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Vacations are good. I hear Australia is nice in the summer. (Winter up here.)

It looks like what they're going to do is create various NPCs that you can customize. So, they have a commoner NPC and if you want to make the commoner a halfling, you add halfling traits. Want a half-orc bandit? Add half-orc traits to the bandit NPC. Of course, some ideas require more work and...

Not in the PHB. However, the adventures published show that there is another way: milestones. With milestones, you assign a set xp amount after the PCs have completed a goal or quest. Also, HotDQ has XP for meeting specific goals. In one episode, it says to give xp for every piece of info the...

I'm going to go ahead and quote Prism from the other thread: I strongly suspect that "Lost Mine of Phandelver" and "Horde of the Dragon Queen" were written before the developers understood how deadly multiple NPCs/monsters were in this edition. Especially for low level PCs. If you look at the...

That's interesting. I really like that.

The starter set has commoner. That's likely a good start.

PHB. It possible, even likely, that some alternate feats will be in the DMG. Possibly even variant feat systems or approaches. But the standard feats will be in the PHB.

That does sound fun.

You're a terrible person and you should be ashamed of yourself.

That's good to know. That was probably what I was going to go with anyways. Of course, now this means that you only recover one hit die until you reach fourth level. Man, third level sucks from a natural healing perspective.

Well, there's a chance, but it's not guaranteed. Take a first level rogue with 10 hp (8 hp at first level + 2 from con). After one or more encounters they are down to 1 hp. Time to spend a hit die. They roll the d8 and get a 1, add their +2 con modifier and they recover a whopping 3 hp. They...

IIRC, there are conditions that take longer, at least if the Adventurer League Player's Guide is anything to go by. Also, you only get back half your HD. So, not quite Wolverine.

Well, if you let the fighter use it as a reaction, then they won't have it after combat, at least, not until the end of a short rest. I'm not entirely sure why I'm not allowed to consider multiple factors when analyzing game rules. The text of the rule, the text of rules in interacts with, it's...

The only confusion I see about is about chaining short rests, not second wind specifically. And the chaining short rests is really just a question of whether or not the group wants them and the DM lets them. The fact is, both interpretations are fine, it's just a matter of picking one. I would...

Well, it's called Second Wind for a reason. In general parlance, getting your second wind is when you rally after becoming tired or exhausted for some reason. You probably already know that, but I find it helpful to sometimes take a step back and go "why did they give that ability that name?" If...

I had been wondering what that appendix was all about, ever since we saw the full TOC. I agree with you, I much prefer having PC animals (mounts, companions, etc...) in the PHB.

I will definitely allow them. Feats are uncommon enough that I'm not worried about them. If I see a feat on a non-human before 8th lvl (6th for fighters) I'll be shocked. As for multiclassing, the prerequisites and the likely limitation on proficiencies gained from multiclassing address my...

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I don't think that was ever a design goal. That's not what I want, personally. I view feats as something people take after they've maxed out their Main Stat. Or, alternatively, something they take TO max out their Prime Stat, in the case of +1 feats. Feats are radically optional. First, the...

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