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Yes, and the question is what comprises "familiar"? The sparse example in the PHB merely says you cannot search for "a green dragon's lair", which implies you CAN search for the lair of the green dragon Axlorath the Invincible. By that reasoning, if the PCs are investigating to find a big baddie...

Find the Path can be troublesome if the cleric can articulate a location in such a way that a secret hideout becomes easily findable. The cleric must be familiar with the location and it must be specific, but as I read the spell, once he knows about a bad guy (such as his name) he can Find the...

Our group has a weird thing about d12s. They always claim that d12s roll badly. I have actually been asked, as the DM, permission to allow players to roll a d10 instead of a d12 (which I refused). 5th edition does make a little more use of d12s than 3rd edition. The poison cantrip immediately...

I agree with this partially. Yes, DMs often need to better consider the motivations of the PC enemies, lest they feel more like props set up for the PCs to knock down rather than living, breathing creatures with lives of their own. That said, I am usually quite loathe to handwave a fight. If...

I did not know that regarding multiclassing and save proficiencies, but in double checking the PHB you are correct! As far as point buy, yes indeed but that still means you will be adding ability scores to other stats at level 8. And a 16 is not too difficult to get using the 4d6 take the...

You are 8th level. What's stopping you from being raised now or when the party reaches next level?

My answer would be that it depends. If you are a relatively new DM then the DMG hands down, as it has a lot of pages devoted to how to run a game. If you are an experienced DM, those pages are a waste (I am not complaining about that fact, but it's true nonetheless). That leaves the tables and...

Maximum hit points is a pretty defined term in 5th edition. It means YOUR (i.e. whatever creature is being discussed) maximum hit point total without magic and when fully healed. In fact, the 5th edition character sheet that comes with the starter set has a space called hit point maximum. So I...

I played Living Kalamar for a while at Cons (alongside Living Greyhawk). I liked the setting. It is low magic, which fits in with 5th edition. And I liked some of the little twists, like hobgoblins being a "normal" civilized race. Certainly it seems like they really thought about the internal...

1. Most of the classic old school modules take place in GH. So you can grab them and convert them to 5th edition and run them in their intended setting! Frankly, converting those old modules to 5th edition is extraordinarily easy since they mostly only use the critters from the AD&D original...

That would indeed suck if that were the case...but it's not. Every 4 levels you get the opportunity to raise any save roll or category of skills you desire. The fact that you obviously tend to dump your stat increases into those ability scores that already have save proficiencies is...

I find it nearly impossible to justify anyone going from 1st level to 20th level in 7 weeks. Anyone in the game world is going to see the PCs do that and want to duplicate it. I mean, how can you begin to argue that a 1st level wizard just out of his apprentice diapers is casting time stop and...

Clearly all dungeons need to have ramps instead of stairs and meet the ADA requirements. Otherwise we are not being inclusive!

According to gallup, 3.8% of people in the US identify as gay or lesbian. That means, assuming you accept that figure for your frp world, one in roughly 26. And there could be incentive in a given frp world for gay and lesbians characters to not self identify (e.g. persecution from the...

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