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This is one of those "I wonder how players would feel about it if I did it to them" sort of spells. I've always adjudicated that a pile...

And the party inside sees the goblins doing this and reaches outside the hut to brush them away, or just, I don't know, steps outside to...

I haven't played with a Twilight Cleric, but as I understand it, a big complaint isn't so much that they are busted (though they might...

It's funny. I had a twilight cleric in my campaign. Now, the campaign only went to 8th level, so, maybe the problems occur later, but...

Having Type 2 myself, I once wrote a fantasy story about a character from our world who ended up in a D&D-a-like setting. They were...

I think it's just we have to adjust our expectations of what Fireball is for. It's not a level 5 nuke the way it was in AD&D. It's a...

That and information. In MtG, it's rare that a counterspell comes out of nowhere. You know what colors your opponent is playing, and...

Interestingly, I think this might explain what happened with Conjure Elementals, or whichever one it was that everyone was freaking out...

One of things Mike Mearls said that I found interesting was that upcasting of classic blaster spells is where it really doesn't work...

In their defense, we (the folks who playtested D&D Next) really stressed that as something we wanted to be possible.

Pretty much, yeah. And he also mentioned something about it scaling at +2d6 (and magic missile at +3 darts).

"Canonically," the Forgottem Realms is connected to many worlds via portals, including Earth. Lorwyn can be its own distinct setting...

Abeir is the Bruno of settings.

Some interesting things said about the release of 2024 5e, comparing it to 3.5. People already invested in 3e were willing to buy the...

As far as Spelljammer goes, I'm pretty sure the Rock of Bral was in Wildspace. Wheellock pistols came to the Realms from a visiting...