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That is a cool looking map. As an alternate to prints on gloss paper consider prints on cloth. I've printed several maps on cloth at about $25 per yard x 42" in wide. I find the maps are easily transported to the game location because they can be folded up and stored with my books. In...

I've let the adventure drive how many and how often to hand out magic items. However, when converting the 3.5 adventure Red Hand of Doom, I decrease the number of magic items in many cases. I also add unique features to every item using the table in the DMG. Many items end up needing blood to...

I'm not sure the target not moving is critical. It is critical to have an enemy of the target within 5-ft and not have disadvantage. If the target moves away from one creature and ends within 5-ft to a different enemy to the target, then sneak attack can still occur. Note, I used "enemy of...

You are correct in that it causes combat to run longer. I give my home game players the option of taking the average or rolling. When rolling re-roll 1s and 2s. They always roll and thus are at about 75% of the typical range for that class. Because of this I set the monsters at 75% of the...

You are getting at the core of how Jeremy Crawford edits books. He prefers to have more images than words if the book looks better. He'll rely on "common use" of words in language without many clarifiers to help keep the word count down if needed. Both he and Mearls have indicated in the past...

I'm running a game of 5e using the Southlands setting from Kobold Press. They converted the crunchy sections (classes, magic, & races) from Pathfinder for use in 5e. Thus far I've run about 12 hours of game play and completed the Cat and Mouse adventure with half complete in Tomb of Tiberesh...

Mearls spent a decent amount of time putting together a scope for what he wanted in this Warlord design. He also did some number crunching to help ensure the design was balanced around something that already existed. These are good design practices. However, after using those two methods he...

I've thought about the same thing and proposed to my players that we implement the use of the 13th Age Escalation die. However, I added that is was also acting as a bonus to damage. Thus by round three of combat creatures were hitting at a +2 with a +4 bonus to damage per hit. My players...

In most cases it's a spell and class feature conflict. In addition to the paladin and warlock conflicts there are some sorcerer class conflicts. I'm not sure a change breaks the game. I know a developer isn't extremely happy with the bonus action design and I see him attempt to design with that...

The command to the behir was "Obey me." While almost too open ended for the spell, as the meaning of obey me is not "carry out some service or refrain from some action or course of activity," I'm willing to experiment with this for the story and character development potential. In addition the...

The fact that the casting time is one minute slipped past two players eyes and my eyes. I talked with the player about the error in game play and she wanted to keep the behir rather than letting it die in the combat. I gave her heads up that geas is not a way to get a pet. She responded that...

I now have the opportunity to work a monsters merits and flaws into the story. In the last game of PotA, I added a water version of a behir to the water node. My sorcerer player decided to cast geas at 7th level on the behir to end combat. The behir failed the saving throw. Now I get to...

I read about half the posts and seen that several people have a lot of good ideas on classes, multi-classing, and feats. I feel that you should talk with your players about what classes they want to play and what they feel they want their characters to do in several levels. I say this because...

Jeremy Crawford recently stated, "Neither the petrified condition nor the flesh to stone spell turns you into an object. You are a creature subjected to the petrified condition (PH, 291)." This is interesting and not intuitive. From D&D Beyond the final sentence for the flesh to stone spell...

If the game rules modeled physics I could see the logic in the argument. The game rules attempt to provide guidance to create a world of fiction. That could be heroic, horror, romance, comedy, etc. I would recommend embrasing that fiction rather than trying to apply physics or biology.

Booming blade and trip seem to be a great combination.

I think you have the intent, from my understanding of the intent. If there is dim light, devils sight does not grant any additional ability to see through it. If there is darkness beyond the dim light of a torch or other light source, and the character doesn't have a way to see through the dim...

There is a Sage Advice interview on the AD&D YouTube channel with Greg Tito and Jeremy Crawford where he explains the intent and interaction of Devils Sight with dim light and darkness. Unfortunately, a quick Google search does not give me the video. I'll check later today and post a link.

As Bardbarian said the feature only grants benefits in darkness and magical darkness. The feature does not negate the dim light which cause a perception check at disadvantage. It grants no benefit to seeing in heavily obscured conditions such as fog. It grants no benefit to seeing a character...