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The number of possible characters is an issue for the DM, not the other players. I'm personally a more-the-merrier type, but I've also played with DMs who simply will not go over 6, the theory being that it makes calculating and estimating difficulty a greater challenge the more people who...

It's important to keep an eye on reality but we need to remember that too much reality breaks the game. Anyone who says "You can't do ________ in real life" while at the D&D table is at risk of having their spells not work. That's not to say characters wearing heavy armor shouldn't drown, only...

I'm going to share with you a realization I came to a while back that helped me understand the druid. The druid is not a druid. WotC uses the term druid, and to that we bring a lot of preconceived notions of what a druid is, but the D&D druid is not quite the druid of myth, lore, and reality...

Isn't this what we're really talking about when we talk about grinding XP? If not, then we're simply having a debate over semantics. To me 'off-path adventuring' is not the same as 'xp grinding'. And while I appreciate the logical honesty of allowing the PCs to take their lives into their own...

I get what you're saying, and I can tell you that my subtle point was overshadowed by my blunt words. Yes, I do believe that a group of players should have the option to ignore all obvious adventure hooks and go off into whatever terrain to look for adventure off the beaten path, to which I, as...

True, which is why I would have them come up empty. As a DM, if for whatever reason the PCs go up in level, I'm just going to scale things that I had planned up as appropriate, so really there's no point in venturing out to kill packs of goblins for XP. The DM takes time to prepare an...

I've never played D&D in a way that supported XP grinding... and the concept seems a bit... meta. How is it even fun in the context of the game overall? Talk about castrating the DM. If I ever ran a group that wanted to do that, I'd put away random encounter tables and let them wander for...

Didn't we already come to the conclusion that this was a non-issue due to the fact that multiattack is not taking the attack action, and thus does not allow for the extra martial arts attack? And are we really having the 'It's not realistic/It's not logical' debate? Magic missile is neither...

I will admit I was a little hyperbolic. And having too much detail could be detrimental, especially with 5e. Still, the whole "buy a castle, buy a ship" thing is old and tired. I'm talking about getting creative. I want my bard to start a cult with him as the leader, and to expand it...

Because it's more awesome to burst from the stomach of a dragon than to never have been swallowed at all?

There seems to be a sub-concern of the original postulation that has turned a lot of this thread into a debate about magic items. Personally I don't care about magic items and how they appear in 5e. The problem I have is that I can think of a dozen creative things to do with my gold, as a PC...

Excellent catch. I missed it. I think I can say that my RAW hole has been filled to my satisfaction.

I do like the pre-req restriction. I think I'd feel like the DM is giving away the farm if it wasn't the case.

As for the rules, a natural weapon is something that doesn't quite have any rules to it. What we have is: Non-Improvised -Melee Weapons --Simple --Martial -Ranged Weapons --Simple --Martial Improvised Weapon -Melee -Ranged The MM only says that a natural weapon is a weapon, and refers the...

Just play. Make sure that you and the other players are managing your expectations, but otherwise you really just need to play. And have fun. Don't be afraid of cliche.

Not to further degrade the original discussion (which I find very interesting), but when did pandas become bears again?! Don't you think they should have had a press conference or something to alert all us old folks who were always told they were like a large raccoon?

I tend to be more forgiving, and not out to crusade against build options. It's a temporary power play, but like the barbarian class, it tends to lose effectiveness compared to other classes when put to the endurance test, in that the druid's shape-changing is restricted. What this means is...

I suppose if it was expected that every encounter the PCs were being surprised, then Alertness would go up in value on the power scale. I've had DMs like that... "You are surprised by the three giants who were just quietly standing there for the last five minutes, you should have looked harder."

The problem to me with the spell is not a matter of power... but a matter of annoyance, to the DM and possibly the other players. How I would deal with it (and the very interruptible 12-hour casting time) would depend more on how annoying it is. And if there is too much power collected, for...

For what it's worth, and that's likely not much, but I noticed something when I was reading over the spell. I have taken the liberty of applying bold to the interesting factor. "If you cast this spell again, any currently active duplicates you created with this spell are instantly destroyed."...