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Why not just let him mechanically play as a reborn, but aesthetically appear as a skeleton? The RP difficulties of walking around the living will be enough, no need to take away his access to healing.

1) It's fun. 2) Why does it need an upside? We have small races, and being small really only has disadvantages since they can't effectively use heavy weapons. 3) It opens up opportunities for PC races that include ogres, half-giants, true minotaur, ect.

Yes, this. Decouple reach and increased weapon damage from being large, and suddenly there's little reason to prohibit large sized races. The only inherent benefit should be increased carrying capacity and maybe treating all weapons wielded by large creatures as having the heavy property...

Personally, I don't think it should be a big deal for a large sized race. What makes large races difficult is more related to the perception that being large comes with an increased reach and damage dice. However, it's relatively easy to decouple these things. Just because large sized monsters...

Personally, I don't think feat chains could be designed in a way that avoids the pitfalls experienced in 3e/3.5. If the feats require a chain, it usually indicates that the feats higher in the chain are going to be more powerful. While I suppose it is possible to avoid this, I don't see that...

In 3e/3.5, feat chains lead to 2 issues as I remember them. First, the large number of feat chains lead to "trap" choices. Basically, unless you were very adept at character creation and planning your next choices ahead of time, you ended up with a sub-optimal build. And in 3e/3.5, the...

Yea, not a fan of level-gated feats, or the potential for feat chains. I thought that was an improvement 5e made from previous editions, so I personally am unlikely to adopt that change in any future edition or revision.

Exploring Eberron is a DMsGuild 5e source book written by Keith Baker that expands on the official Rising from the Last War. However, I still use the 3e source books for lore. In addition to the core Eberron Campaign Setting book, there's also the Player's Guide to Eberron and the Explorer's...

Maybe whenever this guy takes damage, it's split between them and the player dealing the damage. That alone may encourage strategy to deal indirect damage or focus on alternative ways of taking them down without attacking. Or maybe the bad guy just chooses one of the PCs and creates a link...

@steeldragons I'm not trying to change your mind, and I really don't think you and I will come to consensus on this topic. However, I disagree with your distinction between "create" and "summon." Whether you are creating something from nothing, summoning it from the fey wilds or the nether...

Doesn't Find Familiar, also a 1st level spell, create a thing that exists in perpetuity? I'm not saying have full strength skeletons or zombies with their typical 5e stats, but some minor undead companion doesn't seem like asking for too much for a 1st or even 2nd level spell.

Well for one, you are assuming that the multiclass rules (which are technically optional) are being used and this is just not universally true across games. Also, I'm not sure what mechanic you are referring to that a Barbarian / Rogue can do at will that a Rune Knight / Rogue could do for a...

I have a couple of thoughts. Hopefully they are helpful, but we'll see: Don't fiends typically have resistance to fire, cold, and lightning damage? Also they usually are resistant to non-magical weapon damage. You may want to consider that. Also, not sure if it is a devil or demon, or if the...

I think having objectives aside from or in addition to killing/knocking out the boss can help. Another thing is having a boss that changes as it reaches certain thresholds of remaining health, especially if the form requires the PCs to adjust their tactics.

Shoot! I forgot to mention my two cats! Lord Baelish and Tad Cooper.

Welp, I'm in my late 30s and live in Chicago. I played college football and track (thrower) and then rugby for 10 years after graduating. Currently a therapist working with DCFS and considering private practice. Just had knee surgery, got a full hip replacement 18 months ago, and have had even...

Makes sense to me. I'd allow it. Examples of 3/4 cover include hiding behind a large tree trunk, which to me is similar enough to the leg of a huge creature. One thing I might include is that if the attack against a creature is not high enough to hit them, but is high enough to hit the creature...

Even more reason to allow the PC's plan to work. They used a significant number of resources to make their plan work. At the very least, rule of cool for attempting a heroic action should have allowed this to proceed without a check being necessary given everything that's been said here.

This is an interesting spell interaction. Here's a couple of the key points that I see: 1) Let's first consider the spell Water Walk. I've bolded the relevant sections. From what I can tell, this spell doesn't specify the conditions of the liquid aside from its potential to deal damage. It...

Yea, I have a cleric version of firebolt that is just dealing radiant damage, and also a radiant damage version of sword burst. It's still more limited than what other spellcasting classes get, but at least it provides options for cleric who are fighting things that have good Dex saves (which is...