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I don't know if I'm remembering this correctly, but isn't wish not spammable due to exhaustion levels and some hard limit put in? On a related note I haven't followed this thread for a bit so I don't know the current developments of what's wrong with the Sorcerer champion build. Anything new...

I'm looking to run a sandbox game, and I think this is all good advice. I want to react to my players and let the journey unfold as it will. I recently got books like Yawning Portal and Ghosts of Saltmarsh, which are basically just dungeon compendiums that I'd be able to improvise in places...

This is all pretty interesting, at least, it sounds so. I don't expect a huge answer, but are there any advantages to defense rolls rather than attack rolls? How does it change the experience at the table?

I am going to try and express an issue I have with, what I feel to be, a limitation in the mechanical design of martial combat. I find it limited in solvable ways that, if remedied, can give a martial player as much control over their character's input in the game as much as a spell caster. I...

I was just using the centrality of Fiends in that example as an example of how Tiefling's can be the most attuned to a certain topic. And I don't think it would be. The implication of a Tiefling is that their demonic heritage is so relevant to their identity that it warrants calling them a...

It leaves an awful lot of plot potential. Having a deep, foundational magical resonance to the campaign's villains can be played with in many ways. Maybe Devils are more amicable (or more hostile) to you in particular. Maybe the presence of Devils in the realm indirectly benefits the Tiefling PC...

I would say so. A 50 year old Aasimar would look/be, visually, less "aged" than a corresponding Human. "Age," in this case, I am using to describe the weathering and decay of the body that leads to spots, wrinkles and medical issues. If you saw an Aasimar for the first time, you'd think they...

I feel like we've been glossing over "devilish heritage" a little too much. Tieflings take that characteristic to a higher level than the other human-adjacent races. Sure, if you skip on the culture, you can take a human, give them blood-red skin, horns, a spiked tail, inherited demonic...

A middle aged Aasimar would look be aged as visibly as a middle aged Human, except the Aasimar is a hundred years old and still pretty much fine. As for the rest of what they look like, I'd say that depends on your take on Aasimar. A lot of art I see is them as being pretty much just generic...

The thing is, Tiefling is a specific assembly of these tropes that would have a different connotation than another character from another race doing the same things. The Tiefling's inherent association to the occult and demonology provides major context that varies them from, say, a Dwarves...

Say what you will, but having many races does not automatically mean it's Mos Eisley. It only gets to that point if you make it to be. Consider immigration and population patterns-- many things can exist around the world, but that doesn't mean you'll see each thing everywhere you look. If you...

Technically the DMG has a way of playing while not having a designated DM... I don't personally think it's any good, but it's real, so a game can still be DnD without a DM.

IMO, I think Ranger would be an interesting fit. Stats can be compromised for fun. Going ranger would get you a second fighting style and Canny, as well as Hunter's Mark, as well as some other feature spells, as well as some spell slots. Arcane Archer lets you be nature-themed, so I think it...

Why act like it's one or the other? It's strange to boast about deliberately mitigating how you interact with the game. Way to dismiss the foundational identity of DnD as "drama club." I don't know how to describe the layers of what's wrong with that. Acting like a fundamental part of the game...

Core four is such a subjective list that it might as well not exist-- I think that human, elf and dwarf are extremely widespread, but if their widespread presence is our metric, why wouldn't Orc be the fourth? I see them across media far more than halflings, gnomes, or whoever else. I still...