Not every town has a party of adventurer's ready to take on big monsters. What methods are expected to be feasible in the combination of system (as of fifth edition) and setting (northern regions of Forgotten Realms), that towns employed to protect themselves against dragons? I'm most interested ...

In our campaign (DnD 5e) we found a spellbook containing 3 spells that are in the Bard's spell list (compreend languages, detect magic and disguise self). If a Bard can cast any Bard spell from a scroll, would they be able to cast these spells from a spellbook? I think that, by RAW you can't but ...

The giant worm-like creature in the graph.

Whilst homebrewing some variations of existing monsters, I noticed something unusual: Some monsters have odd (i.e. mathematically uneven) ability scores. Uneven ability scores matter for player characters because PCs level up, but monsters don't level up. Why then do they have uneven ability scor...

I'm a druid/wizard and our party is trying to do some underwater spelunking. I cast the Water Breathing ritual, so we can all breath underwater for 24 hours. After a few hours of adventuring we've been beat up pretty badly, so I proposed that we rest in Leomund's Tiny Hut. Since it lasts for 8 ho...

For mostly thematic reasons I would like to eventually get my dwarven warlock access to the spell nondetection (she's sneaky, and will hopefully get access to some sort of invisibility soon). It's preferable that she can cast the spell herself (i.e. with a spell slot), but I'm aware there might b...