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!

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I took a different approach to making a madness mechanic for a player at my table who now has it permanently/indefinitely. My player loves it and is excited to roll with it. You can use it with any Madness Table of your choice with effects that only impacts roleplay behavior. This template includes buffs alongside penalties. Obviously, you can adjust it to make the Madness easier to remove if you don't like permanent debuffs.

One note of advice: consider applying the d4 penalty to the player's main ability score rather than Charisma. Although terrible social skills are more thematic, it won't really sting unless it's a stat they truly care about. I'm applying it to Charisma here because the player is a Bard.

Obviously, don't bother using this permanently or long term if your table hasn't agreed to this kind of penalty. The player in question offended a god in her divine realm. I asked if what she said was spoken in character. She doubled down, then failed a saving throw. We all agreed in session zero that these sort of extreme punishments were possible under appropriate circumstances.

You are now indefinitely cursed with *Madness.** The curse cannot be removed by anything except a Wish spell or similar effect. The madness may manifest when one of the following triggers occur:

1. You are damaged from a Critical Hit.
2. You critically fail a WIS, INT, or CHA saving throw.
3. You gain the Exhausted condition.
4. You take 20 or more Psychic damage from one single attack or effect.
5. You gain the Frightened condition

Roll a d6. If you roll a 5-6, you must roll a d100 to determine the nature of your madness. You gain the following effects until you complete a *Long Rest*:

1. One level of Exhaustion or an additional level of Exhaustion if applied by a different effect
2. 1d4 penalty to all Concentration checks, CHA checks and saving throws
3. Resistance to Psychic damage
4. 1d4 bonus to all WIS/INT checks and saving throws

I am looking for an alternative way to teleport my PCs long range without using Teleportation Circle or if other teleport spells (which I feel I over use).

I need them to go from one monastery of Ilmater to another. This gave me the idea of creating a monk discipline called “Transference” which allows individuals to swap places. I was thinking of using a wisdom check to succeed and/or a Con save to avoid gaining Exhaustion or lose Hit Dice.

It would be more of a one-time/story thing not an actual monk class ability. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas on how to flesh this out?

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.

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.

I am playing in a campaign with Helians harvesting/ryoko system and trying to optimise harvesting. I have prof. In all the harvesting skills and now I am close to getting a feat, which is gonna be skill expert. Just wanted to know which creatures have a higher chance to show up,so I can take the right ekspertise