D&D: The SADdening

Examining D&D's added ability score flexibility and how the SAD/MAD balance affects characters.

Changing Spell Damage Type

Players piloting spellcasters often want to swap out damage types for thematic or mechanical reasons. They might think that a fireball is cooler as an ice explosion. Or, they might want to swap a lightning bolt to fire to keep a troll from regenerating. How can we implement this mechanic in an exciting way for 5e?

There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Class

Examining reasons why creators might tread over an explored design space.

Psionic Energy Dice

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

Poisoner’s Kit DCs

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

Sunchaser (Ranger)

Sunchaser Rangers dart around the battlefield without incurring attacks, channel the fire and radiance of the sun into their strikes, escape harrowing situations, illuminate targets for attack advantages, and leave fire in their wake across the battlefield.

Check out our build notes for the Sunchaser (Ranger) subclass.

AoE Spells vs. Hordes

Casting big area effect damage spells is great fun. Taking forever to resolve them is not. Let's reverse engineer the saving throw math so we can get to the narrative resolution quicker.