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I find it makes sense when you define "hidden" not as "unseen" but as as "unseen and unheard and unsmelt and unfelt and …". If something is only unseen (invisible, darkness, blind condition) then you can still know where it is by hearing or smell or touch or traces of its presence. Even though...

I don't read it that way. I read it as saying "carrying or dragging a grappled creature is an option but you still have to follow the rules for carrying and dragging." Where are the rules for carrying and dragging? Earlier in the PHB.

Neither. Or maybe both. There's no conflict between the two.

Be warned that if you polymorph two friends into unintelligent beasts they might end up just fighting each other. It's still entertaining for you but doesn't do much to win the current combat...

I would rule that pushing yourself over the speed granted by a Dash opens yourself up to attack, because you are not paying attention to defence. Maybe every attack against you has advantage?

Is that a valid trigger?

You're missing an important subtlety. The party gets to take their Actions (and Bonus Actions) before the enemy does, but the enemy might still be able to take their Reactions. If Conan surprises Hissar Zul but Zul rolls better on initiative then Zul can react to Conan's actions.

Yes and yes. It's come up once at my table in the entire time I've been playing 5E. In that case the player made the Constitution save so losing the slot wasn't an issue.

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And the next encounter, when the people talking to the party suddenly attack them, the same player cries "Why are they going first? Why don't I get to roll initiative?" :-) What is wrong with the surprise rule?

A large character: - Will be sleeping in the stables, not the inn. - Will not be joining the rest of the party in most places in town. Going to the abbey to meet the abbot? Probably not. Visiting the sheriff in the guard building? Nope. Visiting the merchant guild leader so she can pay the...

I've just come across an article on Fantasy Character Classes. Warning: This is a tvtropes.org link - you productivity will suffer if you follow it!

I don't have computers at the gaming table (we play at a Uni club with no wifi access). I put monster and npc stats on 150x100mm index cards in a box. At the beginning of encounters I pull out the cards I need and clip them to the gm screen or lay them flat on the table.

My problem with D&D classes is that this isn't always true. Some classes are not archetypes. For example, Fighter. "One who fights" is not an archetype - its too broad. The lightly-armoured figure with big weapons and amazing resilience is an archetype. The hooded figure striking with a dagger...

I'd say you are always at disadvantage. After all, you can't see your target! You are trading mobility and accuracy for range. I can't imagine this being useful for anything other than massed fire at long range. Is there evidence it has ever been used in war?

Agreed. Finesse is delicacy and subtlety. Using a finesse weapon involves using precise wrist movements to manipulate a small and light weapon. What Brad Pitt's Achilles is doing has nothing delicate or subtle about it.

That's a good point. My first thought was that fighting with only one weapon gives you a free hand for throwing captrops or drinking potions or casting spells and so on, but the "free object interaction" rules mean that a free hand isn't really used. What would be the impact of limiting the...

You could solve that by requiring training for levelling, the way OD&D required. GM: You have the XP for level 7? Excellent, now you need the 7 weeks of training. What are you training in? Warlock? Cool, that will cost you X gold.

I think this is a symptom of some classes being mechanical-only but other classes being mechanics and story. The idea of a fighter doesn't rely on any fluff. You know how to fight. There's no reliance in anything in the game world. A warlock or cleric, however, is bound up with something in the...

It is possible that braille-type writing came first. Dwarves were probably carving their words in stone before they were writing them on parchment. Elves were probably communicating by knots tied in pieces of string. Some races (Orcs for example) have no use for braille as those who are blinded...