D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 16 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Optimization Tortle Sorcerer help (10 replies)
Value of Metamagics vs Eldritch Invocations (14 replies)
Traumatize my players (30 replies)
Optimization Animate Dead balance (64 replies)
What spells should a high level druid be casting? (39 replies)
How can a Hexblade establish a relationship to patron (13 replies)
Flaming shpere "ramming" a creature - where does it ends its movement? (11 replies)
Reworking Shadow Blade (22 replies)
You Know What I'd Appreciate? (15 replies)
Soulknife/Monk Multiclass - Anyone tried this? (18 replies)
5e Extra Attack Vs Thirsting Blade (16 replies)
Monsters of the Multiverse releases as a stand-alone book in May (24 replies)
Shape of flowing river… battle application (0 replies)
Why would you play a cleric? (61 replies)
What kind of clues should the bad guy leave? (12 replies)
Player Help How to get Advantage (0 replies)
Am I understanding this right? What do they mean by lifting? (29 replies)
Rules Q&A Can +CHR stack Twice? (13 replies)
Mind Sharpener in late game? (13 replies)
Character Concept: Orc Pantheist Priest (Bard) (9 replies)
DM Help PC finding his father. What to do? (16 replies)
Scourge Aasimar (7 replies)
Character for Saltmarsh (15 replies)
Transmuted Spell and Prismatic Spray (13 replies)
DM Help What could go wrong? Your overall thoughts??? (14 replies)
DnD Beyond help (7 replies)
Speculation Using Magic Mouth to Record Music? (9 replies)
How did your characters evolve as they leveled? (8 replies)
Speculation Treating Cursed Lycanthropy as a sort-of "reverse Polymorph" wrt hp (3 replies)
DM Help How to run a menagerie escape? (6 replies)
Major image of a dense cloud (137 replies)
Would You Use This Item? (36 replies)
Two options on a magic item homebrew (1 replies)
What is your favorite PLOT (10 replies)
Conjure Chwinga (15 replies)
Fight For Your Life / Downed / Last Stand / Deaths Door (7 replies)
DM Help Armor and resting (7 replies)
What if Hexblades weren't SAD (24 replies)
Player Help Shadow monk/fighter multiclass - advice needed (7 replies)
DM Help DCs for Persuasion? (14 replies)
DM Help Well That Backfired: Players Getting Lycanthropy (17 replies)
Aarikocra monk "wrestler" (9 replies)
Passive investigation significantly higher than passive perception (16 replies)
Minotaur Twilight Cleric? (5 replies)
Fighter vs Warrior (15 replies)
TheoryCrafting: What subclass features would you love to see on a different class? (37 replies)
Possibly Odd question, but where do you look for online groups? (7 replies)
2 immovable rods (11 replies)
The Races left behind in design (6 replies)
Pre-game checklist? (7 replies)
Help with a character name (14 replies)
Infusion: any common magical item? (8 replies)
Darkness and Magical Tinkering Lights (14 replies)
Hexblade Swashbuckler... or other Rogue Subclass (15 replies)
samurai build help (12 replies)
Strength Before Death - anyone used it? (10 replies)
What character/build are you looking forward to playing next? (38 replies)
New Hobgoblin + Mastermind (29 replies)
3.5 crit ranges in 5e (8 replies)
DM Help How to do a Mass Battle? (19 replies)
Holiday-themed phylactery - how would you do it?? (9 replies)
As a sunlight sensitive person, I will be sad if they remove sunlight sensitivity (129 replies)
(Un)optimization Help! (25 replies)
"Good" 5e Houserules (56 replies)
Should there be more Exploration/Interaction Rules? (100 replies)
Bugbear Boogeyman build? (5 replies)
What's with WotC avoiding Class bloat but not Race bloat? (214 replies)
How do I get my players to go to the feywild? (44 replies)
Tales from my game and: How to carry on after a near TPK? (Curse of Strahd SPOILERS) (22 replies)
Which subclass features should have been baked into the main class? (91 replies)
Would you allow lassos? If so, how? (13 replies)
Predictions For Next Edition (18 replies)
What are the best spells for aberrant and clockwork (6 replies)
My personal "how to read rules" guidelines (23 replies)
Shortest Path to Reaction Sneak Attack with Booming Blade? (41 replies)
Muticlass archetypes (7 replies)
Optimization Kensei Archer Build Help (29 replies)
DM Help player lycantrophy drama playout (13 replies)
Paladins and Spell/Smite points (6 replies)
Echo Knight question (60 replies)
DM Help Let's make a list! Share your Archfey with us! (6 replies)
DS Sorc’s bloodline source (10 replies)
Melee or ranged? (21 replies)
DM Help Magic Items for Fighters (29 replies)
Mind if I ask for Paladin ideas/inspiration? Feeling a bit lost with sub classes (26 replies)
Enchantment wizard multiclass with healing? (20 replies)
What if Counterspell were a metamagic instead of a spell? (25 replies)
Fun spell combinations (76 replies)
Most 1st level spell "slots" (20 replies)
Amazing Adventures 5e (4 replies)
Best Spellcasting Dips for Martials (51 replies)
Rules Q&A outfitting a familiar ? (7 replies)
Player Help Arcane Gate Shenanigans (7 replies)
8th level Mystic Arcanum- which is the least bad? (26 replies)
Speculation What if spellcasting took longer than other actions? (85 replies)
What Does a Changeling Childhood Look Like? (11 replies)
Casting During Wild Shape at Level 2 (8 replies)
New Set of Martial House Rules - Which Class is the Weakest? (4 replies)
Eldritch Knight w/Paladin Dip (feedback) (6 replies)
DM Help insignia of claws, too powerful on a level 3 moon druid? to nerf or not to nerf... (21 replies)
Armor Proficiency, alternative rules? (31 replies)
Drakewarden's Infused Strike feature. (4 replies)
Let’s talk about Adventurer’s League (20 replies)
Warlock Patron for Forbidden Knowledge (22 replies)
Any official way to erase a fire brand? (13 replies)
Weird Yuan-ti Poison Spell/Blind Fighting Combo? (8 replies)
With Truesight I can Eldritch Blast a BBEG True Polymorphed into an adamantium statue (240 replies)
Mechanics that dont make sense (377 replies)
Speculation Using 3.5/PF1 Carrying Capacity Rules to inspire modification to improve 5e rules (18 replies)
Roll20 has a new "target" entry in its spell descriptions (6 replies)
Artisan's blessing: a clarification needed. (6 replies)
Need encounter/plot ideas FAST! (14 replies)
Multiple counterspells? (5 replies)
Ways to improve success rate on a revivify spell scroll? (6 replies)
Lorehold Student - are the spells considered class spells. (5 replies)
"Best" domain for a 1 level cleric dip for a level 12 Rune Knight (16 replies)
Subclass Gestalt rules (6 replies)
DM Help swarms (11 replies)
How to make this cleric/warlock idea viable (7 replies)
5e Realm: not the ususal (7 replies)
On monsters of the multiverse... what's the deal? (6 replies)
Cursed Fortress Ideas (5 replies)
Variety is the Spice of Lich (11 replies)
Dancing Sword: any reason why you couldn't use several at once? (15 replies)
Tavern Brawler +1d4: does it break? (8 replies)
DM Help Need help finding a free one-shot module (1 replies)
Speculation What's the best sorcerer melee build you can throw without using paladin? (93 replies)
Ghost Walk and the Ground (4 replies)
Making the Artificer a Full Caster (20 replies)
Can Tasha's summons be twinned (34 replies)
Discussion: Game with no multiclassing and no feats (40 replies)
Warlock Based off INT? (66 replies)
DM Help Academy of Heroes - Encounters for Kids (15 replies)
Optimization Peace Cleric stat distribution help needed. (10 replies)
More Silvery Barbs discussion (342 replies)
Just pondering about the Fizban Dragon Born breath weapon (10 replies)
Player Help Feats for a poison based build (1 replies)
DM Help Invisible with a light source (39 replies)
Talisman: It's pretty good (27 replies)
DM Help Advanced Necromancy Workings, Minotaurs and More (5 replies)
Optimization Build: The Lightning Sniper, a Nova Specialist (36 replies)
Roleplaying Improvisational moment led to a tricky situation. Any ideas how to get out of it? (14 replies)
Rules Q&A Turn Undead vs Necromancy School Undead (3 replies)
Fairy Arcane Trickster Creation (4 replies)
The pike & half-pike (9 replies)
Player Help My friends are thinking of trying out DnD for the first time (11 replies)
Why would you pick Shillelagh over Thorn Whip? (50 replies)
Houserules for Martials in a No Feats Game (68 replies)
Silver Sword of Gith (5 replies)
3 houserules, are they good for the game? (128 replies)
No longer valid target (127 replies)
Optimization Dragonborn Blade Singer? (14 replies)
How do you calculate the odds of contested checks? (10 replies)
The Hot and Wild Life of a Druid from Strixhaven (2 replies)
Any ideas for how to build this guide character? (9 replies)
DM Help Kinda painted myself into a corner (17 replies)
Optimization Smite Arrows: Hexblade Archery Theory Crafting (29 replies)
How to kill high level PCs (38 replies)
How do you incorporate Dead Magic Zones? (71 replies)
Optimization Great weapon battlemaster advice (6 replies)
Sorcerer subclass spell options. How broken. (10 replies)
Is Shillelagh compatible with Divine Strike? (2 replies)
Optimization Fighter/Ranger Multiclass, how would you progress? (12 replies)
Fizban's Dragonborn + Dragon Mask= Win? (28 replies)
Dragon Monk Damage Change (5 replies)
Modifying Monsters: what do YOU do? (30 replies)
Does innate spellcasting stay or go on the sidekick? (13 replies)
Advice for a 12th level Forge Cleric (6 replies)
What kind of ritual spells do you think are missing or that would improve play? (17 replies)
You only get One-shot! (11 replies)
Generalist type Fighter (9 replies)
Beauty and the Beast Castle Battle (14 replies)
Thoughts on order clerix 1/clockwork sorcerer x? Advice for making one? (2 replies)
Ranger 3/Fighter 1 loses a spell slot? (7 replies)
What Alignment is This? (138 replies)
Order of Scribes Clarification (1 replies)
New Book Announced - Monsters of the Multiverse (100 replies)
Cat Witch Druid Concept? (15 replies)
Echo Knight/Shapechange question (1 replies)
DM Help Help me build a "Cell". (3 replies)
Player Help Mid-campagin paladin multiclass into bard (10 replies)
Speculation Decoupling of main and subclasses - would it be a good thing? (29 replies)
Optimization What's the best Cha half feat for a Barbarian? (12 replies)
Tasha's Erratta (2 replies)
Best party buffer? (43 replies)
Rules Q&A Nystul's Magic Aura. How and why? (48 replies)
Finally got a Monster Manual (2 replies)
A random thought: crits aren't about you. (45 replies)
Rules Q&A Nat20 with Negative Modifiers: Still Double Damage/Dice? (10 replies)
Seeking Adventure League Info (0 replies)
Theorycraft Div Wizard 6/Aberrant Sorc 6+ (5 replies)
Multi-function weapons (22 replies)
What classes makes you want to stay the course? (53 replies)
DnD Christmas presents! (8 replies)
Roleplaying Refluffing the Clockwork Soul Sorcerer (8 replies)
Flight Indoors? (4 replies)
The Other Guys, the B-team (60 replies)
Quality of life improvement: half-feats and ASIs (9 replies)
Play DnD 5e Chess (4 replies)
Summoner cleric? (6 replies)
How to Finish this High Level Build? (6 replies)
Bladesinger battlemaster multiclass advice (2 replies)
Optimization Hexbard (12 replies)
Questions for anyone that's used 5e's Spheres of Might (4 replies)
Why Do You Find High Level Play Difficult To Run? (17 replies)
Speculation What happens if you move while blinked to the ethereal plane? (4 replies)
Bladesingers: Crossbow & Cantrip? (12 replies)
Houserules that I'm Afraid to Try (11 replies)
Hilarious spell combo in-battle... (0 replies)
Magic Nullifying Shackles - Wondrous Item (18 replies)
Hexblade/Elven Accuracy Question(s) (43 replies)
Player Help Hexblade Pact Weapon (4 replies)
I want to introduce D&D to a friend. Starter set or essential kit ? Or other ? (7 replies)
DM Help What does an Elder Brain eat? (7 replies)
Some house-rules I'd like to run by the playground (14 replies)
Optimization MultiMultiMulti Classing: 4 or more classes (46 replies)
Metal pricing (43 replies)
My Din Djarin The Mandalorian Build (0 replies)
Need help with Lore for a new home-brew race (1 replies)
Anyone here speak/writes Elvish in real life? (12 replies)
Barbarian - what breaks if you give them third attack? (64 replies)
Devotion Paladin build advice for Descent into Avernus (13 replies)
Anime seems to run on RPG logic (24 replies)
Two Weapon Fighting Hexblade (7 replies)
How do you get your party to accept Guidance? (15 replies)
Kyle Meme Character (3 replies)
Hypothetical: You get one variant rule per character. What do you choose? (22 replies)
Assumed AC per clasd per level? (3 replies)
Saira's Guide to Making Broken Characters Part 2 (42 replies)
ASIs/feats are now tied to total level. What breaks, if anything? (33 replies)
Making sure I understand "Recharge5-6" (5 replies)
Dream (1 replies)
How do you RP? (20 replies)
Optimization Master of disguise bardlock feats (4 replies)
Darklords' Realistic CRs (3 replies)
Monster Tactician Spells (2 replies)
Hardbacks and Erratas (4 replies)
DM Help Running a Campaign where the PC's are Demi-gods (26 replies)
DM Help Fleshing Out A Cult...Stock Market...Skill Challenge...Dungeon...Idea? (3 replies)
DM Help what creatures can I use for a random seafaring encounter? (7 replies)
I don't understand Weapons (85 replies)
How do you play? (36 replies)
Spellbooks as vancian spell casting from an attuned item (23 replies)
Rules Q&A Summon Beast magic item interaction question. (8 replies)
2 Barbarian/18 College of Swords Bard Advise (6 replies)
Does anything stop me from getting infinitely many steel defenders? (10 replies)
Protecting your eldritch cannon (16 replies)
Do Artillerist artificers actually spend spell slots to create their cannon? (8 replies)
Luckiest Halfling Luck Build (11 replies)
Rules Q&A Large(r) Creatures, Weapons, & the Enlarge/Reduce Spell: Settle an argument, please? (36 replies)