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Interesting 50/50. My gut would have gone for the 'poisoned' path, but I acknoledge that is just that. Gut-feel GM ruling with no underpinning clarity from the rules. I wonder if that is something that will happen more often - room and relyance on rulings for these cases a bit outside the main...

What is everyones view on that? What would your ruling be?

I guess there is no way to read that a creature taking this poison damage is then suffering from the poisoned condition? Somehow, that would then make much more sense in regarding the price of poison, but would also make poison quite the potent weapon ... (Poisened creature have disadvantage...

yes, because you might miss. TWF, or whatever else would then give you a 2nd attack on your turn could still land the sneak attack. You have to meet the conditions, though. So in the case off triggering sneak attack with advantage, you would still require advantage on your second attack to...

old official answer to the question. if that was their intent, did they succeed for the Gnome (yet)?

:) - well spotted sir. I see the point of measuring from the corners, but ATM I am more looking for guidance on a more mundane issue: How to have a small ranged fighter that is not strictly worse? Reading up on another thread though, I have to revise my earlier comment a bit about older...

To try and calm this before we drift to far down the realism vs. fantasy well. @ meatboy: No one is arguing that point. Realistically, small chars should be worse off. But so should elves, for example. In game / in world explanation has to follow game table premise. The premise in this case is...

Thank you all - glad for all your thoughs on this. I hope this comes up in the internal math / balancing discussions and gets somewhat rectified before the releas. For my current game though, I'd have to see. I like the simulationist touch of having negative consequences from being small, but I...

Hi all, Something that made me think about small races: Today we had a character creation session, and one of my players wanted to play a Gnome ranged fighter. Doing the math and getting ready I was surprised to realize that she got punished for her size twice. a) being slow, shared with the...

The force of your argument thins out at the end quite dramaticaly. Silly? As silly as pretending to be an elven-wizard shooting rays? In the end, I think we should leave it to the wizard players reporting playtest feedback. In this particular case, it seems like quite the either / or thing. Some...

First: Sorry, my post was not intended to come on that strong - it is great to be able to have civilized discussions about the game :). But regarding the argument GX.Sigma and Texicles have said it quite well for me. The key (and I must admit, I have very high hopes in that regard, especially...

You constructed quite the corner case here. Golems are discribed as quite rare. But whatever the case, if the DM feels like that kind of adventure is fun to play than it is his responsibility to adjudicate. Knowing his players, he can either acept it, an thus create a tough challenge for the...

Because, like me, he might not have thought is necceary. The LL article was pretty clear of what they are trying here. 95% of the panic seems to operate under the assumtion that the designers are of near rhesus monkey competency. But under this assumption, it is very hard to write an article...

two things: 1st: omg what an elegant solution. Just beautiful! it solves so many conundrums: High complexity vs. low complexity in one group. Creating meaningful customization. Maybe even a multiclassing "light". The crux, in my opinion is to create enough meaningful choice at the same power...

The description for the Spell Water Walk is missing a duration.

the wand of Magic Missile property loses me as it stands right now. Am I the only one? three castings of the spell would mean 9 missiles in one shot, 21 missiles in the wand. that surely can not be what they mean, can it? For my playtest, I am inclined to switch out 'casting' for 'missile'...

it is adressed, at least indirectly. page 12 in How to play states: ini for lage groups can be done as one check at the GMs disgression. I see no reason why this should not allso apply for other checks. good enough for a playtest, the final rules should have a general paragraph on adjudicating...

Although I would argue with you about some of the specifics, I am on board with you general assessment. The most interesting trend for me so far: Since there is a benchmark for "in combat" maneuvers (I see deadly strike and parry in this category), it is certainly very hard to find a something...

My first response to the Article: Well - there is nothing like presenting your own assumptions as fact :hmm:

Arrggh ... thanks for the warning. Unfortunately, it came to late for me. Just wanted to have a short peek before leaving. That sucks ... :/