D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 34 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Dream and Resting (4 replies)
Official Subclass Library: Updated with Tasha's (22 replies)
Monks and Warding Wind (2 replies)
Low level abuse of Hex (31 replies)
Optimization Gish Bard Help (7 replies)
Is darkvision NEEDED in Icewind Dale Frostmaiden campaign? (8 replies)
With way of mercy finialized, how would you go 100% plague doctow with a character? (8 replies)
How good is counterspell with the rules from xanathar in effect? (88 replies)
DM Help Enemy NPCs -> Ranger Danger? (3 replies)
Adapting a PF module to 5e using Kobold Press creatures; Blackhawk 748's Helloween (3 replies)
New Player looking for advice for his first DnD adventure (54 replies)
Warlock invocation balancing help (1 replies)
Artillerest Flame Cannon and Total Obscurement (1 replies)
Optimization Unarmed Fighting Style Underperforming (UA)? (7 replies)
Booming Blade being reprinted and nerfed in Tasha's [New Preview Release] (168 replies)
Optimization Creative uses for Arcane Lock? (24 replies)
Roleplaying What are Possible Ancestors/Sources for a Shadow Sorcerer Bloodline? (11 replies)
DM Help V Rule Gritty Realism and how to handle non wizard necromancers (5 replies)
Echo Knight/Ancestral Guardian build advice (10 replies)
Reincarnating the Archmages (Icewind dale spoilers!) (1 replies)
Let's get a sneak peak into Tasha's (299 replies)
Best spell choices for Fey Touched and Shadow Touched (27 replies)
New to these forums: Are people here interested in altered core classes? (5 replies)
Heroforge/Art Showcase (54 replies)
A gargantuan cat? (21 replies)
If your PC reached Godhood (32 replies)
Roleplaying Need help coming up with a "Clanless" Dragonborn Barbarian backstory. (8 replies)
Roleplaying What Type of Entity is a Hexblade Patron? (50 replies)
Baldur's Gate games and D&D Canon (32 replies)
Druid Access to Resurrection Magic? (8 replies)
Anyway to gain cold IMMUNITY? (6 replies)
Slaaneshi Chaos Sorc for WFRP themed D&D (3 replies)
Most attacks possible in a round. (16 replies)
New Unearthed Arcana 10/26/2020 (212 replies)
At what point does AC stops being an issue? (20 replies)
spells granting sight to blind mages (25 replies)
How serious do you like your games? (38 replies)
"Missing" skills (33 replies)
Can you see normally while using Arcane Eye? (27 replies)
Wizard spellbook management: do you always select some rituals? (34 replies)
One Shot Kaiju fight (0 replies)
Feedback on House Rules Balance Changes Version 1.6 (5 replies)
5e Throwdowns #9: Spooky Circumstances (Halloween Edition) (6 replies)
How Do You(r) DMs Use Heat Metal? (26 replies)
Magic Item Critique (12 replies)
Rules Q&A Zone of Truth - Question (37 replies)
Accelerated 5e (compressing 1-20 class features into 1-10) (16 replies)
Rules Q&A Where is Jim’s Magic Missile from? (21 replies)
5E monster books (5 replies)
How would you homebrew/stat the Wrecktangle? (9 replies)
Optimization Homebrew Level Style; Where to Go Next? (0 replies)
Lady of Pain - homebrew origin/purpose? Heresy?! (37 replies)
Wild magic sorcerer fix- your opinion please! (32 replies)
Disappointed in multi class (25 replies)
Resisting attacks that lower max HP... (1 replies)
Optimization Build Ideas for Blaster: AOE/multi-target Mage (34 replies)
One Shot character choices and roleplay (3 replies)
Optimization Aarakocra Barbarian Grappler (4 replies)
Hm.... how to stay in Character? (37 replies)
DM Help Iconic Oneshot Characters for Absolute Newbies (4 replies)
Player Help Curse of Strahd, first time need some advice for the current liv4 character (19 replies)
Has Another Player’s PC “ruined” the Tone of a Game for you? (125 replies)
Optimization I'n trying to build a good tank; advice needed. (42 replies)
Circle of the Ranger (Ranger as a Druid Subclass) (28 replies)
Magic item creation. Need advice (5 replies)
What skill/tool/attribute to weave baskets? (33 replies)
Guide & Handbook list (4 replies)
Time increments; 'turns' and 'actions' outside of combat initiative (15 replies)
Interplay between Patrons of multiple Warlocks (5 replies)
Melee Sorcerer (42 replies)
DM Help How far can a Resurrection rebuild a character? (21 replies)
5e characters faced an AD&D enemy last night... (31 replies)
DM Help Rick and Morty Adventure - Big Rick Energy - Scale to level 9/10? (1 replies)
Rules Q&A Warhorse can't attack? (15 replies)
How much does size effect the game. (17 replies)
Optimization Having hard time choosing stats from rolls for a Golaith Zealot Barbarian (15 replies)
Campaign shenanigans help - low level safety contingencies (3 replies)
Player Help Open Hand: Dexterity or Wisdom? (35 replies)
Party size (19 replies)
Sorcadin, to dip or not to dip? (9 replies)
Do you know if a battle map is needed for the Stranger Things boxed set? (0 replies)
Conquest Paladin viability? (24 replies)
Class Design: why make a caster class prepared vs. spells known? (19 replies)
Anyone know what was revamped in the just-released Curse of Strahd boxed set? (12 replies)
Hex or Bane for an Artillerest Artificer (4 replies)
Optimization Multiclassing out of Arcane Trickster (13 replies)
House Rule: Resting (70 replies)
Wingless Aarakocra? (25 replies)
New campaign - old school dungon crashing, lvl 8, 3 man party (21 replies)
HB magic item: necklace of revealing (2 replies)
Help building/playing an "Ordinary" adventurer (19 replies)
Roleplaying Cleric of Shar (0 replies)
Evil Overlord build (Conquest paladin) (12 replies)
Polearm Wielding Gish (49 replies)
How op would letting wildshape use monstrosities instead of beast (12 replies)
Optimization bardadin Oathbreaker whispers bard, satyr, taking to level 20 (5 replies)
DM Help If there was a warlocky-themed 1/3 pact caster fighter archetype; would you play it? (35 replies)
Need to make my session more Halloweeny (2 replies)
Pushing cantrips (10 replies)
Monk Paladin multiclass (28 replies)
War Cleric or not... (16 replies)
Optimization Barbarian / Ranger build; but why? (11 replies)
DM Help Interesting things in a magical forest (2 replies)
Is rogue a single or multi/dip into class? (90 replies)
The speed force (10 replies)
Easy fight for one character (6 replies)
Do the effects of Contagion and the Primal Savagery cantrip stack? (4 replies)
Riff on cosmology (3 replies)
Magic items to populate a junk room (12 replies)
Optimization Tactical Challenge #4 (61 replies)
DM Help Giant Puppet Spell Focus? (15 replies)
Moon Druid in a Large Scale battle (8 replies)
Two builds, which to play here? (18 replies)
Determining character knowledge (99 replies)
(Help) Simulacrum / Clone Campaign Idea (2 replies)
Quest for druid of Silvanus (5 replies)
DM Help Question from a 3.5e player: is "kiting" during combat ever an issue in 5e? (28 replies)
Encounter Design for Crazy Level 10 encounter. (3 replies)
Is there a way to change the math to get rid of the increasing value of a +1? (61 replies)
Optimization Skilled Archer maximization, Help/Advice Requested (11 replies)
Paladin subclass and multiclass for RP (28 replies)
What makes monks competitive with Paladins, if they are? (239 replies)
Rules Q&A Plant Growth & Locate Animals or Plants (4 replies)
DM Help Polearm Master in hardcover adventures - should the DM add magical polearms? (169 replies)
Power Word spells and balance points (73 replies)
Cool ideas I can do with something ridiculous (0 replies)
Roleplaying 20 Year Old Elf: How Do They Act? (38 replies)
Boosting Balanced Multiclassing (27 replies)
Magical Axe, homebrew, want advice to make sure it's balanced (26 replies)
Any youtube channels good for newcomers? (24 replies)
DM Help Spells-From-Items and Bonus Action Spells (5 replies)
Player Help What kind of cleric would my party need so we don't make it a nightmare for the dm? (26 replies)
Optimization Layered Damage Mitigation? (39 replies)
The Attack Action Is Terrible (41 replies)
Is Sleep spell overpowered at lower levels? Is it still effective at higher level? (32 replies)
Planning a hex crawl looking for random encounter charts. (3 replies)
New Critical Role content on D&D Beyond: Paladin Oath and re-done Cobalt Soul Monk (72 replies)
Giant Octopus reach mechanics (7 replies)
If you were, as a GM, designing a town to have a wide variety of small sized races... (8 replies)
Hardcore Kobold lair (14 replies)
What's a good 4th party member here? (21 replies)
No Equipment Build Ideas (51 replies)
DM Help Escape from a City (25 replies)
Grim Hollow? (6 replies)
Conquest Hexblade? Where to start, when to change? (14 replies)
Thoughts on the wild magic barbarian? (1 replies)
Artifcer BS questions. (1 replies)
How to play a savage ambusher? (13 replies)
Optimisation for a chonky paladin (13 replies)
Artillerist Artificer's hand economy and attacks (7 replies)
Dealing with *THAT* player - with a twist (24 replies)
Fully Customized Races in Tasha's (24 replies)
Anyone familiar with War of the Burning Sky 5e? (5 replies)
DM Help Necro-Gish Ideas? (16 replies)
DM Help Some help with fleshing out a quest? (13 replies)
Devotion Paladin Underrated? (51 replies)
Most powerful tier 2 and 3 builds? (16 replies)
Optimization Should I get a feat or an ASI for my Divination Wizard 4/Knowledge Cleric 1? (39 replies)
Rule set Languages (4 replies)
Monsters that are Resistant to all Weapons (28 replies)
Bones of the Earth? (6 replies)
New Sub-Classes in Knuckleheads & Other Such Curiosities (68 replies)
Eyes of the dark - Shadow Sorc question (2 replies)
Player Help Torn on two rogue build ideas, could use help. One shot, level 17. (12 replies)
What's the most joy your DM has ever killed? (64 replies)
DM Help Dream dungeon? (7 replies)
Ranger and other archetypes in the future (59 replies)
Has anyone played the Svilland Campaign setting? (3 replies)
Player Help Long-term Fiend Warlock (9 replies)
Sudden thought: short rests enabled by specific items (20 replies)
Druid Familiar (10 replies)
Intellect Devourers are terrifying! (7 replies)
How many people are needed to maintain equilibrium for a Mind Flayer? (33 replies)
Characters miniatures (4 replies)
Looking or feedback on Artificer build for lvl 10 adventure. Trying to optimize (1 replies)
Magic Initiate Clarification (25 replies)
What are all your character ideas? (52 replies)
Fun with imp familiars (24 replies)
Ranged attacks with thrown weapons and free hands. (4 replies)
Sorlock vs. Sorcadin vs. Padlock (38 replies)
[5e] Level 1 character vs. a big bruiser (37 replies)
Question about shocking grasp and reactions (3 replies)
What's wrong with the Monster Hunter Fighter UA? (3 replies)
High Level Sorcerer Spell Selection (5 replies)
What to play? (10 replies)
Celestial/Divine Sorlock (18 replies)
Hexblade/Sorcerer build? (3 replies)
How can I end my campaign on a good cliffhanger? (23 replies)
Monk of Mercy/Circle of Spores Druid Multiclass (1 replies)
Revised Ranger meh (42 replies)
Optimization Mounted Sorlockadin Tank/DPS (10 replies)
Rules Q&A Shapechange and Wild Shape (19 replies)
Help with possibly my best (or worst?) character (5 replies)
Level 1 Backstories: What is level 1? (21 replies)
Sorcadin vs Paladin (123 replies)
Low Level Disaster Response in 5e (27 replies)
Capitalism in 5E: Why Adventuring is Always Suboptimal (52 replies)
DM Help Need encounter ideas for a Druid vs party (6 replies)
Running dragon fights (20 replies)
DM Help Jump as an Invocation? (49 replies)
Fun Build Options Artificer/Wizard/Ranger/Cleric Multiclass, Suggestions Welcome (4 replies)
Flame Arrows and indefinite duration (44 replies)
Optimization Subclass granted spells list? (0 replies)
Want to play a necromancer, but worried about intraparty conflict (19 replies)
Specific and General rules, discussed. (39 replies)
Can you use existing characters in each of the new D&D 5E Adventurers (4 replies)
Overland Travel Systems (13 replies)
"Ceremorphosis" (2 replies)
For People that Only Play Multiclassed for Min/Max Power (74 replies)
Gun-fu kensei - can it be interesting for a solo game? (1 replies)
Bugbear PC: Battlemaster or Paladin? (10 replies)
Remove Curse (23 replies)
More/Alternative lycanthropes (15 replies)
Shifter Bloodhunter: Is it a good build? (2 replies)
Off-Brand Uses of Battlemaster Maneuvers (9 replies)
Curiosity: Would you allow it (not RAW at all) (20 replies)
Any info if new Invocation feats will appear in Tasha's Lineage? (1 replies)
Help with Main Party Tank Cleric (36 replies)
DM Help So party is going to be dealing undead but not undead need a bit of advice. (12 replies)
Armor of Agathys (55 replies)
Rules Q&A Brewing Potions and Poisons, what are the RAI? (7 replies)
Magical secrets for my level 10 lore bard (15 replies)
Help with a character concept I have in mind. (29 replies)
Theoretical Min/Max (19 replies)
New Ranger, Longbow or Crossbow Expert? (29 replies)
Optimization Level 10 Tank for Party Damage Mitigation? (23 replies)
Offhand weapon mod (22 replies)
Help me identify what's happening (D&D isn't fun anymore?) (36 replies)
Elven Accuracy Vs Lucky (41 replies)
Paladin abilities overpowered? What do you think. (226 replies)
Undying Dwarf (7 replies)
Elven Accuracy + Arcane Trickster (19 replies)
Would you play a fighter in Tiers 3 and 4 in a one encounter per LR game? (59 replies)
Roleplaying Lycanthropy Roleplay (6 replies)
What level would a Speak with Monstrosities spell be? (6 replies)
Wildhunt Shifter and offsetting dis/advantage (3 replies)
Player Help Help me pick a spell for my bard (13 replies)
Sidekicks in Tasha's: preview via Sage Advice podcast (31 replies)
DM Help Horned devil vs. party (21 replies)
DM Gifts (9 replies)
Help with a homebrew world mega build Min/Max (5 replies)
Should Weapons Be More Distinctive? (46 replies)
AT Melee feat (11 replies)
Weapon-Specific Actions from BG3, could they work in 5e proper? (6 replies)
Am I doing this right? Fight/barb 120+6d8 DMG 1 turn (43 replies)
Repelling blast and grapple? (12 replies)
Curing Exhaustion (25 replies)
Monster Mash! (5 replies)
Arcane Trickster Multiclass (6 replies)
An hour later, you're hungry again ... dealing with a dragon (10 replies)