Recent content by iamntbatman

What? No it doesn't. DMG 139.

Only thing that I've been really bugged with so far was a guy with the Alert feat who took that "you cannot be surprised while conscious" thing to ridiculous levels. Because "surprised" wasn't listed as an official condition, he argued that it meant the same thing it does in a dictionary, i.e...

Nothing is really jumping out at me. You did say you wind up in melee a lot, so maybe either just bump Con by two or take Tough.

Rabies is the most lethal disease known to mankind. It is essentially 100% fatal once it becomes symptomatic. I'm only aware of one ever case of someone becoming symptomatic and surviving, and that's with all the wonders of modern medicine. In D&D, I'd say that there's not likely to be any...

We have a player who has Guidance but has only used it once or twice because she never remembers she has it, and other players never ask her for it. However, in a game where someone wanted to get the most out of it, I'd do something along the lines of what others have mentioned. If the whole...

I really, really wanted to back this, but my physical address will be in limbo around the time the physical stuff gets shipped so I'll just wait to buy the book once I have a (vaguely) forever home and can start buying books again without worrying about lugging them across continents. I'm...

Update: I'm now level six, and am leaning heavily toward a one level dip in Shadow Sorcerer instead of the GoO Warlock at level 7. It still fits well with the RP that has gone on in my character's dreams. Basically, instead of picking up EB, Friends, 2 pact magic slots, three first level warlock...

I think, if you're looking at combat alone, the two are fairly evenly matched. There are lots of really strong optimizing builds using both stats. The disparity comes from the utility of the stats outside of combat. I'd say that even DM's who make everyone roll athletics checks frequently for...

I feel you. At first I thought this would make a cool sort of anti-paladin type character. With Pact of the Blade, you can even use heavy and reach weapons with hex warrior, so you can effectively pump Con and Cha without worrying about Str or Dex as attack stats. The completely different spell...

This thread is gold. Just wait until this Henrix fellow finds the anti-matter rifles in the DMG.

Ehhhhh...the 120,000 member D&D 5E Facebook group just recently had a poll about feats. Obviously not every member voted but it's a pretty decent chunk of answers. As of right now, 889 respondents always use feats, 226 say they use feats about half the time, and 55 people say they don't use...

Meh, that sounds really contrived to me. I mean, what are the odds? I can think of examples of real world derogatory terms for peoples that resulted from corruptions of words from their languages that other groups heard, but not in a way that results in words that could describe some defining...

In our world they're called the Hin, and "halfling" is a derogatory term only.

I would say the RAW is not clear on this. It does not specify WHEN the spell slot is consumed, so I think it is reasonable to rule that it's consumed when released instead of when initially cast. It also does not say that you automatically release the spell after a round. That doesn't make a...

It's taken a bit, but I'm really starting to come around to these new characters. I can't wait for Caleb to get out of the low-level wizard slump and start focusing more on battlefield control than trying to compete with the warlock, monk, rogue and blood hunter for DPR, and the "tired traveler"...