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The root of the argument here seems to be that the term "starting proficiencies" is not defined anywhere, so it is impossible to know what it means, and we can argue forever and never reach a conclusion. Does anyone disagree with that? (My interpretation is that the "starting proficiencies" are...

What about putting your freebies in the standard places and use them to promote your products for sale on the DMGuild? Maybe you can't expect to do business exclusively on DMGuild, but if you can use the Forgotten Realms to add value to some of your products they might sell better on the Guild...

I've bought 5th Edition Foes and have backed Tome of Beasts and I'm waiting eagerly for that one. You can never have too many monsters, and 5th Ed Foes has been very useful so far. I hope Wizards will also get on the bandwagon and release a Monster Manual 2 or similar product soon!

It's called "advice" for a reason, because there's not really meant to be a "global understanding" of the rules, it's only meant to help DMs who can't figure out how to rule on a particular issue by themselfes. This is a game of "rulings, not rules".

You could knock off the legs so that it can't move. Then you can reattach the legs afterwards if it bonds with its owner again.

It also has a decent INT score, so it's a lot more likely than a T-Rex to remember to not eat the rest of the party.

Has anyone claimed that it is overpowered?

Has anyone claimed that it is overpowered?

There's a reason wrestling and judo are both separated into weight classes for competitions; strength is the main factor, skill and speed mainly come into play when finding the best fighter among competitors with similar strenght.

Barovia doesn't really seem like the kind of place that would change much in just a hundred years anyway. There is little in the way of outside influences and Strahd remains in charge, so there is no reason why anything would be significantly different. The innkeeper may be the great grandson...

Come to think of it, having giants perform theatre would be an interesting idea. It would make it a lot easier for the people on the rear benches to see what is going on at the stage.

It could be that the exact location of Barovia is left ambiguous by the module. Traditionalists will place it in Ravenloft, other DMs will put it somewhere in their homebrew world, while the Adventurer's League will place it in a quite corner near the Moonsea, etc.

It's definitely not broken. Gnomes are a PC race and they have magic recistance for INT, WIS and CHA saves, and those are the most important ones since spells that completely shut you down tend to target those saves. It's a strong ability though, so it should come at either a high price or be a...

It means a series of D&D related products with a common theme, including an adventure path book and AL modules, and possibly board games, videogames and more.

Hearing one pun too many shatters a character's mind. He goes completely insane, but also unlocks hidden powers. :p

Let the characters find an old tome, such as the Necronomicon, that reveals horrible truths about the universe. These revelations take their toll on the characters sanity, but now that they understand the true nature of existence they also discover ways to mentally maninpulate it.

A 6th level fighter will typically have 20 STR and proficiency in athletics, for a total of +8 to "grapple checks", while the troll has 18 STR and no proficiency, so it only has +4. That means the fighter has a 66% chance to win a grapple contest. But he has extra attack so he can try twice...

Controlled mounts still have their own actions, they just take them on the riders turn and have a limited set of actions to pick from. So the tarrasque would only have one opportunity to to take a legendary action. (unless the DM rules there's a family of badgers around that are also taking...

That's a direct contradiction of this bit from the DMGuild FAQ: Is the FAQ wrong, or is it another case of Mearls not knowing his own rules?

I don't get the point at all. Why would I play this instead of straight 5E?