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Well, I haven't had players interested in spears until now, or else this question would have arisen sooner, but here's my .02: Unintelligent creatures still ought to charge readied spears, and some monsters' special charge attacks (like a minotaur's) are so much more advantageous than a regular...

thanks! Appreciate the help! I'd already cut the text from the FAQ before I saw the link, so here it is for the sake of completeness: I'm a little unclear on how the tower shield works. I assume if you crouch behind it, you can get total cover against ranged attacks. If you plan to...

The PHB description of tower shields on p.106 and the discussion of cover on PHB p. 133 left me with some more of my 20 questions... Seems like tower shields are sort of a portable Expertise feat - you choose how much cover you want against your foe, but it means they have that much cover...

why charge a spear? As I understand it, setting a spear against a charge means planting its base in the ground so that it doesn't give way with the shock of the charge. I think it should be possible to see whether a spear is set (with a Spot check if you like). If the spearman just spent a...

When a monster has multiple attacks listed, does it need to take the Full Attack action to use them all? For example (since I have its stats handy), a dire ape has 2 claws at +8 and a bite at +3. I gather this means that it can make 3 attacks per round: claw +8, claw +8, bite +3. By analogy...

Let's assume a elven warrior, Exemplar, has taken an action to ready his longspear. His orcish foe, Ow, obligingly charges with his battleaxe. - Does Exemplar get a (partial) attack as soon Ow is 10' away (as if he'd readied an attack against the first opponent to come in range), or is the 'set...

My two cents I think the idea of running a separate search is an excellent one, both as a gamer and a game-designer. As a gamer I'm interested not only in seeing the development of the best ideas out there, but also in seeing them in a 'raw' form, the work of their original author, rather...

Does the armor bonus from the spell mage armor (or bracers of armor) stack with the effects of mundane armor or enchanted armor? Likewise, does the cover bonus from the shield spell stack with the benefits of a regular shield, a tower shield, or mundane cover? As examples, say Arthur is wearing...