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Passive-Only Skills

Are there skills which should only function as passive skills? How passive-only skills can align player:character knowledge and assist DMs to plan ahead.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, DM Tips 7 Comments February 13, 2021February 14, 2021

5 Skill D&D

Why have 18 skills when you can have FIVE?

We’re giving D&D players more agency over the narrative implementation of their skillsets by streamlining a bloated system and highlighting a popular variant rule.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, DM Tips, Homebrew 13 Comments July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

Expertise Skill Hack

5th Edition D&D has a skill problem. It lies in a feature called expertise, which allows you to add your proficiency bonus twice when using a skill. Let's see what problems this causes and I'll give you a simple hack to fix them!

thinkdm Changing the Rules, DM Tips, Homebrew, Number Munchers 6 Comments April 25, 2020April 25, 2020

Do Changelings Power Creep?

Eberron's new Changeling is the first class that can start with an 18 ability score at level 1. Although this "power creep" doesn't mean the class is unbalanced, the answer to rebalancing the race within the existing design paradigm may lay within cut content.

thinkdm Character Creation, Monsters from Mythology, Player Tips 1 Comment November 30, 2019November 30, 2019

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
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