A list of the handiest spells for Wizards looking to defend their tower from intrusion.
Defending Your Wizard Tower
Tag: Warlock
Gunner feat for Spellcasters
The Gunner feat has replaced the Crossbow Expert feat as the prime feat for martial blasting.
Blade Cantrip Changes
Examining the updates to Green-Flame Blade and Booming Blade and their new interactions with metamagic, feats, spells, and class features.
Tiefling Skin Color
People love making Tieflings with all arrays of skin color. What do the rules say about that? And should you listen? Let's scope our some infernal bloodlines.
Gender Bias in D&D Character Creation
I ran a poll asking folks about their gender identity, what races/classes they've played, and what races/classes are their favorites. Here's the results of 1150 responses.
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!
Starting Gold Dice
Recalculating starting gold dice based on the standard equipment options for each class.
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.
Movement Effect Size Caps
Should effects which manipulate the movement of a target be limited by size? We examine the narrative issues and give you a simple rule that fixes them by employing size caps.
Is Oath of Heroism OP?
The Oath of Heroism Paladin subclass is D&D's latest Unearthed Arcana playtest release. While the mythological flavor is incredible, the subclass gets some goodies that were historically only available by multiclassing: expanded critical range, Haste as an oath spell, and free attacks. How does this add up to a standard Paladin? We ran the numbers.
