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I can only speak for myself, but as a 5E DM, I'm reluctant to describe the interior mental state of a PC, limiting myself to things outside the PCs. So a result narrated as "you think the NPC is lying" is something I would avoid, instead describing that the NPC has a tell that indicates lying...

Yes, I try to have a "meaningful consequence for failure" in mind before I call for a check and will usually share it with the players before the roll takes place. When done right, it's something that follows from the PC's action and the general situation. What comes to mind is the PC's scrutiny...

The AD&D DMG, p 108, has a 6' wide by 8' high wooden moveable mantlet on wheels and with an arrow slit for 15 gp. For 5E, I'd lower the price to 9 gp. Only chest high? About 5 gp, I guess?

Right, the clue-gleaning is there to provide an explanation in the fiction for how the previously hidden/undetermined true intentions are now revealed/determined, but, at the table, the clue-gleaning and the intention-determining resulting from a successful check are one and the same. I don't...

Here’s how I “use” Insight (IMG): If a player declares an action to look/listen for clues as to the hidden true intentions of an NPC, and it’s plausible/"in genre" for the game both that the PC could notice such clues and that the NPC could have such intentions, and it's uncertain whether such...

Not yet! I'm still working on getting them to sit down for another session. Maybe this weekend!

If the player rolls high on an Intelligence check to recall information about a monster, meaning they succeed on the check, then their PC remembers the particular details are true that the player stated as having been those the PC was trying to recall.

Hogwash! Try reading a dictionary.

Casino Island as a location. Also, boxing! ETA: I guess I misremembered. The name is Dice Island in the comic strip. Oops!

No problem, and thanks for all the work you're putting into this. It's been a blast so far.

Hey @FitzTheRuke , are we continuing with group 1? I think we're just waiting to roll the round. Even if it's a TPK, I think we'd all like to find out what happened and get some closure. 😅

Or, as I suggested, the sound is quiet enough that it's inaudible outside of 60'. Or the magic places the sound directly into the minds of creatures within 60', etc.

The spell only does what it says and doesn't do what it doesn't say, so the sound is not audible outside of 60 feet because the spell doesn't produce a sound outside of 60 feet. From this, it might be surmised that it's a "quiet" noise which, in my games, has a maximum range of 60 feet (2d6 x 5).

I don't think "within line of sight" requires the caster to look in a particular direction, just that a line from the caster to the trap is unobstructed.

The spell let's you (the Wisdom caster) sense the presence of a trap and learn "the general nature of the danger posed" by it. So I would focus in my description on the danger the trap represents to the PCs, in the case of your example, danger of falling and being impaled. I also found this...

Charles Person, the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, has died at 82.

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords, has died at the age of 76.

Sam Gamgee. He’s unfaltering in his loyalty, but he uses the ring (and eavesdrops).

Close enough to what though? I'm not sure we're working with the same concept of what this monster's supposed to be.

I voted 5.0 but consider 5.0 to have been completed in January 2016 with the release of the SRD and 5.1 to have commenced with the release of Curse of Strahd in March 2016 followed by the release of SRD 5.1 in May 2016, so it includes the core books plus the EEPC and SCAG as far as player...