Dungeons & Dragonshas something for everyone.

Storytelling, amazing adventures, and terrible monsters.

Choosing the right feats for your character can really break your build.

Dungeons and Dragons - 5 Broken Feats

Here are the best options if youre looking to optimize your character.

No matter your class, it’s best to keep these in mind whenfighting your next tarrasque.

It’s not a bad idea to know when to cut your losses.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a paladin, a cleric, and Tasha.

D&D is a game of creativity after all.

Run away to fight another day.

Rangers, for example, have favored enemies that have specialized knowledge on how to face them.

Vecna in a split image in front of cobwebbed catacombs in Dungeons & Dragons.

Knowing your characters' strengths and weaknesses is key to surviving those hairier encounters.

see to it not to run off and be a lone wolf in combat.

It’s a quick way to be back at the drawing board for a new character.

A magic user shoots a bolt of flames from a wand in Dungeons & Dragons.

Magic Fire by Yuhong Ding

This is a great thing to do with spells.

Using fire spells on flammable materials, using Shatter against enemy weapons, etc.

it’s possible for you to do this with nearly anything.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing the Tarrasque.

Art by Kekai Kotaki

It all has potential.

Use your action economy in Dungeons & Dragons much more efficiently with the best bonus action spells around.

This goes especially for Clerics, Druids, and other classes withspell-based healing.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a wizard over a book of spells.

Art via Wizards of the Coast

Don’t sleep on them mid-combat instead of damage-dealing options.

Combat is just as much about heals and buffs as lowering your enemies' health.

This also goes for theusual buff spellslike Haste, Invisibility, and Enlarge/Reduce.

Dungeons & Dragons art of a party of adventurers exploring a dungeon.

Dungeon Explorers from the 2024 Player’s Handbook 5th Edition.

Knowing when to use these in combat can make you and your teammates' time much easier.

But, that starts with having them in your repertoire to begin with.

Visit shops in-game often, and gather any materials that may help you in later combat encounters.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing Otiluke using ice magic.

Art by Randy Vargas

2Start With Stealth

Keep Quiet

Rogues rejoice!

Start combat off in stealth with your party if you get the chance.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a gnome casting witch bolt on a zombie.

Art by Helge C. Balzer

Dungeons & Dragons art of a party of adventurers take to the skies.

Party In The Sky from the 2024 Player’s Handbook 5th Edition.

Dungeons & Dragons art of Dwarves working in the forge.

Dwarven Forge from the 2024 Player’s Handbook 5th Edition.

Dungeons & Dragons image showing a rogue.

Art by Daniel Castiblanco

A four person adventuring party with a dragonborn, elf, gnome, and human attempt to cross a river.

An Adventuring Party by Viko Menezes

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