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Changeling Traits (Revised)

As a follow-up to the Changeling article, I've reworked the class into a new version that drives flavor through Divergent Persona and avoids the power creep issues. I also cleaned up the language o...

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Does Changeling's +3 Charisma "Power Creep"?

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Oath of Heroism Breakdown (It's Broken)

The Oath of Heroism Paladin subclass is the latest playtest release featured in Wizards of the Coast's 2019-09-20 21:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Dragon Breath Weapon Dice Pool

Here's a system for running the Dragon breath weapon as a dice pool, providing more granular control for the Dungeon Master and greater ludonarrative harmony at the table.

I don't know why pa...

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Monster Attribute Randomizer


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PAM vs GWM vs ASI Calculator

This chart will let you run the numbers for ASI progressions for Fighters and Barbarians who want to battle with a polearm. You can also run the numbers for Variant Humans. You need to make a copy ...

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How to Run a Sandbox


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Artificer Teardown


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Expanded Artificer Spell List

This list includes thematically appropriate spells from Xanathar's Guide to Everything. A preview of an upcoming ThinkDM post in a few weeks. 


P.S. I hope this is the right ve...

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Artificer Spell and Infusion List


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Condition Table

Made this for my DM screen. I prefer it much to the traditional format, as it provides a quicker lookup by situation and takes up less space (1 page vs 1.5 on the original DM screen). I'll be throw...

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Warlock Eldritch Invocations


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Druid Wild Shape Options by CR (Checklist)


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Warlock Invocation Table with Lookup

A little lookup table I made which generates a card with the info for each invocation. This is actually a part of a bigger project.

You can find all the data neatly organized on the attached sheet.<...

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Article Preview: Lucky Success Odds

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well do ya, punk?"

It's no secret that the 2018-12-07 23:41:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Updated Contagion Calculator: Poison Duration


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Greatswords vs. Greataxes

Greatsword vs. Greataxe

After some recent Barbarian discussion which ushered nu...

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Warforged Armor Class Progressions

I built a tool to visualize what armor type you should be using at each level based on your Warforged character progression. This weekend's article will include breakdowns of common progressions and s...

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Flesh to Stone Spell Odds


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Large PCs are the Centaur of Attention


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How Likely is Contagion to Work?

I made a calculator which will show how likely the Contagion spell is to work against targets with various constitution saving throws. Just input your Spellcaster level (at least 9 because Contagion i...

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More Early Article Access

I couldn't help myself but write more on this topic. Especially after Jeremy Crawford's stream. Here you go:


Quality of Life Improvements

We received additional insight on the "sh...

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Sneak Preview: Next week's article on the new Minotaur UA and Shield Master nerf

Dungeons & Dragon's May 2018 Unearthed Arcana updated the Minotaur race. With three years since the original release, the improvements in the race design can tell us a lot about what lessons t...

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Next Article

What should I write about next? Here's some topics I've got rolling around.

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Flanking

A full breakdown on the actions, class features, spells, and feats which may be impacted by flanking in your game. Figure out what you're comfortable with running in your games based on party composit...

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Sneak Preview: Dual Wielding

Sneak Preview of the Calculator behind this week's ThinkDM post.

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Don't Do DC Increases

The Case Against Increasing Difficulty Checks Round-By Round

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The "Bag of Rats" Problem


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Druid Character Sheet

Making progress on the beast table automation. Here you can see the bottom of the sheet.

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Mike Mearls' Happy Fun Hour Subclasses

All of D&D Franchise Creative Director Mike Mearls' subclasses made on stream, with screenshots and transposed rulesets. The related videos are also linked.

2018-04-08 04:37:15 +0000 UTC View Post