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This is exactly the "mother may I" style of play that I hate. "It falls from the ceiling." "But I said I was looking at the ceiling." "Yes, but you forgot to say you were holding your torch up high; the ceiling is dark so you didn't see it." You're in a dungeon. Dungeons have traps. You're...

I found another error: the recommended gear for a Sorcerer includes a Greatsword. Sorcerers are proficient in Martial melee weapons, but a Greatsword is a Heavy weapon, not Martial.

I like this better than going up a die size. Both give about the same average (with a d6 hit die, 4.5 for going up to d8 vs 4.472222 for advantage) but the advantage greatly decreases the odds of a bad result (again with a d6, going to d8 gives a 37.5% chance of a 3 or less; advantage gives a...

Can anyone clarify how Dragon Breath is to be used? Dragon Strength is the level 1 power, Dragon Scales at level 4 - is Breath a level 7 or 8 power? Also, the level 3 Pact Boon (disadvantage on an attack) does not cost a favor?

It usually does not stack; if you have the same type of resistance from several sources, you use only the best one. The akanul background is an exception noted in its text. Resist All also does not stack with any specific resistances. If you have resist 3 all and resist 5 fire, you subtract 5...

Ability alterations, plus or minus, are a big turn-off in 3e/ PF and I would not like to see them in 5e. Every barbarian needs two stats on character sheets (raging and normal); every casting of Enlarge Person requires 10 minutes of re-jiggering. "-1 to hit and AC for size, and -2 DEX means...

Bear in mind that an NPC's daily-use spell and a player's are not equivalent resources. The NPC is only going to have one encounter. Ever. If burning one of your spells to prevent the consequences of an enemy spell is better than using that spell to do what it was designed to do, then that...

No wizard ability lets him prepare two spells of the same type and level, and no skill power rule allows that either. So even if you allow the skill power to take up a spell space in the spellbook - rather than replace both spells of that level - there is no justification for getting to use...

Larrin, I think you're correct. They meant to say "can use only martial powers when", or "can use martial powers, only, when" and not "can use martial powers only when". Grammar matters.

I'm happy with 4e, and disappointed that it won't be supported in the future, and very disappointed that 5e so far seems like the game I used to love in the 1970s, before we learned anything about game design.

PCs make splendid beholder allies. Always use the Charm ray first, against the defender.

The rule that guarantees full HP recovery after a night's rest has been in place for a long time. It just used to cost gold - 15 gp per CLW wand charge or 50 gp per CLW potion in 3rd, if I remember correctly. So if you want to restore this thing you think is "realism", leave the 4e/ 5e rule...

When I learned D&D (3 beige books plus Greyhawk) we would make 20 characters at once, and we never named them until they made second level, because most of them never did. Yeah, magical times, but remember that at the time we were also pretty amazed by Pong. I'm not interested in going back to...

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I hate the wall-of-text spell descriptions. When I need to look up the range of charm person*, I want the range right up at the top with a bold label that says Range: *and why should I have to crack a different book to look it up? All relevant monster abilities need to be in the monster stat...

Compared to the anguish of having to somehow cram tiefling and dragonborn nations and history into long-established campaigns, or explain why ancient wizards had Wish and Time Stop but today's wizards are non-quadratic, this ranks pretty low on the aggravation scale in my opinion.

So defining dwarves as immune to poison means you can't tell a story about a dwarf king that was poisoned? Dude, your story just got better! It's now Balder being killed by mistletoe! Whose sinister hand could have been behind it, and how did they make it work? They also wrote elves as being...

How is this for a first-approximation fix? Slashing attacks get damage disadvantage (roll damage twice and use the lower result) vs heavy armor. Slashing attacks get +1 to attack. Piercing attacks get damage disadvantage vs heavy armor. Piercing attacks score a critical hit on a 19 or 20...

On Trevor's post on the wizards community forum, commenters have posted links I can't copy here. Trevor has not moderated them away, so I used one and it worked. It required downloading something that could read .rar files, though.

4e has a magic armor whose daily ability is to convert ongoing damage into an equal amount of regeneration that lasts until the end of the encounter. Other than busking for spare change, intimidating, or trying to add fire damage to a grapple attack, I don't know what else setting yourself on...