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This discussion is a pretty depressing reminder of why martials tend to be underpowered and/or most likely to get punitive nerfs in play. Even their fans want them 'nerfed' in the guise of realism. While still fighting giants and dragons, of course.

For the restraining application of Flesh to Stone, what makes it better than Levitate? The restraining condition is pretty potent in several ways (especially the disadvantage to all attacks part), but the best part (locking enemies in place) you get from both spells.

Look, I've done more than my share trying to set up situations where a player will try to use something other than Eldritch Blast or waste it with their crossbow (or at least make the experience exciting, like being graphic with the description), but all the same a lot of players realize that if...

As someone who has run quite a few 3E, Pathfinder, and 4E D&D games and only a handful of 5E D&D games, I have to say that running large numbers of encounters in a 'workday' is problematic for two reasons: 1) A lot of players get very disengaged by their character going 'I Fire Bolt it.' 'I...

I want to go even further than that: a familiar that's using Dragon's Breath while you're doing something else with your bonus/standard action will cause your DPR to spike like crazy at low levels. For the cost of a 2nd-level spell slot, my wizard with an owl familiar was regularly doing about...

Your complaint assumed too narrow of a usage for books and scrolls, thus seeing a contradiction where there was none. I'm giving you an example to show how you can have a trap in a book or a scroll that still respects the 'don't move the glyph more than 10 feet' caveat. If I install a silent...

The book or a scroll can be on a stand or in a confined area. No. The 'other creatures' is vis-à-vis the glyph. It's even in the sentence. So what if they don't?

https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/610955844918886400 Magic Missile strikes simultaneously, so only one save. Scorching Ray and, even better, Eldritch Blast are better candidates for forcing a concentration save. Of course, while NPC spellcasting creatures such as the Archmage have bad...

Magic Missile is a terrible spell to break enemy concentration with. Magic Missile upcast to 4th level will do about 21 damage, which won't even break the generic DC 10 concentration save. It's only really good as a hail mary to stop several spellcasters concentrating on a spell at once. No...

So. If you want to summon a creature, how do you summon it with the PHB + 1 limitation, assuming your second book isn't a Monster Manual? Even if you want to make summoning a pure DM resource to get around this, there are certain summoning options, such as the Circle of the Shepherd, which...

Glyph of Warding has an hour-long cast time. Assuming your party gets short rests, you can cast it while everyone else is resting. Once the rest is done: the fighter touches the Glyph and enjoys a Stoneskin you don't have to concentrate on. You can also use it a day in advance for some of the...

I think I might know where the confusion from Leomund's Tiny Hut is coming from. https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/823774362293542912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The spell creates a floor. I don't know why they used that 'dome' nomenclature, it just creates confusion since it's not defined in...

So what are other peoples' experiences using Shadow Blade? I recently got up to 9th level on (yet another) Bladesinger character and this is a really powerful spell, especially in conjunction with effects such as Warcaster and a teammates' Haste. The advantage in dim light comes up more often...

That interpretation would allow spellcasters to target people with spells inside but at the edge of a Fog Cloud. How can he move up? Tiny Hut blocks him from entering it. The best he can do is ram up against the bottom. If the Earth Elemental created an actual Bugs Bunny hole, you could say...

Glyph of Warding specifically had errata stating that it didn't need be a harmful spell. That adds both RAW and, more importantly, RAI that putting in buffs or other effects such as Control Weather was intended by the spell. https://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/PH-Errata.pdf That...

1.) You can't target the 10' space directly under the hut by spellcasting rules. You don't have line of effect (what with the dome being opaque and not letting spells pass through) unless the hut is on a pedestal. 2.) The spell takes a minute to cast. Even if you could cast there, the...

I suppose it's not technically against RAW to have someone else cast the spell, but good luck getting a DM to consistently agree on that interpretation. But you can't use a scroll. Glyph of Warding requires a prepared spell. Meaning, only wizards, clerics, and druids are able to even use Glyph...

JThe Earth Elemental can't enter the hut. They can't even dig up under it without surfacing and exposing itself, since its Earth Glide explicitly doesn't displace earth. I don't support putting a Tiny Hut in a place where you can't counter-attack, unless you expect to fight a lot of wizards with...

This is a terrible idea. The people inside the hut can just light them up with ranged weapon attacks while they're trying to work. In fact, trying to attack people inside of a Tiny Hut is just a terrible idea in general. Unless you're doing a Zerg Rush where the purpose is to prevent the PCs...

A few things: Unless you have something like a Spell Gem or a Tome of the Stilled Tongue, you can't use Glyph of Warding with 9th level spells. A huge shame. But if you can finagle one of those, you get Wish and True Polymorph and Foresight as options, which hugely increases your options...