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5Ft of Illusion is plenty for gnomes, dwarves, halflings, shorter humans & elves or anyone willing to crouch. Have it be a cloud of black smoke and touch doesn't immediately disprove it. Silent Image does an excellent job emulating the Fog Cloud spell while letting you see right through it...

This. Right here. It actually causes a visceral negative reaction. Making it "look good" feels like the worst kind of dishonesty. If failure isn't an option, nothing has any weight. Its like the Star Trek film where Shatner leaves the rift because he realizes there's no risk, no consequence...

Commoner doesn't mean pauper. Unskilled laborers live at the ragged edge, but skilled workers earn 2gp/day, so the 50gp items are 1 month wages. They only need 1gp/day to live, so if they save 2-3 months they can afford these things, which save them more money in the long run, meaning they can...

Just a note, in 1993 Earthdawn had a setting with flying ships, cities with glowing crystal street lamps, cooking food in magical slow cookers and keeping their leftovers edible in cold chests. They had "targeting eyes" that replaced your meat-eye with a sniper crystal. Crystal limbs, armor...

50gp is the cost of Continual Flame or Clothes of Mending Is it an elf, dwarf or gnome who knows they would spend more than 1,000gp on candles/oil/torches or hundreds of gold on clothes over their lifespan? How about all the people who have long winter nights? Or the polar lands where night can...

Pretty sure there's a typo in the 2024 edition. Look at 2014 text: This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions, roughly 2 feet in diameter at the mouth and 4 feet deep. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet... While 2024...

You know, I wish they had taken a page from 3e and had a class/level demographic. I don't even care what the numbers are, just that it provides a baseline for people to use for "low/normal/high" magic. E.g. in a city of 10,000 it would be typical to have wizards of 9th, 8th, 7th x2, 6th x2...

Gold was fairly plentiful in pre-medieval times, it just wasn't the basis for commercial transactions, silver was. Gold was traded between kings and emperors, not by common merchants. Crassus was said to have removed 320,000lbs of gold from the temple in Jerusalem (8,000 talents, assuming the...

Interesting thing about jump, it's not a movement speed change, its "spending" movement speed for distance. This means things that reduce your speed shouldn't affect our jump distance. A Slowed characters still jump 30ft. Difficult terrain can be jumped over (net gain of 25ft). As written, it...

In 1e and 2e adventures there were a massive number of classed NPCs. Every adventure seemed to be full of npc fighters, wizards, thieves and clerics. So they were using PC rules....a lot. Only background peasants who didn't even get names were 0-level. 3e made a tier of non-hero grade...

Agreed. 5E casters can do bulk amounts of damage a few times a day, but that "bulk" is across multiple targets via AoEs (28hp x 6 foes in a fireball). Spells don't clear rooms like in 1e. Warriors tend to do more damage per round vs single targets (3x attacks @ 20hp ea) which is better at...

You know, the phrase "team member" applies some semblance of roles within a team. Pick your term: cavalry, scout, cataphract, archer, pikeman, artillierist, engineer, striker, tank, controller; roles are a thing in teams. It's not like anyone's asking a fighter not to fight, just to fight...

The DM in my current campaign made a custom item I am sure he intended for my bard. Except one of the core abilities was "spend charges to add (charges)d6 bonus thunder damage on a successful attack". Bards have zero spells with attack rolls and I have only used a weapon once over 9 levels of...

Definitely hits chrome on Android 14. Mine seizes up about twice a day. I couldn't tell you which ads b/c it freezes during page load. Seems to happen a bit more on "open in new tab" than 'next page" but that's an impressions with no stats.

I'm similar to kronovan in that I learned Autocad for surveying 30+ years ago and make most of my world maps using QGIS. (My favorite is based on Mars lidar mapping) 1.How important is the ability to randomly generate vs just make a map manually? I see the value to some people to have random...

Predators that hunt migratory species would also migrate which creates a lot of opportunities for any carnivorous species to be migratory in specific locales even if not generally migratory. Assume all cold-based creatures come out of the mountains/arctic to hunt. Yeti, rhemoraz, thanoi...

That's probably for horseshoes. Swords probably require coin, given that they are a couple weeks' of wages for a skilled worker. That requires an investment from the smith, so half up front. Maybe if you supplied the iron and coal you could pay the rest off in chickens & grains.

I'm not sure you know what bards get with Magical Secrets. They don't get cantrips from their own class list,,they get to learn extra spells from OTHER classes lists. 2014 lore bards can have 6 wizard/sorcerer spells from Additional/Magic Secrets, including Wish. Plus they have 2 more known...

This is basically the bard "schtick". All bard subclasses are like that. Valor - warrior/caster Sword -warrior/caster Dance - monk/caster Lore - caster/expert Glamour - enchanter/expert Creation - conjurer/expert Caster - can imitate wizard/ sorceror/ druid/ cleric based on spell...

Well, according to one North American religion, a carpenter from the roman empire showed up in the Americas for a time after untimely reports of his death. So I guess they gave us Mormons.