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Sneak attack isn't as big of issue as getting advantage. Chances of critical goes up to 10% with advantage. As you said getting sneak attack isn't that hard with some front line fighters. And Lightfoots can uses their larger party members to hide behind.

This is true for 1st level but a t2nd she can hide as a bonus action. So if she makes her dex-stealth roll vs passive perception she would have advantage every round. And the goblins pp is 9 and I think she has has +5 on roll. Mike

​I decide to give advantage on surprise round based on the text of the suprise rule and the text from the Hiding sidebar. Players sneaking up on monster seems to guarantee them a surprise round on good rolls. And attacking unaware creatures suggests they should have advantage. “The DM...

I was running Phandelver at my FLGS (woot Brass City Games!) and I have a question on when to give advantage during combat I didn't find much guidance in the Starter rule booklet or the 5e Basic PDF. I decided to give advantage during the surprise round. This greatly helped the rogue, she...

Fighter subclass. Erdrich Knight 1/4 caster. Cast wizard's spells from evocation and abjuration schools.

PHB went to printers on Tuesday.

The survey was part of the living game idea. As the game is played they will gauge the elements of the game by survey to see how the game is doing and make changes based on feedback from the player base. Basically extending the playtest to a continuous improvement process. Mike stated the...

Mike said he wrote a sidebar for converting to THACO. He also said it might not make the cut for the DMG.

Wizards seems to be trying to make DnD Next attractive to Pathfinder players but all the PF players I know either don't know about DnDnext and/or don't care. They are happy with PF and are not going to switch. So what is the purposes of making a game that your target group won't play and which...

That's... also wrong. Andok Sur was up 02/15/11 in issue 187. And Beneath the Dust was finally release 3/9/2011. Admittedly late.

The confirmation is in the Digital Insider #14: Closed Beta article. Digital Insider #14: Character Builder " It's got unique racial abilities, feats, and paragon paths, plus it also spoils a previously unannounced PHB II class on the first page."