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That argument doesn't convinve me. A whip may be an ineffective weapon, but a magical whip has still been enchanted as a weapon, and that's what lets it hurt an iron golem, not simply being magical.

Like most master villains he underestimates the adventurers, so he doesn't bother taking his magical gear out of storage. :)

Gimli was a dwarven noble who became king after Sauron was defeated. He's quite young for a dwarf and inexperienced at the start of the LOTR story so he's not a natual leader for the Fellowship, but leadership is clearly in his character and he could have taken charge of the party if Gandalf and...

You can cast Mage Armor on others as well. And unlike barkskin it doesn't require concentration so you can armor up the entire party if you're willing to spend the slots, or have another way to cast it such as the Staff of Defense from Lost Mine of Phandelver.

That's the entire point, having a whale suddenly fall out of the sky is tons of fun for everyone except whoever is directly beneath it. :D

Versatile weapons are good for grapplers.

You can't really criticize the players for wanting to chase down the evil cults instead of giving them time to grow stronger either. There's a difference between allowing downtime and actually enabling downtime. It would be meta gaming for the players to assume that their enemies will just sit...

A cool houserule would be that attack with daggers don't have disadvantage for being Restrained or Prone. That would finally give adventurers a good reason to carry daggers instead of just using their longsword for everything.

Allrighty then. I've never seen a stock art license that prohibited modification, but I will accept that they exist. I suggest getting art from stock sites that don't restrict their customers, and avoid doing business with sites that have too strict terms :)

Or the fighter could kick the croc away himself. Being Grappled or Restrained doesn't impose any penalty on ability checks, so the fighter can use an attack to Shove the crocodile, moving it out of reach and breaking the grapple. Since fighters usually have athletics proficiency and crocodiles...

That's just plain wrong. Stock art wouldn't be of much use for anyone if you weren't allowed to modify it to fit in your product.

One more option is to use stock art, but personalize it. With a program like Photoshop you can easily take a stock picture and modify it. Change colors, cut out elements, change the background, mash two pictures together to get a unique illustration for your product. Sure, you need some skill...

The rules text says Strength and not Athletics and that's probably for a reason. Getting loose from a spider web seems like a feat of pure strength to tear apart the strands of the web, unlike grappling that involves a lot of technique.

Let's turn the cheese up to 11! The main limitation on sneak attacking outside of your turn is that pretty much every way of making an attack outside your turn requires that you use your reaction, limiting rogues to sneak attacking twice per round. The only way I know of making off-turn attacks...

Maybe so, but yours is even worse. :p

Ready is an Action you take on your Turn, so the action surge trick works fine by RAW. You're not using Action Surge outside of your turn, you're using your Reaction to make an attack you Readied on your Turn. Even better than Action Surge is the Haste spell. It gives an extra Action with some...

Sage advice is not errata. Sage advice never changes any rules, it only clarifies how the writers intended them to be read. Sometimes that may be different from how many or even most players have been using the rule, but it's never actually a change. So your proposed format is not appropriate...

Using a bow makes it a lot easier for the rogue to avoid getting attacked, forcing the enemy to target the tanky melee characters instead. Since 5E doesn't have 4E style Defenders, squishy characters should stay out of melee. It's also easier for rogues to benefit from bonus action hiding if...

Of course. It's certainly possible that they will succeed to sneak, just extremely unlikely considering they all have disadvantage and no proficiency, and it only takes one of them to fail to alert the book reader. If it was just a single dwarf trying to sneak then the odds would be much better...

That kind of thinking leads to someone sitting and reading quietly in a large room with stone floors being completely oblivious to a platoon of dwarven fighters with plate mail and no stealth proficiency entering the room, because the dwarves are trying to be "sneaky". I will continue to let...