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They hold the glass while the other listens.... Or maybe they all hold their breath and stop moving, thereby preventing close radiant noises?

I've often had everyone roll 4-5 d20s for perception before an encounter erupts or heading into a delve... write them down... the next time they say they all want to search, use those rolls, scratch them off as you go. Also, it prevents you from stopping the narrative to ask for perception check...

That's still not enough for me to go "whoa!" When is a spell caster going to use martial weapons? Armor proficiency might make a difference at lower levels, I could see that... but the discrepancy between what he'd have normally or the armor usually disappears at higher levels when magicked...

I'm with you. I don't see it. To MC you have to sacrifice something in both classes. More diverse doesn't translate to more powerful. It simply gives the player more things to choose from. I would say that if you MC early, you don't get behind on a lot of XP, though. 4 levels of one is only...

As has been said previously in other wording... If it ain't broke, don't fix. I don't see anything wrong with the RAW, honestly. We all have to make choices. Sounds like a GenX problem. :) When I was a kid it was : the new MM2 or baseball cards? Dieties and Demigods or a Xmas present for my...

An additional note, in previous editions, alignment was about the only "rule" from a book that helped character development/backstory, unless the players went to the trouble to create a backstory for themselves... which I highly doubt. 4e touched slightly on backstory. With the almost mandatory...

I was watching that Chris Perkins DMd game video another thread highlighted; he did for Gametrailers recently... and in that, the rogue that goes off by himself is roleplaying his character traits; alignment didn't even come in to play - or rather didn't come up - even when killing the rather...

I just started running my ranger and was using this combo. The thing I find with the spells are that the combat spells run much like the 4e ranger powers (no, not the 4e power rangers) because the spells that add damage to attacks are bonus actions, not full actions. It plays very much like a...

I converted 1 1/2 4e modules and am in the middle of converting Thunderspire... I simply used the 5e MM for the new stats blocks - they're very similar in challenge rating. If they didn't exist in the MM, I made them up comparing them to similar lvl monsters and using the beginning of the MM...

If he thinks there's a slim chance of knowing anything, he can always increase the DC. A character having zero knowledge of the world in which they live or the chance that they had not heard stories of creatures in a taproom seems a bit harsh to me.

To me it's relatively obvious how to use it: The rule specifically says "Ranged Weapons", not ranged attacks. They aren't synonyms. Ranged weapons noted in the PHB are, all crossbows, long/shortbow, dart, sling, blowgun, Net. As the feat states, Archery Style... logically and physically, it's...

MM2.

But if you're in the abstract crowd, then the damage caused by a hit might not be from the missile actually penetrating or striking the body... it could be from wrenching an ankle while dodging or something like that.... of course, that means you won't be the heroic Boromir figure with eight...

I think most people want clarity for things that have changed from previous editions but are still a little vague. And yes, the team of developers at WotC do have more weight than casual players because they have a greater knowledge of the intent, how certain things should affect the overall...

As a player, if I didn't start at 1st level, I never felt that character was my own. If one character died and I started at 8th level because that's where the rest of the party was, then I lost 7 lvl of character growth and gaining items. I feel a little cheated from not having that time to...

You apparently took my "they had spell casting all the time" to mean that I meant it to be from 1st lvl? That wasn't my point at all. My point was spellcasting was always a core part of their class. And to take that away means they lose part of what made them a Ranger. It doesn't matter when...

The point of the Ranger is that they are spell casting fighters. Of course it's a niche... what other martial class can cast nature spells? Rangers have always been spell casters, and if you took that away from the base class and made them choose spells or beastmaster or hunter, then you've...

the spell specifically says you cannot use the same sapphire for this spell again.

IMO - He took 15 points of damage. Whether or not he had temp HP, he still took 15 points of damage. So it's 15 from his real max of 40.

i've re-examined my own position on this... originally believing dex should add. The spell says it turns skin like bark and gives an AC of 16 no matter what armor you are wearing. Shield is not armor, as the rules of armor class state. So it seems pretty evident to me that a shield would add...