d4: D&D Deep Dive

First of all: Familiars. Namely, Owls.

Second of all: Combat. Some players love combat. Some prefer *everything else* we do in D&D and see combat as an inferior aspect of the game. How do you please b…

Stealthy? Check. Great at scouting ahead, disarming traps, and picking locks? Check. Incredibly hard to kill and great at protecting your allies? Also check! Let's build a Rogue Tank.

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Three words: Spreadsheets of Desire. Also... what makes a good session 0? Why and how do you run one? Come join the conversation!

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Great sustained DPR, survivability, support, and utility all in one build!? Today we combine two subclasses that were new to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything …

Today we discuss the most recent Unearthed Arcana announcement - the Fey Folk!

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You are dark, you are brooding, you are *not* Batman. You're a Blood Hunter.

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So, we have a new reigning champion of survivability. And they're a Wizard. 

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How do you deal with conflict between your players' characters in game? Do you encourage it? Help resolve it? How do you avoid letting it spill over and into conflict between your players themselves?

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Well, our call to action worked! Crap! :) Actually, I'm pretty ok with this ruling, even if it surprises me. Come see why.

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This week we're trying something new: recreating a character from non-D&D fiction as a D&D character—namely: Kaladin Stormblessed from Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. I had a lot of fun creat…

Today we pause for a moment to ask Colby and friends a bunch of fan-submitted questions: How do you come up with your builds? What are your favorite in-game moments? What are your plans for the chann…

Wizards of the Coast announced their new book this week: Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft. Come join me and my DMs as we take a look at what we know about it so far, and attempt some really corny hum…

Wait, you did all that damage with ... darts? Yup. Darts.

Turns out, thrown weapons can be really, really good.

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We hit 5,000 subscribers! Enough talk ... LET'S FIGHT!

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There are some problems with Thrown Weapons, and we need to talk about them.

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Who should describe the combat that takes place in game, the player, or the DM? Both? Neither? Why? Also: does each landed attack cause major physical harm, or is it mostly a series of near misses un…

Our goal this week: to create a character who is an expert at shutting down enemy spell casters; they can stick to their opponent like glue, shrug off just about any spell that is thrown their way, a…

Healing Potions as a Bonus Action? Critical Fail tables? Free Feat for everyone? Almost every table has house rules, and some are more common than others. Today we weight in on which ones are our fav…

In this episode, I give myself one rule: my character cannot harm any enemy directly. Instead, they must depend exclusively on their pets/companions for all damage in combat. I was pretty shocked wit…

As a lot of you know, I keep a spreadsheet/graph that compares my different sustained DPR builds to one another. It's getting crowded on there, so it's time to split them up into two tiers. I thought…