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The one time I ran it, the party took down the ambush, the trap, the guards outside the cave, the wolves, and then everything in the cave along the central passage or to the ride hand side as a single encounter, before they took a short rest. No characters died, and only one was even reduced to...

No. You've mistakenly equated what the rules are easily interpreted as saying and what the rules explicitly say. The rules are not explicit that (do not "call out") the mechanical effects of a cloak of elvenkind don't apply when the wearer is invisible. That's not what the rule book says. The...

I've given XP to the comments that I agree with in the thread, and am posting just to toss a wrench into some gears to make a vaguely related point: (this is the wrench) An invisible character wearing a cloak of elvenkind still gets advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide, since...

Step one, for me, is remembering we are playing a game, so the goal is fun rather than accurate simulation of a character's talents, knowledge, or wisdom. Step two is that the player doesn't need to know anything that their character does, they only need to be able to communicate why they...

I think (I'm not sure, since I haven't conducted experiments to test my hypothesis) that the designer of a template could do a fair amount of the math for the DM, effectively establishing something along the lines of "This template has no effect upon the base creature's CR if the base creature...

So, make a list of what templates you want, and I'll give you a cost estimate of what you can pay me to make them for you?

I expect iserith will be along sometime relatively soon, and be much more eloquent in describing his process which I have unashamedly stolen for my own use. But, basically, traps are handled by way of giving the players something that they can interact with - something to investigate further...

Talking about it and getting the whole group on the same page regarding amount of focus being spent on the game really is the best thing, so I'm glad you already suggested that. Other tools I've picked up over the years to help with keeping a session fun despite distraction-prone players...

I think that is exactly where some people go wrong. They let the anonymity of the internet, or at least the separation from consequence (since "oh, my instagram account got banned because I was leaving awful comments" doesn't register as being as real as "oh, I got banned from a local bar for...

That's a mischaracterization of people saying that the specific thing being declared as minimum requirement to qualify as including the specific style in question might not actually fit. Actually, I've already detailed how you can in fact stop that particular thing being read into your...

Yeah, I was basically saying my hope is for fewer extremist fans, but phrasing it in the positive rather than negative tone (wanting more good, rather than less bad).

Yeah, I know where it was snipped from. It was snipped from a statement in which you could have made the point you were making by saying WotC should bring support for the play and campaign styles supported by past editions because people want them. Your mentioning of the edition war, despite...

I've seen a 12 Strength, 14 Wisdom melee-focused life cleric excel at overcoming challenges and not leave the player feeling like they aren't an equal member of the team while playing next to a 20 Strength barbarian. So no, I don't think the benchmark that 5th edition sets is one that creates...

For the average fan to become someone that might be accurately described as "open-minded, reasonable, and easy-going".

Definitely seems like it. Which is odd, considering I've made a single observation that I thought was pretty clear *shrug* Guess I dropped the ball on that one. There are a few possible ways. Here's two: 1) When bringing the phrase "edition war" to the conversation makes what would otherwise...

I'm not talking about 5th edition and what it is or isn't doing. I'm talking about forum users and what they do - and bringing something up constantly even if it is only tangentially related to the actual topic of discussion is not the minimum requirement to not be pretending particular...

As is bringing it up in what appears to be every disagreement someone has on anything even vaguely related to 4th edition.

I would go with just the stealth roll, if any, needed for the sneaking - not tack on a second chance at failure by adding another roll. If you really need to make "maybe you sneezed or coughed and alerted the enemies" a mechanical thing, give the enemies advantage on their perception checks to...

evilives (if that's a Misfits reference, I love it, btw) has it right, but has forgotten to make sure it is clear the Horde Breaker attack has to be made against a different target, so you only get up to 3 attacks against a single foe. Thanks to the wording of Horde Breaker specifically calling...

Yeah, that's absolutely how kids I knew growing up would have acted too. Especially my cousin, who is a few years older than me and was one of my first players. He'd punch me in the arm just because I was winning when we played Super Nintendo games against each other.