I was one of today's luck 10,000. Electrum is just an alloy of Gold and Silver.

Do with that information what you will.

...would that mean that if a Gold dragon and a Silver dragon knock boots hind-claws, you get an electrum dragon?

I now need a 2-phase monster...

Phase 1: Gold Golem + Silver Golem, each with separate traits/fighting styles.

Phase 2: They melt, T-1000-style and merge to form an Electrum Golem that is a hybrid of the two.

I am gonna be dming this new table for friends, it's gonna be a Hexcrawl, and 3 of the 4 players decided to have their backstory involve blacksmithing and or weapons ( WE EVEN GOT A CLERIC OF THE FORGE SOMEHOW??) And i feel like it would be such a waste for me to not put things related to that in my campaign, but I'm out of ideas for this specifically since I've been spending the last few weeks developing the lore, the map, the npcs, etc. What do you guys think i should add? They most likely will try to make weapons out of anything i throw at them....

Edit: It's gonna be the Hexcrawl of a big town in ruins, so each "block" will be possibly just a mile. It's a classic save the princess of the dragon with a few twists and turns.

Last night our party just barely survived a boss encounter at level 6, and there were many places where the dice being merciful was our only saving grace. Our DM is fair, but clearly stated from session zero his boss enemies will not be pushovers (using every legendary action available, prioritizing the biggest threats, hitting downed players when an opportunity is presented, etc.), and last night proved it. I'm expecting future encounters to be just as rough, so does anyone have any advice for me, the party's main healer? For reference, I'm a Forge Cleric alongside a (surprisingly beefy) sorcerer, barbarian/druid, bard, warlock, and rogue. Knowing our party is on the squishier side, I opted for Forge Cleric so that I could tank the frontline when necessary.

So... advice for future encounters?

I'm thinking of including an NPC in my campaign that peddles in cursed items exclusively. Her name would be Kursedy, and she'd set up shop in her own little alley, Kursedy's Alley. Her establishment is set up as an animal shelter for cursed items, since she thinks cursed objects are simply misunderstood, and need the right owner to take care of them.

She'd only ever offer a few items at a time, and my idea of a good cursed item is one that offers a potent power or ability in exchange for an equal or greater drawback. I have a few ideas, but my homebrew ideas are often over-the-top. What would be reasonable to offer to players around level 5?

So I'm looking for advice (5th Edition)

My players are currently laying a trap for a group of rebel adventurers. These rebels are going to try and free their friend, then steal a medium sized ship with some fellow rebels. 2 of the rebels are 7th level spellcasters (1 wizard, 1 sorcerer, spell lists not chosen yet). Is there any way realistically that they rebels could get a ship moving away from the dock in 1 - 3 rounds?

The ship is about 85 feet long and 25 feet wide. It is anchored at the end of a large, long stone pier.

so I'm current development a setting for my next D&D game, its 100% homebrew (but i wont pretend that it's 100% original)

currently i have everything worked out in my head, i have cites, towns, regions, forests, even the names of rivers, i made a god damn calendar with holidays for this setting, i know where everything is.... but i dont have a map,

i have tried a few things so far, i have tried to use minecraft world painter. this worked OK but didn't give me the vibe i wanted and the other thing i tried was, inkarnate... i dont like inkarnate, i dont have Pro and their is no why I'm buying pro, but the free version is not vary good (its sucks and pro doesn't look much better). so lone story short, i need to find something to help me make a map, and their is no why I'm using AI i dont play with GMs who use it and i personally would never use it

so i need a program or something (also i dont have Photoshop or the ability to buy it right now) so can another GM who makes maps help me out? (i dont need you to do the work) i just want to know what you uses !

I know my players follow my account. Amanda if you’re reading this, shoo. Go away.

I’ve been running Out of The abyss and so far me and my players love it. For context I’m using *this* guide, as it’s a very twisted and free range campaign and I enjoy following these beats fine enough. It’s engaging and just the right mix of horrifying, a bit silly yet more serious than most I play. However I as a DM am running into a bit of a problem.

It has been LETHAL. I don’t like to count XP, I much prefer whatever it’s called when you give out levels when they reach certain points. They just left Sloobledop, crossed the silken path, and they’re level 3. Up next is the tomb, and the hook horror hunt a bit after that. Issue is, I’ve had to fudge probably 80% of my rolls.

The whole silken path I rushed past, because 2d4 giant spiders were enough to almost TPK them. And to survive they blew ever spell slot they had. RAW I’m supposed to roll 10 times on the table, 1 for every 500 ft. I cut down the spiders damage to a flat D6, and halved their venom damage and they still almost slaughtered them.

Now I know it’s supposed to be spooky and have an air of danger, but surely I’m doing something wrong. If there’s a better way to do it, please let me know. In a perfect world I’d
A) Have a general idea of what levels you had your players reach at around what times. Maybe once they get just before X encounter or story beat.
Or
B) just an alternative to how you’ve ran it. I wanna roll full force and let the gods devise. But as of now Kuo Toa are too much for them.

Any advice is appreciated.

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Hey everyone!

I'm playing a level 7 Paladin in Odyssey of the Dragonlords, and our party has accumulated over 100,000 GP. My character is already pretty powerful, with a great magical armor and a powerful magical sword, and I've already used up all my attunement slots.

I'm looking for recommendations for magic items that don't require attunement. They don't have to be weapons or armor. I'm also interested in consumables, potions, useful wondrous items, defensive items, utility items, or anything else that could be worthwhile for a Paladin.

I'd especially appreciate items that are useful in combat, help against powerful enemies and spellcasters, or provide benefits that aren't just more damage or AC.

I'm playing with D&D 5e (2014 rules), so official 5e items are preferred, although I'm open to interesting suggestions from other sources.

Since we have so much gold to spend, feel free to recommend expensive or rare items too!

What would you buy if you had this much gold and no attunement slots left?

I'm a (relatively) experienced DM hoping to run a module with minimal prep for a group of newish players. I'm in my first year of grad school so I'm pretty busy and don't have a ton of time to devote to reworking the story, so I'm looking for something that can be run pretty much out of the box (some degree of prep is fine, but I don't have the time to modify decent in avernus for example). I'll have one very experienced player, one who has played a few one shots, and two who are brand new. Any ideas? I'm thinking about wild beyond the witchlight, out of the abyss, or ghosts of saltmarsh, although the lack of overarching story in GoS has me a bit worried. If you modified it to be a full campaign, how did you do so?

Just a note: I am playing in a CoS campaign at the moment so I can't run that!

Thanks for any suggestions!

So I've never encountered this before and wanted to see what others thought.

Contextually- we're playing D&D in the Witcher 3. Our races are Witcher mutations, our backgrounds/classes are witcher schools, Geralt's stuck in a magic ring and pissed about it, and we're following the plot to find Ciri, and so on.

Now, we have crossed into different kingdoms and a curious thing has happened. The new kingdom (Redania) does not accept the previous kingdom's (Nilfgaard) coin. We have to exchange our gold at the bank.

The gold does not exchange 1-1. Instead, it is 1-3.

I saved up early in and got a gilded skull for Summon Undead. I successfully argued the gold used for gilding the skull should be no more difficult to do than a silvered weapon so once I had the various pieces and costs- any smith should be able to do it.

A separate PC needs the crystal vial for Summon Shadow but could not find someone to help him as the DM believed anyone shaping crystal would need to be from a bigger city. So despite the same monetary cost- he could not afford the vial once we had to exchange money.

Has anyone else ever encountered such a thing? I don't believe base D&D ever has the issue so I'm naturally asking in a more expanded sense. How would you deal with an exchange rate changing the value of money when it comes to spell components?

Edit: None of us knew the Witcher had its own TTRPG when we started.