Steady Aim

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

Psionic Energy Dice

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

Blade Cantrip Changes

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

Monster Knowledge DCs

Answering the question, "what does my character know about this monster?"

Poisoner’s Kit DCs

Fleshing out the missing rules for the Poisoner's Kit in 5th Edition D&D.

Lucky Death Saves

Exploring how 5e's dice manipulation features affect your odds to survive death saving throws.

Reverse Illusions

Illusion magic in D&D 5th Edition tends to function a certain way. These spells create some sensory effect which a creature can make an investigation check to discern. Here's a list of spells that work this way (spell level in parentheses): Minor Illusion (C)Disguise Self (1st)Distort Value (1st)Silent Image (1st)Phantasmal Force (2nd)Major Image (3rd)Hallucinatory Terrain … Continue reading Reverse Illusions →

Design Evolution: Bolstering Magic

Let's take a look at the Barbarian Path of Wild Magic's design evolution from the Unearthed Arcana's Magic Reserves feature to the D&D Celebration preview's Bolstering Magic feature to see what kind of tips we can learn.

Sleep Spell Reawakening

If the sleep spell is keeping you up at night, because of confusing mechanics or soft scaling, come take a look under the hood and sample two sleep spell solutions.

Smites Without Spell Slots

Let's hack smites to reinvigorate Paladin spellcasting, discourage multiclassing for the sake of powergaming, and promote more dynamic playstyles.