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Does/should Magic Initiate let you read a scroll from the chosen spell list? I don't think that spells from this feat qualify as being 'on your class's spell list,' per the Spell Scroll rules (DMG, pg. 200). [While this came to my attention due to my group using the OD&D playtest rules, the...

Is there a dedicated place to ask the community some questions regarding the playtest docs? Or is posting them in this forum good enough?

What? Where? I searched his site and failed to find it. :(

Picking nits and petting peeves, but I find the rise of the use of the term 'playtesting' when one is just learning a system to be annoying. Playtesting is done by game designers, developers, and play testers during the design and development of a game. It's meant to find and correct issues and...

Given the context of the sentence, what word other than 'peeing' works? One doesn't really 'peer into the wind.'

I thought I read something during the development of 5E (by Mike Mearls, I think) in which they stated that 1st & 2nd level were player-training levels using a smaller set of class features. Classes get their full 'base' features at 3rd level. The Starter set adventure was meant to be a common...

Thanks! I just figured that out but you type faster than I do. Enjoy the first 2 XP I've handed out. :)

Upon further investigation, it appears that I don't get those options if I click on a thread from the homepage, but they do show up when I access the same post/thread through the community messageboard. Bizarre, but at least I found a way to do it.

Whoa, that's odd. I see those options in this thread, but not in other threads I am participating in (such as the Renault commercial one and the Essentials Kit one). Thanks... I'm getting closer!

The FAQ says click the button in the post... I have no button. Is it a subscriber-only thing? Thanks!

Surprised no one's mentioned it, but it looks like we have an official end to their story... THEY MADE IT HOME!!!

Chiming in on the rolling tangent: I like open rolls. But I also like the idea of hidden rolls for the PCs by the DM for things like Stealth checks. The PC (and the player) thinks they are a ninja... but were they really? Of course, that's a big change in play dynamic that requires some by-in.

A reddit moderator restored the thread in question for me, as well as another one it linked to. Catch is: he's taking them back down in 48 hrs. If you're interested in how to tie Lost Mines of Phandelver to Out of the Abyss or Princes of the Apocalypse, go check those threads out now!

I love starter boxes, and I'm especially eager for this one. While I never had an issue with the "empty space" in the Phandelver box (more space to carry more stuff!), it looks like this Essentials box will be plenty full! (including dice that aren't in the above pic).

The Basic Maneuver states "two turns up to 90 degrees"... is that each, or in total? I'm pointing out it as an editing concern, not a gameplay/rules concern.

DISREGARD: Evidently I needed to be more specific in my search than I initially was. The files are all still in My Library. Move along, nothing to see here... (So how do I get the W&G pdfs that I did have in My Library on DTRPG? Now I'm showing nada, zilch, nuthin'...)

Ohh, that’s neat! Alas, even it could not find the original post. Thanks for the idea, though.

In prepping to introduce some folks to D&D via the Starter Set, I stumbled across this page: https://dmstoolkit.com/2017/12/31/starter-set-lost-mines-of-phandelver/ One of the links that intrigues me is the one that ties it to Out of the Abyss, which is touted as "a must read to make LMoP a...

I think it would be pretty difficult (and therefore action-worthy) for an unarmed defender to try to draw a weapon in a melee while trying to avoid being slashed, pierced, or blugeoned by dodging alone. And it would be more difficult—if not impossible—to sheath a weapon in the same situation.

For that matter, the Cleric 5/Sorcerer 2 can convert the 4th level slot (that he has no spells for*) into 7 sorcery points! (* I am aware that the 4th level slot could also be used to cast a lower level spell.)