Add intrigue and interaction to magic items with these identification rules.
Identifying Magic Items
Category: The Simple Things
No, You Can’t Cast Magic Missile at the Darkness (and Other Weird Rules)
A primer on magic missile, and its weird rules interactions.
Size & Strength DCs
Can giants use their own doors?
5e Surprise Round
Writing the surprised round (and condition) back into D&D 5e to avoid confusion for players with legacy knowledge.
THAC0 5e
Updating an old D&D tool to 5e for quicker and more satisfying combat resolution, without all the math breaks.
Psionic Energy Dice
Psionic Power scaling for the Psi Warrior/Soulknife multiclass. Can you double your dice?
Monster Knowledge DCs
Answering the question, "what does my character know about this monster?"
Death Saves Revived
Reviving the death save mechanics to give more interesting narrative results and keep fallen PCs engaged.
Light and Vision Tables
Darkness is great for setting the mood, but it can be a mechanical headache to juggle. Use thes tables to simplify your experience.
Resting Rules
While we pride ourselves on deeper analytics, there's no reason you should have to work to understand the basic game mechanics. With that in mind, we're refining the resting rule in 5th Edition D&D.
