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Using mind flayers in my campaign, and that plus BG3 got me thinking about something that's bugged me for years (and is now highly relevant to me, since I will need to describe the corpses of mind flayer victims): What is the actual physical process by which a mind flayer extracts a humanoid...

For anyone worried that Netflix would do what Netflix does and cancel Sandman after the first season: Season 2 was just greenlit!

Fireball is notoriously the best mid-level damage spell in 5E. Suppose it were to have its damage output reduced in 1D&D. What is the hardest it could be nerfed where you would still prepare it and expect to cast it in combat (assuming you were playing a caster of appropriate class/level)...

So, my bard just got access to 3rd-level spells. One of my new spells will likely be a big action denial effect (hypnotic pattern or fear), but I was looking at options for the other one and happened to notice plant growth. I did not realize how big a punch that spell packs in combat. It makes...

Since "4E in 5E" is having a moment, it got me thinking about something. A lot of folks say one of 4E's greatest strengths was its approach to monster design. I am one of those folks. And the thing about monster design is, it's not dependent on the rest of the system. You could create a Monster...

(Please note: This thread is for discussing how one might design races around floating bonuses. If you don't think races should have floating bonuses at all, that's fine, but I'd respectfully ask you not to turn this thread into an argument about it. There are lots of other threads to have that...

So, looking at the new warlock invocations in Tasha's, Investment of the Chain Master jumped out at me. Specifically, these two bits: As a bonus action, you can command the familiar to take the Attack action. If the familiar forces a creature to make a saving throw, it uses your spell save DC...

So, I had an idea for an initiative house rule, and wanted to toss it out there and see what people think. The goal: In principle, I like the idea of rolling initiative each round. I hate the predictability of side-based or regular cyclic initiative; I don't want players strategizing around...

So, I had long assumed that incorporeal creatures couldn't move physical objects unless they had a special ability to let them do so. However, I was just looking over some of the undead in the Monster Manual and realized there does not seem to be any such rule. Ethereal creatures can't interact...

I was toying with the idea of a party that specialized in blinding their enemies with the spell darkness, and looking for ways to allow the party to see in such darkness. I know it could be done with the true seeing spell, but that's not available till level 11 and even then it only works for...

Title sums it up. How many short rests does your party typically take per "day" (i.e., between long rests)? And are you using the standard rules where a short rest is 1 hour and a long rest is 8, or some variant system (either the DMG optional rules, or a house rule of your own devising)? Edit...

Please note that I am looking for people who have actually used this spell or seen it used in play. I don't need help theorycrafting, I can do that just fine on my own. So, I'm in a group which is... ah... short on healers. And by "short," I mean, "we don't have any." I'm thinking about...

So, I was thinking: AC bonus aside, is there any mechanical reason to take the Dual Wielder feat instead of Polearm Master? (If your response to this is "Because you want to play a dual wielder and you should only care about concept and not mechanics"... well, post that if you must, but don't...

Something I've wondered about for a while: We all know that some damage types are more-resisted than others, but how big are the differences? And what is the exact order of least-resisted to most-resisted? So, over the weekend, I decided to find out. I took advantage of D&D Beyond's filtering...

I'm playing in a campaign where PCs start with one uncommon magic item. I'm playing a fire sorcerer, and am contemplating a homebrew item to submit to the DM for approval. Here's what I've got so far; curious to hear feedback. Spell Serpents (requires attunement by a spellcaster): This bracelet...

Xanathar's Guide to Everything introduced new rules for identifying spells. To identify a spell, you have to use a reaction as it's being cast, or take an action on the following turn, and make an Arcana check. Obviously, this implies that counterspell (which is cast as a reaction) must be used...

The last flare-up of the long-running debate over Stealth got me to thinking about what it would take to rework the Stealth rules in 5E. I spent a while noodling over it and came up with what follows. Rather to my surprise, I ended up with something that slots quite neatly into the existing 5E...

I have just uploaded Beast Lord to the downloads area. A solution to the question: "How can I have a griffon mount, always available, without wrecking game balance?" You can find the file here in the downloads section. Please use this thread for comments.

Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from D&D is made! Going in a different direction from the last few Survivors, this one is between the many, many tie-in products that have been produced for D&D over the years. Only officially licensed tie-ins count; Xykon may have muscled his...

Undead won the Monster Types thread. Vecna’s Hand and Eye were in the top two on Artifacts and Relics before the forum crash. And the Survivor threads are returning from the grave after they were all seemingly destroyed. Clearly, the new Survivor thread needs to be about liches. :) In this...