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I really really miss the Dungeoneering Skill. I'm bringing it back in my campaigns. It will cover knowledge of the MM basically. You want to set fire to the troll, roll Dungeoneering, DC 10. You fail, you have no knowledge of Troll weaknesses. Adventurers talk. There is a reason most...

Forced movement DIDN'T produce OAs, that isn't the same as NEVER produces OAs. Where in the rules does it say you only provoke OA's when moving on your turn? I agree forced movement probably should not provoke OAs, but I'd be more comfortable if there was a rule clarifying that as opposed to...

This is a fair point, and one that is up to individual DMs to decide. My campaigns will always have at least some way to create magic items tho. I love Eberron too much for there not to be. The starter adventure mentions a Spellforge where magic item creation happened. Perhaps there needs to...

See, now this I like. It's a nice investment opportunity for an adventure crew that can lead to some interesting treasure being found. On pawn shops tho, yes some inventory is taken in via pawn, but some is also outright bought. Once you default on that loan, the shop owns your +1 sword (or...

Every single one of those concerns is faced by Pawn Shops the world over and yet they somehow manage to stay open and make money. You think a curio shop doesn't have a few +1 weapons lying around (that they know how to identify) inherited by children of adventurers who just want to be Inn...

^That is a flat out lie^ Unless there is rampant poverty in a kingdom, most people are making 1gp a day minimum. More if they can muster any kind of savings. If the King/Queen are providing for housing, and the pesantry are providing for food, that's still 1gp per head in the kingdom of...

If used on a PC with 0 HP, Healing Word is the model of efficiency. Doesn't take up your whole turn to cast, gives someone a Move/Action/Bonus Action for just your Bonus Action. Does not get much more efficient than this. Also, efficiency measured on what scale? Number of encounters you can...

Point 3 is totally not true. Healing Word is a bonus action. If said bonus action gives a downed character a regular turn on his turn it is absolutely worth your (almost no) time to use. Even if you give up an attack to use it.

The maximum DC for the save is 18 unless I am missing something. 8 base, 5 Proficiency, 5 Stat (20 Max) = 18. With advantage the Tarrasque is only going to fail that save 12% of the time, not 16%. The odds of him failing that save 4 times in a row, and thus dying from it (in a minimum of 8...

In 3E, scrolls were 50% the cost of Potions because Potions were usable by everyone, and Scrolls were only usable by certain classes. It makes sense. Until told otherwise I'm going with 3E prices for scrolls in my games.

What material? They are blank.

Holy balls, 16 pages later and we are still on "Players should have no authoritative control over the universe"? Really? I said this way back on page 4 or something and I'll say it again: Saying "Yes" to players leads to happier players and better narratives. If they want to stack up boxes to...

To quote a well known meme, "Screw the rules, I have money". If you want wizard spell books to be dangerous in your games, go ahead and allow glyph of warding to work on them, reguardless of their mobile nature. If wizards start using that power to say hey look over here at the explodey book...

I give the realms a resounding "Meh". Too many god like NPCs that want the PCs to just watch them be awesome.

Really WoTC? Hide the variant rest rules and use the firearm preview? Really?

Surprise has no middle ground by nature. A single alerted enemy causes your side to lose surprise. I am OK with traps being 100% or 0% detection chance. It's the same thing as Random Encounters during travel. Screw the table, if the game needs an injection of combat, have an enounter, if...

In this situation you either want to attempt Shocking Grasp and move away, or cast a spell that doesn't involve a range attack and be ready with your Shield spell on defense. A mage with Mage Armor plus Shield has better AC than a fighter in platemail with a greatsword, because the mage gets to...

This is exactly what passive perception was invented for.

On the whole, rule systems can't be copyrighted. This is why there are six million Monoploly clones out there. As long as they use different artwork and call it something like Star Wars-Opoly they are safe. This is the reason why books of rules contain fluff and art. Your safest bet is to...

Copying into a spellbook is much different than making a scroll. It's like taking the time to hand calligraphy everything vs making a xerox copy. I actually have no idea what the magic item creation rules are going to be. The preview of the Figurines of Wondrous Power seem to imply that items...