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Most pact blade warlocks who know what they are doing aren't going to have their concentration so easily broken. But the purpose of this thread is not for me to teach you how to be a good warlock. If you honestly believe bladelocks shouldn't use hex, you should probably just go ahead and bow out...

The way the ring is worded, none of the attributes of the spell (including range) matter at all, as the spell's effect does not occur at the time. You just have to be "touching the ring as the spell is cast." You aren't casting the spell on the ring.

I understand that. I was referring to the situation where someone wanted to hand out self-only spells to the whole party. To do so would require several hours of downtime. It works for find familiar and find mount, which are more or less permanent and can be done a day in advance, but other...

I can't imaging a warlock ever not wanting hex. If you're lucky enough to get the opportunity to store a second spell before the hex runs out, scorching ray is a pretty sure bet, shatter or vampiric touch if you aren't a hell-lock. Or just put another hex in and feel free to use up the rest of...

I would do this, but I disagree with evilives about the unarmed attack. I feel like the monk class feature adds the option to make a martial-arts attack; it doesn't replace existing options. As a human monk, you still have the option to make a 1-damage attack with your balled-up fist, but you...

The ring must be attuned, and you can only attune three items at one time. So if your non-caster wants to use this ring for shenanigans various and sundry, he can have the ring plus a magic weapon and a suit of armor (for example), and that's it. No ring on the other hand, no magic boots, etc...

For a warlock, even one extra spell per day is HUGE. An extra spell per short rest (sometimes) is GARGANTUAN. I don't think most players should expect to be getting rare items before level 5, but I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions out there. (Please don't anyone comment just to say you're...

I've been in several games with different groups of people where we used "socialist" rolling. Each player rolls the normal 4d6 method, but then players who rolled extremely well must swap a score with someone who rolled poorly. Not their best score -- just an average one for a poor one, so that...

Surely haste only doubles the base speed, and then the additive bonuses go on top of that.

This. It's the best compromise for dealing with player/character stat mismatch. If the character is smart or charismatic, the player should be granted more leeway in the challenge. This can take the form of extra hints for puzzles or investigations, or NPCs giving more attention or benefit of...

I am in love with this explanation.

Same here. Even if they decided there wasn't room for the whole word, they could have chosen to indicate it with an abbreviation or icon or something. I was really looking forward to having some spell cards, but I can't abide shoddy workmanship of this magnitude.

It's definitely not RAW. The retreating creature's reach has absolutely nothing to do with opportunity attacks made against it. The reason being, he has chosen to lower his defenses by retreating without Disengaging, rendering his own reach irrelevant.

Ah, I see what you mean. It's a good point.

So instead of the threat of torture, we're just threatening to kill them. I'll also mention again that the modern police have an entire judicial and corrections system to back them up. Fantasy adventurers don't have those luxuries. Even if you aren't completely sure a freed prisoner is going...

It's magic, so physical laws need not apply. Since some people (those who disbelieve) can see through the illusion and others cannot, we're already snug in bed with a paradox. We might as well make the most of it.

Then how about just a conversion guide for the crunch? They could probably fit all of the crunch for all of the worlds into one book and save themselves the trouble of repeating all the fluff ... yet again.

I doubted it because there is no monster named "fey" or "beast," but there is an entire section of monsters specifically named "elemental," and that section specifically calls out the fact that elementals are often summoned by wizards. However, upon further consideration, it's pretty clear that...

I'm not in any hurry to see more rehashes of campaign settings. There are enough versions of all of them already, and it's not at all difficult to adapt any of the minor crunch they contain to a 5e game. Similarly, any of the books of treasure and spells are easy enough to adapt to 5e. I can...

That is an extremely good point. I very much doubt that the spell is meant to extent beyond true ("vanilla") elementals, but the lack of more powerful examples in the MM is either an oversight or one of the compromises they had to make to keep the page count down. What I would do is just use...