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Here's how to make it so an 8 in Con isn't fatal: Give each character 3 hit dice at every level. Yes, this nearly triples their hit points. But also roll triple the dice on every damage source: swords, spells, everything. Since the Con mod isn't tripled, it won't hurt so much to have an 8...

One of my concepts is a character that wears plate mail but has expertise in stealth, uses both a wand and a sword, does bonus damage when striking from hiding, and can cast fireballs, heals, and resurrections while tracking his favored enemy. Call it a 'concept that isn't modelled well with...

Sounds like you're getting distracted by new shinies because you're trying to think of too many characters at the same time. Getting your warlock into melee with decent armor is already a mix of two concepts. Then you want to multiclass as well! Now, I myself am guilty of this... I almost...

Yes, but there are four 4-hour periods each day. Only three of them are productive, the other one is resting. Also, BTW, the latest PHB errata changes that definition of long rest. It requires that most of a long rest be actual sleep, just sitting and chatting is no longer acceptable...

People tend to assume that sleeping straight through the night for 8 hours is what is meant, because it seems so normal to all of us. However, the rules aren't actually tied to that. The need for sleep and the need for long rests are two separate things. Long rests can be taken without any...

1. If you're going to read the 5th edition rules that carefully, you really have to embrace the vagueness. One hour never means exactly one hour. It's actually code for 'lasts long enough to take a short rest in it'. Have you ever noticed that there aren't ANY spell durations of 30 minutes...

There are some big things. For instance, resting. The need to explicitly choose the length of your rests and consciously call out at the beginning how long it will be... and the contradictory rules about interruptions. Also the complete heal every morning and the power disparities if rests...

In D&D each adventurer in combat takes up a 'five foot square' and you can't have two characters fighting in the same 'five foot square'. The whole point of a 'double door' is that it's wide enough for two people to fit through, possibly one going out while one goes in. Otherwise you could use...

I'm going to be a bit discouraging here. Not because I don't like your idea, but because it's difficult to get right. The armor section of the PHB is not just short and simple, it's also deliberately vague. For instance, some versions of half plate include helmet and gauntlets, others don't...

Just my opinions here: For the housing, I'd say it's to keep you from casting them too many times, since they aren't concentration spells. One magnificent mansion is already pretty good, even at the cost of a big spell slot. But a row of ten or more mansions, to house a whole army, is a bit...

A wizard (whose Strength is 12) is walking along the road one day on the way to a nearby town and gets bored. So she decides to see how far she can jump. There are no pits or obstacles, no combat or other urgency, just a normal, flat, straight road. She doesn't have the Jump spell, so she...

There are plenty of of ways around the component issue, so spell selection might not be that big a deal. When it comes down to it, most spell components are tiny, just a pinch of something. They can be hidden rather than disguised. Maybe even for Suggestion. As a diviner the spells she casts...

Yes, it would be nice and inspiring if all of the examples in the quoted text were in place to provide inspiration. But they don't actually need to be presented as separate rules. What I mean is... almost everything suggested could be phrased like 'the DC for X is 12, and the DC for Y is 15'...

Angels. And then some magical beasts (other than unicorns). And then maybe other low level humanoid types. It seems odd that almost all Celestials in the MM are immune to charms. I mean yeah, I get that critters that can cast Raise Dead or Greater Ressurection need to be immune to prevent...

Followup: After the warlock flees, someone else comes along and knocks the druid out with a quarterstaff, and then someone heals the druid. 5) Now is the druid still hexed? A) Yes. B) No. 6) Now can the warlock transfer the hex to another target? A) Yes. B) No.

D&D 5e. There's a quick battle. On one side we have a level 3 human druid (moon), currently in wolf form. On the other side a level 3 human warlock (archfey, chain pact), with a pseudodragon familiar. If it matters, warlock has 21 hp, pseudodragon has 7 hp, and the druid has 21 hp (but...

Any long-duration spell without concentration will be very good. But there are limitations. It's remarkably similar to Animate Dead, actually... but with shorter creatures for a shorter duration. But first... Unseen Servant was mentioned. Unseen Servant is quite limited if your DM reads it...

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Yes, of course I will make transgender elves canon. Some of the players in my games are left handed. I'd feel like an evil nazi symmetry-supremicist if I didn't allow them to play a character with two right hands (and two left feet). But only if they're willing to play a religious elf. I...

There are no pregnant elves. They lay eggs beside a stream and another elf fertilizes them there. If you doubt this, show me where in any of the D&D books it says elves *don't* do this. See? Toldja. And by the way, D&D humans do this too, and have all along, whether you realized it or not...