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The main appeal of 5th ed right now is that you'll get a brand new edition in 6 months! How's that for rapid improvement?!

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While appearing at a liquidator doesn't mean that a product was a failure, I have a hunch that in this case it does. There never seemed to be any enthusiasm for these products anywhere I usually see people talk about D&D stuff.

Depends what that childhood is like. Children being toddlers for 20 years would probably kill anyone's desire to become parents, but if means carefree adolescense for 90 years betwen the ages of 10 and 100 then it can make sense. Maybe they were dabbling a bit here and a bit there and a bit...

That was my experience with the older Shadowrun editions too. As characters become stronger their ability to do damage increases much faster than their ability to resist damage, so "high level" combat is just about being the one to shoot first.

I'm not interested in this product in the slightest!

Regarding this, if I was using minions in 5e, I'd definitely adapt the 4e rule that minions never take damage on a miss to minions taking 0 damage on a successful save that would normally be half damage.

RAW, an improvised weapon must be wieldable in one or two hands. I'd say a piece of paper is too flimsy to be "wielded". A rolled up newspaper would qualify!

The confusing part of Flame Blade is how it describes the effect as a flaming scimitar, which makes it sound like something you'd use to make weapon attacks. If it had been called Flaming Touch or something, it would be far more obvious that the intent of the spell is to let the caster do a...

Is that really a problem? Someone who needs a "simple" class probably isn't going to notice a slight performance shortfall.

In other words, a desperate attempt to revive a dying franchise by upping the stakes, regardless of whether or not it makes sense.

In 9 years of playing D&D 5e on average once per fortnight, I've never seen any character cast or even prepare Flame Blade. So it does seem like an underpowered spell. Having it conjure an actual "weapon" that can be used for weapon attacks probably isn't game breaking. If you think it should...

But it's not actually a scimitar. A scimitar is solid, a flame isn't. Major difference.

Also, a spell effect is not an object. Neither is a non-magical flame, for that matter. RAW, I see no support for treating a Flame Blade as an improvised weapon, and plenty of reasons to disallow it. If the spell was meant to create an actual flaming weapon, it would have said so.

Happy Thanksgiving! The true meaning of Thanksgiving is giving thanks to the Giant Turkey for sparing us this year.

My house rule: If you fall unconscious from reaching 0HP, you do not automatically regain consciousness by being healed to 1HP or more. Instead, roll 1d4 at the start of your turn, if the result is equal to or higher than the number of turns since you lost consciousness, you wake up. If an...

It would be nice if D&D actually had some resonable rules for how both weapons and magic were limited against ultra-large enemies, and what tactics were effective instead, if any. But for the DM to try to come up with such rules on the fly during such an encounter is a Bad Idea.

I gotta say, "Natural Pengu" sounds like some "Male Enhancement" scam product.

Snake Kung Fu is a real style. That should work.

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