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So, for the revised book, is there an official reading of what Dual Wielder, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Nick do in combination? Does Two-Weapon Fighting even work in conjunction with Dual Wielder for non-Light weapons?

So, at this point, I think I've decided against shelling out the additional $10 for a searchable but slightly clunky searchable database of monsters that is subject to stealth revisions.

Crawford's interpretation requires Crawford to go, "Well I meant..." A plain reading of the text shows that the same event that brings the recovery mechanic online also brings the disintegration consequences online. If it happened for one, it happened for the other. And as it happens, there is...

Why don't those involve training? Clerics and warlocks become more capable and trained as they level. Do you have a problem with fighters learning how to make an Extra Attack in a day? A 5th level wizard learning Fireball in a day? I mean, if you want a rationale, that's fine, but I don't see...

I tend to ignore 2014 "clarifications" that contradict a plain reading of the text. But it's 2025, so it's fairly moot.

I'm a fiend for miniatures. I started playing the 1980s and did most of my play in "theater of the mind," sometimes even on the playground at school, and I was deeply envious of people who had lead and pewter miniatures.

I haven't seen anything that interacts weird on the player side. It should be seamless. Most of the changes amount to changes in the specific immunities and resistances given (usually to be more forgiving to the players) and changes in how some copypasta attack routines like Constrict and Gore...

It would be pretty weird to me that sending three missiles against one hobgoblin involved rolling three dice, but sending one missile against three hobgoblins involved rolling just one.

AFAIC, if you are reduced to zero hit points, you are gone, and once you are gone, the second ability never comes online. Unless the ability that brings you up to 1 hit point specifies it takes effect before other effects are applied, it clearly doesn't. by the time Mister Zombie is making his...

RPG characters and creatures are created. To some extent, your class, feats, special abilities, and so forth represent things you trained, but also things you are naturally good at learning. In real life, we sometimes find we have different strengths and weaknesses, which sometimes align with...

My FLGS sold out of Monster Manuals before I could get there today, and I was pondering maybe just ordering one line. One option is the DND Beyond bookstore, which I noticed has a physical + digital bundle for not very much extra money. I haven't touched DND Beyond in a while, and I can't even...

Yes. Those limitations only exist because of how classes work in 5e, those aren't real limitations of the world at all.

If someone wanted to get the abilities of another type of wizard, I would probably write up some feats that let them do that in a limited way, just like you can pick up Magic Initiate, Battle Master maneuvers, etc. If the question is no larger than, "how can my character do this?" I think that...

Logically, you could. In this case you are up against a bit of reification: those are class features, and you can't multiclass between subclasses in the same class. The fighter can, by taking levels in wizards.

What you are saying is very close to my own feelings. However, I recognize they are just my feelings. And to acknowledge the other end of things, there is a lot to be said for getting on with the game, so all those imaginative elements can play out. I mean, when 3.5 came out, I liked a lot of...

Feel free to present this proposition.

I'm not saying they need stats. You said they were an example of reification. So the spirit animals summoned should correspond to some kind of spirit animal that exists in the game.

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

Summon Beast was what was mentioned. Where can I find the stats for spirit animals? Where do they come from? Is there a spirit animal somewhere in the MM that deals Force damage?

Sure, you can summon a "seal." But either it can't swim, or it can't breathe air.