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Disciple of the Elements When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn magical disciplines that harness the power of the four elements. A discipline requires you to spend ki points each time you use it. You know the Elemental Attunement discipline and one other elemental discipline of...

True Strike Divination Cantrip Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: S Duration: Instantaneous As part of casting this spell, you make a single special melee or ranged attack. - The defender does not gain a benefit to AC from half or three-quarters cover against this attack. - This...

This post is an index. It will update when new things appear. Spells - True Strike - Spider Skitter (Jump + Spider Climb) Classes - Monk -- Subclass: Master of the Elements

You're technically right: it doesn't have to be. But also, I'm right: it was. Your setting sounds cool and should be valid. But also, guns in D&D were cool, and should remain valid. I don't think one of those things needs to win over the other. Bingo. Vancian spellcasting came from the...

Hmm. I think you're right that Psionics are partially informed by science fiction, but I think you're incorrect when you say that science fiction has no place in D&D. Sci-Fi tropes were in the D&D games I played back in 1e, and that was cool. There are rules for guns in many official sources...

In a previous campaign of mine, the two "natural" forms of magic, which existed before the discovery of the Planes, were Druidic magic and Psionics. Druidic magic came from life itself and/or the Fey -- it was never known for sure, since "life itself" wasn't available for comment, and the Fey...

Hmm. Well, Stealth and "disabling a trap" are both Dexterity-related, but "disabling a trap" does not benefit from proficiency in Stealth, so I honestly don't see how Stealth would necessarily help avoid that. If you think my post implied such, let me know where I said that, since that's not a...

Yeah, exactly. I was going to post this. Encouraging players to buy an adventure module negates a bunch of the value of the module for me as a DM. I don't see them doing that specific type of bundling more than once.

Pressure sensor? I think you're asking if Tremorsense is the same as a trap trigger, is that correct? If so, I don't think that relates to anything I've said. Vibrations and mass (or pressure) are not the same thing, and Tremorsense does not detect mass. It detects "vibrations", which are...

Yeah, I can't find any MM creatures which have Tremorsense and no other senses. So that's consistent, at least until we get more monster examples. I don't think it's useful to take something as abstract as Stealth and force it to be only one of those two specific interpretations. I think it's...

Note 1: Tremorsense relies on vibrations. Sound is a vibration. Stealth means avoiding making sounds, which means avoiding making at least one kind of vibration. The text for Tremorsense does not state that it negates Stealth, and creatures with Tremorsense do have an ordinary Perception...

I think you might be making a pun. Just in case you're not, the reason why they didn't is probably that in 3.x D&D, blindsense meant that the monster knew what tile you were in, but you still had full concealment. In contrast, blindsight meant you did not get concealment. So the 5e version is...

Ah, yeah, I'm assuming that the ability to not make sound vibrations extends to the ability to not make Tremor vibrations.

There's nothing in the 5e Tremorsense description about trumping or negating Stealth. Monsters which rely on Tremorsense still have Perception scores. There's no reason to think Tremorsense trumps Stealth -- except baggage from earlier editions.

This is a very general ability. It's used to represent a variety of monster senses, including echolocation and unnaturally accurate scent. Unfortunately, it's a bit over-general, and it's not clear how it actually works under a variety of conditions. Similar abilities, for reference...

Mistwell, don't play like you're obtuse. You said that perception didn't work on places that can't be seen. I provided two counter examples, one of which was hearing something around a corner. The rules text talks about perception, not sight, so this is relevant to the discussion, and nobody...

No, THIS happened in the middle: Don't cut out the middle of a discussion just to make it look like you have a point. You're abusing my attempts to find common ground by taking a hardline position. Nope, because regular sight sometimes works through walls. - Walls of Force. - Walls with glass...

Well, I didn't say "through a wall", what I said was "around a corner". That's a place where you can't see, but where you CAN hear. The text seems to support my reading, which is that a character's sound-based Blindsight can see around corners. I want your reading to be correct, since IMHO...

"Perceiving without sight" is not the same as "seeing without sight". I can roll a Perception check to hear a dude around a corner, or smell the sulfur of a great wyrm's lair. If they had used the words seeing and sight instead of perceive and perception, this might not be an issue. That's one...

In this edition, that is NOT correct. The same language is used for Tremorsense and Blindsight ("within a specific radius"). There's nothing about obstructions blocking either.