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Looking at the rules for Carrying Capacity on PHB p. 362-63, I read them differently than you. With STR 10 as a M creature, you can carry 15 x Strength, or 150 pounds. You've said the flyer is carrying 10 pounds already, so 140 is available: 1. Rogue. Yes, you can carry the 140 pound rogue. 2...

I feel Urgan has prooved himself a coward, but he has nothing to do if there's line-of-sight. Next turn I can try hijinks, but that depends on being alive, and running might be most prudent.

Urgan feels the ghostly tendrils of the cult Priest reach out, and grab his spine -- the sens eof slippery tendrils enveloping something inside of him is so near, but then slips away. Urgan remembers to breathe. "Go, Scamp," he urges, sending the Jackal ahead of him, far from the reach of the...

Telepathic communication causes migraines.

Thanks for these. None, I believe, has mechanical implications though. Unique items, such as these, do have mechanical implications. Yes, exactly.

Team Caves -- URGAN I think Urgan had 2 THP, which means he's at HP 22, THP 0, but I might be mistaken. With the arrival of the cultists, Urgan is thinking that escape might be the best option. Perhaps the mercenaries could be used to... but thinking was never Urgan's problem. Doing was, and...

Team Caves: Urgan is not being especially helpful, and we're few on people, and they now have more. Here's a quick run through of some possibilities, in the order I'd prefer: 1. move back 10' or so, and keep the Mercs alive. They essentially form a barrier then for the cultists, and we can...

This is helpful, and sets a benchmark -- yes, a legendary item should be able to do this within the game, and it becomes horrific when it does.

I'm not going to repeat points I've already made for you. I have certainly learned what constitutes overblown rhetoric.

(emphasis mine) Based on this, you'd think I was talking exclusively about the flavour of the feat. I'm not, as we discussed upthread. My concern is with the implications I see in specific mechanics that have been proposed in what is at present only a UA. Yes, this is going to inform my...

I am not talking about BG3. Maybe we should stick to D&D and the UA, and not bring in a videogame. Here, there is no choice: with this feat, at level 4 (well before you are a lich, and you need not become one), any use of Soul Siphon creates damage to the humanoid opponent on a level that is...

Yes. No. Soul Coins do not destroy the soul, they trap it. Unless I am mistaken, the soul can be released with a level 3 spell (with no material component), or using the charges (e.g. asking it three questions). What is proposed here is completely new for 5th ed.

Except that's not what they are doing. They are saying this ability, available at fourth level (well before you actually become a lich), can only be stopped in certain ways, and those ways are extraordinarily inaccessible for a trivial benefit. If they implement it as is, they are telling...

Thank you, yes. "slivers of life essence" or whatever works is better than "soul". And I agree it is mainly flavour-text, but not entirely: the specific requirements for restoration being expensive and inaccessible magic creates a metaphysical world in the RAW that is, in my view, deeply...

The Path of the Lich in the latest UA provides an unparalleled power to players at level 4: through the Soul Siphon ability associated with the Lich Initiate feat, you have the ability to consume the soul of a humanoid. D&D doesn’t mess with souls much (I talk briefly about soul-language in...