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Thanks for all of the responses so far. Apologies if I wasn’t clear, but I’m interested in cases when a player is running two characters at the same time, not simply having one in reserve. This would most often come up, as noted by many above, when there are not enough players; we’re finishing...

Do you allow players to run multiple characters, and, if so, is that common in your campaigns? I have definitely been in campaigns where I have run multiple characters, including an Age of Worms campaign where I ran the whole party. But I’ve thinking about this, as the focus on characters and...

I’m happier with Ancestry, though I could see making it “Ancestry or Origin”. Besides the modern social connotations, there are just a lot of ways the term “race” doesn’t really work unless you make it “You are part of a group that has some distinctive features.” Awakened undead and warforged...

War Caster and spells that allow saves at end of target’s turn The War Caster feat allows you to cast a spell targeting one creature on a target that provokes an opportunity attack. A spell like Hold Person allows the target to repeat a save at the end of its turn. Since reactions like OAs...

I’ve been thinking about this for my own lore bard, so I appreciate the suggestions. Two things that I’ve been thinking about for this are 1) I like having good options for reactions and bonus actions, so my character always has a lot he can do, and 2) bards have a *lot* of concentration spells...

I have a question about how darkness affects visibility of lit things within and without. Say you are in a large sunlit space with darkness cast in the middle. Can someone on one side of the darkness (or, for that matter, in the darkness) see something in the light on the other side of the...

Thanks for the responses. There are some creatures with the same or lower CR and a +4 Attack bonus, though these do not have multiattack. Crocodile is an example. My assumption was that the lower the lower bonus was used to balance the extra attack, even though that seems to break the...

The attack bonus for a black bear is listed as +3. It has +2 for Strength and presumably +2 proficiency bonus, which would give +4. I don’t see any errata on this. Am I missing something? Sent from my iPad using EN World mobile app

I'm wondering if the difference in spells known/prepared for these two kinds of full casters is explained by the fact that one group has ritual casting and the other doesn't. This would make sense if the marginal utility of an extra spell prepared drops significantly after a certain point, such...

So, the hieracosphinx has a mini, but still to my knowledge does not have any stats. Anyone know if stats do exist somewhere? The only home brew I saw here was from before MM. Sent from my iPad using EN World mobile app

Thanks for these helpful responses! Sent from my iPad using EN World mobile app

Are there any collections of 5e NPCs beyond the MM and Volo's? And are there expansions of the lists of modifications for applying a monster or race to any NPC? I'm particularly interested in just having a wider diversity of levels of different classes. For instance, it would be nice to have a...

I'm unsure of how an Eldritch Knight using a shield operates with spells with somatic components and would appreciate advice. If I'm an Eldritch Knight without the War Caster feat with a one-handed weapon and a shield and I want to cast the shield spell, I need a free hand for the somatic...

Actually, I didn't miss the appendix, but I missed the wasps in there, mainly because I was originally looking for giant ants and bees. (And, yes, I did see the centipedes, scorpions, and spiders, but of course they are not insects!) The substitutions make sense, though one reason I wanted stats...

I noticed that giant insects are missing from the MM: no giant ants, giant bees, or giant wasps, specifically. Am I missing something? If not, has anyone constructed 5e versions of these creatures?

Can someone clarify how loading works with crossbows? The description says you can fire only one piece of ammunition from a weapon with the loading characteristic on "an action, bonus action, or reaction", no matter how many attacks you have. Does that mean a) if you use your action to fire a...

Don't forget having your dad pick up the caster and throw him down a shaft.

Thanks for all the replies so far. I know that Witch Bolt is considered by many to be underpowered, and in my own situation it's a question of whether I should swap it for something else. While I see the arguments for it being underpowered, my next level is 6th, which would be my first...

If a 6th level draconic sorceror (lightning) hits a foe with Witch Bolt, does the Charisma bonus add to the damage each round, or just the first?

i think you're missing the point. in 3e (and to a certain extent all previous editions), first level was difficult, challenging, and dangerous. It was also the level where fairly mundane challenges meant something. A lot of people apparently didn't like having first level characters killed, so...