Okay so I just think Eberron is fucking amazing. Dragonmarks and the houses are fucking sick and the last war is peak.

First, I love dragonmarks. Just the idea of dragonmarks is cool and the houses are amazing and make the dragonmarks special. Like sure the Mark of Shadow is cool, but House Phiarlan, House Thuranni, and the Shadow Schism? They add a whole new level to it. I’ve made like 6 characters with the base of the dragonmarks and the dragonmarked houses since I got Forge of the Artificer a few days ago. There’s something for everyone in dragonmarks and the houses, like in the optimization community dragonmarks have potential to make strong builds and for people who like lore there’s a shit ton of lore behind them. If you have an Eberron campaign you can definitely use them, and if you don’t, as long as the DM’s cool with it there’s a ton of lore explanations.

Second, the Last War is amazing. For those who don’t know, the Last War was a century-long conflict that began after King Jarot of Galifar died and his children fought over which of them should inherit the throne, eventually shattering the united Kingdom of Galifar into warring nations. Over the course of the war alliances constantly shifted, new nations emerged, and the Dragonmarked Houses grew enormously wealthy and influential by supplying transportation, healing, weapons, mercenaries, and other services to the combatants. House Cannith created the warforged, magically constructed soldiers that could think and feel but were built, bought, and sent into battle as weapons. The conflict also saw the destruction of House Cannith’s leadership and headquarters when the Mourning suddenly transformed the entire nation of Cyre into the deadly Mournland in 994 YK, killing most people within its borders and leaving behind a magically devastated wasteland. Nobody knows what caused the Mourning, and the fear that it could happen again finally pushed the surviving nations toward peace. In 996 YK they signed the Treaty of Thronehold, formally ending the Last War, recognizing several new nations, and granting warforged legal freedom while outlawing the creation of new ones. The war may officially be over, but Eberron begins only two years later in 998 YK, so the continent is still full of veterans, refugees, political grudges, ruined families, unresolved territorial disputes, and nations preparing for the possibility that the peace won’t last. There were also some events like the Day of Mourning, the Battle of the Pines, the Battle of Cairn Hill, the Siege of Korth, the occupation of Thaliost, and the Eldeen Reaches' secession from Aundair that I didn’t include, but you get the idea. The last war was just fucking sick.

So I’ve been interested about DnD for a while and decided to create my very first homebrew campaign and when me and my players started, one of them asked me if they could train their characters for XP. I let them once but that got me wondering what I should REALLY do if they want to “train” their characters?

I did the same question on r/onednd, but got curious if people did this before 5.5e/2024.

One idea I got after all of this that I plan to implement in my future campaign is a Corruptive Power System where the monsters and the players and spend their Hit Dice for extra effects. In the beginning it will just be stuff like extra damage, Temp HP, bonis AC, etc., only to evolve into brand new abilities but at some kind of cost that gets heavier the more its used.

Asking first with monsters because they often have an way to arbitrary amount of Hit Dice just to bad out their enormous HP pools with their only use being to heal up in a short rest if they fight a party, survive then run away.

Hi everyone,

A few hours ago, I made a post asking a lot of questions, and after reading it again, I realized it was probably a bit overwhelming. So I'd like to rephrase my question, if that's okay.

What I'd really like to know is: what are some good build recommendations, progression tips, useful items, and general beginner advice? Most of the RPGs I've played were video games, where you control your character with a keyboard and mouse or a controller, so tabletop RPGs are completely new to me.

If you could recommend any websites, games, or platforms where I can start playing with a Dungeon Master in the classic tabletop style, I'd really appreciate it.

One of my biggest questions is whether, because of a race's traits and ability score bonuses, I'm supposed to choose a class that takes advantage of those bonuses. However, after reading the Player's Handbook again, I noticed that the player distributes their own ability scores. Does that mean races don't actually have fixed ability scores? Since I couldn't find anything saying they do in the book, I guess they don't.

Sorry for the confusion, and thanks again for all your help!

I was looking through what you can make with artificer infusions at level 3, and I was wondering how rules work for one-time-use items like a spellwrought tattoo or a mystery key. Do you get your infusion back instantly if the item infused is destroyed or used up?

Additionally, if I took the spellwrought tattoo option would my spell options be limited to my own spells that I have prepared? Or would it be based on the spells I could prepare?

I just start campaign with my friend yesterday for our first session. We hired some DM From Tabletop cafe. My dm use app call DnD beyond. And Discovered an devastating true about this board game. It have whole lot of extensions that i need to buy and it price is quite high too. Are there someway i can unlock thing or play class i want without spending ton of money? (I wanna play hexblade warlock/Shadowblade)

Recently, my wizard was given the necronomicon from his praton and along a few curses I get the ability to cast Create Undead 1/day with a few twists:

- I can summon 3 Undead, Fiend and/or Fey with CR lower than my level instead of creating ghouls.
- If they are inteligent enough (not necesseraly tied only to the ability score) I can name them and keep them under my control beyond the 24h time restriction without having to recast the spell.

While most of my summons up until now aren't combatants, I still have 11 summons who's stats, inventory, hp and abilities I need to keep track of. I was about to make a character sheet for each of them but I don't think that would be a good option, so I come to yall for better ideas.

DMs and players who've been in a similar summoner situation, how do you usually keep track of creatures like that? Do you recommend any tool or strategy? I could really use some help :)

For anyone curious, these are my summons:

• 1 Pixie (Navi) - CR 1/4
• 5 Will-o-Wells (Will, Willson, Willis, Wellson, Well) - CR 2
• 1 Will-o-Wisp (Castaigne) - CR 2
• 1 Empyrean Iota [from the 9-5 plane] (Nicolas) - CR 1
• 1 Brain in a Jar (Victor Frankenstein) - CR 3
• 1 Deathlock Wight (Cid) - CR 3
• 1 Swanmay (May) - CR 3

The only ones I summoned for fighting were the last 3, the Wisp and Wells are only here cause I like them and for light. The empyrean iota is here because I like it and as my emergency healing (since my max HP is now 1/3 of my total). The is there purely for the zelda reference.

TLDR: Need help with tools or strategies for keeping track of multiple summons/npcs

oh, just in time, r/dndnext, we were about to start the class! i hope you brought your books and notes, because i'm still curious about classes, and this time it's your turn to talk about your Wizards in front of the class.

if you decide to participate and earn extra credit, you may have to answer some of these questions: what is the inspiration behind your class? was it based on another pop culture Wizard, as your own idea for a wizard or are you just making a build with a never before seen strategy for the game? where did your wizard study? what is their book? do they preffer combat spells or utility spells? What is their race, level, subclass, equipment, spells... dont worry, you dont have to explain your response. homebrew is allowed, of course.

i might walk around the comments to see how your work is going and give you a few pointers on what i like about your character. Remember, i want at least level 10 in the Wizard class if you want to multiclass. you dont have a time limit (although i would preffer if you commented before Sunday 25, when i will be asking about your characters for the next class)

now i wouldnt be fair to just ask you to show me characters if i didnt show mine as a demonstration, so here you go:

-Julius, arcane boxer: a half orc with some dips into fighter and monk, but this character is mostly an illusion wizard. fighting in an underground wizard ring, he survives with just his punches and his spells.

-Yamato, the Onmyoji: homebrew race (Inugami) with homebrew subclass (onmyoji), this little guy protects his lord with his summoning powers and combat instincts.

very well, you have your homework ready, so i hope you give it your all. Class Dissmissed!

P.D: i want to thank the people that commented in my post asking about sorcerers in pop culture, i think i needed to have things clear about my "three quarters caster" idea.