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The goblin is using a finesse weapon.

That's because how hard it hits has nothing dto do with size - it's determined by the Challenge Rating. Making an Ogre hit harder is fine, it just makes it a higher CR monster. Yep, item rarity certainly is wonky. Do a web search for "sane magic item prices". There are at least a couple of...

PHB chapter 7. The rules do not use the term "willpower". The closest they come is "will to live" which is for Constitution. This question on RPG.STackExchange generated a lot of opinions without any clear answer.

Wisdom is not willpower; it is perception and awareness. In 5E, willpower is modelled by Constitution, which is why a concentration check is a CON save.

On the other hand, old fogies like me might say it's not "real d&D" unless the ability scores are SIWDCC.

Sometimes players just wanna cast. My Thule game has a wizard, a druid, a cleric, and a warlock. Even after I've warned them multiple times bout the low magic the players still act surprised when they cast spells in town and people attack or flee. *sigh* One Idea I wish I had enforced is the...

You need to ask the local ruler for a favour. The more flattered she is, the more likely she will consider the proposal. You perform for her (CHA\Performance) before your ally asks her for the favour (CHA\Persuasion). You need to get in good with a local warband. You challenge the toughest...

Helping another character already has a downside - you are not doing anything else. Also, sometimes your help can make things worse. To steal the examples from MrHotter. >"I'm going to search for food." >"I'm helping" GM: You can certainly do that, and roll once with advantage to find food...

QFT. The players will defeat this with prior preparation, and will feel rightfully proud when they do so. As to what they actually do, they could use missile fire from long range, they could use saving throw bonus magic (like bless), they could stock up on counterspell and dispel magic. Most...

I believe that every person sitting at the table is responsible for the fun of every person sitting at the table. If you are doing something that is reducing the fun for anyone - GM or player - then you need to be asking yourself "should I really be doing this?". Now, the answer might still be...

Since you can commit a new sigil sequence to memory in only 1 minute, they can't be very complicated. I imagine them being something like an ip address or a bank account number. That is, a sequence of known glyphs rather than an arbitrary drawing.

It's the other way around: you can be disarmed *of* a weapon. A sword can be knocked out of your hand, a dagger can be stolen, and so on. You can't be disarmed of unarmed attacks (not without the use of disintegrate, anyway :-). A weapon can be picked up and put down. It can be bought and sold...

QFT. The bit of paper on the side on my character sheet for hit points gets worn out way faster than anything else.

What burden? An AL GM asks, "What is your +1?". The player tells them. It takes less than a minute at the start of play. No time burden. An AL player has to buy at most two books. No financial burden.

To my thinking, a dagger's damage doesn't change with the level of the character, so neither does their claws or horns. A level 20 character is more effective with a dagger not because the dagger got better but because they can hit better (higher proficiency bonus), they have better ability...

OK, here is an example that came up three or four times in the Out of the Abyss game I play in. I had a tempest cleric with shield master feat. Also in the game was a warlock with repelling blast. Quite often, foes would get next to the warlock and disturb her eldritch blast casting. Our tactic...

Then don't knock them prone; shove them 5 feet away. Now you can move away without any fear of opportunity attack (unless they have a reach weapon).

When I run caving trips I always get people to turn off their lights at some point. In our modern world, we never actually encounter real darkness. D&D only gives us three light levels - bright, dim, none. I rule that being outside in moonlight in D&D is dim light and being outside at night...

That's the change I made. I did like the extra tactical nature and the slight-ly unpredictable nature of "damage at the end of turn" effects. Sadly, my players hated it, so we don't use it. In particular, they really didn't like the chance that they might lose an action. So now we go back to...

I go to for a strict ruling. I want to know light sources and ranges. If there is, for example, weapon fire from the darkness then I tell the players, "You can't see where its coming from." I also enforce the disadvantage on WIS\Perception for characters with darkvisison (which so many tables...