Tales from the Shadows

Session 0: The Rules


  • Exploding Dice
  • Races from Midgard only
  • No flanking
  • Crit hit and fumble tables 
    • Only on first attack
  • New Unearthed Arcana (2022)
    • Unarmed attacks
    • Monsters can’t crit (only CR2 and under)
    • 1s, and 20s are auto fail and auto success for all d20test
    • Inspiration: can use to roll advantage on d20test. Must decide before roll.
    • Incapacitated
    • Grappled
  • Free Action Speech during combat
  • Non combat pets are allowed and have plot armor
  • Sidekicks and combat pets share turn order with the player
  • If a class that normally doesn’t get a pet/summon, somehow acquires a wild animal as a pet (i.e. through animal handling) and the player wants to use the wild creature in combat, then the DM controls it, it can’t be used as a mount, and it won’t be allowed inside cities.