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Or how about: if the DM is putting you up against Stone Golems, they're also giving you opportunities to access the spells required to recover. Even (especially?) if that involves a small role-playing or combat mission to find an NPC who can cast them. Do people actually play D&D where the DM...

Yep, this. Or through research, or because some NPC tells them so, or because they make a good Arcana role. There are lots of ways. Edit: I don't understand this concept of DM "gotchas". If a DM really wants to get you, s/he'll get you, and it doesn't require anything so fiddly as specific...

This is one of those corner cases that should just be judged in the moment if it comes up. Welcome to 5E, kids.

My conversation with Mearls continued. Here's the entire thing: MikeMearls If a companion is un-commanded by the Ranger, would you rule that the DM can take control of them and do whatever's logical? &#8207 unknownsavage yes MikeMearls Cheers! The RAW seems to say that they won't do a thing if...

FYI, I tweeted a follow up question to Mearls: MikeMearls If a companion is un-commanded by the Ranger, would you rule that the DM can take control of them and do whatever's logical? unknownsavage yes

Why would the DM do that? The DM's job is to create an enjoyable experience for the players, and part of that is letting the players make use of all the bits and bobs that come with their class. If the DM wants to make your experience :):):):):):), he or she has all the power in the world to do...

I think so. I'm not saying you couldn't do other things with it if you wanted to tinker, but that's perfectly functional.

Those rules are available to everyone else who is riding a mount. The Ranger gets to do the same thing, but they do it remotely, get more choice of animals, and their animal gets upgraded over time. I agree that the rule is poorly written. But it's an easy fix that I don't think necessitates a...

It's the easiest thing in the world to use the uncontrolled mount rules and just say that if the beast isn't instructed the DM will make it do whatever is logical for the situation. Likewise to use the animal companion rules for controlled mounts and say that the PC can have their mount attack...

And this opinion is presumably based on your extensive high-level playtesting of the class? :P I haven't got my PHB yet, so I can't weigh in in any detail, but it does annoy when people declare rules too weak or too strong without having tried them. Whatever playtesting WotC did on the class...

Hahaha, this thread is great! None of those books will happen in a million years (for which I'm very grateful), but I'm glad people like you are around. D&D fandom is a fascinating place!

You're missing that CHAR-OP IS ALL! (Welcome to EN World.)

"Best" is a relative term. I'll be taking a spider, thanks. The perfect spy. Plus, they won't like it up their trousers, if it comes to that.

I think it's trivial to allow sorcerers access to all simple weapons. It's not going to break anything.

Actually they've dropped some pretty big hints. They've talked about a focus on big stories, they've said they want every release to be a big deal, and they've just announced a new adventure path with tie-in splat book (albeit through a third party). Their direction seems pretty clear right now...

Could be that we'll see some smaller one-off modules for the Elemental Evil story (even besides the OP ones). Having not yet seen HotDQ, I'm on the fence about these world-saving epics. If there's enough small-scale character detail in there, it might work for me. I definitely prefer...

I'm all for simplicity over grab-bags of powers that I'll forget to use anyway. In general, I'm fine with the more generic beasties having just one shtick. In this case, its shtick is poison (with an optional side of grappling). Perfect.

The halflings are fine. I actually really like the bard. Y'all take this game too seriously.

Ha, me too. Great minds...

I'm not saying that it's the way I would have done things, but I don't think it's any kind of major problem (or any problem at all if you're playing characters, as opposed to character sheets).