in the 22nd episode of Breaking Initiative, we take a short break from our Wild Beyond the Witchlight series to discuss our own advice for magic items in Dungeons and Dragons (Fifth Edition). When and why should you hand them out? How does this affect Challenge Ratings? Using published charts to reign in "Power Creep", and more.  

0:00 Introduction 1:07 What're we talking about? 

1:46 What's the point of Magic Items 

4:07 Interesting Magic Items 

19:20 Distributing Magic Item Awards 

15:50 Awards by Challenge Rating 

19:21 Warning: Power Creep 

21:37 Comparing to Previous Editions 

25:00 Starting with Magic Items 

27:53 Wrap-up  

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Rob and Brett's solo playthrough of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Episode 04. Archilus and Bezel clean up a mess, partake in some intense eating, and become aware of a much larger stakes.  

Character Sheet:

 Archilus

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/124Xj... 

Bezel 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olOm... 

Player Map: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12E79... 

Shoutout to Hero Forge for providing tools we used to make the character(s) in the thumbnail! 

https://www.heroforge.com/ 

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Rob and Brett's solo playthrough of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Episode 03. Archilus unexpectedly tries to help someone in trouble, while trouble in the shadows unexpectedly comes for him and Bezel.  

Character Sheet: Archilus https://drive.google.com/file/d/124Xj6vCRsiJ1lH2WxSAHt_5IedaELdHg/view?usp=sharing 

Bezel https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olOmBBlO7TQLomQ0MluGw8k8lEezGrxY/view?usp=sharing Player 

Map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12E79P6gteaP-DqbFdr3abzU0nQaS7iFU/view?usp=sharing 

Time Codes: 0:00 Intro 1:37 Recap 6:27 Skill-based 

Challenge 17:35 Roleplay 22:50 Exploration and Roleplay 29:30 Combat and Resolution  

Shoutout to Hero Forge for providing tools we used to make the character in the thumbnail! https://www.heroforge.com/ 

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Rob and Brett's solo playthrough of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Episode 02. Archilus is free to explore the fairgrounds, and makes his way to the carousel, and something may have been lost...

Rob and Brett's solo playthrough of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Episode 01. A mysterious figure is running from someone. Finding a clear getaway, he unknowingly stumbles into a unique situation that will start him on a path that continues to snowball into chaos... and opportunity.

Breaking Initiative crew plays through Wild Beyond the Witchlight in a new series on the channel. This is the final part of character creation and mission 0 as we discuss the direction of the campaign, develop ideas for the tone of Rob's bard and the world he will inhabit, as well as a sidekick NPC controlled by the DM that will join in this solo campaign.  By the way, you can also catch us on Spotify, as well as many other platforms! https://open.spotify.com/show/4kc2G6JjpRFeg8cv0CTLor We have a subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/BreakingInitiative/

Breaking Initiative crew plays through Wild Beyond the Witchlight in a new series on the channel. This is the first of two parts where we go through the nuts and bolts of Mission 0, develop a concept and discuss what kind of game we are looking forward to. Rob rolls stats for his character and decides on a class.

Episode 15 of Breaking Initiative, we go over the two new player races presented in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: the Rabbitfolk (known as Harengon), and Fairies.

We discuss The Wild Beyond the Witchlight the new Dungeons and Dragons campaign book. Also we touch on Feywild history and Feywild in general.

Episode 13 of Breaking Initiative, we give our advice for players and DM's to add some spice into the drudgery of combat. The DO's and DON'Ts for roleplaying in combat. Making monsters and players shine when it life and death matters most.