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The two first phb spells I nerfed were Leomunds Tiny Hut & Heat metal. Hut in earlier editions was just meant to keep out weather effects, allow a good nights sleep and conditions amenable to relearning spells. I suspect this was to address the way some DM’s would restrict a characters ability...

What? No Orcs? I wasn’t aware of that. Can’t say it makes a big difference. They had hobgoblins serving as footsoldiers to the evil army. Now if they had had no standard evil humanoids races that would have made a difference.

I don’t know a heap about timelines other than the War of the Lance timeline which to me is what defined the setting so I would want a meta plot setting which is how I’ve always seen it so: 1. A player accessible setting book describing the world, the various magic schools, the knighthoods and...

I would advise against using levels or xp that can feel like a punishment. Attending the game should be reward in and of itself, cos its fun. Plus if you need in game stuff use treasure: those who were in attendance when the party rescued the merchants son get a potion of flying each. Etc...

Agree with your last sentence. I got no problem with them being a CN limbo created aberration with some law at their core (ie the weird rigid evolution etc) due to the fact they were partially created by the presence of the spawning stone. I disbelieve that red slaad with an int and wis of 7...

I also have a slight issue with them as the definitive CN race but I’m not sure that’s what’s intended. They are A CN race and their existence is explained, not THE CN race - that’s a bit of a contradiction. In the D&D game we want monsters with defined stats to use. In AD&D monster manual 2...

Apart from life issues the main reasons for a campaign fizzling have been either it was too sandbox and the players didn’t know what they were meant to do, so got confused about what, if any, story they were participating in or too railroad and the players didn’t care about why they were being...

Have you played in a game that had a bait and switch element?

Yeah I played in one game set up as modern world csi type murder investigators and switched to a supers style game. It worked brilliantly. The players brought in to the cops and conspiracy stuff, then when supers started to show up we just bought into that as well.

By bait and switch what I mean when you allowed the players to think that the plot or theme or basis of the campaign or adventure was one thing and then partway through it turned out to be another. A common method is where they might think they’re playing normal people but they turn out to be...

I would have ruled that as handing the sword off to the other goblin was contrary to the suggested action the swordgoblin would not do so, or co-operate with it happening. At which point the other goblin either decides to run off or if his greed got the better of him to try and wrestle the sword...

Dausuul has it right. Paladin fits what you are after. His other suggestions are good too. Also you could look at Barbarian, they don’t need to be healed as much. Though ime d&d (including 5e) works best as a cooperative game and one with no healer is as problematic for most groups as one with...

Probably partly in the way it’s described but mechanically it’s more likely to be used against a big hit whereas undead fortitude tends to make some small hits ineffective

You could add this ability to Legendary resistance keeping it at 3/day combined Edit: I liked the Unstoppable tag someone used for monsters on this forum that gave them sort of half resistance against anything that paralysed, stunned etc.

Your kidding aren’t you? Look at how many extra spell slots a wizard (or any caster) gets by being 17th level as opposed to 11th. (Sarcasm intended)

As I stated in my post that you replied to the upcasting costs stack, to hold person against 3 people with no concentration requires a 5th level slot. Lack of tough choices - the caster still has limited spell slots, especially high level spell slots, and see invisible isn’t concentration...

I think I’ve got this right as the list of spells that I’ve either removed concentration, made it able to be removed by casting the spell using a spell slot 1 higher or able to be removed using a spell slot 2 higher (when electing to remove concentration by up casting the caster doesn’t get the...

Blue my master list has all sorts of other tweaks and is a bit long I’ll convert it into a better postable format in the next day or so. Jamesstreissand I hadn’t thought of the “singular” tag replacement, I like it that sounds very interesting- I will think about it. The allowing of stacking...

I hear the general comments that the game can work with the current system (yes it can, particularly at below 9th level, this is a personal preference way of dealing with an issue that I and some others perceive) and I agree that one needs to be wary of those potentially debilitating spells that...

Aye aye Cap’n. I am trying to be careful about how I go about allowing casters to remove the concentration requirement of a spell. But apart from maybe 3 or 4 spells which I have spelled out in an earlier post I haven’t “just removed concentration from spells”.Under my houserule concentration...