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    Level Up (A5E) Question on Wounding Strike

    What else would you use a bonus action on? A strike from a second weapon using two weapon fighting is an obvious choice. Bunch of other options that aren't patently naughty word - 1d4 of non-stacking damage each round is almost worthless unless that damage were guaranteed. As is, it's very likely to not...
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    Level Up (A5E) A5E.tools down?

    There was temporarily a message saying the site was down due to it 'eating itself' or some such and being in beta. Didn't sound like anything to worry about.
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    Level Up (A5E) Barbarian: Enhanced Vitality is....pretty bad.

    That's much better for balance, yeah. The 'half damage on failure, zero damage on success' effect is strictly better than even a 'always succeed against a save for half damage' effect (in terms of damage mitigation) because even on a failure you always get the damage someone who took the other...
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    WotC Baldur's Gate III Announced; Powered by D&D 5E

    Uh, no it isn't. They've removed the ability to miss, so AC, attack rolls, and saving throws are all probably gone. It's not going to be D&D 5e at all.
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    Monster & Magic Item Cards Coming In February

    Huh. Stat-block size was my original thought as well, but then I checked a few Legendary monsters I knew and couldn't find any of them and assumed it was that. Guess I missed that some Legendaries are in there.
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    Monster & Magic Item Cards Coming In February

    I'm pretty sure it's missing the Beholder for the same reason it's missing the Adult Dragons or the Unicorn - it doesn't have any Legendary creatures. I'm expecting a future pack with those in it, possibly in an even larger card size. EDIT: Also, the magic cards. The idea is really good, but...
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    Eberron It Is? [UPDATED & CONFIRMED!]

    I'm happy that Eberron got a release today - we're having Session 0 Part 2 of an Eberron campaign on Saturday - but still sad that it looks like they're slow-rolling an actual book release. Maybe it's for the best - getting it tested and all's a nice idea, after all - but I'd still have rathered...
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    Ravnica: Is This The New D&D Setting? [UPDATED & CONFIRMED!]

    Gotta admit, I don't like it. Ravnica shouldn't be the first non-Forgotten Realms setting in D&D 5e, and I really hope it's not going to be the *only* non-Faerun setting we see get a full treatment. If it turns out the announcement tomorrow is that they're publishing a full Ravnica setting book...
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    How should a GM handle refused plots

    Depends. What do you mean by 'rejected the plot'? Did you mention something happening - say, a murder in town that was supposed to lead to the discovery of a vampire in town leading to a death cult rampaging the kingdom - and they didn't investigate it like you expected? They decide against...
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    D&D 5E List of instant death spells in 5e

    I may need to remember that for my campaign!
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    D&D 5E List of instant death spells in 5e

    You may be looking for anything that does Psychic damage, like Dream. Those shouldn't leave any sort of physical mark except, possibly, blood coming out of the nose/eyes/ears.
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    Planescape WOTC teasing planescape.com

    Does it help any that it's a 20 year old game instead of a 30 year old game? :p
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    Planescape WOTC Teasing Planescape?

    Does it help any that it's a 20 year old game instead of a 30 year old game? :p
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    D&D 5E Tales from the Yawning Portal: anyone know what level players will advance to in The Sunless Citadel?

    The original typically leveled parties up to level 2 or 3 if they started out at level 1.
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    D&D 5E Monsters & Brackets

    Obviously the Mind Flayer is going to win. No contest.
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    D&D 5E Hypervelocity bards (WAS Fixing the bard's action economy (quick suggestion))

    The obvious answer is that he *is* doing all of that at once - he weaves a song together that has him both playing the flute and singing (though not at exactly the same time, obviously), and the verses of the song correspond to the verbal components of his spell as well as inspiring lyrics to...
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    Unearthed Arcana Unearthed Arcana Mass Combat

    The obvious solution would be to base the check bonus on the BR ratio between the two armies; a ratio of 1.5:1 (your force has 1.5 times the BR of the enemy force) would give you a bonus of maybe +2 on the check, and so on. Another, simpler solution could be to limit the check bonus to be...
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    D&D 5E GM Improvisation Aids in 5e

    A pen and paper and/or a sound recording device to make records of the things you improvise. The actual creation is easy; keeping track of what you created is hard.
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    D&D 5E How long is your average session?

    4-5 hours; our scheduled start time is 5 PM and scheduled end time is 10 PM, but we don't usually start promptly or end exactly at 10.
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