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I'm working on bringing Desert of Desolation into the 5e rules. In particular this will be used in the Kobold Press Southlands campaign setting. I've read through the first adventure, Pharaoh, and identified that the pyramid dungeon is the main attraction, with the djinni as a side quest. I'm...

I now have the opportunity to work a monsters merits and flaws into the story. In the last game of PotA, I added a water version of a behir to the water node. My sorcerer player decided to cast geas at 7th level on the behir to end combat. The behir failed the saving throw. Now I get to...

Jeremy Crawford recently stated, "Neither the petrified condition nor the flesh to stone spell turns you into an object. You are a creature subjected to the petrified condition (PH, 291)." This is interesting and not intuitive. From D&D Beyond the final sentence for the flesh to stone spell...

In last week's game I had an NPC with a conjured water elemental. The PCs defeated Scholar and obtained Drown. Since were near the end of the game time the PCs wanted to get past this conjured water elemental without a fight. They used Drown's ability to cast Dominate Monster. They then...

I'm working on a plot for the level 15 - 20 game that will approach in about 1 year. I plan to run a portion of Storm Kings Thunder as the main story, but I would like to include a secondary plot that intersects with the SKT plot and helps develop the PCs. One of the PCs has a strong...

One of the interesting creatures I ran across regarding hiding and invisibility is the poltergeist. The poltergeist is a variant of the specter. The poltergeist is invisible. It has a fly speed with hover. It has a forceful slam (melee weapon attack), and a telekinetic thrust (action). It...

A new AL story will be starting soon. I would like to play a land druid because I never see it played or read about optimization for the sub-class. My current thought is to start with druid 2, then evocation wizard 2. I would move back to druid until probably level 15 when the story should end...

I'm working on populating the Howling Hatred temple in Princes of the Apocalypse for level 9 & 10 PCs. There is a room that has an individual cloaker. This is a CR 8 creature that is supposed to use hit and run tactics, but is not equipped for that combat style, so I thought I would add...

An interesting idea came up in the game today that I'm not sure how to how to make a final ruling. The player stated he wanted to have his character cast Hypnotic Pattern in an area that included his character. I informed him that his character would also be affected by the spell and offered...

In a recent game of Princes of the Apocalypse I had the chance to run an encounter on the Dessarin River between two boats. I didn't define the boat in particular, but I did reference the chart on DMG p 119 for the boat speed. It looks like most of the boats are traveling between 9-ft and 18-ft...

Hello, I have a player that is playing a bladelock. He's a bit of an optimizer in that he likes to find efficient ways to gain good DPR. He asked for a change to the bonus action melee attack because a single weapon attack, Dueling Fighting style, was claimed to do more damage than the two...

I'm working on building out Princes of the Apocalypse for a group of four characters levels between 10 and 15. That is the characters will begin the story at level 10 and end at level 15. The second dungeon of the earth cult, Temple of the Black Earth, has a dao which is creating magic items...