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Not in my experience. Many players are quite passive and prefer to wait for the GM to give them somewhere to go and something to do. I...

The narrative of this ability is that it makes your spells more powerful, either by increasing the save DC or making them more likely to...

Sure. The fiction of the spell is that the magic guides the attack, then the weapon does damage in accordance with physical laws*, much...

You said “the weapon does no damage”. You said nothing about hitting or missing.

So I swing my dagger, and it hits the target in the eye, but it does no damage?

Depends which ability score is higher.

Pretty much a Tintin story (Red Rackham's Treasure). The thing about wooden ships is they are quite difficult to sink. But what you...

Your ability to consistently miss the point is astonishing,

Sure it is. You apply a force and it moves an object. The source of the force might be magic, but the effect of the force follows...

The half that matters is the emotional impact. You don't get to tell people if you consider the emotional impact justified - by your...

Mage Hand can exert 5 lb of force. Force is a physical law, ergo Mage Hand is not a spell.

Plenty of 17th and 18th century ships weren’t huge. If you can build a big ship you can build a small ship. And once you start adding in...

English raiding of Hanseatic shipping on the Flemish and Baltic coast was rampant, in the 1400s and through the Hundred Years War. as...

D&D is conceptually pegged at Medieval. In practice, Gygaxian D&D is Victorian minus gunpowder. Age of Piracy is actually...

Good example of why your comprehension is off. This is saying a spell may ignore physical laws, not that it must ignore physical laws.