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I was mostly giving you a hard time, I obviously agree that that reach of the weapon allows you a reach AoO. But what you're incorrect about is denying the spell. I cannot stress this enough, IF the AoO can happen, it can be replaced. There is not a single rule to dispute that. There's logic...

By your logic the AoO never occurs because you must be in the middle of your own attack action for the polearm to have reach, and thus also get the AoO, which might actually be the TRUE RAW here.

Yeah, sorry, I threw in my word. The reason I said 'character reach' is because for all intents and purposes, the character's reach is still 5' EXCEPT when attacking with a polearm. Because you're not attacking with a polearm on someone else's turn, the argument COULD (I'm not making that...

My point was not to illustrate that a wizard was equivalent to a fighter in combat, my point is that in combat the 5e wizard is able to contribute more than in any other D&D edition (I don't know about 4e, I didn't play). And as has been stated before, combat is only a part of the game. D&D...

Reach it part of the equation to trigger the AoO. Once the AoO is triggered Polearm Master is replaced by War Caster at the will of the player. Reach triggers AoO > AoO is replaced with spell > spell happens. There are no restrictions within the wording of the War Caster feat which narrow the...

Sure the concentration stuff makes battlefield control a bit more difficult, but D&D 101 also says that combat is only part of the game. And since we're talking low-level combat, a wizard can do 1d10 hitting as often as a fighter who (with shield) does 1d8. An archer does 1d8 and a wizard does...

So wizard suckness is dependent on battle performance? That seems rather narrow considering for as long as I remember the wizard has been the out-of-combat master. And now that they have a way to contribute beyond the first two rounds of battle, you're not happy because the options they have...

Well no, it DOES work with Polearm Master. Wielding the appropriate weapon, a creature enters the 'reach' and an AoO is triggered. War Caster then kicks in, and the player is given the option to replace the AoO with a reaction spell. The player chooses that option, and a spell is cast...

War Caster specifically states your are NOT taking an AoO with a spell. What War Caster does is it takes the AoO you would have gotten (no matter if it's granted by Polearm Master, or whether it's triggered by a opponent moving away) and tosses that it out the window, and replaces it with a...

I thought it might be fun, as a one-off exercise, to run a tribal-halfling campaign. Most classes open, but restricted to tribal, near-primitive themes, barbarian, druid, etc, etc.

It's my understanding that it's not really a matter of permissions. Nothing stops a player from taking any particular feat or two. The question is whether the feats work in concert, and considering that the RAW of the rules leaves some grey areas, it then falls on the player to beseech the DM...

I remember playing low-level wizards that had to dive into combat to contribute because there was nothing else left to do (no spells). With a d4 hit dice, and DEX for AC. Not to mention the fact that you probably weren't going to do any good, but if you could take a hit and survive, or...

When I get cranky or have low blood-sugar, yeah, I get that way, but that's just cranky-old-fart talking. D&D is about creating heroes, of whatever race, and having fun in a fantasy setting, where very little is impossible. I may feel deep in my bones that one race or another is silly, but I...

In many ways the difference is fact vs lore. I skipped 4e, so I don't know how any of that worked, but in other editions when we'd try and check our knowledge base, the DM usually provided us with hints, maybes, and 'you heard once that...". And sometimes he would throw in some convincing...

Obviously there requires a balance of allowing characters to play their roles, and also for players to make their rolls. In my current party most of us try and discus who should make the attempt at a skill, even if failure is not dangerous, because it's logical for party members to look to the...

I'm with shidaku on this. The concept is sound, and not at all unreasonable in a world populated by monsters and magic. Commoners should know a hell of a lot more than you give them credit for. How do farmers survive roaming bands of this, and the not unheard of that? No doubt men-at-arms...

A note of constant debate within my group. There's a very clear logic to that thinking. Of course the argument can be made that the increase to AC granted by cover also accounts for the care needed to avoid hitting a friend. That tends to lead me down a logic path of, "If you're so good at...

Can you reference the rules on hitting a comrade that might be providing cover?

I don't really see an NPC getting cute with his answers while his fingernails are being pulled out, or acid being sprinkled on his body... :)

I would require a definition of "harmful" if I were going to require that any spell used with GoW meet that requirement. Without a standardized method for identifying 'harmful' spells versus non-'harmful', we're talking about house-rules.