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Question 1

As the title states, could a Gelatinous Cube be fitted with a HoI to become an intelligent, sentient party follower?

Question 2

Looks like a great Isekai-style campaign setting. Love the "playing you rules" Reminds me a lot of the DND cartoon Any ideas on how to spring the idea of playing yourself in a DND game on ...

Question 3

I want to understand if the idea of leveling up or down has been introduced via mechanics in DnD and, if so, how it was managed over the history of the game. The idea of tieing in a character's ...

Question 4

This might be a stupid question, but: Why do all the charts put Law on the left? It should go on the right! And I don't mean philosophically, I mean I distinctly remember the original alignment charts ...

Question 5

I have a character acquired a corrupted soul that have no idea what to do with it. By BoVD, using it as a spell component or otherwise consuming (destroying) it by any means is a highly evil act. I ...

Question 6

I'm trying to set up a Dungeons and Dragons campaign at a nearby hobby store so I can play in a game for once instead of running; I've run eight different systems over sixteen years and haven't gotten ...

Question 7

In addition to their clearly endemic languages, it seems like each of the major campaign settings also have a language called Common. I know of at least Greyhawk, the Realms, Krynn, and Mystara - ...

Question 8

On multiple Icewind Dale maps that I've seen, the river that flows southwest out of Maer Dualdon is the Shaengarne River. But I've never seen a name given to the river that flows from the northeast ...

Question 9

I'm doing some research for a Planescape campaign which adapts parts of Die Vecna Die! I see that Vecna escaped Ravenloft, and I am curious about other escapees. All that I have been able to find is ...

Question 10

The idea of opportunity attacks seems to go back all the way to first edition of D&D where the PHB says on page 105 Fleeing means as rapid a withdrawal from combat as possible; while it exposes ...

Question 11

I want to use a monster that grows its attack stat by eating its allies and other creatures in the area for my D&D campaign. Are there any monsters already that do that, or do I have to make my ...

Question 12

Even though I've not quite been playing RPGs long enough to call myself a grognard, we've been playing for over 40 years now, and much of that time, in the same homebrew campaign world. This a world ...

Question 13

In answering this question, I was referring to a Dragon Magazine article for D&D from a 2003 Dragon magazine. It is not relevant for that question (which was happy with answers from any edition of ...

Question 14

How long should a half-nymph live, given they are part fey? Half races/species usually have a lifespan somewhere between that of the two parents, but not necessarily a strict average. In 5e-2014 half-...

Question 15

D&D sports a lot of monsters from Greek mythology, and did so even in its earliest editions. We have the gorgon (even though it uses a medieaval take), the medusa, the minotaur, chimera, sirens, ...

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Questions tagged [dungeons-and-dragons]

Could a Gelatinous Cube attune to a headband of intellect? [closed]

Outlnders by Relentless Fiction (Isekai Dnd) [closed]

Historical Survey: What elements in D&D can affect a character's level outside of leveling up?

Did alignment charts of old use to have Law on the right (and when did that change)?

Is trading souls an evil act like consuming it? [closed]

Seems Impossible to Recruit Fellow Players, or a DM [duplicate]

Is Common the same language in different settings?

What is the name of the river that flows into Maer Dualdon from the northeast?

Which Darklords have escaped Ravenloft?

What is the history of opportunity attacks?

Monsters that grow in strength stat by eating

How to reconcile old school tropes with modern sensibilities?

How can I tell which edition of D&D a Dragon Magazine article is for?

How long does a half-nymph live?

Has there been an official version of the Cerberus for D&D?

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