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Per the Basic Rules v3.4 covering Sneak Attack: "The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon." "You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the attack roll." Given...

I think the assumption is that the PCs are being extremely active (fighting, marching, exploring) while carrying a lot of gear and dressed in armour and the like. We hand-wave it, but I have to think an adventuring party is one sweat-soaked, dried-blood covered mess of stink by the time they...

I like to think of it as the Ranger or Druid had the freedom to choose whether or not to live in nature, but the Paladin was chosen by the Ancients.

I'm okay with people deciding to use Inspiration after seeing the bad roll. It's fairly rare, as folks have noted, so it seems to me that it would really suck for a player to use it and not need it. I'd rather see the player using it when they feel a tinge of desperation.

Thing I like so far about 5e are similar to others. I like that it feels like an update of 2e, informed by lessons from 3e and 4e, rather than a continuation of 3e or 4e. Not that I don't like 3.5, Pathfinder or 4e - just that this edition "feels" like D&D in ways those don't. I like that I'm...

Mystara has something like 336 days in a year. That's around 4000 gp a year to live as an aristocrat, so 12,000 gp is hardly enough to retire on especially split 4 ways. Living expenses is a fairly good way to suck up PC cash, particularly if they have to roleplay the consequences of living in...

I'm thinking maybe it works a bit like that sequence in WATCHMEN where Rorschach find The Comedians costume. Rorschach tells the DM he's checking out Edward Blake's apartment. The DM gives him a quick description - regular place, pics on the wall, wardrobe, broken furniture. Rorschach says...

This has been a very helpful thread. But now I'm unclear on the roll of Tool Proficiency (thieve's tools) ... is that just used to pick locks?

For tabletop games, its to see different play styles mostly. After 30+ years, it's still interesting to see how a different DM or player handles something and sparks me to think about how I might have handled the situation. It also keeps me from living in the echo chamber of my own play group...

I skipped the play-test, and was generally planning on skipping 5e. I've been playing D&D in some form or another since '78, and had tried every version from OD&D up to Pathfinder. But I was feeling burned out, and just felt like I could maybe 5e was going to be a good jumping off point. The...