D&D 5e/Next [Archive] - Page 38 - Giant in the Playground Forums

DM Help Can [X] Grapple? (21 replies)
Embracing the chaos (2 replies)
Cleric vs Paladins - differences in gameplay? (23 replies)
Optimization Build help: Strength Gloomstalker for Out of the Abyss (13 replies)
Recent UA Feats (4 replies)
Fireball and unattended objects (37 replies)
How to Make Unarmed Attacks Count as Weapons? (26 replies)
Reliable Passive Perception (11 replies)
How do you kill mindflayer with odds really stacked against you? (31 replies)
What do you consider an elemental race (25 replies)
DM Help DMs that allow UA material: What UA won't you allow? Why? (51 replies)
Help with Campaign idea (5 replies)
Help with an unarmed caster (27 replies)
Grappler Feat - Redundant and mostly not good. Check the balance for my fix please. (13 replies)
Advice on direction of STR Ranger (10 replies)
Optimization Eldritch knight battle smith multiclass (9 replies)
DM Help Anyone else use the Beyond20 add in - Just with Discord? (0 replies)
Clarification on Multiclassing and Spell Progression (5 replies)
Virtual tabletop that handles height well (5 replies)
What measure is a humanoid? (16 replies)
Templar - Paladin subclass (7 replies)
Hidden Heat Metal (1 replies)
extra + 0? (223 replies)
Optimization Experimenting With Some New Blood: Blood Hunter + Artificer (5 replies)
Hammer of Poetic Justice (4 replies)
Half-Orc Warlock--Which Pact Boon? (11 replies)
If Barbarians could cast spells while Raging ... Multiclassing question! (16 replies)
Tiers of play, let´s see if I can explain myself (54 replies)
DM Help Looking for strong magic items for a tier 3 and 4 parties (10 replies)
Monster Identification Bureau: Stuhac (3 replies)
Smoking Dragon? (13 replies)
[Week 8] Which is the Playground's favorite monster?! (2.0) - What the Avatar bends. (17 replies)
Player Help non-intelligent creatures and item attunement (by RAW) (2 replies)
Optimization Best Short Rest Party (Assume No Coffeelock) (23 replies)
Party optimization for long term AoE Spells (4 replies)
Refluffing a Shield (40 replies)
Any one else a bit let down by universal speech from the new bard College? (27 replies)
DM Help Requesting help fleshing out a campaign idea - basically, Dragon Age but in Faerun (5 replies)
Optimization My DM allowed Rage and Reckless attack to work with DEX (to fit my character idea) (26 replies)
Primeval guardian spell-less ranger elf (4 replies)
Folks don't seem fond of War Domain (145 replies)
UA subclasses part 4 (155 replies)
How Does TWF Look Without PAE/XBE? (146 replies)
Spike Growth + Thorn Whip (8 replies)
Synergy Between Minor Alchemy and Mold Earth? Lets do some terrain alteration. (6 replies)
Rank the level 20 feats (19 replies)
Hexblade Subclass Spells: Tweakable? (3 replies)
Halastar blackcloak vs solar (60 replies)
DM Help Hey, soooo my players stole and sold a Holy Avenger to Hell. (39 replies)
Seeking Hexblade 3/Shadow 1 feedback (19 replies)
NPCs As Equipment (especially Out of the Abyss) (9 replies)
Use metamagic through another caster? (5 replies)
Player Help Wildfire Druid Level 8 Feat (8 replies)
Clone weirdness (3 replies)
Story Driven Stats instead of Rolling for them...? (73 replies)
Sorcerous Origin (3 replies)
Pick my race for my next campaign (2 replies)
Artificer Battle Smith questions (23 replies)
Monks are problematic from a roleplaying perspective, too. (95 replies)
Optimizing a Double-Scimitar Wielding Gish (13 replies)
My son wants to draw your character (139 replies)
Optimization I’m trying to build a gish with a good amount of restrictions (please help!) (21 replies)
How to make a 1-hour delay meaningful? (8 replies)
Ability Check Expertise (9 replies)
Adjusting Iconic Monsters (6 replies)
5e Design and Release Cadence Philosophy (13 replies)
"I mean that technically works..." (41 replies)
Olympic D&D (9 replies)
The Shrinking Halfling (2 replies)
Trying to Make a Full Metal Alchemist-style Alchemist (1 replies)
Need advice on a character concept. (4 replies)
What would an armored monk subclass look like? (7 replies)
Why Aren't There Half-Dwarves? (78 replies)
DnD 5e Tropical island setting (15 replies)
Portent vs. Portent (15 replies)
What would you think of a book with all character options included? (18 replies)
Optimization SS going tank ? (9 replies)
Rules Q&A legendary actions and spells w/ 'on your turn' (18 replies)
Player Help Minmaxing a tabaxi rogue to level 10 and 20 with no magic or items (2 replies)
Triton Paladin build suggestions (4 replies)
Gnoll rampage exploit-ish?, Sonic the gnolllll (12 replies)
How to endear yourself to other players? (92 replies)
fixing the Martial FAntasy (49 replies)
Rules Q&A Skill Challenges? (6 replies)
Magical Effects, Spells, & the Mundane (19 replies)
DM Help adapting monsters from prior edition (6 replies)
Party of 6 level 5 characters vs 1 beholder and shadows?? (12 replies)
DM Help Vampires and the Feywild (10 replies)
Divine Soul: Is it really that good? (88 replies)
Shove... into an occupied space? (10 replies)
Rules Q&A D&D | 5E | RAW | regarding natural Truesight with Detect Magic (4 replies)
Milestone Leveling: How long is too long? (23 replies)
The Two-birds sling is broken as hell (63 replies)
Eldritch Knight, Dexterity vs Strength. (36 replies)
Rules Q&A artificer armorer and elemental adept (2 replies)
Hexblade Dip - How to get rid of it (30 replies)
Two Weapon Fighting off-hand attack - weapon or attack? (7 replies)
DM Help Out of Curiosity... (14 replies)
Weapon Juggler (7 replies)
Rules Q&A Metamagic Adept (12 replies)
Optimization For DPR calculations, how many rounds should we expect between rests? (39 replies)
[Week 7] Which is the Playground's favorite monster?! (2.0) - Tremble by Tanar'ri! (17 replies)
Exploring Eberron (Not about the exploitation of exploding eberron) (4 replies)
GFB and BB clarification (5 replies)
New Eberron Book Today (92 replies)
Monk should wear Armour and use Staff (47 replies)
Beefing Up Font of Magic (31 replies)
Roll20 Testing for a blind user (11 replies)
Optimization Eberron Dragonmarks min-max builds (29 replies)
DM Help Tomb of Annihlation - Surprise, Ras Nsi! (12 replies)
Prone dragons (14 replies)
Which feat to choose for Halfling S&B fighter. (23 replies)
Attacking Objects (11 replies)
Ideas for an Adventuring Contest and its participants (1 replies)
Your ruling for: Dropping attacks (52 replies)
Tempest Cleric + Booming Blade Math Check (5 replies)
Ways to get an invisible mage hand without AT? (7 replies)
Looking for input on 5e Artificer class tweaks (12 replies)
Do I have this rule correct? (32 replies)
Let's Fix: The Assassin (81 replies)
DM Help Building an Aquatic Hexcrawl (20 replies)
Real World Professions (2 replies)
Question about heat metal (25 replies)
Highest damage single melee hit build (46 replies)
Rules Q&A DC on Mimic. (6 replies)
DM Help Mechanical representations of addiction in 5e? (4 replies)
Roleplaying Paladin vs Rogue in a Party , Rogue caught red-handed (39 replies)
Marvelous Pigmants, how would you rule? (5 replies)
Psionics, UA, and what to do now? (19 replies)
What is an attack roll? (10 replies)
Booming blade when you can't see. (8 replies)
What's your favorite cleric domain and why? (79 replies)
Is it worth multiclassing a moon druid? (12 replies)
Treatmonk on Monks in 5e (683 replies)
A quick and dirty fix to money in D&D (71 replies)
Cleric / warlock help (4 replies)
The Wizard Dance (6 replies)
How does a sorcerer cheat at gambling? (20 replies)
Character creation help (5 replies)
Shared D&D battle board (3 replies)
Player Help Looking for a 4 level spell for my sorcerer tank (24 replies)
How common is each damage type for monsters? (7 replies)
DM Help How do you handle players predicting your plots, traps, etc? (27 replies)
Curse of Strahd actually more offensive... (30 replies)
Artificial souls? How to? (7 replies)
Need ideas for a special explosive (0 replies)
Optimization 1st level dip sorcerer or take Resilient Con? (26 replies)
Echo Knight Optimisation (4 replies)
DM Help A pair of homebrew poisons (3 replies)
good decision or bad? lvl 1 barb, lvl X moon druid (5 replies)
DM Help Invisible Stalker Character Help (9 replies)
Rogue Fighter subclass question (6 replies)
Best ways to get Sneak Attack on a solo rogue? (36 replies)
On Refrigeration and Bags of Holding (9 replies)
Artificers (and spore druids) for T3/T4? (1 replies)
Support for sorcerer combinations (10 replies)
DM Help Encounter Building Walkthrough (5 replies)
Any good options for someone who wants to specialize in acid damage? (21 replies)
Breaking the Blinded rules (31 replies)
Roleplaying Piety System For Other Deities (11 replies)
Player Help Mastermind Rogue build (1 replies)
Sorcadin help/tip (13 replies)
Do rings of protection stack? (3 replies)
Optimization Suggestions for a Tempest Cleric tank? (5 replies)
Being a Con Man? DM tricking? (11 replies)
Tiny Servant in a Bag of Holding (1 replies)
Planescape 5e conversion: Rowan Darkwood (2 replies)
DM Help Looking for stats block for a tier 3 party (4 replies)
Blood Hunter help (4 replies)
Prayer of Healing + Song of Rest (1 replies)
For the birds (3 replies)
What spell level would you say "attract continents" is? (7 replies)
Setting Blends (2 replies)
How would you fix the four most hated PHB subclasses? (8 replies)
Optimization 5e Throwdowns BLOOPERS Edition#1: The Icebreaker (5 replies)
DM Help Making a ranged Vengance Paladin NPC (2 replies)
Themed Party: Genasi Quartet (4 replies)
Suggestions on Building a Kensei Monk (52 replies)
Major Racial Historical Events in D&D Mythos (30 replies)
Glancing Blows: 1/2 dmg on a just miss (13 replies)
Need ideas for complex class feature variants (20 replies)
Help with a Wish from a Genie (19 replies)
Player Help Character Help with a Divine Soul Sorcadin (2 replies)
DM Help 4 players and 4 factions in Forgotten Realms (4 replies)
Build Challenge: Dungémon (11 replies)
5e Classes with Companions comparison (9 replies)
Ammunition and Weapon Enhancements (2 replies)
Hexblade invocation help?! (4 replies)
Can you spend a Bonus Action in the middle of an attack roll? (54 replies)
DM Help Has your party ever ended up with an overpowered item? How did you handle it? (27 replies)
[Week 6] Which is the Playground's favorite monster?! (2.0) - Read between the lines. (8 replies)
Encounter Building in Waves (2 replies)
Themed Party: family of desert nomad halflings wielding scimitars (4 replies)
Crime really does pay (8 replies)
Rules Q&A Surprise (Surprised?) (25 replies)
Should Ranged Weapon Attacks Use Wisdom? (48 replies)
Wild surge tables (2 replies)
Sun Blade vs Scimitar of Speed (16 replies)
General DM Screw-Ups (22 replies)
Should I use my last attunement slot for (eventual) 30AC? (3 replies)
0 hit points, thorn whip, and spike groth (8 replies)
What skill check for "stealthy" camping (11 replies)
(DMs) Do you control conjured creatures? (49 replies)
Rules Q&A Smite spells: bonus action, so they need to be cast before attacking, correct? (8 replies)
Prepared Spells and Multiclassing (4 replies)
Uses for Gentle Repose. (6 replies)
Caltrops save my bacon again (2 replies)
Rules Q&A Please explain how many spells a character can cast in a turn to me. (45 replies)
Rules Q&A Please explain to me how you can smite on a booming blade or green flame blade spell (2 replies)
Possible exploit: Reincarnate can raise your ability scores above 20 (16 replies)
abnormal party composition (10 replies)
Looking for assistance optimizing within a set concept. (3 replies)
Roleplaying Spells for the Planescape factions (7 replies)
Sorcerer without warlock dip (13 replies)
My latest character concept that I'm in love with (10 replies)
Genie warlock / artificer and the exploding lamp (0 replies)
Stickiest tank out of the box? (24 replies)
How do you play blinded characters? (16 replies)
Druid Circle Question (26 replies)
How do you mire the mind of the mindless? (For Bards) (8 replies)
Terminally Nerdy's Divine Soul Guide (6 replies)
November Book Bingo Card (Predictions) (23 replies)
DnD let's play (2 replies)
Would a half-dragon werebear be AL legal? (10 replies)
Rules Q&A Does the Component Pouch contain multiple 25 feet ropes (38 replies)
How do you feel when someone picks the same class? (64 replies)
Optimization Getting an extraplanar sugar daddy? (0 replies)
To be surprised or not to be... (24 replies)
Charging Attacks (Tackles/Bashes/Bayonet) (7 replies)
Holy symbol of Ravenkind cos (5 replies)
Magic resistance is not as good as I thought (29 replies)
Medium Centaur (27 replies)
Fiendish Resilience - Default to Piercing? (5 replies)
Things that make you better at grappling (19 replies)
Genasi Age/Lifespan Question (3 replies)
Moon Druid or Spore Druid (15 replies)
Higher Level Forge Cleric Choices (8 replies)
Let's Fix: The Arcane Archer (73 replies)
Optimization What makes a sorcerer a better character than a wizard? (123 replies)
Interesting criminal hideout (6 replies)
DM Help Magic Item Workshop: Fey Boons (4 replies)
Paladin with low AC (11 replies)
Ready Marilith (5 replies)
Can you stand up from prone outside of your turn? (11 replies)
How did the Warlock class develop? (16 replies)
DM Help In-Fiction Leveling Speed (19 replies)
Help with Hexblade feat choice plz and thanku (12 replies)
Shadowblade Rogue (21 replies)
Gish with a Glaive... Hexbladelock or Eldritch Knight? (17 replies)
DM Help A question on the artificer and magic item creation (5 replies)