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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. Fortunately, many campaigns, including ours,
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DM Crane’s Tip of the Day: Streamlining Sessions
On reviewing various guides and tips and tricks articles online for Dungeons and Dragons—targeting DMs and players alike—it seems to me that the most common complaint of either demographic is often how sessions can drag on in certain spots. This can be especially troubling given how infrequent it can be to marry up everyone’s schedules
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Protected: Devoted Session 4.1: Lessons from an Unthief
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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 or expertise you may have.
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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 abilities. Easy to manage, but
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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. The player than can elect
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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 does all the work for
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Protected: Devoted Session 3: Into the Village
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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 brawl and you now have
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