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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

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 2 Comments December 5, 2020December 5, 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 3 Comments November 14, 2020

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.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Character Creation, Player Tips 3 Comments August 22, 2020August 22, 2020

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.

thinkdm Character Creation 1 Comment August 8, 2020August 8, 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

Starting Gold Dice

Recalculating starting gold dice based on the standard equipment options for each class.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, Character Creation, DM Tips, Homebrew, Number Munchers, Player Resources, Player Tips 5 Comments December 28, 2019December 28, 2019

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

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.

thinkdm Changing the Rules, DM Tips, Homebrew 5 Comments September 28, 2019September 27, 2019

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.

thinkdm Character Creation, Number Munchers, Unearthed Arcana 5 Comments September 21, 2019September 21, 2019

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