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Right, the Marshal player had a similar rationalization for why it still worked while he was stunned. And that's fine, I guess you could say he led some training sessions during some downtime or something like that. But it doesn't really answer my question of why Nimble Troops and apparently...

So this came up in our session last night, and I'm looking for some opinions now. Our Swift Strategist Marshal got stunned by a Vrock. The encounter required some Acrobatics checks, and the Marshal player reminded the other players that they got a bonus because of his Nimble Troops ability. As...

We just found this last night while my players were shopping for magic items. +2 Full Plate is listed as 24,000 gp, but the Celestial Aegis, Infernal Carapace, and Frost Giant's Plate are all cheaper, despite also being +2 full plate with additional benefits. Celestial Aegis and Infernal...

I'm guessing all the Priests will have Channel Divinity. I don't really see the Warlock fitting into that, so I think the Priests will be Cleric, Druid, and Paladin. They will probably rework Channel Divinity to be useable proficiency bonus times per long rest (Paladin might be half proficiency...

This just came up during last night's session, so I figured I would ask the community to make sure I'm doing this right. The players just leveled up to 14. The ranger took her second level in rogue, so she is ranger 12/rogue 2. At level 12, rangers have 7 maneuvers of up to 3rd degree. At level...

I like the idea of gating feats behind levels. I don't mind feat chains, but I don't think they would work that well in 5e because you get so few opportunities to take them. And I don't think WotC is going to change up when or how you can take feats. Most feats already have multiple elements to...

I think they mean the total cost of a book plus shipping is $75, not just shipping. A hardcover book is £50, and shipping is £11, so total is £61. Which converts to ~$75.

In general, I really like the new encounter building rules. The math is easier than O5e, which makes it easier to make appropriately difficult encounters. I also like the Encounter Points system, because it makes it easy to budget encounters for an "adventuring day" as well as to compare the...