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Depends on what kind of game your group is playing. If it veers toward simulationist (where the group cares about rations and encumbrance), then no -- if heroic fantasy, sure.

We had session zero today, 8 players showed up. We had a few PHBs but found it easier to let new players create characters on DNDBeyond. We were sticking with 2014 as that's what a couple people had for PHB, but one of the newbies made a 2024 Ranger, but I let him stick with it, thinking it...

I have extra dice trays and dice. We'll be definitely doing theater of the mind, probably side initiative. To me group decision-making is can be as much fun as completing the narrative so I'll play that by ear. The sessions will hopefully be 2 hours and episodic so the importance of note-taking...

Yeah, maybe I'll just pop in each of their IRL offices between sessions and close the door -- "How would you rate your overall performance?"

I say an hour with a little extra — I think most people can stretch it to 2 hours with a more relaxed summer schedule 🤞🏻

Hoping to get enough interest for a weekly D&D at work this summer during the lunch hour (plus a little extra as people are able), I decided to send an invite to all 18 of my co-workers. I'm overwhelmed with the response -- Ten have accepted to come to session zero with a couple more tentative...

I had just started brainstorming a campaign around the concept of Hagception: a PC coven (hexbloods, warlocks, etc. plus homebrew) that enters dreams, maybe from their swamp treehouse with a vampire cabal in the nearby town as the big bads.

Personally, without a clear sequence, I'd play a monster -- even an unintelligent one -- with it instinctively knowing how to best use its basic abilities. Would it have been nice to have WOTC help newer GMs know what order that is, sure.

I feel like if order mattered, it would have said "then" instead of "and."

The 2014 spell says: "Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it. If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against...

double post -- sorry

2014: “it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube.” Halfling not cramped in a 5’ cube crate. “Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.” Arrow through illusion crate reveals illusion but illusion stays in place so no line of sight between...

The spell says the caster says a word and the target must obey, but the target also must understand the language or it fails. Failing to understand language is similar to failing to understand intention. The spell spells out what happens with certain command words. The DM decides what happens...