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I bought the spellcards at a con in London yesterday. They were £4. I think they also had the EE DM screen. The spellcards have rounded corners, so if your other spellcards are GF9's first printing, you'll have a mix of rounded and square cornered cards. I'm in that boat. It doesn't bother me...

Something in the rules certainly does prevent that: "you aid a friendly creature in attacking a creature within 5 feet of you." If the familiar is more than 5' away, it's no longer Helping. So if the familiar is an owl you would rule that Help doesn't linger because owls don't provoke when...

The dragon could still use its legendary action to fly free. It would just need to hold back on using its legendary actions. It's exactly like the wizard rolling a low initiative. The same outcome can occur in the RAW, it's just a change in probability. If a DM allows PCs to deliberately lose...

It won't make nearly as much difference at higher levels as it does at lower levels because: At higher levels, monsters will be wise to it and deal with it right away or get their minions to do it. An ogre probably won't know that the wizard with an owl on his shoulder is likely to pause a...

Sure, there are upsides. Why else would you do it? But the upsides minus the downsides equals a rebalancing of low level wizards. A rule or combination of rules (or the interpretation thereof) is putatively considered broken if as a result a PC or monster is disproportionately more or less...

So you agree that wizards are underpowered at low levels but when someone suggests a method of rebalancing the rules that adds verisimilitude, they're "gaming the system"? Just because something is said in a sig, doesn't make it true. And your sig is false. The fact that a tactic can be...

Allowing wizards to gain advantage using an owl familiar isn't unbalanced. For one thing, it's easy for the DM to counter in game. After falling victim to this trick once, an opponent can ready an action to attack the familiar for when it approaches. Familiars have low ACs and hit points and...

I'm not a lawyer but this sounds like an open and shut case of breach of contract. In England & Wales, you can always return remotely purchased items you don't want (barring certain legally stipulated restrictions) within a cooling off period. But even if you're in the US or elsewhere, the...

I saw Leonard Nimoy once when I was at university. He gave a presentation and answered questions from the students. He had a blue sense of humour which was strikingly at odds with his portrayal of Spock. It just goes to show what a good actor he was that he made you think that in real life he...

I saw Leonard Nimoy once when I was at university. He gave a presentation and answered questions from the students. He had a blue sense of humour which was strikingly at odds with his portrayal of Spock. It just goes to show what a good actor he was that he made you think that in real life he...

Really? Has WotC confirmed that? If that was their intention, I suspect they would have said so. They certainly wouldn't have put Initiative in the Dexterity section on pages 176-7. As I already said, if a monster or other player wanted to try and squeeze between the wizard and his familiar, I...

LOL! My current DM has put into place all sorts of limitations on arcane magic way beyond the rules including virtually prohibiting some magic items because I'm playing a wizard. I'm not a munchkin though: my wizard is a dwarf which is sub-optimal. You should come around on Saturday. You know...

I apologise if this has already been addressed in this thread and I missed it, but True Strike should work with Witch Bolt. The concentration required for this combo is consecutive, not concurrent: you cast True Strike, concentrate on it and then cast Witch Bolt. You then need to concentrate on...

I have many happy memories from the early to late 1980s of GW on Dalling Road. I even got to go upstairs once which wasn't normally open to the public. I'm sorry that the building is being demolished. You can see the inside of the shop in its heyday in a mid-1980s episode of South of Watford...

Yes, it has that problem. You can't ready multiple actions. I don't know that it's all about helping allies. It can be, but wizards are pretty good attackers in their own right. In my party, I do as much damage with my Fire Bolt as our fighter does with her axe. The monk in our party does the...

You can indeed do it without readying, but there are a couple of downsides to doing it that way that you need to weigh against the risk of readying. The first consideration is that if you don't ready and just let your familiar in to help, it can't move away on its go and therefore get out of...

I'm not fooling myself. I might be wrong, but I'm not delusional. Not necessarily. Obsidian could have all sorts of other costs or margin targets that mean that the WotC/D&D licence is out of reach for them. It doesn't mean that the extra cost might not be worth it for someone else. It also...

My guess is that the Paizo/Pathfinder licence cost less than the WotC/D&D one. This exec is simply trying to disguise a business decision as one relating to the merits of the two franchises. Sorry, Mr MBA, we're not fooled. It's analogous to when Hollywood studios claim to have "creative...

Yes, me too. Why else would the shambler's entry include a DC to escape if you couldn't try it? At some point either after the initial attacks (interpretation A) or once you're engulfed (B), you must be allowed to try and break free. I very much doubt the authors of the MM meant it so that once...

That's true. If you're already concentrating on a spell and want to maintain it, you can't ready another spell. But if not, you're fine. Note that you can ready a spell that requires concentration just as you can other spells. For example, you can ready Witch Bolt if you want. Of course, using...