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True, but invisibility, flight, stealth, shapechanging and being able to see in the dark, all in a creature that can communicate with you without any risk of eavesdropping as well as effectively teleport to your presence from anywhere, goes way beyond "cool". I know it's a big class feature...

It will still ruin the players' experiences. It sucks to have your cool stuff damaged, no matter how justified it is by the fiction.

Personally, I'd modify the "starting with level 1" rule to be "starting with level 1 in the tier". The difference in levels is unplayable in combat. The level 1 characters just can't be in melee with level 7 foes as (1) they would die in one hit and (2) their damage takes too long to down the...

I can't say how good they are (I've never used them) but I can say they are better than the options you'd get with a paper book. :-) Personally, I like DNDBeyond because of the convenience of not having four or five heavy books on the desk in front of me. I can look at all the monsters in one...

I know the errata has cleared this up but I never read the multiclassing rules that way in the first place. In the Wizard section, it says, "Your spellbook is the repository of the wizard spells you know, except your cantrips, which are fixed in your mind." In the multiclassing section, it...

Something I've just thought of: Time If there is no chance of failure but the elapsed time is important then make the roll, but don't treat a low roll as "failed to perform the activity"; treat it as "took longer than normal to perform the activity." For example, there is generally no way a...

Reasonability Sometimes you can stop issues like this by just looking at how reasonable the attempt is. It is entirely fair to say that characters can work together to smash a door down or to search a room. It is also entirely fair to say that they can't do the same when trying to convince the...

Correct. He is using an surprise round, where the monsters get an attack on us and then we roll initiative. I think its a 4E thing, but I only ever played that edition for 1 hour.

I got a really nice piece of feedback earlier this year. One of my players said how impressed he was that I would come up with really cool scenarios and ideas which the group completely missed and screwed up, but that I never got annoyed. I was really pleased to hear it because its a skill I...

I have a situation at the moment that has made me think about leaving a game, and that is "surprise rounds". I'm playing character class which gets some really nice abilities on the first round of combat and some other nice abilities if I act before another combatant. Surprise rounds screw with...

With reference to this and your other posts in this thread, what are your thoughts on the following scenarios? Scenario 1 GM: You see a statue of a woman holding a scythe. Player: I have Religion, do I know who she is? GM: Roll INT\Religion please, DC 17. Player: I roll an 18. GM: It is a...

The reward for doing a good job is a harder job. :-)

Big props for that! What was the expression on the players' faces when you produced it at the table?

Yeah, what's up with that?

That's because you do. Whether a creature is invisible or not, when it walks on dust or sand or snow you will see its footprints. Unless in your games invisibility also comes with incorporeality for free. Which is OK. You can run your games any way you want. In my games, creatures leave traces...

All true. It also means that your party cannot heal you with (mass) healing word , prayer of healing, or healing spirit. Anyone standing near you is also subject to the same disadvantage, whether friend or foe. In a dungeon setting it may not actually be possible for your ranged allies to get...

Of course, if you are carrying at least one magic item then you always sense the presence of magic within 30 feet.

No, you aren't. To be hidden you must be unseen and unheard and unnoticed. For example, an invisible creature walking on a surface covered in dust or leaves is not hidden. You know where they are because you can see their foot marks. Even if the ground is clean you know where they are by sound...

That's good advice, I'm going to use that from now on. I've also learnt a phrase from Apocalypse World that I'm going to use more. If a player says something incomplete (like "I convince the guard to let us pass") I'm going to respond with "Cool, what does that look like?"

Those are actually pretty good requests from players. The problem is when you don't get both intention and approach. Player: Where is the wolf den? GM: You don't know, so how are you going to find out? Player: I don't know. P: I open the chest. G: It's locked. How are you going to open it? P...