
DM Help Solving magic weapon cost with MATH (10 replies)
Fey Touched/Shadow Touched + Shadow Monk (2 replies)
How did you know that? (Knowledge Checks) (4 replies)
5e diplomat feat (4 replies)
Background for Maid/Servant? (14 replies)
Looking for ideas on a Strength/Grapple/Push Swords Bard (3 replies)
Artificer Magic Item Crafting (6 replies)
Low level durability (43 replies)
d10 piercing weapons? (18 replies)
Help theorize a character; Linguist/translator; C3PO-inspired (1 replies)
Help me make a call on Skulk Fallible Invisibility (12 replies)
Scribing spell scrolls funny (4 replies)
Speculation Proposed house rule: Spending your hp on behalf of those whose space you share (8 replies)
At What Point Would You Correct the DM? (58 replies)
Did they get rid of sunlight-decay drow magic items in 5e? (0 replies)
How does race change work? Is there a rule on how DM should act? (13 replies)
What if Rangers had Pact Magic spell progression? (66 replies)
fighter sublass for a warlock (11 replies)
Different speeds (1 replies)
Does a Homunculus Servant get Death Saving Throws? (5 replies)
Martial Classes are OP (29 replies)
On the topic of constitution (48 replies)
Optimization Comparing a Gitp homebrew spell to a canon spell (Legendary Libation v. Create Water) (9 replies)
Stratagems and tactics for fighting a sea battle in heavy fog? (10 replies)
Spell Selection for Swashbuckling Bard/Rogue (13 replies)
Ranger Spell Selection (31 replies)
Oathbreaker aura (13 replies)
Bring back per encounter resources (25 replies)
Earth in the Forgotten Realms (32 replies)
Optimization Battlemaster optimization (3 replies)
Roleplaying Help Needed: Sowing subversion as Zorro-like figure (9 replies)
A bag of holding for multiple users: Magic Item Advice (13 replies)
So looking for advice & ideas on homebrewed subclass Monk way of Puppet Possession (0 replies)
Any unforseen issues with making Psi-Warrior Wis-based? (11 replies)
One PC, four classes. What do you build? (49 replies)
All this talk of "Casters are too strong", and "What spells do you ban or nerf?" (109 replies)
Ranged Grapples (and why RAW should be ignored sometimes) (2 replies)
The interesting things to do with Fighters thread…. (49 replies)
Optimization Pyromancer Building (25 replies)
Hello all. Can you help me make a party full of healers? (71 replies)
Is this "cursed" shield one of the best tanking items? (46 replies)
A scout familiar is a dead familiar (212 replies)
Booming Battle smith (10 replies)
"Because magic"...? (181 replies)
What is the lowest-level party that can go against a CR 20+ and have fun? (10 replies)
Optimization What would you do, magic item edition (7 replies)
5.5 Sneak Peek in Call of the Netherdeep? (1 replies)
Quit Complaining about Pacing Constraints (99 replies)
Encounters per day (21 replies)
how risky is a short rest? (64 replies)
How do you justify deflecting boulders? (131 replies)
Tank Options? (15 replies)
How to Acquire Ensnaring Strike w/o Ranger Lvls? (12 replies)
So I Went To A Zoo (10 replies)
Scourge of Dragons: A Martial-Centric Campaign for 5E (Feedback Needed) (35 replies)
Player Help How do I play my next character? (2 replies)
Plague based feat for a paladin (2 replies)
UA - lunar magic broken (15 replies)
To you I bequeath... (15 replies)
Could I get some help with a concept of a tactical eldritch knight.. (8 replies)
Pillars of Play, how much time in Combat? (16 replies)
Everybody loves Monks (613 replies)
Simplifying an NPC gish/cleric statblock (0 replies)
Barbarian + Champion subclass = balance? (27 replies)
DM Help Rogue vs rogue (10 replies)
Thinking of Barbarian Auto-Crits (11 replies)
[DM Journal] The Just-Us League vs. The Red Hand of Doom! (2 replies)
Smite Dice, a hypothetical (13 replies)
How would you blend D&D with a degrees-of-success system? (15 replies)
Chases, Escapes, Retreats, & Player Expectations (6 replies)
Player accidentally stumbled onto big spoiler about NPC online. Need advice. (4 replies)
Aura of Devotion/Courage- immunity, suppression or cancelling? (17 replies)
4 PCs, one race. What do you build? (34 replies)
How do classes stack up in a featless game? (22 replies)
Character creation/building as a conversation about the desired content (4 replies)
Straight Arcane Trickster or AT/Bladesinger 2 in Tier 1/2 w small party? (2 replies)
Draconic sorcerer character concept (7 replies)
Two Fighting Styles: Choose or Use (7 replies)
Bard character inspiration help (8 replies)
Getting actor feat is a bad idea, is it not? (23 replies)
Anyone else have a difference between fun to builld and fun to play characters? (10 replies)
Druid Subclass Advice for ToA (9 replies)
Lyin’ and Taigas and Bears, May I? A discussion of ability checks in 5E and beyond (21 replies)
Optimization Help with my Swashbuckler (26 replies)
What class for an Owlbear? (20 replies)
Glory Paladin with Spear and Shield in a 3 char party in Tier 1 and 2 (2 replies)
Downtime Activity, Noncombat, and Work XP (26 replies)
shillelagh + polearm master on a quarterstaff bonus attack damage? (68 replies)
Viable unarmed build (51 replies)
Help, My Players Have Taken It Too Far: I Need Help Making A Sans Goblin Boss (2 replies)
4 PCs, one base class. What do you build? (163 replies)
Anti-fiend class features? (20 replies)
Let's break the new Dragonlance UA (6 replies)
DM Help Designing a dungeon (13 replies)
Casters Can Do Everything, Even Create a New Thread (368 replies)
Help with Frostmaiden Encounter-Sephek Kaltro (13 replies)
Rules Q&A can you see force energy? (3 replies)
Halfling Devotion Paladin for Curse of Strahd- analysis paralysis, help! (11 replies)
monster V monster: CR 10 (or below) (7 replies)
Five man team (26 replies)
Con Barbarian Discussion (112 replies)
Adjusting Hit Points (22 replies)
Danse Macabre (and maybe other necromancy?) question (16 replies)
Medium Crunch Mass Combat (10 replies)
Possible modification to the dual wielder feat (2 replies)
Ranger/Champion Alternative (10 replies)
I'm looking for ideas for my campaign PC going to Hell (3 replies)
5E - Dwarf Fortress Survivor (15 replies)
Will this BeastBarian Change have Adverse Side-Effects? (22 replies)
[POLL] What levels do you normally play through at your table? (81 replies)
Thinking of DMing again, how to overcome anxiety? (38 replies)
pure powerplay Oath of conquest paladin (9 replies)
New UA...has Kender? Wat? (455 replies)
Would you let a player switch out a class ability 4 a feat (20 replies)
Barbarian / Maelstrom combo (0 replies)
In a 3PC party with AT and Cl1/DivWizX - would Paladin fit better than EK? (14 replies)
Races with levitate spell (2 replies)
Need help naming my character (Calling Greyhawk lorekeepers!) (1 replies)
Impact of moving Cha to attacks from Hexblade to pact of the blade? (37 replies)
Spells by Condition Type (3 replies)
Is there a way to attack with Dex using unarmed strikes while wearing armor? (15 replies)
Graz'zt position name if he were in a relationship with Lolth (11 replies)
feat "Mage slayer" and how it's played (41 replies)
Initiative Dream Come True (19 replies)
How to play a Ranger that isn't a liability? (41 replies)
The only way I might play 5e... (not being mean btw) (158 replies)
Options for an ancient "Egyptian" themed healer class/subclass? (13 replies)
Player Help 1st level feat NOT V.Human (14 replies)
Creative uses for gaseous form? (15 replies)
At will spike growth at a subclass capstone (8 replies)
How to be useful... (6 replies)
Find Familiar but it can be any beast of CR 1/8 or less - Any problems? (3 replies)
BPS Immunity is... kinda trashy. (20 replies)
Easy to learn weapons, difficult to master weapons, and weapon expertise? (3 replies)
Giving Bonus Actions to Tasha-style Servants (6 replies)
5.5 suggestion to key Barbarian Unarmored Defense off Strength and Constitution (167 replies)
Need help deciding what class to play (24 replies)
Homebrew stuff for DM that you use in your own campaign (4 replies)
Reaping the rewards (15 replies)
Elven Rogue (AT) in a party with Knowledge Cleric/Divination Wizard and Fighter (EK) (7 replies)
Have to choose how to build my paladin - polearm or 2 handed sword? (24 replies)
DM Help Locations for Grasslands? (15 replies)
flail snail shenanigans (4 replies)
Performance and stories (2 replies)
Actor feat - do you have any story worth sharing? (2 replies)
Optimization Help with a melee cleric build liv 1-8 (1 replies)
Cleric As A Wizard? (27 replies)
Bear Totem barbarian 3 / paladin x - which p subclass? (5 replies)
Resilient - just a few questions (8 replies)
Most Impactful Battlemaster Maneuvers (12 replies)
Which other animals has your DM allowed you to summon via "find steed"? (13 replies)
Low-level spells that are emblematic for a Sorcerer? (28 replies)
Using a trio of new scores instead of ability scores for attacks, spells, etc. (3 replies)
Creating a Baphomet Cleric (7 replies)
Quivering Palm, do I understand correctly? (10 replies)
DM Help Acid Vials and Catapult (13 replies)
Experience or suggestions stringing a number of small modules into a campaign? (4 replies)
UA Theurgic Wizard + new cleric domains. (4 replies)
Reasonable homebrew "fix" for the Enlarge/Reduce spell (20 replies)
Optimization Sorlock in an upcoming campaign (5 replies)
Optimization Strixhaven Campaign: Strixhaven background & class combinations (5 replies)
Barbarian Combat Feature (24 replies)
Should Ability Scores matter? (42 replies)
Contemplating Encounter Types for Solo "Playtesting" (19 replies)
Beyond Damage Dice and Beyond Damage Dice 2 (0 replies)
How do you decide what magic items to give out? (12 replies)
DM Help Wild beyond the witchlight adventure (19 replies)
Pull on Weapon Attack? (4 replies)
What characters best exemplify what archetypes to you? (31 replies)
Which is better, a 3rd attack or more damage per hit? (28 replies)
Is there a feature similar to Panache that is easier to get? (4 replies)
Improved Pact Weapon and Blessing of the Forge (4 replies)
DM Help Advice Running Multi-Level Games (8 replies)
Best ship content for 5e? (2 replies)
Blood Hunter Flaming Rite uses (6 replies)
Optimization Bringing out the Big Bows: Heavy Crossbow Optimization? (22 replies)
What to do with limited wish (5 replies)
Casters are way to strong: Show Your Work edition (215 replies)
DM Help Integrating new player (9 replies)
What If unarmed strikes counted as simple (or martial) one handed melee weapons... (21 replies)
DM Help What spells do you ban? Disregarding source. (91 replies)
Support Character Help (13 replies)
Invisibility + Dragon's Breath Loophole? (85 replies)
Rules Q&A Pricing goods in different containers (1 replies)
Player Help Magic Item suggestions? (6 replies)
DM Help Want to have a dragon hoard item scale up (8 replies)
DM Help Help me run my party through a party (6 replies)
If you started a campaign at 15th level - what would you play? (48 replies)
Star Druid - Chalice with Aura of Vitality (4 replies)
Help me reskin a Cleric for cold damage? Also Revenant playable race? (19 replies)
How good is Jim's magic missile (12 replies)
After 2 and half years I finally finished chapter 3 of storm king thunder (4 replies)
Glyph of warding in silence (4 replies)
Examining Phantom Steed: better in a fight than I thought? (51 replies)
How to make the most generic dnd game ever (20 replies)
Bard question (3 replies)
When a spell isnt a spell (7 replies)
Reining in Simulacrum (50 replies)
DM Question: Enforcing equipment? (32 replies)
Summon Fiend as a mount (11 replies)
DM Help How overtuned was this encounter (7 replies)
How do I use Zone of truth to its maximum effectiveness? (11 replies)
Darkvision is overrated? (47 replies)
Optimization When to cast Summon Greater Demon? (46 replies)
Elden ring classes (4 replies)
Find the exploit: Use an Action to do a Bonus Action (16 replies)
Gift of the Chromatic Dragon or Tough Feat (2 replies)
What's the problem with Hunter's Mark? (147 replies)
Is the Revenant Blade feat worth it for a Rogue? (12 replies)
Creating Free Holy Water from an Artificer Infusion (28 replies)
Help Me Build a Grey Goo Plasmoid (6 replies)
DM Help The Goblin Trinity Priests (4 replies)
Order of lycan + path of beast = 4 attacks per turn? (17 replies)
Clerics would be cooler on warlock mechanics (39 replies)
Improvising an Action (Examples) (7 replies)
Simulacrum+wish=infinite gold: how to handle it? (117 replies)
My Hulk Build (WARNING: This is a video) (4 replies)
Optimization War Magic vs Bladesinging (23 replies)
Old-school "Evil Caster" spells, and their equivalent in 5e? (6 replies)
Artificers should get Tools' expertise earlier (44 replies)
Opinions on Giant Insect? (4 replies)
The Charger Feat (25 replies)
How can I improve this concept/build? (19 replies)
Wish Options (12 replies)
PHB Ranger's Favored Enemy: Two or One Humanoids at Level 6 and 14? (3 replies)
Player Help Converting 3.5 to 5e (25 replies)
Quick Fey/Shadow Touched Clarification (2 replies)
Counterspell tweak (17 replies)
DM Help A player ate a slaad tadpole. What now? (65 replies)
whats a good multiclass for rogue (44 replies)
Rules Q&A General acceptability of sources (29 replies)
Optimization My Ranking of Cleric Domains (61 replies)
Speculation Improving The Standard Human (132 replies)
Is Calm Emotions & Detect Thoughts worth keeping on Psionic Spell List (CoS Campaign) (10 replies)
DM Help Help with Magical Items (3 replies)
Player Help Artificer and spell wrought tattoo question (1 replies)
Armorer Artificer questions (15 replies)
Optimization Mini-Guide to Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse PC Races! (143 replies)
D&D’s balance fulcrum (13 replies)
TricksterÂ’s Escape or Eldritch Mind (2 replies)
Armorer Artificer, Magic Armor, and Infusions (9 replies)
Adding options does not necessarily increase variety (137 replies)
Most iconic monster at each level (3 replies)
Optimization How to optimize my Guardian Armorer tank ? (23 replies)
Why I dislike Custom Lineage (197 replies)
Thieves Guild Campaigns (8 replies)