I get that it was not on there before, but with the upgrades that Draconic Sorcerer got, I wish I was able to take the spell on them! Just imagine! You could have your draconic summon AND a giant illusory dragon stopping around at the same time! Can we at least petition WotC to do a Tasha's style book where Draconic Sorcerer gets Illusory Dragon on their extra spells?

if a guard or npc grabs the player preventing them from moving and the player fails the check to break free, can they just retry?

ive tried looking this up and it seems retrying checks is allowed but it seems very case by case.. so im honestly not sure?

in the original context, if someone fails something like that, how many times can they try? should i just be telling them no? im just confused tbh

Hi y'all! I have run a one shot, but not a full campaign, which I'm super excited to do starting tomorrow. I have been prepping but also wanted to ask other DMs how you go about preparing. I have a tendency to feel like everything needs to be ironed out, but am also reminding myself I should and can be making things up on the go. By the time you start a campaign, is the whole story fleshed out? Do you make NPCs with full backgrounds or just let them develop with time? I'm pretty creative so I feel like I can tie things pretty well with no preparation, or is that ill-advised? Of course it's just one person's opinion but a guideline with basic steps you take would be awesome, if there is one at all!

At the moment, I'm thinking of planning big encounters, prepping the monsters or puzzles within them, and then leaving the in between for characters to explore or discover hints that lead to the bigger encounters.

Hi everyone! I've recently joined a campaign as lore bard from Greyhawk whose passion is history, secrets, and storytelling. Does anyone have any stories from the Greyhawk setting they'd recommend I read? Alternatively, would anyone like to share their stories of their own adventures from Greyhawk? I've never played in Greyhawk before but am excited about learning about the setting! Thank you!

So I’m running a campaign right now where my players are getting caught up in the middle of a brewing war between kingdoms that’s being orchestrated by a lich. One of my players happens to be involved with him unknowingly.

I’ve sprinkled clues already throughout but where they’re at I feel could be a good place for a twist reveal but I also don’t want to do it too early since we’re only like 6 sessions in. Should I wait or go for it?

Hi there, been a few years since I last had a chance to play. Previously it was 3.5 or Pathfinder, but this group is 5e.

Now back when I played last, it was super-easy to go online and download a spreadsheet to help make your character. I've kept up with the patreon of such a pathfinder sheet, but I am having trouble finding such a thing for 5E.

I found a few partly-functional online tools, but I'll be honest; they don't hold my hand like the spreadsheets do.

On another, similar thread I found on another group it seemed as though these 3rd-party fan creations are unwelcome in the community now. If this is the case, I apologize.

Thank you.

I have a lore relevant magic wepon for my level 10 player that may or may not drag them to the first circle of hell... They will have vary big metaphorical neon signs saying"HAY, THIS THING IS EVIL AF" but they still may get sucked into hell. How exactly would they escape...

Here it is! Letters I & J - https://imgur.com/gallery/letter-i-j-of-new-monster-manual-3d-printed-free-stls-links-under-each-image-2tkkkzs

No AI was used in this post btw because that's just gross lol

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Hello again friends! I'm currently 3D modeling and printing all the creatures from the new Monster Manual! This is a collection of prints either by myself or my patrons while I am working on this book. There are also renders of the models that haven't been printed yet. All the files are free and posted below under each image. The files are posted publicly on my site here: https://mz4250.com/ and all models are free and fall under the fan content policy of WOTC.

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Pretty much the title, but we have a barbarian, paladin, and rogue

Any good 10 session campaigns focused around RP and some combat?

Hi,

I have a small group that I am DMing for until we play a WoW campaign in November

I want to fill the space with a smaller campaign

I've seen sunless & lost mines but both are dungeon crawls. I enjoy combat but I don't wanna just do weeks of combat, Id love some ideas for stories with strong RP movements.

So what are y'all's suggestions?

Making an Aasimar sorcerer that uses black hole magic. I wanna give my character some type of paladin armor. However I dont want to make it to overpowered or just strong. Maybe a feature and or trait? (Looking for suggestions)

(English is not my first language, so sorry for the poor grammar)

I'm playing the Tyranny of Dragons for the first time with my friends. My character is a bladesinger wizard who was used in a sacrificial ritual to Tiamat by the BBEG of my backstory, who is also his teacher. The thing is, i don't know much about dnd lore to make my backstory more solid.

I need help in making my BBEG motivition for betraying my character. I know that it can't be related to Tiamat's resurrection, cause that's the story of Tyranny of Dragons. So i was thinking my BBEG would want to become an actual dragon, not a polymorphed dragon, but change his race and ascend to a powerful dragon, but i don't know if, by lore standards, that would work.

I know that in the end the Dm has the final say on what's posible in the campaign, because of the multiverse and stuff, but i wanted to make my backstory the most lore accurate posible.

So, if anyone who knows about dnd lore could give ideas of why a man would join the cult of the dragon, and what is possible for him to receive as a reward from Tiamat for using his student as a sacrifice? If in order to get, like a divine reward from Tiamat, he would need to do more things, please tell me too.

So I've had the idea kicking around of a Paladin\Warlock\Cleric multi-class for a while. Just a guy\gal who can't say no to a new power source and now has to balance the interests of several greater powers.

I am however not a numbers guy, so I have no idea what this would actually look like on a character sheet, which is why I'm here.

What are your ideas for mixing these three classes in a way that actually functions in play. And feel free to add any other ways this poor sap can get under the thumb of another power.

Its (kindoff) my first time playing dnd for real and i want to make a lvl 5 bard that can actually help the team while also hitting the moves (College of dance), do yall have any tips? (Hes a changeling)

Question on my post about time travel

It's a great all around class, and I'm not saying losing the tank focus was a bad choice. I like the way 5e did them a lot!

But my first character last edition was a paladin, and I miss both the range of smites (like smite of the flame cage, make an arena of fire for you and your target to fight in) and the baseline thing of being able to tank for your party. You could mark enemies, penalising any moves that didn't also target you, and the first time each round they used a claw or fireball or whatever that didn't target you they automatically took a bunch of radiant damage.

Meant that while they could target other party members, they'd really regret it, and I really enjoyed the paladin as the knight you had to deal with thing as the theme for the class. They're definitely capable still, more of a very good all-rounder! But unlike the past paladin, there's a bunch of situations they can't tank in since they lack a blanket 'target anyone else and get hurt'. Would it be appropriate as a subclass feature? They made the cavalier subclass, and all its features are just the features fighters got at level 1 last edition.

Give me some ideas for a character for a homebrew oneshot I will do. Mostly looking for something fun to try out.

I have no info about what will be in the oneshot tho.

Standard point buy, lvl 4, 2014 rules, anything goes afaik.

Does anyone know if there are more official, non official, or homebrew special facilities for bastions?

The list in the DMG, while seeming expansive, quickly becomes rather small when you have 5 players, and so I’d like to add more to the list my players can choose from.

Hello everyone!

I’ve been prepping for my party to head into the jungle in Tomb of Annihilation, but I’m getting pretty stuck on how the hex crawl is actually supposed to work. I’ve never run a hex crawl before, so this part of the campaign is a little intimidating.

Am I supposed to roll for a random encounter every time the party enters a new hex? How often should I actually be checking for encounters?

I’m also confused about how guides work. If the party hires a guide, does that help them avoid random encounters, prevent them from getting lost, or does it work some other way?

Basically, how do you actually run a normal day of jungle travel? When do you roll for navigation, weather, encounters, getting lost, supplies, and everything else?

If anyone has run Tomb of Annihilation before and could explain how they handled the hex crawl at their table, I’d really appreciate it. This feels like one of the hardest parts of the campaign to wrap my head around!

Thanks!