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I'd do a detonation effect. Either defensive, say, "when hit by an attack, as a reaction you may end the spell immediately to become resistant to all damage types dealt by the attack until the start of your next turn" or offensive "after being struck by an attack, you may end the spell as a...

Sounds a lot like the Los Angeles problem, where the highway was built for significantly slower speeds and less traffic than it now has to accommodate, leading to very similar situations. I'm not terribly pro car to begin with, but it makes me especially sad that we're dealing with poorly...

That's a slightly different scenario, where a lane is used for both entry and exit. That's arguably a failure of highway design, not of the drivers involved. In a better world, you'd split that in half, forcing a merge in, then opening an additional exit lane (though of course, much highway...

The one that gets me every time is people who completely fail to use the merging lane to begin with. My commute involves entering a (usually crawling speed in the morning) highway on a merge lane that ends, and then the new rightmost lane ends again slightly further along. If everyone zippered...

I think that's unqualified good! After all, that's what print proofs are for, so we're solidly back on the normal track.

Is it? Compelling a single action's worth of friendly fire seems like a reasonable downgrade from Crown of Madness' multiple such actions 1 spell level higher.

I can sort of see a short combat duration argument that being only 1 round is not a terribly significant nerf, but that still sounds crazy given the 1 minute on Dominate Person or 1 hour on Charm Person. We've got Crown of Madness at 2nd level which is arguably a better comparison anyway...

I quite like the idea of a lawyer on retainer being an essential adventuring party expense. I imagine they have a lot of the same legal troubles as penetration testers, to say nothing of all the contracts they get involved in.

Only because it seems relevant to this back and forth... What is the appropriate level for a 1 round dominate spell with "save negates?"

I think that was a mistag, based on context, and that was intended for @Daztur . Could be wrong though!

Right, hence my point that 5e derived games are not really amenable to technical reading and get squirrelly when you start tugging at inconsistencies. There simply isn't an answer in most cases, because there isn't a consistent template for what each usage entails.

Right, I was being inclusive of A5E and other 5e derived systems. My point is, I think it's reasonable to read "an action" and "actions" differently, if you're looking for textual support.

I don't think it's generally a good idea to try for technical readings of 5e based material... but, I can imagine a case where "actions" refers to the set of all actions, including bonus, free, reactions, etc, while "action" is narrowly defined.

I don't see any particular reason why not. It certainly sounds like more fun for the player.

While a fun and flavorful idea, isn't that pretty explicitly a Bard thing in 5.5, with that high level Words of Creation, Power Word Kill/Heal ability?

Yeah, this is my experience as well. I've found it easiest to go Stargate style. You're either speaking [standard language] or sometimes [secret language the players will eventually figure out]. Sometimes things are written in [ancient language] which no one speaks, but can be understood with...

Don't be afraid to put some stuff in reserve for the next book! No reason you can't be ahead on the next project.

I really don't think booster packs or random mini deserve any apology here. There is no pro-consumer reason to sell things that way. The secondary market is entirely a product of manufactured scarcity, the actual use value of the products is unchanged if the consumer knows what they are buying...

Netrunner has ruined me for most other card games. Trying to play Magic is very painful when you realize you're not just allowed to draw cards when you don't have an answer to the current board situation, or how little your opponent's board state matters to what cards you'll play. When talking...

That's a bit oversalting it, it's much more that WotC wrecked the commons created by the OGL, and doesn't seem particularly contrite about it. Putting the 5e SRD under a new license doesn't actually do anything for all the material made using the OGL in the last 20 years. I'd prefer some real...