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Month: December 2018

Passive Skills vs. Reliable Talent

Reliable Talent makes all your skills passive. In order to see what you're really getting from this class feature, you need to find out what skills already function passively, and what skills only function actively. We'll examine passive skill treatment in the rules and analyze where each skill should fall.

thinkdm DM Tips, Homebrew, Player Tips 2 Comments December 22, 2018July 20, 2020

Lucky Feat: RAW vs. RAI

After last's week post calculating the success odds for the Lucky feat, some folks who run the Lucky feat a little differently asked me to run the odds on that iteration. Since this homerule is popularly employed, including by D&D Lead Rules Designer Jeremy Crawford, we're running the odds and evaluating the comparison.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Character Creation, DM Tips, Feat Breakdowns, Number Munchers, Player Tips 1 Comment December 15, 2018December 15, 2018

Feeling Lucky?

Analyzing the benefits of the various luck-driven abilities in 5th Edition D&D: Lucky feat, Diviner's Portent dice, and the Halfling Lucky racial feature. How do they stack up?

thinkdm Character Creation, Feat Breakdowns, Number Munchers, Player Tips 1 Comment December 8, 2018December 8, 2018

Non-Metal Druid Armor

Since the Druid's non-metal armor restriction is purely thematic, we're taking a close look at the rules and reskinning the metal options to give Druids access to the full armory!

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Character Creation, Homebrew, Player Tips Leave a comment December 1, 2018December 2, 2018
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