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This UA seems fun (double proficiences are already very powerful in the hands of a skilled rogue or bard) but it touches on an issue I have. My players have trouble keeping track of their non-spell abilities. Class and feat abilities tend to be a hodge podge when it comes to recharge times...

I like ceremony as well. They should upgrade funeral since its so much worse than Gentle Repose and costs 25gp.

There is a lot of good stuff in here. I really like the basic setup for psionics. I especially like the way disciplines come as packages of thematic abilities. (Although changing your focus as a bonus action seems abusable.) The class does seem to be all over the place thematically. I don't...

5 out of 5 rating for Curse of Strahd I've read through the adventure and played a couple of sessions, but have no experience with the original. The adventure is set in its own "mini" plane so it is almost setting independent. Characters start at 1st or 3rd level, romp around the countryside...

I guess the issue is if casting is like Harry Potter where you need a focus for everything, or Lord of the Rings where a focus can be helpful but not necessary. As written the rules put DnD into the latter camp, but at the end of the day you could houserule it to work either way without causing...

Its not actually the stowing/taking out part that I dont like. The action rules are flexible enough that you don't really have to worry about it all that much. Its the idea that you can't cast Magic Missle (or Maze, or Meteor Swarm, or Poison Spray or Ray of Frost, Prestidigitation, etc...)...

This interpretation works really well for some cases, and less well for others. The article mentions Cure Wounds which is a touch spell. Holding a shield in one hand and a weapon in another definitely seems like it would interfere, and its reasonable you would have to put your weapon away. On...

I agree with your general sentiment. Your point about using "stake to the heart" on just a random guy is well taken. But 'incapacitated' has a pretty formal meaning and changing it would annoy me (as a player). I think tightening it up with defining "resting place" to be more specific or to...

Its a good limitation. It also makes the generic "dungeon barracks" have more of a purpose since that's where the vampire spawn can sleep.

Stunning strike gives "stunned" which includes "incapacitated". It only lasts for 6 seconds or so, though (until the start of the monks next turn).

Our group had the party fighting some Vampire Spawn and we ended up using a kind of cheesy method to kill the spawn. I was curious how people here would have interpreted things. The fight went down like this: Vampire spawn have the weakness "The vampire is destroyed if a piercing weapon made...

From my perspective, I can't think of any situation where keeping track of movement or actions for picking up a sword would heighten the tension, or add any interesting dynamics to the game. I'm not saying one doesn't exist, but I feel like 95% of the time you let the player just pick up the...

A crafty friend of mine gave me this new dicebag and I wanted to share. His name is Aloysius

Yes, its essentials only. Actually, after a couple of false starts with ADnD and DnD4 I finally managed to get a game going using the red box. I've already made people buy Forgotten Lands and didn't want to do too much. I think once we reach paragon I'll suggest allowing other material. I...

Cruel Irony Edit: Double Post!

Cruel Irony So after all of this discussion turns out fate had other plans. In the last encounter I ended up getting two crits against me. The second one was for 30 points of damage, left me unconscious, and I was (eventually) revived by a friendly healing potion one roll away from death...

Results Thanks for all the great replies to this thread. This is a pretty high grade forum if I don't say so myself. We are having a session tonight so I thought I would let people know what I chose. This is our DM's first time so while I like the language option, I don't think they will be...

How do you use languages in game? Do you have a different script you write in, sort of like a puzzle? Is it a skill challenge type barrier before they can proceed? Seems like it would make for some good RP but I'm having trouble imagining how to integrate it into the mechanics.

Probably depends on what program you are using. If you are using Acrobat then (and this is an educated guess) get to the field properties somehow (right click maybe?). The documentation then says that in the "general" tab there should be an option to make a field read-only. Maybe if you...

Writable Entries Hey, I really like the style of the character sheet. I have a request/bugfix/whatever. Could you make it so that the auto-calculate fields are also writable? That way you can turn auto-calculate off (in the adobe preferences) and write numbers in by hand. Your...