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Honestly if I were going to redo it, I'd make it a Bonus Action touch range spell, concentration for 1 round and it adds 1d4 to your...

For me the issue was never about the '2 instead of 1' issue... it was always the problem of the duration of the spell. Having to give...

Okay This does not follow. The PCs arent deciding the game rules. Combat is cinematic because of ghe game rules. Because enemies have...

Is it a problem to just tell the players that a monster is jumping out to attack and roll initiative. Also roll a Perception check DC15...

I was searching around and could not find anything talking about Warlocks crafting. Does anyone run a crafting-focused Warlock or have...

Irrelevant. We are not discussing PC decisions to make fights harder foe themselves. That idea is an invention of your mind. No one but...

Then you undetstand ghe term cinematic incorrectly in the context of TTRPGs. Okay? Did you actually read what you are quoting, or just...

okay, quick rundown of what i might give them/have them be, it's not everything but an outline. baseline d8HD INT halfcaster simple...

Right. Cinematic combat, where the PCs are challenged, because it is fun for the players when the PCs are challenged. The idea that...

I think that’s a fair summation. I also think that modern D&D players are looking for specifically more heroic encounters that exercise...

If I might try to reconcile the gameplay differences here, @Artamo is positing that much modern DnD consists of people moving from...

Something that you’ve already determined to be sad.

I think D&D has only ever been about simulating other forms of fiction, not reality - to the point that I think simulation as a...

The heck you on about? It is a decision at the "what rules are we using to play the game" level, not the in character during play...

Thats a good example of how it can lean into a theme without costing normal character resources. And a way to add back to dnd...