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So if I understand the direction the discussion is now heading ... You're about to say, "Here's what I want my character to be able to do well, now how do we make that happen in 5e?" Is that not the very definition of a CharOp forum?

I also said I wasn't trying to disparage or "otherize" anyone, but for the purposes of sane conversation, you MUST define your terms. If "D&D" can be taken to mean "hide-and-seek," what's the point of any of this? If you're completely honest with yourself, I bet there is a tipping point where...

But none of that matters because it all falls under the "non-written" umbrella, and the answer is still, "yes, those can exist if your group wants to play that way, and the specific roles depend on how you build your characters." In other words, if you're going to have a million different...

In theory, this could certainly be the case, but the DM is not supposed to take the party's exact stats into account when designing his dungeons. He is supposed to set the difficulty according to the trap itself, not who might see it. Also note that the party's passive Perception scores can...

It doesn't matter whether you are lying or not because in refusing to define your terms you have rendered meaningful conversation impossible. If you mean "roles as explicitly codified and executed in the rules of the game," the answer is no, that does not exist in 5e. If you mean "roles as I...

That's why I said, "It's a matter of degrees," in the hope that my statement wouldn't be blown out of proportion.

Passive perception is also used to notice traps and secret doors if no one is actively looking for them. I'm not aware of any general uses for passive Investigation, but I believe some specific cases might pop up in published adventures. In the interest of saving time, a DM might set a PI...

A spell scroll is a scroll that contains a spell (one of the spells listed in the Player's Handbook). A protection scroll does not contain a spell. Its magic is different, and follows different rules.

The value of radiant damage should not be ignored. At higher levels, you'll find a lot of monsters resistant or immune to fire. Very few are resistant or immune to radiant. On the contrary, many shadowy creatures are vulnerable to radiant damage.

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I think it would be more accurate to say that those who have always used it fall into the category of "playing a homebrew game based on D&D." Homebrews can stray pretty far from the official rules of D&D, to the extent that some of them are barely recognizable. It's a matter of degrees...

I don't see anything to be gained by changing the rule. Everyone should have his/her initiative bonus pre-calculated and recorded on the character sheet, anyway, so changing to advantage would actually be slightly more work (two die rolls instead of one). Plus, there are a few effects that...

I'm curious about your sample size here. I'm guessing it's not actually big enough to be statistically significant. We should probably assume everyone is following the RAW; otherwise, we're just a bunch of nerds sharing house rules.

Good point. In that case, add ring of resistance and its cousins to the list.

Yes. I think you've actually zeroed in on a slight shift in design philosophy here. Harsh environments are meant to provide more of a challenge now, whether you have a cleric/druid or not. Protection from energy doesn't last long enough to provide any meaningful relief, but I suppose a case...

Vampiric touch is great for chain pact warlocks. Even for other spellcasters it's not bad, as long as they have a familiar. You might need to get a ruling from your DM about touches in subsequent rounds, which I suppose indicates that a possible fix for the spell would be to make it explicit...

This thread is about damage, so those other invocations aren't relevant (and were not being discussed). But yes, I'd agree that any warlock taking all three has chosen to specialize. At which point I would posit that the player doesn't find spamming eldritch blast to be boring since he has been...

There is nothing neutral about that act. If he had actually done it, as DM I would have said, "OK, fine, your character is evil now, which is against the guidelines we established, so he's now an NPC. Would you like to reroll at level 1 or retire from the campaign?" Being neutral doesn't mean...

"Specialize"? It takes one invocation, available to every pact and patron. It's not a matter of specializing. It's just what every warlock is expected to do if they care about ranged damage.

Extreme heat and cold cause exhaustion, as does icy water, and there's nothing that I know of that will protect against that. The fact that it takes a rare potion (vitality) or a 5th-level spell (greater restoration) to artificially recover from exhaustion should tell you that these are not...