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I disagree, the restriction on Action Surge is against taking the Magic action, not against casting a spell, and I don’t find the idea...

Yeah I'd request the player to explain exactly what trigger they're watching for. "As soon as Elfor the Elf fires his bow" "As soon as...

An action is also a game rules construct, not a thing in the fiction. But, “as soon as (so and so) attacks” would be valid in my opinion.

I wouldn’t allow “when I blink” or similar and then blinking as soon as your turn is over either. Again, turns aren’t a thing in the...

I feel like 5.5 RAW allows this, and I don't think it's a huge deal - as @Charlaquin points out, it's a risky move because the...

According to the OP, a Staff of Fire was being used for both castings, so no spell slots are being used.

Personally, I don’t think “my turn ends” is a valid trigger for the Ready action, because it’s not a thing occurring in the game world...

What? No they don’t. In the revised PHB, the only restriction on leveled spells is that you can only cast one spell with a spell slot...

I disagree with the folks saying this is not in the spirit of the rule. Using the Ready action to cast a spell as a Reaction is a lot...

According to the rules they are different. Action Surge allows any action except the Magic Action. Casting the spell on your turn uses...

Hard pass. I'm glad that people who are into the more niche dragons are getting a mini like this, but I'm waiting on new models of the...

This looks very nice!!

Hit points are hit points. A game construct used to play the board game part of D&D. But the story and narrative of what happens in D&D...

Hit points are abstract representations of how much damage a character can suffer and just about any such a system is bound to be absurd...

Hit points are whatever the GM can intuitively accept and get his players to intuitively accept. In D&D and most of its variants, it's a...