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Cavern Elevator Trap
CR 4 elevator boulder hazard for 5e triggers mid-shaft, challenging detection, lever logic, Dex saves, and Athletics with fall-risk stakes.
Posts tagged with “Mechanics”
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Summary of 5e Alchemy Rules
Potion crafting guidelines with costs and times, Alchemist subclass tweaks, mundane item recipes, and streamlined foraging and harvesting house rules.
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Create Captivating Traps
Design traps with purpose to advance plot and energize combat, using environmental challenges, skill-driven complications, and scalable DCs.
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Thoughts on the First Issue of Arcadia
A practical look at how this 5e magazine adds a drop-in encounter, a sorcerer subclass, mounted combat options, and fresh celestials, plus tooling quibbles.
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Simulating Sadness: Great Weapon Fighter Damage
Analyzes GWF and Champion crits in 5e using math and simulations, finding modest damage gains and evaluating common house rules.
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RotF Remix: Heart of Winter Supernatural Regions
Introduce volatile planar cold zones in Icewind Dale with triggers and a d100 table of chilling effects to reshape rests, spells, and encounters.
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Progressive Failures and Rising Tension in 5th Edition
Proposes a rule-of-three progressive failure framework for 5e skill checks to build tension, preserve agency, and avoid swingy all-or-nothing outcomes.
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Tools to Affect Rolls in D&D
Compares 5e roll modifiers—add vs replace—ranked for normal and crittable checks, with simulations showing Elven Accuracy, advantage, cover, and luck impacts.
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Thrilling Heroics Rules for D&D 5e
Add swashbuckling flair to 5e with ad hoc stunts that trade risk for reward, using clear DCs, balanced effects, and examples to guide fair play.