Category: Drezek’s Tips
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day #7: Max Hit Point Management for Home Brew rules
Maximum hit points, as determined by the Rules as Written, are calculated using the average of a character’s hit die. This can be tough at low levels when a single blow from an enemy — say, a mimic disguised as a chair (sorry Crane) — can end a character’s campaign.…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #6 – Custom Skill Checks
For most people, this can be ignored. The character sheet lists every skill in the game, adds your bonuses, and gives you a roll button. DM needs you to roll an Intelligence (Investigation) check? Just click the button and it rolls. The sheet adds your INT bonus and any proficiency…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #5 – Managing Feats
Feats were such a HUGE part of 3.5e but seem to be much less powerful in 5e. Maybe it’s because of the proficiency bonus system that kind of improves everything you do. Either way, managing feats in DnDBeyond is pretty easy but not as apparent as things like skills and…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #4 – Inspiration
This is an easy one. But worth discussing because Inspiration is a completely new concept to DnD as of 5e and one of the few entirely metagaming rules out there. Inspiration is a reward the DM gives to a player for doing something consistent with his personality, background, alignment, etc.…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #3 – Managing HP
I remember playing DnD as a kid and wearing a hole in my character sheets where I was constantly erasing and rewriting my hit points. As you’d expect, DnD beyond has a great system. In the upper right section of the character sheet, your calculated hit points are displayed. DnDB…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #2 – Links to the PHB
There’s a lot of information on the character sheet and it’s doubtful that any player has it all memorized. This is especially true for skills, actions, conditions, items, and feats that don’t get used very often. The DM may tell you you’ve been tackled by a villager in a tavern…
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Drezek’s Tip of the Day: Tip #1 – Dual Wield
Unlike most DnDBeyond character sheet capabilities, Dual Wielding is a bit clunky. But once it’s set up, it works great. You could simply equip your offhand weapon in the INVENTORY tab just like your main hand but that has two issues. First, the offhand weapon will show up as an…
Curse of Strahd 