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Defending Your Wizard Tower

A list of the handiest spells for Wizards looking to defend their tower from intrusion.

thinkdm DM Tips, Player Tips 2 Comments January 23, 2021January 23, 2021

Prosthetic Attunement

Wizards of the Coast is bringing accessibility improvements to D&D by removing attunement from prosthetic items.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Design Evolution, News 5 Comments January 16, 2021

Avoid the Zone of Truth Torture Chamber

Fixing up an social spell so it does what it says without pushing the player characters to torturing the subject.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Homebrew, Spell Breakdowns 1 Comment January 2, 2021November 29, 2021

Session 0+1

There's a lot of cargo cult Session 0 rituals. Let's trim the fat to get players rolling and role-ing the first time they sit down to play D&D.

thinkdm Character Creation, DM Tips 7 Comments December 26, 2020January 1, 2021

DC 0 Checks

As a matter of adventure design (or when improvising as a DM), you shouldn't lock mission-critical information behind a skill check. Because if the characters fail the check, the plot line is dead. But, the solution isn't to get rid of skill checks. The solution is progressive skill checks, starting at 0.

thinkdm Design Evolution, DM Tips, Homebrew 4 Comments December 19, 2020December 19, 2020

THAC0 5e

Updating an old D&D tool to 5e for quicker and more satisfying combat resolution, without all the math breaks.

thinkdm DM Tips, Number Munchers, The Simple Things 1 Comment December 12, 2020December 4, 2020

Gunner feat for Spellcasters

The Gunner feat has replaced the Crossbow Expert feat as the prime feat for martial blasting.

thinkdm Character Creation, Player Tips 3 Comments December 5, 2020December 5, 2020

Steady Aim

How strong is the Rogue's new Steady Aim optional class feature?

thinkdm Character Creation, Number Munchers, Player Tips 1 Comment November 28, 2020November 28, 2020

Psionic Energy Dice

Psionic Power scaling for the Psi Warrior/Soulknife multiclass. Can you double your dice?

thinkdm Character Creation, Player Resources, Player Tips, The Simple Things 2 Comments November 21, 2020December 4, 2020

Blade Cantrip Changes

Examining the updates to Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade and their new interactions with metamagic, feats, spells, and class features.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Character Creation, Design Evolution, DM Tips, Feat Breakdowns, Player Tips, Spell Breakdowns 5 Comments November 14, 2020

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