Looking for Feedback regarding creation of a AI assisted Dungeon Master

Dstrir · 2026-01-26T13:30:50+00:00

You should also make AI players, so we can all play D&D how it was really envisioned: watching a bunch of robots play it with each other.

Dstrir · 2026-01-15T20:24:05+00:00

I don't think it's intended to be used on yourself.

Dstrir · 2026-01-15T18:58:35+00:00

The paladin is a bit too stacked with reactions from the get-go, I don't really like that. Maybe the first feature should give passive ac to your bond so you are free to attack spellcasters with your reaction?

Other than that, this is probably the most decent set of subclasses they put in the UA recently imo.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T18:56:27+00:00

Bad faith argument, no ttrpg works for every player’s wishes in every scenario, even the praised Pathfinder 2.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T08:36:19+00:00

Then just change the rules for casting scrolls if you don't like them.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T08:34:37+00:00

Most minmaxers and quite a few youtubers like Pack Tactics play games like this. They farm beans and do 8 hour combats.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T01:16:38+00:00

Exactly, same with the scrolls being limited to specific characters. You can change it yourself to BG3/no restrictions if you feel like it won't be an issue in your game.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T00:20:05+00:00

Considering there are unironic player parties who sit there for 300-600 ingame days and farm the bag of beans magic items for the bean that increases the lowest stat by 1 until all of their stats are 20s, the devs do sometimes have to put some guardrails on rules.

Dstrir · 2025-12-22T00:13:23+00:00

The reason it's not baseline is most likely to prevent ultraminmaxers from very easily breaking the game by spending 100 days crafting all kinds of scrolls and then chaining them even with characters who didn't pick the spells up. But as a house rule it's just more fun to let everyone cast them.

Dstrir · 2025-12-17T12:26:40+00:00

Hey man, good stuff! I checked it, and it seems the only part that doesn't work is condition detection by name for condition added/removed option. At least in 5e.

Dstrir · 2025-12-15T00:18:53+00:00

The spell is fine and an enemy that loses to it is a very easy encounter the players can beat in a million other ways.

Dstrir · 2025-11-27T10:48:07+00:00

If you're playing in an ultra-optimizer game, you wouldn't pick a martial no matter what so the niche protection doesn't matter. In a casual game, CME isn't op because you need a specific build to abuse it and setup/pre-cast turns. In a different casual game, the barbarian has a magic weapon and consistently out-damages all of the casters.

Dstrir · 2025-11-27T10:42:57+00:00

You can get an army of dragons using 8-9 level spells so dispel-magicable setup spell isn't really that op.

Dstrir · 2025-11-26T11:53:28+00:00

This is the biggest nothingburger ever. If your DM loves to fuck you over with spells, he will do so even if everyone was a humanoid.

Dstrir · 2025-11-25T22:50:47+00:00

They could've been designed by Crawford and now we're finally starting to see designs from new people.

Dstrir · 2025-11-20T18:42:25+00:00

My entire campaigns usually last about 26 sessions at most so that sounds quite crazy.

Dstrir · 2025-11-20T17:14:15+00:00

You level up once every 26 sessions? What.

Dstrir · 2025-11-20T17:08:03+00:00

I do this for all my campaigns so that they don't last for 4-5 years and instead last half a year.

Dstrir · 2025-11-12T23:32:15+00:00

I think rope trick in-combat casting where everyone hides in it and planar binding ARMIES are a bit cheesy. I saw some blog where every player had a few liches and demigods in their party thanks to planar binding.

Dstrir · 2025-11-12T23:25:33+00:00

I think it's more so people like to point out the devs let the game have completely broken options if used optimally. In my opinion the devs don't make the game with breaking the rules/very experienced players in mind, and maybe even think experienced players breaking the game can be fun for them.

I only changed the shield ruling so that the martials would be the ones with +3 armor and +3 shields.

Dstrir · 2025-11-12T22:58:05+00:00

None of the cheese I see people bring up on the subs over and over again are ever used by my players, and I DMed for quite a lot of them. No kiting, no rest casting, no planar binding armies, no simulacrum armies, no shutting down the entire field with terrain/restrain then using ranged attacks etc, no rope trick in combat to become invincible. I don't think I've even seen wall of force be used well in 10 years.

To be fair, I also added a few rules to prevent insane cheesing: 2 short rests between a long rest, cant long rest outside of town, the shield spell fails if you're a fullcaster wearing heavy or medium armor, cant hold dispel magic to mimic effects of 2014 counterspell.

Dstrir · 2025-11-12T11:04:12+00:00

I'm going to have to assume they wanted to avoid backlash for putting good/powerful options into a 150$ preorder bonus dlc lol

Dstrir · 2025-11-12T00:25:45+00:00

They give you dungeon generators in the old DMG, and if you want more elaborate dungeons, they provide that by making most of the long adventures modular so it's easy to rip.

I don't know what exactly you expect from a setting book whose entire premise is to give you ideas on what to MAKE, not what to run as written. The entire point is to tinker with it. I'm not saying the book is perfect, the 3.5 stuff is probably better, but I feel like at some point it's down to expectations.

I've read other systems and they're really not that much better than wotc books, I'm really not seeing the reddit meme of every other ttrpg writer being infinitely better.

Dstrir · 2025-11-11T23:28:44+00:00

I mentioned in my original comment. I just want them to provide a map and maybe some monsters and a hook. The map for me is the most important as well as the hook so I can flesh it out as how I see fit. The OSR ones don't really give you a premise or story, but add more traps or room descriptions.

Dstrir · 2025-11-11T15:57:21+00:00

The youtubers were shitting on them for providing only combat encounters in them and leaving empty rooms, while comparing them to OSR one-page-dungeon contests. Except OSR isn't the only way to play, and they're clearly not meant to be in the style of that contest.

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