D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 15 - Giant in the Playground Forums

DM Help The Jester's Cowl (5 replies)
Speculation Sun Soul Monk Discussion (36 replies)
Does a fireball dealing thunder damage still catch things on fire? (47 replies)
The paladin's save proficiencies (23 replies)
Wandering Monster Surprise mechanic idea (8 replies)
Pact Magic and Spells Known (33 replies)
DM Help Players building a town (21 replies)
Enabling "break the barrier" scenes--wall of force and force-cage (40 replies)
Rules Q&A Wizard spells known, prepared, and slots (6 replies)
What are the game breaking spells? (75 replies)
Strange requests from me to my DM (6 replies)
Hidden Gem spells (49 replies)
Optimization Help me optimize a wild magic sorcerer (15 replies)
Why are HD based on Class? (23 replies)
Optimization Something simple: Recommendations for High Elf Single Class Rogue Archer (AT)? (30 replies)
Player Help Reflavor instruments for a bard that doesn't play music (18 replies)
Thorn Whip + Flight + Halo of Spores (7 replies)
Enemies Attacking Same Initiative (87 replies)
Another dual wielding thread with another possible change... (13 replies)
¿House Rule: Replace standard ASIs with: You gain 1 feat & +1 to any 1 stat? (23 replies)
Optimization Resistances and Immunities of Monsters in FToD (1 replies)
Anti-Magic Zone and the Fly Spell, How to Calculate Movement (7 replies)
Blood Hunter Ghostslayer lvl 11 ability question... (3 replies)
Blind Fighting + Eversmoking Bottle for NPC: how big of a boost is it? (0 replies)
DM Help Fleshing out a campaign setting: Mouse World (9 replies)
Rules Q&A Find (Greater) Steed and Shapechange (14 replies)
Charmed & Dreamy or Totally Disconnected - Stone Rune (1 replies)
Is the game better when everyone is equal in combat? (46 replies)
Gloom Stalker and Tricksy Fey (23 replies)
Random Idea for Linear Fighters Quadratic Wizard future solution (224 replies)
Optimization Making Baba Yaga's house for a player character? (7 replies)
Hello my name is Human (9 replies)
Player Help Vengeance Paladin 10th Level Build (CoS) (22 replies)
Player Help Ideas for sibling characters? (31 replies)
Gathered Swarm + Familiar, Does it work? (7 replies)
Detoxifying a Table (60 replies)
Improving Opportunity Attacks ? (15 replies)
Player Races Leaks from Monsters of the Multiverse! (1 replies)
Why do Rogues get longsword proficiency? (94 replies)
Rules Q&A Basic rules question as I finally enter 5e (25 replies)
Advice on a Wild Magic Barbarian in family game (14 replies)
Rules Q&A Questions about Minor Conjuration (6 replies)
Interesting Feat Dilemma for Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (19 replies)
In his native tongue he is called: Droppen Born! (4 replies)
Feats for Astral Self Monk? (11 replies)
Spell Scroll House Rule (15 replies)
Removing Charisma from 5E (41 replies)
Aberrant Mind vs. Chronurgy Wizard Advice (Cos Campaign) (2 replies)
Dragon Riding and Pragmatism (53 replies)
Player Help Quick Question about Goodberry (9 replies)
Is RAW mounted combat as entirely broken as it looks (75 replies)
Creating a sorcerer who controls a dragon. (53 replies)
Need ideas for my druidic focus (11 replies)
Which magic item would this NPC want? (LikelyWild Beyond the Witchlight spoilers) (13 replies)
Optimization Need help with standard array Dwarf Barbarian or Fighter build (8 replies)
Rules Q&A adventure deep underwater (25 replies)
Help with a Genie Warlock “Sudden Knight” build (8 replies)
How prevalent are toxic tables? (58 replies)
How strong is a 1/round reroll of a 1 or a 20? (8 replies)
DM Help Adventuring in the Far Realm (19 replies)
Pact Magic tweak: get short rest slots for each level (9 replies)
Frustrated with Changeling and Warforged. I need ideas. (107 replies)
Making a Mounted Character (6 replies)
Curse of Strahd Class Advice (No spoilers please) (22 replies)
How viable would it be to use these weapons with dual wielding? (2 replies)
Does performance have a role? DM thinking. (36 replies)
Creating Custom Maps For Roll20 (2 replies)
What if Barbarians Raged as a Reaction ? (12 replies)
Optimising Rime's Binding Ice and Wither and Bloom (6 replies)
Optimization Divine soul sorcerer (12 replies)
Assassin 3 / Grave Cleric X (8 replies)
Making a Fairy Drakewarden work? (23 replies)
How often do you let wizards add to their spellbook? (135 replies)
DM Help Multiclass with different archetype in the same class (11 replies)
New Combat Ideas (37 replies)
Is Damage Type Critical for spell balance (33 replies)
Fighting an Ancient Dragon in Its Lair (6 replies)
Speculation How much would it affect the game if you could cast touch spells at range? (8 replies)
Need help with character "codename" (23 replies)
Blindsight and Tremorsight and Hiding (7 replies)
Character advise for future progression - Goliath Psi Warrior (6 replies)
Ranger conclave, but different base class fairness? (3 replies)
Possible houserule to nerf caster multiclassing for armor (73 replies)
What is the niche of the druid spell list? (6 replies)
Donjon Dungeon generator help. (2 replies)
Casters can do everything, YAY!!!! (1506 replies)
Monsters multiverse changes (4 replies)
Mage Slayer order of operations (5 replies)
Subclasses as multiclasses (22 replies)
Mid-Level Druid Question (7 replies)
Artificer Variation Ideas (21 replies)
Player Help What AL recommendations to play? (1 replies)
Optimization Personal Flying ability vs Mounted Flight? (11 replies)
Second Wind extra uses (8 replies)
Tempest Cleric Storm Sorc Help! (24 replies)
DM Help Encounter/Room Ideas for an old armory (8 replies)
Dragonmarks and Aberrant Mind (9 replies)
Player Help Tanking Team (24 replies)
What kind of spells would work well as custom incantations? (1 replies)
Optimization Optimizing for a Vorpal Sword (26 replies)
Empty Handed Orcish Fury (15 replies)
Bounty-Hunter Cleric of Kelemvor? (3 replies)
Ridiculous Swarmkeeper ideas: (9 replies)
How do TCoE's Summon X spells compare, betwen themselves, and with other spells? (138 replies)
Faceless background (2 replies)
Wizard Spells for Baby Daddy (9 replies)
Player Help Genie Warlock living in a bottle tips? (22 replies)
Looking for inspiration for a druid. (29 replies)
Roleplaying How exactly does darkvision work? (28 replies)
How to build my childhood assumptions of what a cleric would be? (12 replies)
I find myself on a team with ALL casters. No meatshields at all...any tips? (29 replies)
Player Help AL Tool Expertise (3 replies)
Need advice on a new Dream Druid (13 replies)
Is Piercer secretly a mounted combat feat? (14 replies)
My Latest (Scarlet Witch) (19 replies)
Optimization Conquest Paladin/Dragon Fear (8 replies)
Wildhunt Shifter Barbarians (9 replies)
Piercer Feat - When statistically should I re-roll the damage die? (25 replies)
New Hobgoblin Artificer/Mastermind? (4 replies)
A divine tech brawler...? (26 replies)
Optimization Bladesinger advice needed (12 replies)
Unarmored characters need an equivalent to armor +X (75 replies)
New GM help / advice for plot hooks (2 replies)
Idea: +X AC When Armed (17 replies)
DM Help What really is an aberration or a fiend, and does it actually make any difference? (26 replies)
Uses for a 5ft Cube (9 replies)
Rules Q&A Aboleths, Tritons, and Mucus (4 replies)
Switching editions (39 replies)
Replacing ASIs with +1 to two different stats and a feat (29 replies)
Is the Artificer actually good? I don't think it is (448 replies)
Controlling Animals (4 replies)
DM Help Handling Divination (7 replies)
DM Help Worldbuilding Game Help (6 replies)
PAM and Longsword? (67 replies)
Speculation So, how do Dhampirs actually feed at your table? (4 replies)
What does a good party need? (36 replies)
Speculation Homebrew Shotgun Idea (9 replies)
Optimization Character Help (17 replies)
talk me out of this, please! (12 replies)
The future of humanity in D&D? (41 replies)
Wizards of the Coast leadership changes (70 replies)
Is there a better way of limiting magic items than attunement? (144 replies)
New GM help / advice for plot hooks (0 replies)
What would you play? (34 replies)
Optimization 3 man party tank? (14 replies)
What are some good thematic ribbon traits for a race? (8 replies)
DM Help Teasing out interactions of PAM+Sentinel vs. Bugbear Rogue w/Mobile (22 replies)
Turning feats into fighting styles - Charger, Grappler, Tavern Brawler (3 replies)
"Leader" type Paladin - Any good 3rd party/homebrew options? Homebrew suggestions? (4 replies)
Speculation Universal feats (23 replies)
DM Help Essential Information for the DM (22 replies)
Puppet Smite (1 replies)
Ideas for building a Demolitionist (12 replies)
Oathbreaker (Suggestions) (22 replies)
Sorcerers and their connection to magic (37 replies)
Lances and Find Steed - How good is mounted combat really? (50 replies)
Lances and independent mounts (12 replies)
Build Advice for Level 20 One-Shot (9 replies)
DM Help Redirecting all ethereal effects to the Shadowfell (1 replies)
I need some suggestions on roleplaying. (15 replies)
Feats Survey from WotC (138 replies)
Let's talk about Darkness, again... (205 replies)
How Often Do You Let the PCs Set The Engagement Tempo? (23 replies)
Darksight - Inverting light and dark to see in darkness and be blinded by light (5 replies)
Fun ways to kill the Tarrasque (40 replies)
Index Thorin's Company (26 replies)
DM Help Feats for increasing concentration spells (55 replies)
Blue Dragon Breath: Why just a verticle line? (13 replies)
Are silvered weapons too expensive? (14 replies)
Should Turn Undead be harder to use against more intelligent undead? (9 replies)
Is Enthrall worth a 2nd level slot? Is it too strong as an at-will racial trait? (24 replies)
What should my niche be in this party? (61 replies)
DM Help Thoughts on a PC picking up a Lizardfolk's Spiked Shield (19 replies)
Is Peace Domain Cleric broken without Bless? (14 replies)
Is there a list of ways to get status immunity in 5E? (5 replies)
Cheap blindsight (6 replies)
Did WotC get Concentration backwards? (144 replies)
DM Help Some aid with the Aid spell (3 replies)
DM Help Isekai Reboot (5 replies)
DM Help Addiction in D&D (TW: Addiction; substance abuse) (4 replies)
Rules help: touch spell familiar reactions (3 replies)
Where are weights and heights defined by size class? (6 replies)
Optimization What would you play in a campaign with mostly humanoid foes in an urban setting? (28 replies)
Optimization Help with Paladin Rogue Multiclass (29 replies)
ideas for surprisingly popular NPC (12 replies)
DM Help Wild Beyond the Witchlight (5 replies)
Battlerager thoughts (49 replies)
Category 1 class features (47 replies)
Descent into Avernus: which deity for my Paladin? Bane or Helm? (27 replies)
Why is North not Up??? (22 replies)
DM Help Stacking Dice Bonuses (37 replies)
Rule Variant Idea: ASI's on Character Level (22 replies)
Rules Q&A Invisible is a weird status effect (87 replies)
Animate Object, what besides silverware can you animate? (17 replies)
A Dead Creature's Turn. (12 replies)
Making a Battle Royale fun to play (8 replies)
(Cranium) Rat King PC concept – advice requested (9 replies)
Optimization Feat for an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (15 replies)
DM Help Monsters in an Enchanted Castle (13 replies)
Player Help Dhampir Feeding (9 replies)
Tentacle of the Deep size. (7 replies)
Battlesorlock (2 replies)
5th Edition: Where are the Novels? (85 replies)
Magical weapon that scales with a skill? (7 replies)
Creative uses for an owl familiar in combat? (20 replies)
Your thoughts on Orc swashbuckler/hexblade worshiper of Shargaas build. (3 replies)
Monsters of the multiverse might be a lil important afterall.. (284 replies)
Build advice/feedback- bladesinger with sick stats (9 replies)
How do dwarves that lives nuderground make their own book? (62 replies)
DM Help Polymorph Problems (2 replies)
DM Help Troll blood... not a drink for the faint-hearted. (24 replies)
Lightning, the Sound of Silence? (17 replies)
What class & subclass? Monk VS Fighter, with a caveat (33 replies)
Roleplaying How to RP low INT and average WIS? (28 replies)
Ravenloft near TPK, was it the scenario or me? (28 replies)
Level 10 Eldritch Knight Planning Higher Levels (10 replies)
DM Help Can you float in Lava? (32 replies)
2 Clerics, 2x warding bond+ 2x heavy armor Mastery? what the interaction (2 replies)
Help with Fief Management Mechanics (8 replies)
Player Help Homebrew Feedback -- How unbalanced is this? (5 replies)
Fighter/Sword bard or straight bard? (3 replies)
Great Waterdeep Bake Off (5 replies)
Getting bored by your Character (Or: What to do with a S&B Champion?) (53 replies)
Artificer Artillerist cannon shaped like a dagger (9 replies)
Predictions Thread For D&D 2022, 2023, and 2024 (56 replies)
DnDBeyond: Are Sidekicks and Survivors available as Classes? (3 replies)
Building a dragon PC using available RAW (22 replies)
Player Help Which Race to Pick for Wizard? (16 replies)
DM Help A Booyahg became a Kenku. Intelligence or Charisma sidekick? (3 replies)
Substitute for Invoke Duplicity - good, bad, or just plain ugly? (19 replies)
DM Help Teamwork Feats (10 replies)
Thought Experiment: full caster progression, but very limited spells known (7 replies)
Is Barbarian more frontloaded than we think? (69 replies)
Effective vs. Interesting Combat Choices (2 replies)
Is Resistance Futile, with Bless? (15 replies)
DM Help Seeking advice on hexcrawl, and mixing it with horror (FNAF, specifically) (0 replies)
Optimization Is PAM & Defence equivalent to Dual Wielder & Two Weapon Fighting? (25 replies)
Anydice Help (0 replies)
What to do if a character you really liked dies in the 3rd session? (22 replies)
Some help on picking out a character (9 replies)
Optimization Greatsword Thrown weapons combo (4 replies)
Charger + Mobile? (16 replies)
DM Help Player Wants to be Master Blaster (11 replies)
Best fighting Cleric or support Paladin (35 replies)
what feats to take for a Trickery Cleric? (6 replies)
Fighting Style: Martial Arts and Treating Two Weapon Fighting in a Similar Fashion (13 replies)
The Heroic Knight Ghelatyn (22 replies)
Reverse Gravity Help (26 replies)
Fulfilling sons character concept - dual pistol and cybernetically enhanced (18 replies)
New GM help / advise (29 replies)