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Maybe I'm wrong, but whenever I've done class DPR comparisons it always seems to me that having one of the basic at-will damage increasing styles is considered part of the DPR scaling for those classes that get fighting styles. Because of that, it's a real hard sell for me to take any of the...

Come to to the 5.0e grognard side; we have this: Boon of High Magic (DMG 2014) You gain one 9th-level spell slot, provided that you already have one.

From the 2014 PHB: "Monks of the Way of Shadow follow a tradition that values stealth and subterfuge. These monks might be called ninjas or shadowdancers, and they serve as spies and assassins. Sometimes the members of a ninja monastery are family members, forming a clan sworn to secrecy about...

Just from the title my first thought is: if you have to ask, it's probably evil. From the body I would also say that. CN is a real mess of an alignment, with only 3e giving it a useful description. Most of the times when people think of CN they are really thinking of NE or CE.

My first thought is that this is an extraordinarily bad idea. "But the AI focus groups loved it!" - Someone's attempted defense right before getting fired because customers hated a new product. My second thought is curiosity about how well AI actually would be able to predict custumer...

Well I guess I wouldn't have needed to go get it laminated today like I did then, lol.

Yeah, taking a closer look, it seems like I'll need to go get it laminated. Planning to run it this weekend for some friends' kids in person, so I ordered the physical box (already had the pdfs).

Does anyone know if the battle map is safe for dry erase or wet erase markers?

Depends highly on the nature of the campaign. If its intended to be a more standard classic campaign then definitely level 1, for an important reason that was brought up on this thread but I almost never see. I want the experience of having lower level monsters that are supposed to be a real...

Yep, I'll be using some of those rules. They'll be making the checks before they get to the kraken, as well as taking 1d6 lightning bolts that deal 2d10 damage. By the time the kraken appears they will be near the edge of the storm and done with those checks. I tend to give objects damage...

That would be really cool! I don't think it will quite fit with some of the parameters involved (not all of which I mentioned), but it's certainly something I might be able to use in the future. I think I'll probably actually go with a juvenile kraken. That means I have to accept that such a...

Ideally, the party realizes it's too dangerous (especially since they have already demonstrated they are invested in keeping the NPC crew safe) and just tries to minimize casualties while escaping. What I would love the experience to look like is the monster repeatedly damaging the ship while...

The more I thought about it, the more skeptical I became that something like that actually affects CR. Too many other things that don't but should affect CR if that were the case, and the list of actual toggles to turn on seems woefully inadequate. Anomalies caused by data entry errors are the...

For anyone (like @tomedunn ) trying to figure out why the formulas cease working above CR 19, this is in the 2014 MM Errata: There appears to be a pattern. It looks like the XP values for 20+ may have originally been lower (and scaled significantly slower).

I have a specific scenario that's coming up soon in my campaign, and I need to pick a monster from D&D's lore. It's a 5e (2014) game, but I can convert the monster myself if it doesn't exist in 5e. Our lore favors 2e, which has a zillion monsters, but I couldn't find exactly what I'm looking for...