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We've been playing A5E from level 1 up to 8 now. It's been a lot of fun, and I prefer A5E to 5E D&D. The A5E tools are a very helpful...

The players reached level 2 last session and we spent the last hour leveling up. 3 of the 4 players are getting Combat Maneuvers, so...

Glad your table is having fun with this. I'd recommend not using Critical Success/Fumble tables with skill rolls. That's one of the most...

I normally write Post-Mortems at the end of a campaign, but I thought in this case it might be valuable to write about how the campaign...

Hello, I'm Jessy, the creator behind Plant Witch Press and the architect behind the 3PP bloodblade class! For class design, the number...

adamant mountain is a pretty solid tradition. catch your breath to regain hitpoints, heavy stance to resist maneuvers, shrug it off to...

I would argue that at the end of this Inigo is at zero hp and Wesley has lost a lot also. But yes, different folks can have legimitely...

You could adopt the approach taken in Gygax's DMG, of narrating differently for high hp PCs (and NPCs) compared to most monsters.

True at my table when I can get the players to describe a hit. As a DM I'll go out of my way to describe hits on PCs as not physical...

Every now and then, whenever a character scores a "hit" on a target, or when their character gets "hit" by an opponent, I will ask the...

People. All the Ready Action does is allow you to use another action which you choose(attack, cast, move, etc.) to happen later. EXCEPT...

It’s a unique catch-all action that allows most of the other actions on the list to used out of turn. That’s it. Nothing else...

I’m just perplexed by @ECMO3 ’s insistence that doing something as a ready action changes its fundamental nature and removes the...

None of those are normal. As feats, class abilities, etc. they are exceptions to the normal rules. Specific beats general. Casting on...

You cannot cast a spell on your turn without the Magic Action. That's what "as normal" is. We have a situation where either you cast...