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You always have a Wild Shape left for exploration scenes already, as you can recover one after a short rest.

I found Wild Shape to be super useful and efficient. You can scout an entire zone as an inocuous animal, not even needing to be stealthy (though you can if need be). You can climb vertical surface, spy on everyone, burrow to hide. You can carry heavy burden and run as fast as a horse, because...

Conjure animal doesn't do damage on a successful saving throw.

Darn this discussion moves fast. I don't think me going back four or five pages up-thread would do any good, so I'll just summarize what I personnaly get out of it. I mostly agree with @pemerton that ttrpg rules are not meant to be parsed with such a high degree of technicality, even though...

But choosing a dud criterium is not a problem if you're not trying to do something you're not supposed to do! Saying "I attack him as soon as he blinks" has the exact same effect as "I attack him now." So maybe it's bad form, but it's inconsequential. Readying an action you're not supposed to...

Oh but they can! Action surge doesn't ask you to take first your standard action, then the action surge. You can totally put them in any order you wish. Action surge and its restriction are there to say "well, in the fiction, fighters are so good at fighting they sometimes can act very fast, but...

So what is the goal of the readying part, if not circumventing the limitation? That what I was saying: give me a meaningful trigger ("if he get close to the prince", "if she draws her sword"), manifest it in the fiction (make it even more meaningful), then you have another goal than "doing this...

That fighters are good at doing fighty things. Less good at doing magicky things. So, what is the fictionnal difference between readying your spell and casting your spell, up to the point of, but not including, the release?

Doesn't the infamous "sneak more than one time per round" rely rather on opportunity attacks? Maybe you're thinking via the Haste spell? It would indeed be quite similar, as you can't Ready an action with Haste, so you'd have to rely on a specific ordering of your actions ("first I ready, then I...

I don't have a problem with the trigger in abstracto. If someone says "I ready my attack, as soon as this guy move, I react", it's perfectly fine, because delaying is the point. I could have acted earlier, but didn't do it, maybe because I'm not sure this guy is hostile. The fiction is...

You do make sense @Charlaquin But here's why I think it's rules-lawyery: it doesn't in any way concern itself with the fiction. Its only concern is the rules. You cast it as normal, meaning your character makes the same moves, says the same words, as if you were taking a Magic action. It's the...

I've got nothing against close readings of the rules, really, when that's fruitful and leads to surprising or pleasantly unwelcomed outcomes, but that quoted part, "making sense in the fiction", is the crux, for me, in a ttrpg, the final arbiter in this kind of debates. I get, too, that 5.24...

You seem quite sure you got the right reading and if it works for you and your table, go ahead! It just seems super rules-lawyery to me, requiring a very careful parsing of each magic objects' verbiage each time you use them in order to juice out a quite specific interaction based on missing...

It changes the DC.

I'd say because they modify the spell. The cape leaves behind a cloud of smoke, the axe conjures an Earth Elemental (so it's not the spell Conjure Elemental). So they are not exaclty the spells listed in the PHB, they just use their definition to encapsulate the effects produced. Or it might be...