Recent content by James Gasik

I think another section needs to be bolded here. Specifically: "When you take the Magic action, you cast a spell that has a casting time of an action...". Now bear with me, because I want to go over every point carefully. Let's assume this is a valid reading of the rules: if the spell's...

Except the idea of "later in the round" doesn't actually exist, all of these actions are supposed to be happening simultaneously, the creatures and characters in combat aren't actually waiting to take their turns, the whole "turn order" is simply a necessary abstraction to keep play from...

What if they did it the other way, use Action Surge to ready an action to cast a spell when it's not their turn, then use the Magic Action to cast a spell?

Ok, so, in conclusion, Gods are either: *All powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing. *All powerful, all-seeing, all-knowing, but don't like their priests casting the spells they grant in ways that bother them. *Only all-powerful, all-seeing, and all-knowing with regards to their specific...

Ok so the contention is about whether or not the Ready action used to cast a spell is actually a Magic Action. I don't have a horse in this race, but something about that bugs me. If I have Warcaster, and I cast a single-action spell in response to a provoked opportunity attack as a reaction-...

It's not real mythology, but in the game, Hades, the reason the protagonist is even alive is due to the Chthonic deity Nyx using her power to alter the fate of Zagreus. Of course, this resulted in his destiny going from "must die" to "cannot die", to explain the game's respawn mechanic, but...

Sunday I used an enemy that, despite only being CR 5, had Lair Actions. The CR calculations made it seem like I could use a trio of them for my game, but really quickly I realized that 2 of them plus the Lair Actions was already pretty tough. Afterwards, discussing the encounter a few...

Another question. Why wouldn't a God want their Cleric to gain more power, especially at the expense of some random magic item?

90's protagonist: "....."

Meanwhile, while the ability to predict the future and ask higher powers proves incapable of cheating at card games, the Wild Mage has a flat 50% chance of choosing the card of his choice....

There's a deity in 2e's Legends & Lore whose priests are granted the power to cast Commune once each day. I rather doubt that they'd be annoyed if said priests actually used that power every day.

Specific subset, ie, the people who want to be "Everyman Fighters". I can't speak to martial players in general because the only real data we have on them is that there were more Fighters made using D&D Beyond than any other class. How many were played and to what level is unknown. Supposedly...

Weapon Masteries come to mind. I have heard people say they are unneeded, slow down or complicate play, or are unnecessary power creep.

The kind of people I'm talking about do not want any superhuman abilities on their Fighter at all. All stop. No jumping 30' into the air, no slashing arrows in mid-flight, no cleaving spell effects in half, nothing they would consider to be "magical".

Perhaps we should take a minute and look at the modern Commune, then? Commune Level 5 Divination (Cleric) Casting Time: 1 minute or Ritual Range: Self Components: V, S, M (incense) Duration: 1 minute You contact a deity or a divine proxy and ask up to three questions that can be answered with...