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That's fair, though it's odd to me that they are relying on 3.5 instincts here if they intended that to be the way it works. They clearly made a decision at some point to delink incorporeality and etherealness (because they included the ghost that is both ethereal and incorporeal and no other...

That was the 3.5 rule. The Incorporeal Movement trait no longer says it is ethereal. In fact, a Ghost can be either in the ethereal plane or the material plane, but it has the incorporeal movement ability regardless. Other incorporeal creatures have no tie to the ethereal plane at all mentioned...

Is there a bestiary/Monster Manual for this system? One of the issues I'd have running it would be "time." Statting out every creature or leveled NPC with whom the players would interact would be an issue.

They mean use the Lore Bard's Peerless Skill and an inspiration die to add to your roll, as that can be used with any ability check. Of couse, you have to be at least 14th level for that...

I was thinking about adopting that or something like it. First it sets up some potentially nice RP moments, but more importantly, it gives some gravitas the possibility of death, even at high levels. One think in 5e, players don't have as much to do with their cash, so spending it on expensive...

I agree that the flavor of the monk does, at least in its origins, seem strangely eastern. In AD&D that seemed more jarring than it does now, since in AD&D the basic classes all felt more grounded in western European legend and history than they do now. Now, when every class either is magical...

I don't require rolls where something should be basic knowledge. Clerics would know the basic tenets of and myths related to their own faith, for example. They might have role for questions of what other faiths believe depending on how familiar the cleric would be with those faiths. In...

Worthless post....why don't you just stop reading my posts?

A blood vessel bursts in D&D's left eye, and you see the whites turn blood red as a result of Page 68 inflicting 4 points of psychic damage!

D&D grips its head and winces, as page 66 inflicts 2 points of psychic damage!

I cast Friends on my friends and convince them to let me cast Friends.

I think each time another page is added to this thread, D&D as a whole takes 1d4 psychic damage.

I've used it myself to get information as well as buy items. While the DMs involved did cut me some slack (*see below") a number of the uses would have worked perfectly well without it. One example, we were in a small town looking for a a famous thief who we suspected had retired there. With a...

What will 5th edition me known for: Fifth Edition D&D was very nice although it was quiet and mostly kept to itself. Maybe it was a little shy but it never caused any trouble. We certainly never thought it was going to assassinate Jennifer Love Hewitt the way it did. We never knew how much it...

pontinyc: It has been mentioned in passing, but you should ask your players to watch a bot of the Geek& Sundry show "Critical Role" online. That is a group of actors role-playing well and it may inspire them engage more with who their characters are in game.