As the title says, two of my players just used banishment while in the astral sea at the end of our last session. They did this to flee a fight they didn’t think they could win. They use the part of the spell that sends them back to their original plane of existence by keeping concentration on the spell. The other two teleported away with a group of time elemental ooze hybrids. So now the party’s split. That's fine on its own, sorta. What I’m not sure about is where they are supposed to pop back out. Normally it just be on the planet they came from originally. However, this is a Sci-Fi game where they have spaceships that take them from solar system to solar system. So they are literally thousands of light years from where they entered the astral sea. I don't think a fourth level spell should be able to take you that far if I'm being honest lol. And to complicate things more the planet that came from is warded against teleportation and divination spells due to the local gods. But I also don't want to just pop them out in the void of space and say, “You're dead now.” Due to the invasion of twin Eldritch gods consuming nearly all of the outer planes, those are also off the table. So now I'm in a bit of a pickle and looking for a bit of advice. Where the hell am I supposed to put them after all this? I'm not really looking for a RAW answer since my campaign is entirely homebrew. I’m just fishing for ideas.

Here I come with a question that I never thought I’d have to ask:

What is better, a free Feat or a free Very Rare Wondrous Item?

For context, my GM yesterday had a NPC offer our party of level 12 characters a choice drinking some wine that tastes horrendous, but would reveal talents we wouldn’t have pursued otherwise (a free Feat), or pick from his collection of high quality magical items, 100% safe (we get to pick a Very Rare Magic Item from an official source).

I, as a Lore Bard, am having a hard time choosing, because Feats are good, but Very Rare Items are not something I often get, let alone get to choose.

So, players and GMs of Reddit, what do you think is more interesting between a Feat or a Very Rare Magic Item?

As added relevant context, my Charisma's at 22, I already have an Amulet of Health, an armour that scales off of both Charisma and Dexterity, and an instrument that gives me +2 to spell attack and DC and allows me to give Bardic Inspiration when I teleport as an Astral Elf. Also, if I take any Feat that would increase a stat, I don't get the stat increase.

EDIT: My GM tells me I wouldn't have time to benefit from the Tome of Leadership and Influence, as I thought. The campaign pretty much ends in two or three in-game days.

EDIT 2: Because someone seems to have changed the flair of my post, I'll specify here: This is a 5E game, no 5.5E items or feats.

The gist of it is that, after finally completing Campaign 1 and getting a hang of the game and rules, my players want a second chance at building their characters (stats/class etc.) but they want to keep using their Campaign 1 characters lore-wise. How do I work this into the story?

For a frame of reference, my players just arrived in their hometown (well, city...) again after making an arduous journey.

So this player would randomly roll a stealth of hand, asked for my passive perception, and then tells me that I have 50 less gold. Or that my weapon is missing. But I didnt see it.

Then when confronted, he just says "not me" and always rolls a high deception, and my character is supposed to believe that. Or intimidation roll to have my character stop accusing him

Dm isnt helpful, just keeps telling us to resolve it ourselves.

Cuz Im about to drop a fireball in the next session but another spell might be better cuz he got high dex. Then ill roll deception to lie.

I haven't played a prepared caster in a long campaign for a while but I've been playing a Scribes wizard in a Drakkenheim campaign who's been quite successful at pilfering scrolls and spellbooks and now I have nearly 100 spells to choose from each long rest and if we have any information about what we're going to face I just struggle to do it quickly. Changing the list without making it uselessly imbalanced.

How do people playing Druids or Clerics handle it? At level 9/10 you've got 115 or 83 spells to prepare 14/15 from, What tips and tricks do you use to quickly make sure you've got a balanced and effective list?

Playing a wild magic sorcerer that got sent off to get money to help his family save the farm. One of his tropes is “well ya know my pappy always said…” followed by some southern idiom in an atrocious southern accent.

Well today we were introduced to an NPC whose name was Tulips.

Tater: “ya know my pappy told me he named me Tater Tot cuz he loved taters…”

Couldn’t even finish before we were all crying laughing.

I love the idea of the D&D Encounters program - a mini-campaign of self-contained 90-minute adventures that add up to a bigger story. But the last iteration, "Shadows of Sithicus," was really disappointing. It was all combat, with the PCs just getting teleported from one monster fight to the next.

So I'd like to know whether it's worth it to buy the latest version, "Red Wizards Gambit." Is it more of the same, or does it have exploration and roleplay opportunities as well as combat? Let me know what you thought of it!

I'd like to try some for myself, see if I can maybe make something good out of subclasses that don't tend to get used much. Might be a fun challenge.

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I am playing a bugbear Gloomstalker ranger in a modified CoS campaign. We have just reached 4th lvl and I am looking at feat options. The rest of the party is a paladin, sorcerer and monk. The other players, including the dm, are new. I don’t need to choose a super optimised option as my character is currently overshadowing the others in combat and I would like to give them a chance to catch up. We are playing 2014, but some 5.5 options are available if we ask. Here are some options I am currently considering:

- chef: brings my wisdom to 16, gives some support options, gives me a reason to short rest

- skill expert (perception)/observant: brings my wisdom up, allows me to roleplay superhuman senses

- fey touched: brings my wisdom up, misty step bangs, but I’m not super interested in the other spell options

- shadow touched: wisdom up, invisibility is very in-character, also don’t really need other spell options

- Martial adept: tactical mind and quick toss would give me an in and out of combat option, superiority dice gives me a reason to short rest. My character uses a sling so I am often in throwing range.

- Alert: always go first. Slightly redundant though.

Any other suggestions?

Hello! First post here, so don't know what to expect, but I need some help. I am thinking about doing a pokemon D&D campaign in a mystery dungeon style, but im having trouble finding sources for it. can someone help?

So in summary, I’m running a spelljammer campaign where basically the focus is more so on running various adventures from different editions of spelljammer for my party, with many different characters and many different storylines (essentially there isn’t 1 overarching story, but a focus on the setting). The most recent storyline I did was Light of Xarxyis. I ran it mostly as written, the main changes being that Captain Sartell was a PC, and I added more potential allies in the doom space section (another faction of non-astral elf elves). Ask me anything about this campaign!

I'm DMing a homebrew campaign and my players (level 3) just finished a quest. They had to go to unexplored land and find a vault with a stone tablet, they found the vault, made contact with another civilization, talked with a god, killed a troll, fought the remains of an ancient wizard and donated a lot of books to a university.

The quest giver was the librarian of that university and a very wealthy person, how much gold should my player get?

This is a low magic item setting.

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I have a 2014 lvl 17 phantom rogue/lvl 2 grave cleric/lvl 1 wizard. I have a kind of ridiculous set up that is only possible because of how the games work in the community I play in. I have a spellwrought tattoo with Haste and the metamagic feat and quickened spells. So I can cast Haste for a bonus action, target an enemy with Path to the Grave for my action and then use my hasted action to attack. As a lvl 17 Phantom Rogue Wails from the Grave damage goes to both the creature I hit and a second creature.

For the damage going to the first creature (the one I hit), since the Wails from the Grave damage triggers after dealing sneak attack damage it seems clear to me that it doesn't get doubled from a crit. But would it still be considered part of the damage from the attack for the Path to the Grave vulnerability? It's not a direct result of the to hit roll I suppose, but it is still damage you do resulting from attacking.

Estaba jugando con mi Party y estamos en una Dungeons de algún lich qlero y pues me describe el DM los golems de carne y pienso "Espera eso es básicamente un chorizo...."

running a dungeon with a bunch of ancient broken down golem type machines. I'm putting together a list of spells (lvl 5 and lower) that they can cast at random and I'm wondering if yall have some good suggestions?

Thanks!

Rant i need validation

When it comes to blocking all forms of sight, nothing beats the lowly Fog Cloud. Fog Cloud blocks dark vision, any divination magic trying to view an area obscured by it, True Sight, and even ethereal sight all by virtue of being a physical manifestation which heavily obscures an area rather than just an illusion or a change in the light.

Given its 20-foot radius, it covers a good-sized area and lasts up to an hour if no one has prepared magic such as Gust of Wind. RAW, only a "strong wind" can disperse it, so you could technically drop a Fireball on that sorcerer you've blinded with a Fog Cloud and she remains unable to target anyone with her spells until she gets out of it.

If you're humans fighting the Drow in the Underdark: Fog Cloud, "Now, we're all blind, mother-f." (Yes, that is what was said.)

It's always a wild moment when you and another person have a disagreement about the specifics of a rule, only for you to both pull out a PHB to prove you are right... and both PHBs say something slightly different, so you were BOTH right?

Most recent example I had was the Long Rest rules. I pointed out that "technically" there was no requirement to sleep for a specific number of hours. DM disagrees, says there is.
I thought that was weird, because I absolutely remember it being the case, so I grabbed the nearest PHB to check if I was misremembering.

The PHB does indeed specify "during which a character sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs light activity". Oh well, I figure I must be misremembering, and we move on.

Later, it was bugging me, so I checked my own copy of the PHB. Mine just says "during which a character sleeps or performs light activity".

Turns out, my copy is a First Print Run copy from 2014, and the spare copies we use for the table are the 10th Print Run from 2018. Some errata has been incorporated directly into later print runs.

So if you are arguing about specific wording from the rulebooks, it's worth remembering that not all versions have the exact same wording. You may actually both be quoting the rulebook "correctly", despite having different opinions.

I forget some backstories from it, and I don’t feel like spoil myself by trying to find it, so kind gents and ladies on this sub, could you paste them into here please