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Their armor definitely has Asian influences in 1E and now in 5E. Because this is the Daimyo, if not Shogun of these hobgoblins, the smiths and everyone else works for him or at least pays him lip service. He's the one who calls the shots.

It happens, often players try to hunt a random encounter near town hoping for some easy XP before the main story re-continues.

My group gets testy if more than a hour goes by without a fight.

Kinda looks like one more thing to overbalance dexterity and make sharpshooter & Crossbow Expert combo even worse.

Yeah, that ape demon looks anemic compared to a shambling mound. Since it already had the HP counted as double, adding in the weapon resists wouldn't make further bearing on the CR. I think the simplicity is handy overall since players fight GROUPS of foes and every foe being a special snowflake...

The problem is too much was already given out in regards to natural healing. Medicine IS weak in a world where the video game trope of the Trauma Inn is hardcoded into the ruleset.

4 PHBs among 6 players + me as GM. Seems like a pretty good ratio, but 5E makes being a caster too easy so it isn't enough.

Once disadvantage offsets advantage, that's it. 2 advantages + 1 disadvantage = Nothing. The ally next to the target can still be of use though.

You don't use this spell when folks have the option to remain silent. You use it when you have the authority or ability to MAKE them talk.

In 5e mechanics the slam's damaging of dexterity would be a poison, if it was even classed as anything (see Roper). Effects that continue for days are diseases.

Kinda sounds like folks read a lot into the Find Steed spell.

Getting lawyer-y with this spell is the whole point of that spell. It is in NO way a compulsion to tell the whole truth, it merely prevents lies. "Bob: Give me a yes or no answer. If you do not answer yes or no I will throttle you. Jim: . . . No." No lie there. in that sentence Bob is just...

I would have left them as bites and described it as the Deep Rising monster.

The initial gas spore damage is suffered by a disease immune paladin. The lasting infection is what the Paladin is unaffected by.

Now if the fungus then stuck with the victim preventing hit point recovery or some other effect and each day the character got a con save to remove the effect, that would be a disease,

Sounds like Vrock spores, which are poison this edition.

Kind of a pain if one uses a grid and it makes a fair difference in a big melee if you are not using a grid. Bases 1" metal washer from hardware store 1" counting chip 25mm wood buttons (ebay sellers from china often have good deals) Othello disc JAX brand 1" poker chip (most other poker chips...