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The whole point of surprising your opponent is to, as far as possible, trivialize the combat. Why is this a problem? And yes, it...

@mearls has a neat approach in his Moldvay project, where he's given the ranger the ability to grant their Stealth result to allies. I...

Fey Wanderer and GOO warlock (others?) can cast summons without concentration; Beastmasters, artificers etc can have permanent pets plus...

Someone earlier in this thread (much earlier, almost a decade!) pointed out that gnomes get advantage on int wis and cha spell saves- it...

Advantage/disadvantage was a bit harder to get in 2016.

Hex only gives disadvantage on ability checks, not saves. The GOO warlock level 10 Hex upgrade causes it to give disadvantage on saves...

I suppose OP's examples were what made me think of DnD5e: dagger doing 1d4, and moreso two-handing a longsword doing 1d10. And OP...

That's a very fun idea! You're going to find people arguing with the idea that a dagger isn't going to be able to hurt heavy armor, and...

There has to be an inciting incident that calls for the initiative roll. If it is an ambush, I give the ambusher a single action that...

Yes. Explicitly clear Is Jeremy Crawford in the weapon mastery announcement video itself not authoritative enough source for you on...

Weapon swapping during combat is absolutely ridiculous in terms of actual, practical, real-life martial arts technique. But it’s very...

If you are in that Venn diagram intersection of Baldur's Gate and playing cards, you're in luck! Dyenamik has you covered!

What the gm can do in the context of players juggling weapons at no action economy cost with no meaningful hit to inventory because the...

oooh yes! martial fighter go brrrrrrr

Do that and suddenly the Push weapon mastery becomes much more appealing. And you can use that as many times as you have attacks, no...