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Not being seen does not provide an advantage to being stealthy --- it is a requirement. A cloak of invisibility does give AN advantage to hiding. It lets you do it. Almost everywhere. Your boots of eleven kind won't do that for you. They just make you less likely to make noise while sneaking...

Sure, I mean, it's however you want to arrive at your end result. In the case of sneaking up on somebody who is inattentive, I'd start with: 1. Sneaking across an empty room with no obstruction: Impossible 2. But the only people in the room are looking the other way. Possible, but at...

I am thinking both in and out of game terms. This is not a "RAW" argument. So, while I agree that this all comes down to the DM assessing the situation and assigning advantage and disadvantage where it makes sense, I disagree that it makes sense to say, generally, "someone who is invisible has...

In this case, any advantage or automatic success is being conferred not by the invisibility, but by the obstruction of the other senses. It all comes down to the situation. And, sure, if you think there is no reasonable way for anybody to notice your invisible character, have it. In my opinion...

There's no inherent advantage conferred to stealth by invisibility. Who is harder to notice, the invisible person walking across a room in front of you (making footprints and footsteps, knocking things over, breathing, rustling fabric, etc), or the "visible" person hiding around a corner? Total...

Because being invisible only accounts for one of the 5 senses. Everybody knows exactly where the invisible knight clomping through a room in a suit of plate armor is. Being invisible through magic is no better and no worse than being totally concealed by mundane means when it comes to...

Yep, Euclidean all the way. But, if you have the actual grid display turned on, it still snaps all your tokens into the grid unless you hold down alt every time you move something. So, when drawing large dungeon maps ahead of time, I'd overlay a low-opacity grid in GIMP. It allowed us to eyeball...

If you consider all paths across a grid square to have the same length (5 ft), then the logical conclusion of that is that circles are in fact squares. This was how 4e areas worked. Of course, you could rule it differently. Personally, I don't find it that hard to draw rounded corners with my...

Yes, I've appreciated over the course of this thread that our interpretations differ more than I initially thought. :) As for readied actions and triggers — there's no point to deal with that for me. After all, if I remember correctly, a readied action can only be an action. You can't ready an...

My early 5e games were theater of the mind. I switched to playing on Roll20, and moved towards minis, as it is easier to prepare maps in advance and I found the conference-call environment favored offloading as much information into visual aids as possible. I used a faint overlaid grid (to give...

I can't really speak to the lich-ness of your character. We've never dug into monsters as PC's. I would say, as far as maiming a PC in combat, you should have to reduce the PC to 0 hp. The dragon grapples the PC's arm as per grappling rules, and then continues to attack that arm every round...

I quite disagree here. You seem to be equating surprise with the state of unawareness. Once you are aware, you are no longer surprised. I would say the opposite. Surprise happens after you are aware of something. Before anybody has attacked you, you're not surprised. You're blissfully ignorant...

First of all, I think when folks say "ban at my table", the word might seem stronger than what is often happening. I mean, if I "ban" feats at my table, I do so with the cooperation and buy-in of all the players. I hope. We are deciding to play a game with certain restrictions. Now, it is fine...

While I appreciate your celebration of DM discretion and DM fiat, I will say, as a discrete and fiative DM, that a guideline on the duration of "surprise" is helpful. The D&D combat round and action economy is an abstract thing. We know that it lasts, nominally, 6 seconds, but, sometimes it...

Hi Hriston, are you saying that, if the party were hidden from their opponents, but nearby, and wanted to continue moving in a hidden way, you would: a) check for initiative b) after one round, even if the party has done nothing to reveal its presence, consider the opponents to have "taken...

Well, in the author's half-hearted defense, this is a very short adventure posted anonymously to reddit. It's not a good case-study in how to legally produce high-production value content for 5e, but it's also probably not worth a whole lot of energy from the WoTC legal department. I don't know...

Yes, I definitely think it's worth talking to a player when they announce an intention to multi-class, and getting a sense of that player's general playstyle, and mechanical and "optimal" flexibility. I had a player in a Roll20 campaign play a Paladin/Assassin. I encouraged him to do it, because...

Agreed. If it's wall-to-wall cheese, ask the DM to make an attempt to improve, or take a break. If he wants to improve as a DM, but is struggling, it probably makes sense to have him run a small, isolated adventure in a totally separate campaign with different characters, as others have...

This may be pointless to discuss, because if you rule that the "surprise" required by Assassinate is no more and no less than the general English-language dictionary definition, this all comes down to you, your Websters, and the psychology of the opponent in question. There's not a whole lot for...

I don't know that I have a strong preference, inasmuch as I'd happily play a game with no feats, no multiclassing, or neither of the two, but I allow both when DM'ing, and our other DM allows both as well, and don't have any problem with them. Both feats and multiclassing can certainly play...