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You have a natural talent for deciphering magical scrolls, gaining the following benefits: Increase your Intelligence or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20. You can use any spell scroll as if its spell were on your class spell list. When you make an ability check to determine if you...

Yeah I (as a DM) use Investigation more than Perception overall. Every single time the PCs say "I search the _____" I make them roll an Investigation check. If they try to speak or understand a language that are only partially familiar with, that's also an intelligence check.

If the beholder is in an area with a low ceiling (~20ft) he could lay his antimagic field over the darkness spell and disintegrate the area directly above or below himself (he can disintegrate a 10x10 cube per round). The party would only be able to attack with non-magic weapons and probably for...

The beholder could do a little better than that. He could put an antimagic field on the party to prevent them from gaining advantage. Or he could use his disintegration ray to collapse or create a tunnel, block line of sight, or destroy the floor in the area of magical darkness.

The Beholder seems particularly vulnerable to a few powerful priest spells: Freedom of Movement (level 4, no concentration, negates paralyzing, slowing, telekinetic, and petrification rays) Protection from Evil (level 1, concentration, negates charm and fear rays) Bless (level 1, concentration...

Well as a downtime activity you can remove an effect reducing your maximum hitpoint total, according to page 187 of the PHB. (this is actually the recovery rule I use for all energy drain in my campaigns)

Some content is more splat-ish than others. New wizard spells are very low splat (or spells for any class that learns only a finite subset of its full spell list) New races and archetypes are low splat. New classes and feats are high splat. New cleric spells are very high splat (or spells for...

More monsters and lore up in a new preview! https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/volos-guide-to-monsters.html

Ok guys, relax, the cultism isn't that bad in this adventure.

No matter how the math works out, the key point is that the fighter is INTENTIONALLY better at fighting than the wizard. That's why it's called the fighter. As the game stands, many people complain that the wizard is too good of a fighter at higher levels (depending on how frequently rests...

For a while I couldn't figure out if this was a troll, but now I know for sure. He says "5e" wizards are unplayable, not "D&D" wizards, even though he is comparing the game to Pathfinder. I'll bet he's played earlier D&D wizards. QED

Actually, you couldn't. You had to roll for your starting spells.

I'm not sure if this is troll or not, but this is without a doubt the most powerful a 1st level wizard has been in the history of D&D. AD&D mage wasn't that bad either- his armor spell would last for days or weeks and he could put 2d4 HD to sleep- but then he couldn't make any attacks, detect...

Ranged attacks are at disadvantage in melee, so a wizard who only knows fire bolt will probably fight with a dagger or staff in close quarters. That is also a good reason to learn shocking grasp.

A fully charged Staff of the Magi does 800 points of force damage to all creatures within a 30 foot radius when broken in a retributive strike. This likely makes it the single best item to pick in any level 20 showdown vs. Tiamat or the Tarrasque. A mage/thief with evasion even has a decent...

The wand of paralysis has a typo. One of the 1d12+1d8 encounter tables is ordered alphabetically, not by rarity.

Some high level spells like Timestop and Forcecage don't require concentration, so limiting spell slots presents a new way to limit those effects, so that a high level caster can still have multiple ongoing effects.

Nymph, Sea Serpent, Noble Genies, Unique Demons and Dragons.

Just to nitpick, Al-Qadim isn't actually a region: the continent is called Zakhara.

I think you two both agree with each other. We all agree that no druid should have access to every animal shape and that a druid must describe his homeland. Just about every region of the world should have large predators that the druid would easily have encountered in his early life. He either...