Recent content by SLJ

Web + Telekinetic feat. Your melee partner sets up near the edge of the Web, threatening adjacent squares. Every time a creature barely makes it out of the Web, you shove it right back in with a bonus action.

Did your theorycrafting consider a Thief rogue consistently getting off-turn sneak attacks using a Fast Hands True Strike (either from scrolls or an Enspelled weapon)? I know the former is a little controversial on this board but there seems to be relatively widespread internet consensus that it...

Interesting. You must kill a lot of PCs! How often are you TPK'ing your table? Appreciate the response.

By the time you get to Tier 2, most enemies worth talking about have some kind of multiattack. Does this mean in your games, once a PC is knocked unconscious, unless there's another PC with a healing ability in the next two initiative spots, that PC is likely dead? Or are you just throwing a...

I've only seen it, ironically, with 'dumb' monsters - zombies will chew on an unconscious PC, for example, especially if it's the only thing they can reach. 'Smart' monsters, when they drop a PC to unconscious, immediately ignore it and start fighting the threats that are still upright. I think...

I've never had a player attempt that but I'd definitely let them try, that would be cool. How was the check adjudicated? Deception, slight-of-hand, insight/perception check from the monster, something else?

I am not a frogreaver alt, nor do I know him. I just think he's right. Yes, 'playing to win' would be playing like PCs and players - that's why I mentioned playing monsters as if they understood the rules of the game. 'Playing to win' would mean focus-firing, and prioritizing double-tapping...

I agree with FrogReaver. If you play monsters as understanding the rules of the game, they would know that action economy is 100% the most important factor in determining who wins a fight. Monsters that 'fight to win' would be completely focused on downing whichever PC they can and crushing...