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Well they ditched the appraise skill for a reason. By the book valuables and trade are sold at full price, other items can be sold for half price. Unless there's a compelling reason for an object to have difficulty selling, most parties would consider it bookkeeping and don't want to haggle...

Always DMs gonna DM, but I think outside of an official ruling, the statement of that text of the spell is referring to the control granted by the spell itself. Specifically the fact that it acts on your turn, and you directly control it. Most creatures, even conjured ones, are supposed to roll...

Right, I feel like they felt they had to stretch short rests to an hour to accommodate the fact you could spend lots of hitdice and fully heal in it. But it really kills the balance idea of say warlocks. I think I would have preferred something like: a short rest is 15m but you can only spend 1...

Variant is just absurdly restrictive, and too micro managing. A Fighter with 16 starting STR is 30lbs away from heavily encumbered.. Weight max is really for me just a tool to say "You can't walk back to town with literally everything"

Can and do is kinda the catch point. Most situations I see my heroes caught in end up being a chain of bad events. When you break it down to the idea you HAVE to have 3 short rests on average for it to equal the uses per day, combined with even in that ideal situation, you would still be unable...

Some campaigns/dms just don't facilitate short rests.. Personally, warlock feels almost unplayable if you don't have some other way to sneak spells in.

This post made me look at the specific true polymorph restrictions. Fun things you can still do: Permanently polymorph your familiar into a tressym. If you have an Imp familiar, permanently polymorph into anything CR1, my favorite is Dryad since its charm ability isnt an attack, or an acolyte...

Honestly, I don't think adventure league brings a lot of money to its location of play. Most sessions will go by with the most likely purchases being snacks and drinks. For hobby stores around here, money comes from Magic. There's usually 4 magic expansions a year, each one can easily drain $100...

Generally the background is meant to give additional flavor to your character beyond their class. A fighter who has been a thief his whole life has a different flavor than one than has been a knight or man at arms. Similarly a rogue who has been in the military as a scout is different than one...

There is the initiative or die near the end as well. I don't think you can revivify red paste.

This is pretty spot on. Abilities scores are one part of the multipart balancing act of races. (not that they are all even) for example, humans under this new setup are pretty weak. +1 all isn't amazing, but it is unique, without it, humans are literally just the worst race as they have nothing...

There are several places in tomb of horrors that will kill players. Some don't even have saves, a foolhardy character would simply die. Really though the places are full of loot. White plume mountain has three legendary items that without the others might be considered best weapons in the...

It is designed with the idea players will show up a few times. Specifically stating strahd wouldn't kill them until he grows bored with them. Likewise the other major threats like Rahadin will not kill them. The invitation is at least one visit, they may come back to rescue the damsel(s) in...

If the DM wants an actual specific reason why that is wrong. Tell him to look up Dwarven Plate - Its magical property is "While wearing this armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC. In addition, if an effect moves you against your will along the ground, you can use your reaction to reduce the distance...

Bonus action to dash isn't super abuse able, considering all rogues get it at level 2. The strongest use of it is if you had a druid who could drop spikes on the ground so every 5ft translate into 1d4 damage. The only limitations is you have to end your move closer to an enemy you can see. So...

Don't forget minor illusion requires an action to investigate. Even if the DC is crap they still have to lose an action. Friends also has no save. Also don't forget sleep. Its godly at Tier 1 and only cares what level spell you cast it at.

While DMing, Rolling for lots of NPCs can be time consuming so I will often just use the average. However if the party is doing particularly well or unwell I might roll and use the lower/higher than the average to adjust the difficulty. (IE if party is dying, roll and take lowest of average or...

Scream in the Night adventure league module on DMs guild has a few visual puzzles to solve, and you get to scream while running it.

I would probably start with a variant human, picking up the Magic initiate cleric for thaumatergy (rp) and guidance (rp and thematically similar to divination) maybe grabbing bless for the 1/day spell as it too is a bit like adjusting fate in your favor (and is a powerful spell even if only...