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The thing about Invoke Duplicity is it uses your concentration, and you're unlikely to benefit more from getting to make attack rolls at advantage, even with Elven Accuracy, than you would from concentrating on something better (like Spirit Guardians). But you'll probably use it sometimes, and...

This is.... exactly what I said?

Yeah, I agree with the others: RAW, Confusion only affects their turn, and the effect only persists until the end of that turn. By the same logic, its legendary actions wouldn't be affected either. I have messed this up before as a DM, to the great detriment of the drama of big fights; not with...

That's not a published ruling though, just a site with a twitter-crawler. No more official than any other tweet. Contrast that with the Sage Advice Compendium, which is a published document: https://media.wizards.com/2019/dnd/downloads/SA-Compendium.pdf I have a hard time imagining what it'd...

Well, I guess my reading differs from Jeremy Crawford's circa 2016 in this case. I don't have a more recent ruling to support my interpretation, but I do think mine is RAW, even if using an action, etc. is RAI, since the invocation just says, "You can ... as long as you are on the same plane of...

Others have already given good tips, but my advice: * A level 10 wizard is supposed to be able to shut down / trivialize an encounter when they use their biggest spells. As you said, occasionally having a spellcaster with Counterspell is fair game, but doing this all the time is bad form. The...

It takes an action to use your familiar's senses per the Find Familiar spell, but if you take Voice of the Chain Master as an invocation, this requirement is lifted (text below). In fact, seeing through your familar's senses not only doesn't require an action, it becomes an "always on" ability...

The specific spell list was just a proof-of-concept that there are a lot of good wizard spells that don't need INT. Shadow Blade was there predicated on you getting good defenses, to give another potential damage option. But if not boosting AC, don't take it, obviously (and do take Mage Armor)...

Wizard, I'm assuming. Feels like that investment in CHA is pretty steep on a class that doesn't otherwise use it for much for a few more HP per skeleton. You're essentially giving up 6 of your own HP by having a +1 CON, and distributing one each to your minions. Their boost refreshes on a short...

Yeah, what I said above is that if you do this you have to think real hard about what items you hand out (which you should regardless, but even moreso now). You could even have it be a property attached to individual items instead of a blanket one.

@dnd4vr said he would still have the wielder make concentration saves to maintain the spell. In light of that, I think this change is safer than a feature that allows concentration on two effects generally, since this way the DM can regulate which specific spells can be stacked.

It's a bit more than convenience; with a Glyph of Warding the spell ends if the glyph is moved more than 10' from where you place it, it is dispelled. So that means that while in principle you can use it to maintain multiple concentration effects (or just "pocket" a spell to cast later), that...

Yeah, it seems a lot safer to do something like this with magic items, since the DM can always adjust each one individually without unintended cascading consequences.

With great power comes great... desirability.

Really?? If I'm facing enemies whose threats are primarily magical, I would reach for either Wall of Force (if divide and conquer seemed like the move and/or if the magical threats were mostly non-damage based) or Circle of Power (potentially a better use of a slot than WoF vs damage-based...

Worth noting also that items like the Wand of Paralysis exist already, which circumvent concentration rules by having their effect not be classified as casting a spell.

Ok. Well, this makes something as simple as a Wand of Web super desirable. A Staff of Power was already an incredible item; with this change it'd be off the charts. But if you treat those items as accordingly more powerful than they would normally be, then I'm sure you could make this work...

Do you think that Circle of Power is a reasonable set of effects for a 5th level spell? I think that's a good comparison point for balance, here. Both spells make it harder to affect creatures inside with magic; and both have a damage resistance component. Circle of Power has the following...

I think it depends what kind of spellcasting items are handed out. I don't see Fog Cloud being a problem, but it's a slippery slope. Also, published NPC casters tend to have poor concentration saves, so this likely benefits PCs more, unless you're using a lot of homebrewed enemy casters.

I quite like some of the combat options in that chapter. We've used a few of them in my home game -- they don't come up that often, but it's nice to have more ways to use athletics and acrobatics in combat besides grappling and shoving. The "Mark" one is cool too, though I haven't used that one.