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Visualize what's happening. Unfortunately the PHB doesn't give much of a visual description of what Blade Ward looks like... I used to think that dozens of spectral daggers appear around you deflecting some blows. In any case, being a ward it means that it's something outside of yourself, like...

My players found a malformed doll by the road with the label "Is no fun is no Blinksy". When they got to Vallaki crossing the whole town to go to the church, I was describing the noteworthy places. The simple mention of a store sign with a rocking horse and a letter B got them very interested...

Sounds really cool! He could come, attack the revenants, try to get rid of them as quickly as possible, working with the players, but barely looking at them. Then as the fight is over he turns to them, say "now it's your turn!" and attack them straight away, no rest. Some characters' powers...

Rictavio knows how to interpret Mme Eva's reading, he's perfect to point them her way, like "so you are strangers from a distant land, you should visit Mme Eva, she's a very gifted seer that can show you your destiny/a way out" The Vistani in Vallaki are keeping an eye on the Dusk Elves...

From Expedition to Castle Ravenloft: No HP buffer, just sunlight immunity... Is it too powerful? I mean, at level 10, the players would whip out 50 hp of damage in less than one round, the Heart of Sorrow won't help much... Any randiant damage (from the word or spells) would hurt Strahd as...

Nope. Not at all. In 4E it was part of their base abilities, like the ranger's hunter's mark. I assume that the idea of the hex bag o rats comes from there.. But nowadays it's just one spell that they can choose. In fact I never paid any attention to that spell until I saw all these...

It is a problem because you are gimping every other Warlock that didn't choose Hex. That's unfair for other players. Every other Warlock has 2 spell slots, while yours is effectively walking around with 3 spell slots. If you honestly think that Warlocks are underpowered and NEED Hex, then give...

Oooh I like that! From what I read around the internet the fight with Strahd can be prettyu easy with the Sunsword. That'll give the players a reason to bother with the Heart of Sorrow :D Thanks I agree with you that him and Rahadin shouldn't be able to wield the sword, being sentient and all...

I did that, my players went for her and killed her :P Well, without commoners. There's no reason why commoners would support her, only if they're part of her cult. I did have her try to convince the guards to fight with her to overthrow the Baron, a few confused guards went forward, but most...

Well, what you call nerfing I call toning down cheesy players, like when a bard "miscalculates" their saving throws to include Jack of all trades. It's not nerfing when you make sure something is working as intended. Obviously that's my opinion and how I'd rule it at my table. I don't care if...

The Baron is much weaker now without his monstrous henchmen, and a few less guards, it's much easier now for Lady Wachter to take control. Or the populace itself. He kept enforcing his crazy festivals mostly because he had Izek's arm. I'd wait for the characters to go back to run the Feast of...

There's also: 4) You don't recover a spell slot if you're still maintaining it up with concentration. To cast a spell you have to expend magical energy, represented by spell slots. You can concentrate on it during short rests, but that magical energy doesn't refill because it is constantly...

Also, all the new playtest subclasses and classes on Unearthed Arcana point to a new rules expansion, a sort of PHB2. So yeah, I'm sure 5E will stay for a while.

Bend Luck? You mean, spending 2 sorcery points to give a creature -1d4? Seems like a waste of sorc. points, but I want to believe you. Is it that powerful? It's true, wild surges are dependent on the DM. I played a Wild Sorcerer for 3 levels, and my DM wasn't too keen on the random effects, I...

This reminds me so much of a younger cousin of mine (whom I dearly love), ever since he was a child he would never read through something. He'd just skim and make up whatever needed. It used to drive me crazy :P This thread is even funnier because the original problem and most of the replies...

I don't get it either... :o

Probably I'm just very dumb, but I can't really see why those names are funny. Certainly silly (and appropriate for gnomes)... But if there are puns in there I can't see it. Could you spell them out please

I'll make one about stealthily buying invisible magic items and break ENWorld!!!

No, you were not stating the RAW, you were just stating one (IMO unrealistic) interpretation, but not RAW. I always wanted to start a thread that gained a life of its own and went on for dozens of pages! Well done sir, I applaud you :D

First thing about running a published adventure: you have to be prepared to change things as you go :) I would also have send the players back to the cave after the first sloppy investigation. In this case it's easy, you can have the NPCs connect the dots, as in "so the whole cult left the camp...