DND 5e Tips

Check out the full Cleric 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-cleric-class-guide-to-dungeons-and-dragons-5e Grave Domain The domain description of the grave domain sounds a lot like the spooky necromancer cleric option, but it's really the opposite. You gain a bunch of abilities that are great for keeping your allies alive and a couple bits of anti-undead tech a...

Check out the full Cleric 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-cleric-class-guide-to-dungeons-and-dragons-5e Tempest Domain You call upon the natural energy of a storm deity to rain down thunder damage and lightning damage. The core of the tempest cleric is its Wrath of the Storm feature that lets you deal a good chunk of damage to anything that attacks you, and...

Check out the full Cleric 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-cleric-class-guide-to-dungeons-and-dragons-5e This is best of the defensive options for tanky clerics with some proper arcane armor and magic weapons. Between the Blessing of the Forge and Soul of the Forge abilities, a forge domain cleric can gain +2 AC on top of heavy armor. Start with one of the ra...

Check out the full Druid 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-druid-class-in-dungeons-and-dragons-5e Ever since Ashley Johnson from Critical Role introduced her new wildfire druid character Fearne Calloway, there's been a major increase in interest for the subclass and I'm happy to say it's one of the better options. So, if you're interested in start...

Check out the full Ranger 5e guides here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/ranger-5e-class-guide-for-dnd 5th edition rangers were very quickly identified as the weakest class, and by a wide margin. Eventually WotC released “revised ranger” in an “unearthed arcana”. This revised version is significantly better than the original version in practically every way, but there are a couple cat...

Check out the full Sorlock 5e guides here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/sorlock A 5e Guide for Sorcerer Warlock Multiclassing With the innate power in a sorcerer’s bloodline combined with a warlock’s bargained powers, sorlocks (sorcerer/warlocks) are overflowing with magic. Sorlocks are one of the classic power builds in dungeons and dragons 5e and they're still likely the most popu...

Check out the full Alignment 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/alignment The Dungeons & Dragons alignment charts hit the mainstream long ago with the alignment chart internet meme leading to endless debates about what characters fit into each of these labels, how to play them, and what they actually mean. #5ealignments #alignments #alignments5e #dnd #dandd #dnd5e #dungeons...

Check out the full SpellJammer 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/a-dm-s-guide-to-running-spelljammer-and-other-spacefaring-adventures From Starfinder to Spelljammer, there are infinite adventures waiting for your players beyond the stars. It's not all glorious space operas though, there's a few blackhole-sized pitfalls that can leave your interstellar campaigns adrift in t...

Check out the full plasmoid 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/plasmoid-5e Famously Amorphous The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e spelljammer book is on the way and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. We first saw the plasmoids way back in 2nd edition as a monster, but now they’re getting the full p...

Check out the full Hadozee 5e guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/hadozee-5e Flying Monkey Pirates? The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e spelljammer book is on the way and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. The hadozee are basically the “flying squirrels” of humanoid ape-folk, with skin flaps between th...

Check out the full Thri-Kreen 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/thri-kreen-5e Psycho Mantis The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e spelljammer book is on the way and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. Thri-Kreens are practically the poster children of beloved settings like spelljammer and da...

Check out the full Autognome 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/autognome-5e Domo Arigato Little Roboto The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e Spelljammer book is on the way, and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. The autognomes are literally robotic gnomes and the pun is definitely intended....

Check out the full Astral Elf 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/astral-elf-5e The Return of the Space Elves The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e Spelljammer book is on the way, and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. The astral elves are elves who live on the astral plane (which you can ess...

Check out the full Giff 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/giff-5e Dr. Hippopotamus I Presume? The Travelers of the Multiverse unearthed arcana seems to have finally confirmed that a 5e spelljammer book is on the way and we’ve got a bunch of new interplanar races to play with. The giffs are hippofolk (yes you read that right) that flip the whole poaching paradigm a...

Check out the full Harengon 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/harengon-5e That Rabbit’s Dynamite! The harengon are a fey rabbit folk hopping their way into Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition as a new playable race with their release in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight adventure in the feywild domain. Ranging from scrappy jack rabbits to cute little buns, I’m sure you’re...

Check out the full Simulacrum 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/simulacrum-5e It’s Alive! It’s ALIVE! Simulacrum is a complicated high-level spell that creates a construct person that’s debatably alive. There’s a lot of weird applications, fringe cases, and questions people have about simulacrums and assuming your wizard gets up to casting 7th level spells it’s so...

Check out the full Fairy 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/fairy-5e Faith, Trust, and Fairy Dust Brand new to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight gave us the opportunity to play fairies with a new race option. They’re a flying race I’m sure a ton of these magical creatures will be fluttering soon into 5e campaigns everywhere. They’re e...

Check out the full Simulacrum 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/simulacrum-5e It’s Alive! It’s ALIVE! Simulacrum is a complicated high-level spell that creates a construct person that’s debatably alive. There’s a lot of weird applications, fringe cases, and questions people have about simulacrums and assuming your wizard gets up to casting 7th level spells it’s so...

Check out the full Sorcadin 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/sorcadin A 5e Guide for Sorcerer Paladin Multiclassing The sorcerer is a living source of arcane power, and the paladin is a holy champion infused with divine power. Put these two powers together and you get a magical chocolate and peanut butter situation that has remained one of the most popular multic...

Check out the full Bardbarian 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/bardbarian A 5e Guide for Barbarian Bard Multiclassing Turn your sweet bardic music into angry music and get ready to become a dwarf metalhead, we're going through bard/barbarian multiclassing. Bard and barbarian is an interesting mix, but just picture your frothing mad bardbarian hero war yodeling th...

Check out the full Lolth 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/lolth-5e UNFRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER QUEEN The Queen of Spiders, Queen of the Demonweb Pit, the Dark Mother, the Mother of Lusts, the Lady of Chaos, the Weaver, the Weaver of destiny, and lest we forget what is quite possibly Lolth's most apt title, Spider bitch. The elven goddess Lolth goes by many nam...

Check out the full Polymorph 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/polymorph-5e-guide SHE TURNED ME INTO A NEWT! I GOT BETTER... Polymorph is the source of some of the funniest D&D stories and is an outlet for a player's creative problem-solving harkening all the way back to the earliest days of the game. The spell polymorph turns a creature (temporarily) into any ani...

Check out the full Acererak 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/acererak-5e THE DEVOURER, THE LORD OF UNLIFE, THE BIGGEST BADDEST LICH Acererak has been building deathtraps for adventurers since the very first edition of D&D. His name brings memories of unfair deaths and some of the most cruel and iconic moments of dungeons and dragons. He’s back again for 5th editi...

Check out the full Aboleth 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/aboleth-5e Eldritch Horror at Abyssal Depths - The Aboleth Lurking in the depths since 1st edition D&D, aboleths are the legally distinct Lovecraftian horrors of the deep we've all grown to fear. Aboleths are basically great big psychic lamprey eels lurking in the aquatic ruins of their former civilizati...

Check out the full Rakshasa 5e campaign guide here: https://www.skullsplitterdice.com/blogs/dnd/rakshasa-5e TIGER DEMON BURNING BRIGHT Rakshasas have been prowling through D&D since 1st edition. Inspired by India’s mythological demons, these cats are an absolute nightmare for 2nd tier adventures and are often the classic recurring villains. These fiends love the luxury afforded by the material pla...