Recent content by Samir

You can just cover the flame with a piece of your clothing. Seems fair. It's a 2nd level spell that costs 50gp per cast. See Invisibility is also a 2nd level spell.

Also consider that making it an attack roll ignores Magic Resistance, and allows you to get advantage on the roll. (Garnering advantage on attack rolls is much easier to get than imposing disadvantage on saving throws.) Basically, it's going to make it much more powerful.

Being unseen is no longer a precondition for stealth. PHB errata: The DM tells you when you can hide, and the DM tells you whether or not you need to roll Stealth. There's also no requirement to use the Hide Action.

I've seen so many of these Jeremy Crawford non-answers at this point, I'm convinced that he starts from the assumption that the book has no errors, and rationalizes around it.

No, the Combat rules offer the Hide Action as a way to get the benefits under "Unseen Attackers and Targets." Nowhere in the book is it written that masking your location requires the hide action. In fact, under Unseen Attackers and Targets, the book provides three distinct options for escaping...

The point being made is that being detected while invisible isn't automatic, it's at the DM's discretion. Since "usually" and "outside factors" are in the DM's purview and the extent of those will vary game to game, I think we're on the same page.

There are two options here, based on the two possible readings of "can be detected" in the invisibility rules. Option 1: "can be detected" means "is automatically detected", and the quoted part of Feral Senses does nothing. Option 2: "can be detected" means "is sometimes detected", and the...

If you're automatically aware of the locations of non-hidden creatures, even if they're invisible, what is the purpose of the following abilities?

Yup. Somebody did the math in another thread and ended up with over 200 undead minions.

I got started with D&D in earnest with 4e. The mechanics and combat were so much fun. Theorycrafting, optimizing, making characters on a lark. I loved it. But it's not 5e. Once 5e came out, I learned to love the more classic side of D&D in equal measure. It's such a wonderful system. Really, no...

Animate Dead only animates 1-2 undead at a time, but recasting it lets you maintain control over up to 4 undead creatures, which determines your actual cap.

This looks cool. My DM currently uses Masterplan to run encounters, are there differences/advantages to this approach?

I think this point is worth repeating. If you make the assumption that you and your allies are not meaningful threats, then all of your close and area attacks are party-friendly. That's a pretty big ramification.

Per the exact RAW of the Rules Compendium, you could make the argument that since Temple of Brilliance's Effect line does NOT affect the target (rather, it affects all enemies within 2 squares of the target), it is not "an effect that occurs upon hitting, missing, or otherwise affecting a...

I never said it was intended by RAW to block effects on allies. I just said that a strict reading of that (poorly worded) paragraph results in that unfortunate fact. The second paragraph is inconsistent with the first, but not contradictory. The first paragraph effectively states that Healing...