Recent content by Thommy H-H

Fun fact: the essay that gave us the phrase "death of the author" was published over 15 years before Elmore painted that box art.

Yeah, fair point. They don't even include the walking speed for goalposts in those tables.

Pages 246-7 of the DMG.

Its Web Bomb does more damage, altogether - 24 basic, plus 10 to the target and 10 to anyone close by. So 44, for the purposes of CR calculation, meaning a total of 70. Also, it restrains anyone it hits. So I make its offensive CR 14, while its defensive CR is 21 (AC 18, 310 hit points, 3 x...

Even if one of a number of healing spells would work to 'heal' what is, as you say, normal human variation, who's to say everyone who might benefit from it can access it? We have to assume there's a functioning magical healthcare economy for that, which is by no means a given in every setting...

Some of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world today wear glasses. I don't know why, in a D&D world that has theoretically developed magical solutions to impaired vision comparable to modern laser surgery, there needs to be some elaborate reason that a wizard that is...

Uh oh!

Let me see if I can follow this: she shouldn't have a floating staff or glowing runes floating around her because there isn't a specific spell that allows a wizard to do that in the game, but she also shouldn't have glasses because of some nebulous notion of readily-available magical healing...

So, on a quick skim of the core books, these are all the named characters I could identify in various art pieces: PHB Cover: fire giant King Snurre (from the Hall of the Fire Giant King adventure) Pg 13: Bruenor Battlehammer (Forgotten Realms) Pg 21: Drizzt Do'Urden (Forgotten Realms) Pg 42...

Whoa whoa whoa...you can search for elements of the art like that on Scryfall?! This thread was worth it just for finding that out.

I think the idea that a wizard shouldn't wear glasses might be the biggest reach I've read here so far. Yes, heaven forfend the nerd class look like a nerd.

It sure is a shock to see a bunch of dudes on the internet not liking this piece of art in particular for vague reasons.

I don't know where you lot are getting these players who even know what their own spells do, let alone the spells (or spell-like attacks) that some CR 1/4 NPC is throwing at them. I mean, I use average damage for enemies anyway, but even if I was rolling a d10 right in front of them, I wouldn't...

The same reason knights are called knights in the MM and have a description that refers to high medieval knight-type stuff, I suppose. What I mean to say is that - and I think this is explicit in the introduction to the MM - the descriptions aren't definitive. By default, this is a statblock for...

I think maybe you're getting hung up on the name of the statblock, which is basically a pretty neutral descriptor. Like the generic MM Mage, although the various MPMM 'Wizards' do technically count as members of the wizard class (for the purposes of attuning to items, whatever that's even...