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Ok, I lied. My next post is not going to be about treasure; it is going to be about my design philosophy and goals for this project...

RAI becomes tricky, because even the official rules guru for 2014 was wrong about how Passive Perception worked. He made the mistake of...

Passive Scores are used when you don't want to reveal information by calling for a check. You still have to take the Search Action to...

Cool. As someone who runs old adventure's, I love this idea. Quick clarification: the characters that don't use the Search Action and...

So, I am converting and updating a classic adventure for my next adventure campaign I am DMing. The example below taught me how hiding...

The obvious answer and maybe the best, is to have a quiet friendly face to face about it away from the game. He might not realise how...

Make it clear to the players from the outset that they'll be dealing with multiple waves of enemies with no opportunity to rest in...

You realize that this very concept was already playtested for the PHB UA and was rejected in the surveys. The reason it keeps getting...

I would just add tools for different things

This is where people forget the DMG. In Chapter 1, under Players Exploiting the Rules, it specifically calls out that the rules rely on...

That’s kinda the problem though. The sage advice pretty much says they are the same.

Closing your eyes does not change whether or not you have Line of Sight on a target. If your position on the map has a direct line to...

Note also that the Unconscious Condition says that you are unaware of your surroundings but it does NOT say that you have the Blinded...

Ahhh, the joy of natural language. Sigh. While a strict reading of "line of sight" certainly supports the idea of being able to close...