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Are they going to stop the presses on Ravenloft so they can disentangle this thorny issue? Seems like something that would come up pretty frequently if you're chilling with Strahd...

And there are many creatures that don't leave tracks, because they fly or swim. And lots of things that are not classifiable as animals (beasts), but that are still natural, and therefore amenable to naturalist study.

I mentioned Nature coming up fairly regularly, and the above is one of the key contexts in which it comes up. Another is evaluating the worth of (and possibly, location of) specific flora, fauna, and minerals - woods, furs, gems, herbs, etc. If you run a game which has an economy (I note in...

Perception and Stealth are common everywhere. My game has a druid and a ranger accounting for half the party, and it's turned toward a lot of wilderness trekking and exploration, so Survival is equally common. Nature and Athletics probably come next. Some social skills get a lot of use when the...

Ah, I see it actually is made explicit, but in the MM, p. 11 ("A creature that can make multiple attacks on its turn has the Multiattack ability"). Durn tricephalous core rules! Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The other respondents here are suggesting (and it seems to be RAW) that whatever...

Haven't seen this topic addressed with respect to the 5e rules, but there are a couple of issues that require clarification. If a creature (or character) has the multiple attacks feature, it seems (though it is not explicitly specified) that all of the attacks take place at nearly the same...

Yeah, saying "no clerics, druids and warlocks" is easy. I just want to be able to include subclasses in such a way as to avoid calling a Beastmaster an Animal Trainer, and reproducing the Beastmaster write-up with a few stylistic changes here and there. I'd rather just say something like...

Not doing it all is always a possibility. I'm just feeling out other options, because they seem preferable to self-imposed silence. The kind of set-up I'm thinking of would get rid of a few classes that are unneeded, add 3-4 homebrew classes, tinker with 1-2 paths, and leave the rest more or...

So let's say you're designing something that falls between a new setting and a new game (though closer to the former). It has nothing to do with FR or any other setting that Wizards (or TSR before it) have ever published, it has its own cosmology (planes, deities) and social set-up, generally a...

"Adventurers needed: Help John, the legitimate regent, collect a levy so that Good King Richard, who wandered off on Crusade after just a year on the Throne can return from his Austrian captivity and resume his kingly duties! Protect the King's deer from poachers in Sherwood Forest! Defend...

Off the top of my head, there are several UA Ranger variants missing from this list - the spell-less poultice-producing Ranger, the 2d6 Ambuscadeur Ranger with the spirit beasts (2 varieties), and the Deepstalker Ranger. Then there are the Runecaster prestige classes. And finally, the four...

But wouldn't Firebolt effectively do d10+10? It stops regeneration for the following round, and does regular damage.

Except that Firebolt does 1d10 damage.

Or, more to the point, the anything sorcerer - they definitely won't be taking Chromatic Orb as one of their two spells (unless they want to risk rolling for $$ and not taking the starting package).

Ah. I stand corrected - old-school assumption about material components. But still, the component cost limits use when starting play, especially if you are using the starting class packages, since you are more likely to pick spells you can use right off the bat, and then still find a way to get...

Yeah, but you need a 50 gp gem as a material component every time you cast it.

Yeah, that pretty much sums up my feelings. 5e is very swingy. If the troll gets a jump on the party, and rolls well, he can easily take out a character in one round if he hits with all three attacks (average damage: 29; party HP ranges from 18 to 27). The half-orc ranger does have that...

I started this thread primarily to gauge the likelihood of this outcome. After that comment, my lingering misgivings are becoming dispelled. So if the party sustains significant losses (or even a TPK), I'll just just hide behind your authoritative gaming of this fight, iserith. :p And the party...

Not sure I follow you here. You mean if the troll drops to 0, has acid/fire applied to it for two consecutive rounds (ruled as two failed saves, in accordance with what you say above), and then left alone, it would then regain a HP in 1-4 hours as a normal PC/NPC/monster? So the way you read it...

I'm a bit confused about how troll regeneration works in this edition. The MM states: 1) Does this mean that any fire/acid damage taken during a particular round prevents the troll from regenerating all damage taken during that round? This would seem to imply that if the troll takes no damage...