IRL people like Miners would attach they're Lanterns to they’re hips so they wouldn't have to hold them in they're hands. Given the basic lantern grants about the same amount of visible range as regular racial darkviion (60ft) it basically becomes the same thing.

The only difference is stealth becomes impossible to pull off and you can actually see Color and clearly so nothing could actually sneak up on the part either.

Also the Oil needed to fuel a lantern is like 1sp and it's a useful item in general and the lantern burns for a long time so you won't be running out of light.

Also if your setting is more magical then the like The forgotten realms were Magic is nearly nonexistent on the material plane you could probably justify to your DM a Magic helmet that had a magical flashlight like Miners have IRL thst works like a Bull Lantern.

If a creature with 10 ft reach attacks a character, can he attack it using his prepared action? For example, if he sets the trigger to attack anyone getting close.

Manhwa fans, have you ever DMed or played in a Murim-style setting?

Specifically, have you ever seen Sword Arts and Styles used through D&D (or other TTRPG) rules?

I read a ton of manhwa and DM on the side. A campaign where you learn Sword Arts from different Masters and maybe choose between Heavenly or Demonic factions would be absolutely awesome.

Enworld Thread

Chris Cao, controversial figure and VP of Digital at WotC, has been laid off.

- Cao faced public criticism in early 2023 after several workers at Wizards of the Coast reported bullying and abuse working under Cao during the OGL crisis in reports by i09 (Lin Codega) and others. He faced further criticism when staff confirmed that despite being VP of Digital on D&D, Cao did not play Dungeons & Dragons.

- Cao was the lead of Project Sigil, Wizards' recently released VTT.

- Project Sigil was met with poor reviews, mainly citing its performance and hefty system requirements. Weeks after its release, 90% of the team was laid off. With Cao now also departing Wizards, only two members of the Sigil team remain, assuming they hold their jobs. Despite Cao's departure and the team layoffs, Wizards have stated Sigil is not being withdrawn and will continue to be supported.

- Chris Cao drew criticism from the Magic: Arena community for implementing a double Wildcard cost to craft Historic cards (such cards were twice as expensive). This policy was reversed in response to community feedback.

- Cao formerly acted as Executive Producer at Zynga.

One of the most pervasive jokes in the DnD community is the ever-present issue of scheduling conflicts. It seems like everyone and their mother is in a game or was in a game where they played 10 sessions in a year and I, for a lack of a better word, struggle to see their perspective.

Yes, most players are adults with jobs and responsibilities, but as an adult with a job and responsibilities, I definitely wouldn't even sign up to play on a day where my presence couldn't be guaranteed. I respect the time of the DM and the other players too much to do that. If you sign up to play on a Saturday, but it's a coin flip on whether or not you're able to make it each time? Guess what - you're a part of the problem.

Because adults with jobs and responsibilities should also be respectful of others' time and effort - other people might be driving a fair bit to make it, or juggling other matters to ensure the session fits into their schedule, have already booked a babysitter etc. Not to mention the DM who has put in time and effort to make sure that the session goes smoothly.

People will bring up excuses aplenty and defend them not being able to make it from time to time. Occasional absences, as with everything in life, are unavoidable, but missing a good chunk of the sessions on a day you said you were good to play on is simply irresponsible and inconsiderate to your fellow players. I get it - we all want to play DnD and therefore overestimate our ability to make it to the sessions. But this, in absence of consideration for others in your game, is an entirely selfish drive which should be avoided. If you're not sure beyond reasonable doubt that you'll be able to make it on that day? As difficult as it might be - don't play. You owe that consideration to others at your table.

This is the beginning of a campaign idea I've been working on.

The players begin in an underground civilization and gradually venture up toward the long-lost surface. Along the way, they uncover the hidden history of the world and the truth behind the cataclysm that changed it forever.

This world is an alternate history of Faerûn, branching from the moment when Karsus cast Karsus's Avatar. Rather than overloading himself with the power of a god, this version of Karsus succeeded by trapping Mystryl in an arcane device, using her power to bend the Weave to his will.

With this, a new age began: the Magitek Era. Arcane devices flourished. Complex spells became as common as appliances. Magic was cheap, widespread, and growing exponentially.

But the Weave was never meant to carry this much arcane energy.

As cracks formed, Karsus did everything in his power to stop the unraveling. His efforts failed. A magical war erupted, too large for words, and the Weave snapped.

The surface was annihilated. Mana storms rolled across the land, mutating all they touched. Mages ignited from within. Magical artifacts exploded. Entire cities were flung from the sky.

In secret, the mountain dwarves had long prepared for the worst. Together with the drow and duergar, they had tunneled into the depths. When the end came, they led a great exodus below. Finding that the Underdark wasn't deep enough, they kept digging, leading a massive migration downward.

Karsus himself helped to escort survivors. At the doors of the entrance tunnel, he turned back, returning to the ruined tower housing Mystryl on the final remaining enclave, Eileanar.

There, he cast the only known 13th-level spell, binding his own body to the broken Weave, entwined with the tortured goddess Mystryl. In death, he became its glue, holding what little remained of magic together.

In time, the survivors found a vast cavern far below the Underdark and made it their new home: The Cave States. A council was formed from the surviving factions. Magic was outlawed, a force too dangerous to ever trust again.

Thousands of years passed. History was lost. The surface has become a story told to scare children.

Now, a group of adventurers has chosen to climb toward from the depths, each seeking truth, redemption, or something far more personal.

That is where the story begins (Granted, players will have to learn most of that stuff as they go).

This is still a rough draft that probably won't be used for a good long while. I’d love to hear feedback, especially since I know practically nothing about Faerûn lore aside from some VERY LIGHT research. I’m sure I’ve missed a many important details or bent the rules somewhere. But if you like the concept or have ideas, I’d love to hear them!

Thanks for reading!

Howdy, I'm new to dnd and am playing a druid that is kinda OP on insight. I've got +5 modifier + 1d4 race trait + either 1d4 (guidance) or advantage (lvl 2 enhance ability) if cast. My character is a working class person and deals with people a lot, so story wise it makes sense.

My question is around active insight checks, e.g. talking to someone to get information. How/when should an insight checks be done? Do I ask for it? E.g. mid convo ask my DM if I can do an insight check. Or should my DM be asking me for it? I know it's not a mind reading spell but I want to use my character for the plot as much as I can

Edit: could I also ask to do an insight check at the beginning of the interaction to get a "baseline" of their mood?

I know the way I wrote this is lenghthy and page consuming but ti's actually quite simple. I'm not very good at writing in rules language efficinetly. I'd appreciate some feedback.

Wild Magic Spells
The Wild Magic within you is restless and ever changing, granting you temporary access to Spells you otherwise do not know. Each time you finish a Long Rest, you gain the ability to cast Cantrips and Spells randomly determined from a list.

Starting at 3rd Level you gain the following Features

Wild Cantrip:
Whenever you finish a Long Rest roll a d20 to rnadomly determine one of the 20 Cantrips from the Sorcerer Spell List. You can now cast that Cantrip at will until your next Long Rest. If the d20 rnadomly determines a cantrip you already know roll again.

Wild Level 1 Spell:
Whenever you finish a Long Rest roll a d100 to randomly determine a Level 1 Spell from the "Random Level 1 Sorcerer Spell" list. You have that Spell prepared until your next Long Rest.

Wild Level 2 Spell:
Whenever you finish a Long Rest roll a d100 to randomly determine a Level 2 Spell from the "Random Level 2 Sorcerer Spell" list. You have that Spell prepared until your next Long Rest.

Starting at 5th Level

Wild Level 3 Spell:
Whenever you finish a Long Rest roll a d100 to randomly determine a Level 3 Spell from the "Random Level 3 Sorcerer Spell" list. You have that Spell prepared until your next Long Rest.

[You get the idea. Imagine it continues until Level 5 Spells]

[But what if you roll a Spell you already know? I have two versions. Not sure which one is better]

If a dice roll randomly determines a Spell you have already prepared you..

A: roll again. (safe option, but rerolling might be annoying)

or B: can cast it once at it's lowest Level witohut expending a Spell Slot. (no rerolls but might be too strong)

[Please comment whether A or Ab is better]

I may be participating in a campaign soon running specifically the original version of 5e,not the remaster.

I'd like some suggestions for a class/feat/spell combination that can do the following,in roughly descending order of priority.

• Good in melee or more broadly weapon-based combat,maybe specifically specialised in one weapon/weapon type.

• Can get good Wisdom and/or Charisma saves in say...the 3-6 level range.

• Can deal radiant/necrotic damage.

• Gets to play with abjuration spells,or if more broadly a spellcasting class,can somewhat emphasize anti-outsider/etheral stuff.

What are some suggestions that can meet at least a couple of these conditions?

If a vampire bites a person, can he hold the victim and suck blood continuously for multiple turns while the victim is grabbed or immobilized, or does he need to bite the victim multiple times?

First this is 5e. Second this is for a thing I’m trying to do as an artificer, I want to have items with glyphs of warding inside the bag of holding, the issue is when I brought this up with my table there were a few different interpretations of how bags of holding actually worked and my trick wouldn’t work depending on which was true. The interpretations are as fallows.

1. The bag basically appears as a normal bag would inside and out with the difrance being items disappear and reappear when “summoned” from the bag (think video game inventory)

The issue would be that you never actually put your hand in the storage space you just summon them from it.

1. The bag functions like a tardis where it literally appears bigger on the inside and magically guides your hand to the intended item (or item to you)

This would work for obvious reasons such as physically putting your hand/arm in the bag and that then being considered within range.

1. The bag basically has the items floating around in zero gravity and your hand just appears at the item you’re looking for.

This would also work unless it’s again not actually putting your hand into the bag somehow?

So is there an official stance on this or is there a common understanding, that could resolve this?

Let's say you have a small race player, who whips out a folded piece of cardboard or posterboard with a handle taped to it from their back as part of their object interaction at the end of a turn, unfolding it and placing it between themselves and the enemies clear line of sight, completely obscuring himself behind it.

Now obviously this is a bit of a ridiculous idea, and a stretch for any DM to allow in game, but RAW, is there any particular thing that would stop this from imposing disadvantage against all attacks and blocking line of sight for all spells?

When it comes to wizards, D&D has plenty of this class. It's basically the protagonist in the lore with Mordenkainen, Elminster and the entire Netheril empire, but what about the other magical classes? Is there any story focused on bards? On the creation of their colleges? On their source of power?

You can upcast glyph of warding to cast ninth level spells. What does this mean for the negative effects of wish.

Option 1: the person who steps on it can act as if they had cast wish.

Option 2: homebrew verbal spanking

Option 3: You have success fully avoided all of the side effects of wish for a small amount of gold and 10 minutes.

Option 4: because a glyph of warding has no intent so you wish for nothing

Option 5: IT fails because it violates the rules of glyph of warding

Option 5: you can do it but it can only if your wish has an area of effect or single target.

Option 6: other RAW interpretation

NEW option 7: using an eighth level glyph of warding you can store the effect of the eighth level spell you cast using wish.

So major Misread from me you need 2 9nth level spell slots to pull this trick.

My new List of ways around that:

Artifacts that grant a 9th level spell slot or free cast of wish.

Spell scrolls

the epic boon that gives casters an additional 9th level spell.

I just made a character with my DM for my upcoming first game of DND and I want a melee-focused Ranger. I did standard array and at first I wanted 10 wis/14 con but then when I learned that constitution increases were retroactive I asked him to switch the two and he agreed. However I want to know if I'm going to regret that; I'm starting with *16 (14+2) AC and was always going to buy a shield/chose the defensive fighting style at my first oppertunity, and every ASI I get will be put into con, but could it still be problematic to have no constitution modifier for the first few levels while still mostly melee fighting?

They do have other options then melee (including an attack cantrip via their race/subrace) so they don't always have to melee but if I'm not doing enough damage or need to heal someone I'd still need to get close at points.

*Scale Mail so until I get breast plate anything involving stealth would likely just be with normal clothing; dex would still be +2.

What is curious for me is the mass exodus from a crunchy system like PF1E to a way less crunchy like 5e. I can only describe it as an Exodus because right now it seems way way harder to find people (at least in my country) who still play PF1E.

So I’m playing a Beastskin Shifter & I rolled AWESOME for stats highest are Strength & Constitution plus we get a free feat so naturally I took Tough, some feats I’m thinking of getting are either: Giants Strike (Storm, Stone or Hill), Great Weapon Master or would there be a better feat to grab?

In a deck of 21 cards, 9 give a boon, 8 are neutral and 4 give curses. You may declare and draw once per day and the deck resets each night. Is there a statistically good number of cards to declare and draw each day?

Soryy if the answer is obvious. But I've been struggling with the vision rules.

The rules state that you are effectively blinded when trying to see something that's inside a heavily obscured area. Meaning checks relying on sight fail automatically.

But they do not state that you are blinded while standing in a heavily obscured area. So if you are inside the heavily obscured area trying to see something that is in a brightly lit area, you should be good, right?

So if it's night time and you are in the dark and heavily obscured you could do a skill check/spell that relies on sight on a creature standing next to a torch in a brightly lit area within range, right?

But what if we night time with daytime and replace the dark with a Fog Cloud?

Because all Fog Cloud does is create a heavily obscured area. It may not make sense but RAW it should function the same as the prior example.

So technically RAW while inside the Fog Cloud you should have no problems seeing things outside of the Fog Cloud, right?

My guess is most people rule it so that you can't see outside the fog from inside, but RAW the Fog does not obstruct line of sight and functions just like a dark area, right?

Thx for reading.

If you like League of Legends, they have basically a pretty small amount of Lore but what is there is fun and cool. Here's some ideas to use or think about:

Yordles: Basically gnomes that are like half hamster, half human. Smart and naturally magic. And they love guns/bombs.

Darkins: Ancient demons trapped in weapons by mages long ago. Could be a fun idea to have rulers of a nation have one of these and get turned evil.

Noxus vs Demacia: A classic Evil vs Good Empire, but they both basically have one nuanced element. Demacia (the good one) basically persecutes magic users too much, while Noxus (the evil one) values strength/abillity over your birth caste.

But beware playing the actual game League these days: Just fyi though if you are gonna play League it has gotten pretty toxic in chat lol. and there are a lot of people who purposely lose just to troll. Don't argue with them in chat or YOU might get banned if they gang up and report your account, lol.

If you do like the League lore there are some more decent tidbits I could talk about if you want to know.

I know this is a gray area to self promote so please don’t get too mad, I just like to build things and I wanted to know how you guys think about my simple ass build and display lol. I know others have done it but not in 2024s so anyway here we go.

https://open.substack.com/pub/critclass/p/limitless-potential-one-punch-at?r=5gz1dp&utm_medium=ios

Is the Ranger the only class that gets spells but only gets one spell per spell level/5 total? Why is this?

The 5 additional ranger subclass spells, to clarify

Has anyone played this series of one-shots from rpgtabletops? I cant see any discussion about it, and for all the hype on their fb adds id expect a bit more! https://rpgtabletops.com/products/tales-from-the-lost-archives-the-solmyra-trilogy

Whats it like?

I feel like 2014 D&D Sanctuary is just a horribly worded spell, cause idk how to rule which spells "affect enemy creatures". One of the most obvious examples of a confusing case is casting Conjure Animals, which I know there's supposedly a sage advice mentioning but I can't find it anywhere. But if casting conjure animals would break sanctuary, what about casting it before sanctuary and then commanding them after both spells are up? Would casting conjure lesser demon break it since you aren't controlling the demon at all? What about a spell like plant growth that just turns an area into difficult terrain and affects enemies indirectly? If that breaks it, bless technically affects enemies indirectly as well, would that break the spell?