D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 36 - Giant in the Playground Forums

Poor Skelly (8 replies)
Is an imp a spellcaster? (15 replies)
The Impact of AOE damage vs Single Target Damage (63 replies)
Variant Ranger: Better Stealth than Rogue? (19 replies)
Player Help Which Warlock idea do you like best? (15 replies)
[Optimization]Why caster ability score+2 is a horrible choice (120 replies)
RP Low Intelligence (42 replies)
Optimization build optimization vs play optimization (103 replies)
Advice for ending my campaign with an epic fight against Tiamat (1 replies)
Triton Oath of Ancients Pally concept help? (6 replies)
How important is a 17 in your primary stat? (27 replies)
Lore Bard Feat Choices - Level 8 (9 replies)
DM Help What makes for a good plan? (13 replies)
Standoff / holdup rules (8 replies)
Can someone help me figure out what this means? (40 replies)
Hypothetical - Stacking Dis/Advantage (16 replies)
PC and multi attack (3 replies)
Resilient Sphere’s weightlessness (8 replies)
Optimization How to reliably Planar Bind Sul Khatesh? (23 replies)
law enforcement vs religion (noob) (12 replies)
Player Help A nice and clear web-based character sheet generator (4 replies)
Winners and Losers from "Customizing Your Origin" (48 replies)
DM Help Does anybody ever roll with Disadvantage? (35 replies)
Optimization Putting undead in a time out. (oathbreaker paladin) (5 replies)
Creative Uses for Contingent Spell (24 replies)
Okay I'm curious, let's break the new rules (106 replies)
What would be good for half-drow-elf double-scimitar fighter.. (1 replies)
Cheap item made of glass? (27 replies)
DM Help Improving some Lost Mine of Phandelver villains in Princes of the Apocalypse (0 replies)
Contingency: How do I take out my wizard if he goes bad? (43 replies)
Skill Challenges for 5th Edition (5 replies)
Rules Q&A The Cragcat is now a Monstrosity (3 replies)
Character Ideas Using New Customized Origin Features (43 replies)
Deep gnome Arcane Trickster / Revised Ranger build - Help needed! (13 replies)
DM Help Suprise game in an hour, looking for a one shoot (2 replies)
McGuffin to stop extraplanar invasion needed (6 replies)
DM Help Extracting a succubus - how to? (8 replies)
Rules Q&A controlled mount movement comnfirmation (19 replies)
best thing to true polymorph dragon into (35 replies)
What’s the best combination of Battlemaster/Rogue? (7 replies)
New racial modifiers from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2 replies)
paucity of Opportunity Attacks (53 replies)
Roleplaying Art of my Saturday Campaign's Party (15 replies)
Create Bonfire + Repelling Blast (114 replies)
Tasha Preview, Wild Magic Barbarian and Genie Warlock (85 replies)
"Customizing your Origin in D&D" (784 replies)
Building a city (17 replies)
Real Historic figures for DnD (5 replies)
Optimization Tempest Cleric 9 looking to dip sorcerer (2-3 levels) for Metamagics (17 replies)
What would be in the High-level Handbook? (16 replies)
Combat??? (21 replies)
Will my bard character be useless? (14 replies)
Teleportation Question (25 replies)
5e Throwdowns #7: Against the Grain (unusual combinations) (24 replies)
Live Frostmaiden official first look with author, right now (6 replies)
Dragon Heist post-mortem. (22 replies)
Magic Items for a Lv12 Sun Soul Monk (6 replies)
How to build a Thief Acrobat in 5e? (15 replies)
Swashbuckler help (34 replies)
Breaking an Hexblade's blade? (19 replies)
2 woman party (45 replies)
DM Help Journey from Baldur's gate to Tun marshes (and some travel events) (2 replies)
Rebalancing Background features (39 replies)
Do Experimental elixirs stack? (1 replies)
DM Help How do you handle Ready actions out of combat? (32 replies)
Paladin/Rogue Build Help (2 replies)
Optimization Zealot Barbarian 5 / Battlemaster Fighter 4 (0 replies)
Is it possible to play a psionic character with multiple missing limbs successfully? (5 replies)
Forced pvp with a club bully's hexblade please help :( (28 replies)
The Black Obelisks in every adventure, and what they do. (66 replies)
Balancing Poor PHB Feats by Making Them Half Feats (39 replies)
Arcane/divine crossover themes (8 replies)
Worst 5e Book (212 replies)
Optional use for charger feat - primeval guardian? (1 replies)
Oath of the Crown Paladin (4 replies)
Improving the Savage Attacker Feat (13 replies)
Peasant Railgun and other stuff help (26 replies)
Optimization Help me build a Greatsword GWM Padsorlock? (11 replies)
Controversial Heavy Armor Position (30 replies)
Name This Artifact (24 replies)
Challenges of Remote Gaming (20 replies)
DM Help by volume (cubic feet) how big should dragon hoards be? (14 replies)
Thoughts on Medium Armor Master (48 replies)
DM Help Looking for advice for a solo campaign (9 replies)
[Let's Read] Unbreakable Volume 1 (12 replies)
Waking up mid-combat (27 replies)
Undead patron warlock (11 replies)
BBEG idea: The Frostfell Queen (7 replies)
Optimization Please, help me with optimising an AL-legal Mystic Fire Knight (8 replies)
Advice for an A-Team/espionage campaign (2 replies)
Is 9 Spell Levels too many? (65 replies)
Advice for Redemption Paladin roleplay (23 replies)
DM Help Ability score associated with cooking (26 replies)
Variants for animal-based monsters (3 replies)
CR use (17 replies)
Freely mixing and matching classes and subclasses (4 replies)
Rime of the Frostmaiden: preview/review video (7 replies)
Giving Warlock Patron Spells for Free (42 replies)
how much can regenerate do? (4 replies)
DM Help Kobold Archmage NPC (9 replies)
Battlesmith guide? (25 replies)
DM Help Bulettes, Deadly Leap and Space (4 replies)
[Week 11] Which is the Playground's favorite monster?! (2.0) - Let the fairy dust in! (12 replies)
Tomb of Horros runtime? (potential spoilers) (6 replies)
Advice for paladin oath? Support paladin. (13 replies)
DM Help Homebrew Monster: Optimizod (2 replies)
Comprising a list of universal features that all characters have (9 replies)
Mythic 5e-- Goodbye Bounded Accuracy, Hello Skill Tricks (16 replies)
More Berserker Discussion - Animated Spellbook did a video (71 replies)
Help me create a lvl20 character for a one-shot (25 replies)
DM Help Swarm damage & attack rolls (7 replies)
DM Help Black dragons' lair (11 replies)
Sith Lord build (40 replies)
Domains of Dread Outside the Demiplane of Dread (2 replies)
Ki Empowered Strikes as a Beast (20 replies)
Speculation Why do people dislike power gaming so much (401 replies)
Two+ NPC and the one man stage play problem (7 replies)
Party Vs Demogorgon (21 replies)
Optimization On Multiclassing for Wizards (Mini-Guide) (193 replies)
Warlock with a ranged weapon (5 replies)
Exhaustion Immunity compromise (12 replies)
Optimization The best two Warlock Spells at level 4 (22 replies)
Changing Cantrip vs Low Level Spell Slot Damage at High Level (56 replies)
soul corrupting item ideas (2 replies)
Optimization late level feats (8 replies)
Whirlwind Attack + moving between attacks? (53 replies)
Player Help Is Scrying spell useless? (49 replies)
Optimization Best build for a Paladin Tank in a group full of squishy ranged classes? (23 replies)
Companion NPC's, nonhumanoid (5 replies)
A Bond Mechanic For Developing Inner-pary Relationships (11 replies)
Your favorite or not so favorite hireling/npc (4 replies)
Optimization Vedalken Knowledge Cleric 1/Wizard x build thoughts (12 replies)
Has multi-classing become too easy? (60 replies)
Bladesinger dip for my Arcane Trickster? (10 replies)
DM Help Whats an adventure for a Tier 4 Party? (33 replies)
Roleplaying Making a Ritual to please Tchazzar the Red Dragon (7 replies)
RPGPundit - commentary YouTube channel from a 5e designer (23 replies)
Spells like speak with animals, that open up parts of the game? (12 replies)
Why I prefer a Charisma Paladin (42 replies)
Optimization Hexadin build help (Ancients) (14 replies)
I need help deciding on my next level >_< (5 replies)
Upcast Major Image + Malleable Illusions + Illusory Reality? (2 replies)
Sleep spell does...nothing? (24 replies)
Time it takes for a world to be absorbed into the Abyss (9 replies)
Player Help Need a domain for a cleric of Cardea, The goddess of door hinges (7 replies)
DM Help What makes an item cursed? (13 replies)
Player Help Gnoll as a playable race? (40 replies)
Selling a soul (20 replies)
Made a magic bow, what do yall think? (1 replies)
Player Help Grave Domain in CoS (8 replies)
Optimization Satyr Bardbarian (1 replies)
What is involved with crafting a cloak of displacement? (13 replies)
Portent on Party Members (and other non-combat pvp elements) (7 replies)
Attitudes and spells--Friendliness and Hostility (3 replies)
Why not an echo-thief or echo-mage? (14 replies)
Good Homebrewes/3rd party settings? (5 replies)
Demon lord plot (4 replies)
Feedback on House Rules Balance Changes Version 1.5 (6 replies)
The Gate Spell and True Names (2 replies)
DMing and visualization (49 replies)
Optimization Paladin Tiefling Zariel (16 replies)
Optimization Hobgoblin Iron Wizard: should I go Abjurer or War Wizard? (10 replies)
Damage type question (3 replies)
Best build for a Simulacrum support. (4 replies)
Are barbarians boring in combat? (78 replies)
Character Build Help (5 replies)
The Heart of the Abyss (11 replies)
Hexblade dips are strong for a lot of classes,but how to you justify it at the table? (101 replies)
Can you be forced to sell your soul? (11 replies)
Paladin's Saves - Too Strong? (31 replies)
Play by post advice (4 replies)
Is Polymorph overrated? (49 replies)
Character themes for multiclassing dips (11 replies)
Optimization Interesting builds making use of Gauntlets of Ogre Power / Headband of Intellect? (33 replies)
What is the value of an Action/Bonus Action/Reaction? (4 replies)
DM Help The Mobile or Inexplicable Monsters of Tomb of Annihilation (3 replies)
Genie PACT + ?? (14 replies)
[Essay] A General Analysis of Spellcasting, by Class (29 replies)
[Week 10] Which is the Playground's favorite monster?! (2.0) - Their own size! (14 replies)
[Brainstorm] Downgrading Fullcasters (28 replies)
Optimization level 7 Tortle Strength Ranger Hunter Dual wielder (3 replies)
Summon Greater Demon + Planar Binding = "Best Demonic Friend" (16 replies)
Player Help Help Progressing a 'Pact Archer' (29 replies)
Optimization Warcaster or Shield Master for Spartan? (1 replies)
Rolled amazing stats, what would *you* make (37 replies)
DM Help Secret of Sokol Keep Question (Spoilers) (1 replies)
Surprise Surprise! (37 replies)
Optimization At tier 2, is the Bard better than the Wizard? (174 replies)
A different type of Gish (25 replies)
Optimization Build advice: swiss-army knife skill-monkey/utility caster spy-scout (5 replies)
Early look at the Frostmaiden book (15 replies)
Hexblade dip for a Valor Bard, worth it? (14 replies)
Goblin archer riding a dire bat (7 replies)
New characters for new player introduction. (4 replies)
Optimization Wanting help optimizing a Controller fighter (8 replies)
My Half Drow Spartan Build (9 replies)
Roleplaying Got an idea (6 replies)
How do describe this setting? (2 replies)
Optimization The highest possible roll for an ability check (7 replies)
What Druid can best fake being a Wizard? (5 replies)
D&D/MTG now a two-way street. (81 replies)
Best Wizard spells not on the Bard's spell list? (7 replies)
Sorcerer houserule: bonkers? (156 replies)
One DM one player game (5 replies)
Silliness, but I'm asking. (10 replies)
Playing someones Animal Companion (1 replies)
DM Help Dagger that Summons Living Spells (3 replies)
Magic Arrows + Magic Bow (9 replies)
XP burn for do-over (5 replies)
Bringing the Thrallherd to 5e as a wizard subclass. (29 replies)
Don't fear the reaper (9 replies)
Has there ever been an official response to how Nets work? (78 replies)
Naming my villain (9 replies)
Am I being too generous with Moving? (11 replies)
Player-Led Class Variations (3 replies)
Wealth in Forgotten Realms (24 replies)
Optimization Tips & Tricks for Practical Animate Dead (30 replies)
Spell Creation Rules (4 replies)
Are there any resources for the Dalelands? (2 replies)
Optimization Arcane Archer with a Rogue dip (3 replies)
How to fake being a druid? (23 replies)
Does anyone craft? (49 replies)
Which Magic items really shouldn't require concentration? (5 replies)
DM Help D&D adventure design: Why can't campaigns last to level 20 and beyond? (182 replies)
help with a core-only rogueadin build? (12 replies)
Warlock/Druid MC (1 replies)
What books should I get? (14 replies)
Player Help How should I be upgrading my Bard as I reach higher levels? Changeling EloquenceBard7 (5 replies)
detect thoughts spell (17 replies)
Displacer Beasts and Darkness (11 replies)
Rules Q&A Conjuration Wizards and Summoning Poisons? (30 replies)
Umbral Sight in Underdark/Dungeon Campaign Overpowered? (3 replies)
Optimization Power Gaming build article I wrote (72 replies)
DM Help Thinking about ways to run more tactically-interesting encounters without going mad (11 replies)
Advice on using the Mystic (16 replies)
Grimdark Low-Magic (35 replies)
Starting an 1800s styled game set in alternate magic universe USA, need story help (9 replies)
thieves' cant between organizations (25 replies)
Best Class for a Pallid Elf Investigator? (2 replies)
DM Help Increasing Monster CR -> Quick And Easy? (23 replies)
Any advice for what to play? (45 replies)
Optimization TWF style with Dual Wielder feat vs Two-Handed Weapon fighting (73 replies)
Oath of Conquest vs Oath of Predation (11 replies)
Let's Fix: The 4 Elements Monk (75 replies)
Optimization Basic Questions about a Bard/Sorcerer (7 replies)
Gunslinger Rogue (4 replies)
lv20: is it worth sacrificing Spell Mastery for Metamagic? (35 replies)
Waterboarding potions (16 replies)
Create Undead, magic items, and group dynamics (21 replies)
Optimization Making a fisherman PC (7 replies)