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I have to give it to you for trying iserith. :)

Right, unlike 4th edition where you could downgrade: Standard -> move Standard -> minor Move -> minor You can't downgrade or swap actions in 5e. So you always have 1 Action, Movement, 1 item interaction, 1 bonus action and 1 reaction. Unless something grants you more :)

here are the types of actions in 5e that you can take on your turn: Action Move Bonus Item Interaction Reaction from there, you have things that can be used as one of the above: Attack Action Opportunity Attack Reaction Perception Action Stealth Action Cast a Spell Action Two-Weapon Fighting...

standard actions don't exist in 5e. And donning/doffing a shield is specifically stated to take your action for the turn. You can't use an item interaction action, move, bonus or whatever else :p

Correct. You can fire it but not reload as long as you don't have a free hand. It does allow for things like starting combat, shooting the hand crossbow, dropping it, drawing your melee weapon as part of an attack you make and then continuing along for example.

What I said was that the RAW didn't specify one way or the other and that we should ask on twitter, which someone did. We even got a response as a result that said you could in fact ready something to go off in between attacks. Since then I've said that you could since we got the official RAI...

I think that the problem here is that the situation presented is just a "kill or be killed" scenario when DM's should only rarely if ever actually use that kind of encounter. There should almost always be the option to continue play in some form. Party is captured, party is robbed and left to...

emotional knee-jerk responses ftw!

No, the shield takes up a hand and you need both to use a bow. The bow is listed as having the two-handed property making it impossible to simultaneously use a shield. You can look for yourself in the PHB under the equipment section, page 147 for two-handed property and 144 for shields...

darjr Thank you for posting the transcript :)

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy." -Tyrell

If you're killed between the attacks of your eldritch blast, any beams left over simply fail to do anything and the effects of the spell end. This has nothing to do with fluff. It's about someone claiming that you don't have to provide components when casting a spell, contrary to raw, and that...

Pointing at a target is not a requirement of CASTING in 5e AFAIK so the problem you just invented to provide evidence doesn't even apply in the way you want it to. Picking targets is done as the first step of the Making an Attack rules section and would only happen once the spell effects are...

For me the opportunity created by the unexpected result of the roll, the woman throwing the guy to the ground, allows me to flex my imagination muscle: So as to narrate the new event in a way that matches the dice. I didn't expect it and I would convey that surprise to the players by...

I'm not against death flags either. Some players can be extremely attached to their characters, this just seems like a way for the players to protect a character they particularly enjoy from a random death that doesn't have the qualities they would prefer.

I haven't seen anyone here accuse someone of badwrongfun. What I have seen is a discussion about what fudging represents, what it can affect, what it would mean if done in the open, alternatives to fudging, suggestions from multiple people about how and when to fudge and so on. Basically a...

+1 And he entered the discussion in such a positive way too! I think the problem is that Umbran has a personal stake in this discussion at this point and considers himself to have the moral high ground. He's injecting a very negative point of view into this thread and is actually the one...

I say you need to provide me an apple in my hand before I can eat the apple. You then pick up an apple but don't give it to me. You have failed to provide me an apple in my hand. Because of this, I can't eat the apple. The rules say you need to provide the components before being able to...

Why not just admit the mistake? Fix the encounter by removing a few of the bad guys or making them run away because they are cowards who were only looking for easy prey instead of an adventuring group? From my experience, being open and admitting to a mistake will help you grow more as a DM...

Good to know that you discuss the subject in session 0 :)