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If you have a magical focus, you don't need the components unless there is a price listed next to the component. The magical focus takes care of what you need for casting the spell. But, as someone said above, if the spell specifically calls for a component and has a price listed next to it...

Is there a new polymorph version that they updated for the e-version of the rules? Or are you just referring to the spell as is in the 5th ed. PHB?

I would like to see a wholly separate (or mostly separate) system with an option to become an immortal (just under minor god) after level 20, where maybe you transcend class abilities, yet there is a separate immoral class based on whatever class you were pre-immortal status. They would spend...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook It's like they read my mind about what I wanted. Back to old-school feel and flavor, but with smart, intuitive rules.

3 out of 5 rating for Hoard of the Dragon Queen The book itself is great, with nice non-glossy pages that work well for highlights and notes, and beautiful art. But the campaign itself was lackluster and too much of a railroad.

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual I can only hope they are working on a Monster Manual II that's just as good with great art.

That was my question, too. :) Great write-up though, Prism!

You just made me laugh out loud at work, and I had to cover for it.

I've been running an adventure using the Isle of Dread as a foundation, and I've inserted into the isle other classic campaigns that the players may run across, and put them in places on the Isle of Dread map where they are likely to run across them, but it's not definite. I've put The Lost...

Side question: Does this mean that the person who created the 5th Ed. conversion of Ravenloft broke copyright law and could potentially face legal action (although I don't see that as likely)? I feel a little dopey to be asking this, to be honest, because I am familiar with some broad strokes...

True, and that's why I said I planned to do some more in-depth research before really starting on any project. But I thought I could get an idea of a direction to start, and some other useful info on the outset by asking in the forum. And I did! Thanks for the quick response.

I'm going to do a bit more in-depth research into exactly what the OGL would mean for adventure creators, but this thread is meant to find a quick summary and to have a few questions answered. I'm a page designer and copy editor by trade, working with InDesign and Photoshop and Illustrator...

They would also do themselves a favor by looking at some of D&D's own classic adventures that were well regarded, and bring back some of the flavor of those while making sure that they don't have a railroaded story line. They could also look in the very recent past. I thought Legacy of the...

Of course, the monk could hit it, and hold off on the trigger until the tarrasque used up its legendary resistances. :) The monk can go hide and try not to get eaten. Although that's probably too far across the meta-game line for my tastes on second thought.

Very true responses. But I'd think throwing a monk into the mix will make an interesting fight, especially if your other party members can help burn off some of the tarrasque's legendary resistances. So I suppose in reality the monk couldn't kill it in one hit, but theoretically it could if it...

The way I read the rules, a Way of the Open Hand monk could kill a tarrasque with one strike, with the quivering palm strike the monk gains at level 17. Sure, the tarrasque could succeed on a constitution saving throw (with a +10 to the roll), but there is a real chance that it would fail, and...

I would like to convert fifth edition to fourth edition. How hard would that be? ... I kid, I kid.

"Why would any group choose to start a campaign half way through the storyline instead of starting from the beginning?" There could be a lot of reasons. The first that comes to mind is that a group had already played some other, different adventures from levels 1-7 or so, and so the question...

One of my players wanted to convert and run Tomb of Horrors in 5th edition. So we've been playing that at 15th level. So far it's been great, and a heck of a lot of fun. It seems to run about as fast as our normal lower level game (the characters there have made it to 7th level). I'm very...

This is one of those areas where I decided it would be better for the game to consider the animal form's intelligence score for skill checks and saving throws and other game mechanics, but to still allow the spell caster to retain enough self-awareness to know what he/she is doing and not let it...