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Thoughts & Things

Collection of tools, ideas, rules, research and other fun stuff we thought we share.

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Wild West Setting for D&D 5e – Tribal Shaman NPC

I put together a 5th edition Gunfighter Class for player characters recently. I think it fits well into an 1870’s Wild West campaign that I’ve been working on. Wild West was one of the first homebrew settings that I put ...
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D&D 5e Character Optimization – Ranger

So a lot of the character optimization posts were deleted when Wizards of the Coast’s closed their community page this week. Fortunately, I saved several of the ones that I liked. What follows is the character optimization for the Ranger from ...
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Harry Potter – Spells for D&D

I’ve been thinking about Harry Potter since the word came out that there is going to be another story in the series added. It’s a play but still sounds interesting none the less.
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Star Wars Jedi – D&D 5e Homebrew

Last year I put together a Rules as Written (RAW) character build that could be used for D&D 5th edition to play a Jedi. After putting it together, there were a lot of great comments and critiques, and one that ...
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D&D Monstrous Manual for 5th edition – Part 2

The monstrous manual conversion continues this week with the Aurumvorax. If you have the Monstrous Manual, then you can read about their habitat, ecology and other things.
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D&D Monstrous Manual for 5th edition – Part 1

The D&D 5th edition monster manual has a ton of monsters to choose from, and they can be easily tweaked/adapted to different scenarios using the dungeon master’s guide. That is usually what I do. I take a strange creature, change ...
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D&D 5e – Conjurer Handbook

This Handbook from Wizards Community Forums was posted October 2014 has since been deleted. There were a lot of great optimization guides and handbooks that were also lost when all the information on the forums was deleted. Fortunately, I pulled ...
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Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide – Review

I have been reading Wizard of the Coast’s new D&D Book: Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide (SCAG), and overall I really like it. It’s a nice addition to my growing collection of 5th edition books. To be honest, when I first ...
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D&D 5e – Magic Item Guide

The Magic Item Guide was one of my favorite guides that was on Wizards of the Coast Community boards. It will soon be deleted along with the rest of them this Thursday (now November 5th)! So I ported it over into ...
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D&D 5e – Vampire Class and Custom Backgrounds

Vampire A handsome nobleman with angular features commands his three brides to attack a young man. The man stands paralyzed with fear as the three vampire women surround him and begin to eviscerate him with their sharp claws. By the ...