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When I was about six years old the popcorn machine caught on fire and the theater had to be evacuated. I still remember the smell, and burnt popcorn still brings it back. Proust was correct, smell memories are the strongest. I forget what Disney movie the other kids and I were watching.

If you only raise monster AC's, but not monster Save DC's (which are also pretty low) you will benefit fighter type monsters more than caster type monsters. Unless that is an intentional choice, you may want to think about raising their save DC's too. I just started a 2025 only Greyhawk...

Char-gen, fight historical serial killers.

You do have a problem - no DM Screen is visible.

What about Warforged? Since they don't need to sleep they could just chose not to take Long Rests ever. Then the temporary Ht Points would last until they were used up. The Warforged could instead chose to take several Short Rests in a row, since most classes now get some resources back on a...

A caster can no longer 'Counterspell', with a spell slot, the 'Counterspell' that targets their leveled spell cast with a spell slot, since they would then be using two spell slots per turn. A character who casts a spell with a slot and then falls into a pit trap on their movement can no longer...

The rules say that specific beats general, and the specific rules for that item in the DMG say that you are invisible "for one hour" or until you take the hood down so, logically, there are no other requirements.

No, the extra cost for the Warhorse is a function of the cost of feeding the horse while you train it to become a warhorse, the cost of the horses who die in this process, the cost of the warhorse trainers, and the cost of the damages you have to pay for the trainers who die in the process. We...

If dropping a shield is no action than every caster should buy a shield, hold it on everyone else's turn to get the +2 AC, then (if they are not proficient with Shields or they need both hands on their turn) drop it as a free action so it does not interfere with their casting and then, as their...

No option for, "What temperature do you heat to in the summer because it is a cloudy day in Anchorage, Alaska and it is fifty something degrees (10 C to 15.5 C) and you're cold?"

"Mister, we could use a system like THACO again."

Wizard 18, Fighter 2 "I cast Meteor Swarm. Then I use the card to cast Meteor Swarm again. Then I use the Action Surge I got from my Fighter levels, and cast Meteor Swarm again."

What if every rock in the world was actually a living creature, or part of a living creature, that had been Petrified? They all died of lack of food and water and that is the only reason rocks are not alive.

The new Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth (Currently free on DND Beyond) has 6 free L9 pre-gens that can be downloaded as pdf's. They are not well optimized, showing a shocking lack of 20's in class prime requisites. They also seem to be quite poor for L9 characters, which has resulted in poor AC's for...

That's not the whole thread. My adventure suggestion was "The party is hired to convince a group of nudist female werebear bards to wear clothing while perfoming, in accordance with local law." The adventure was named "Bear Naked Ladies", of course.