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A stainless steel flask for 1 oz of liquid weighs about 2 oz empty, 3 oz full. Say have a rubber stopper at the top that you can easily pop when you take it from your potion bandolier and swig it. Collect the used flasks after the battle, if they haven't been crushed, for a discount at your...

Which is why you have a bandolier of potions to ensure that they are readily accessible. Look at military kit over the last couple of millennia, there's a reason why bandoliers, quivers, and belt pouches for ammunition were used.

By the A5E rules as written, a Druid can wild shape into plant or beast form, and use their Druid proficiencies therein. Druids have shield proficiency. Vegepygmies are humanoid shaped and tool using, with weapons such as spears and slings. They are size small. I don't see any limitations on...

Yes. Just like every other adventurer, except perhaps Adepts/Monks. :)

Thanks Lichmaster. Yes, my A5E level 5 Druid with the Skinchanger archetype now spends much of the time wild shaped. With better magical equipment found and purchased at level 5, her original form has higher AC and does more damage. At level 6, with CR 2 wild shapes + Nature's Wrath for +d6...

Reading through A5E, 5E, and D&D 2024 carefully, I noticed the following difference between A5E vs. 5E and D&D 2024: In A5E, "Any equipment you are wearing or wielding merges into your new form. Equipment that merges with your form has no effect until you leave the form." 5E and D&D 2024 both...

Yes. Well said. Similarly, my wild shaping Druid has been buying other PCs one or two healing items for use on me or others, as I won't have access to those healing items while wild-shaped.

Spell casters with the 2024 version of Healing Word should indeed use that as a bonus action instead. A spell scroll of Healing Word can be used as a bonus action if it on your spell list, so yes that is cheaper too at 25 gp vs. 50 gp for potion of healing.

One thing that would be helpful for something like this is to have an automated encounter build that not just estimates combined CR, but actually allows you to run combat simulations with the party assuming for example that they stand there with poor tactics and just spam their basic attacks or...

Regarding the length of a round, 12 second rounds would not be unreasonable, and likely not break anything except perhaps regarding movement. That's 5 rounds of 12 seconds in a minute, so spells with a minute of duration are still last throughout most combats. At least in my experience, many...

There are a two main aspects of the discussion here: One is keep it simple, the rules are an abstraction, bonus action potions make sense mechanically, 1/2 lb is a simple weight to use when calculating. Yes, I agree with this. Another is that drinking 4 oz of liquid takes too long for it to be...

A quick internet shows glass vial weight of 27g for a 30mL (i.e., 1 oz) container. 27 grams is 0.95 oz. So for a potion vial with 1 oz of liquid, the weight of the vial itself is 1 oz, total weight of 1/8 lb (0.12 lb). Similarly, the glass vial weight is 108g for a 120mL (i.e., 4 oz) container...

It depends how the glass vials are stored, but yes, there could be some risk of breakage. I would have them stored in padded little boxes in a potion bandolier for easy access and to reduce that problem. In settings with more advanced technologies than the Renaissance period, you could...

Do you provide any forewarning or hints at the danger level to an encounter? For example, you could permit the party members entering the room an Insight check to realize that it is in fact quite dangerous, and permit them to change their course of action. You could also have deep claw marks on...

Make the weight whatever makes sense in your campaign. If 1 oz. fits better with your intuition of how long it should take to quaff vs. a bonus action, then use that. By the time the encumbrance of potions matters (i.e., if the party buys many of these), they probably have access to Heward's...