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This is from the DM's basic rules: "Actions When a monster takes its action, it can choose from the options in the Actions section of its stat block or use one of the actions available to all creatures, such as the Dash or Hide action, as described in the player’s D&D basic rules and the...

Considering that we get these kinds of threads on ENWorld fairly regularly, it seems the choice of words has left many people confused about the difference between making attacks and taking the Attack action.

If you plan to be wildshaped all the time then it's not hard to meet the stat requirements for any multiclass combination, you don't care about having any high stats since you'll be using animal stats in combat. Another victim of the 5E "rules in natural language" philosophy. What was so bad...

No, "Extra attack" is a subfeature of the Attack action. "Multiattack" is an entirely separate action. Both actions let you make certain attacks, but that's all the rules they share. If you wildshape into a creature that doesn't have multiattack but just a single strong attack, such as a Giant...

You don't remember Gandalf fighting with a sword in one hand an a staff in the other? Under 5E rules the staff could be a Focus so he could use it to cast spells that require Material and Somatic components, but he would have to drop it or the sword to cast a spell that only requires Somatic...

I suggest leaving the spellbook in and letting the players decide what to do with it, let them find someone to sell/trade it with if they so desire. When the characters find treasure they have no direct use for, it enhances the illusion that the game world is a real place, and that treasure is...

Since Strahd has been alive and ruling Barovia for all of those 400 years the language can't drift too much. Strahd still speaks the way he learned when young, so the Barovian elite also maintain the same way of speaking. Their continued use of traditional speech patterns then means that...

There is nothing mistaken about such assumptions. "Why" matters as much as "how" when it comes to fiction.

Yes.

There's a big difference between a rulebook that you will be referencing constantly during play, and character options books that you only really need when building your character. I never bought any of the 4E splatbooks since the character builder had all the info I needed in a much more...

Click here for a multimedia experience that expresses my disappointment over the lack of text content in the OP's rant.

To meta-gamey players the chance of wandering monsters is actually another incentive to rest as often as possible. You want to be sure that you have plenty of resources left to deal with any monsters that interrupt your resting. If you wait until you can't go on any longer before resting...

My group has always played without Raise Dead and similar spells, in every edition of (A)D&D. We don't like what it means to society when the rich and powerful can regularly cheat death. In 5E we've made an exception for revivify though, due to the extremely short time window to use it. I...

I've tried it out many times in my campaign which often have days with only one combat since my adventures tend to have more social and investigative challenges than dungeon crawling, and my experience is that the paladin consistently outshines the other classes, including the full casters. The...

Actually no. A paladin can burn through all his spell slots in a single fight, whereas a full caster won't have enough actions even in a big fight to expend all his slots, except at very low levels. That's why I favor a once per turn limitation on Divine Smite. It will prevent the paladin from...

So nope, unless the DM chooses to ignore the guidelines and lets his players combine options from all the books at once. :)

I usually just assume that every world has wizards named "Bigby", "Leomund" etc that are famous for having researched some of the classic spells. It may be a different wizard in each world, they just have the same names :)

It would also add an entirely new rule to the game, and that's not what Sage Advice is. Sage advice are tips on how to interpret the existing rules, and the PHB still unfortunately says absolutely nothing about what happens if a Druid wears metal armor.

Try to play a different, more rules-light game than D&D with them. That should make it easier for them to break the old habits, and once they've gotten used to playing in character you can go back to D&D. :)

The Sage might come to realize that he has mistakenly written a rule that explicitly says the opposite of what he intended it to mean. Going with the "spirit of the rules" in would in that case mean contradicting the text of the rules, and that is what Errata is for, not Sage Advice.