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How would you handle it the other way around? The characters are camped, all asleep except for one on watch. An attacker with a bow takes aim... What would your players say if you just said, "Character Juma is dead."? Whatever ruling you make has to go both ways. Me, I'd call for Initiative...

Intelligence. The character has already found the tracks, so Wisdom is not appropriate. For an appropriate skill, I'd allow Nature or Investigation. I'm not sure about Survival (the idea is that Survival is focused more on techniques and practices to stay alive than lore about the outdoors).

As I understand it, your issue is with the word "will". Is that correct? If the book had said, "Druid's can't wear metal armour." you would be OK? If so, my advice is to not sweat it. D&D 5E is not a legal document where every word and phrase has a precise, consistent definition. It's just a...

There are lots of rules that force choices on players, even if they won't use the phrase "will not". You chose a fighter? You will not be casting spells (depending on archetype). You chose a rogue? You will not be using Beast Shape. You chose a cleric? You will not be using Extra Attack. You...

Why do you feel this time is a waste, as opposed to "a fun part of the game."? Are the players of those wizards and clerics complaining?

If you do this then why play a wizard? A sorcerer does everything they do, with the addition of sorcery points and metamagic. The process of sitting down at the beginning of the day and picking spells is part of the concept of the wizard and cleric classes. Versatility is a core concept...

There's your problem right there. Subtraction is harder than addition. Lower things being better is the opposite to convention. THAC0's bad rep was well earned. In 2E I replaced it with a system where armour classes started at 10 and went up and you rolled a d20, added modifiers, and tried to...

Hitting a foe with a fist (or an elbow strike, or a kick, or a bite, etc) is a melee weapon attack, but it is not an attack with a weapon. Most things in the game are pretty clear about which one they mean. For example: The Divine Smite feature (Paladin) says, "when you hit a creature with a...

Reading threads like "economy killing spells" got me thinking about how common mages were. This then led to the question of how common adventurers were. I figure that adventurers come from a fairly small subset of the population - those who have the drive and determination to leave a life as a...

Go back a few decades - Errol Flynn playing Robin Hood. More recently, Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones or Sean Bean as Sharpe. Look at literary characters like The Three Musketeers, Cyrano de Bergerac, Zorro, Flash Gordon. Also real-life (or possible "larger than life") characters like Calamity...

You don't need rubies for the spell. In a world where fabricate exists, any gemstone will do (as long as it is of reasonable quality). The jadeite mine provides a caster with a barrel of chips of crystal. One casting of fabricate later, there is a ruby 5ft across sitting on the bench. You...

Well, stop saying "athletics check". :-) Seriously, though, if you consistently use the phrase "Strength (Athletics) check", it will help everyone at the table remember what is going on.

Armour and weapon breaking makes the "linear fighter quadratic wizard" issue worse. It also makes Dexterity more of a "god stat" (why would I play a Strength-based fighter whose armor and greatsword keeps breaking instead of a Dexterity based one who only needs enough Strength to carry five...

How? And how many times a day?

Now the headband of intellect becomes the most valuable item in the world. Wizard's player: Cool, an item that raises INT, I guess I'll take that. Every single other player at the table: Now wait a minute…

Ummm...... Google? Seriously, a few seconds of work found me information on these (mostly at the at the Forgotten Realms Wiki). For example, Maram of the Great Spear. The Wiki pages also include references, such as Brian R. James and Matt James. "Monument of the Ancients." Dungeon #170.

I say no, because "blunt object" and "finesse" do not go together.

That is an important question for GMs to ask, to avoid the following situation. Player: I search the door for traps. GM: As you touch it, contact poison seeps into your skin, make— Player: Hang on, I never said I touched the door! That's not fair!

On the other hand: "I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be, than me."

Magical darkness. Heavier than air creatures able to fly without corresponding wing surface area. Flying castles and carpets and mages. Temperature variations of hundreds of degrees in less than a second, then reverting back with no residual effect. Variable gravity. Cursed locations that are...