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steeldragons I know i recently read somewhere that, unless stated otherwise, illusions shouldn't be able to create or block light or make things invisible, as those things are covered by other spells. Even so, those are a lot of great ideas. Thanks!

It may be a little meta for your tastes, but I think the legendary save thing should be something the players can learn of in advance if they do some research. That way, they can use a bit of strategy and some mind games, peppering it with less important, but still mildly debilitating, spells...

Has anyone come up with a way to calculate XP/CR for legendary monsters and/or monsters in lairs? I'm referring to a normal monster that the DM has added these abilities to.

No ruling rendered via twitter holds any official weight with me. He's reversed his own twitter rulings often enough that I consider this medium completely unreliable.

It does not say anywhere that 8 hours of sleep = long rest. You inferred that, as will most DMs, but it is not written.

I feel like this spell has a lot of potential, and I'm wondering about all the brilliant ways people have used it, or plan to use it.

I'm not sure what the Notes page (Windows version) is supposed to look like, but I feel like all this overlapping, half-displayed text is not intended. The Notes feature could be one of the most useful features of the app, but it's kinda janky and hard to use as is. (I write long pages of...

Maybe you need to read a little more carefully. I'm not going to waste my time going back to quote it for you, but the DM did try to stop him from using two of his abilities. In the same session. And the other players had to step in and point out that the DM didn't know what he was talking...

As has been discussed in this thread, your high-level players will have the entire MM for variety. En masse, even 1/2 and 2 CR monsters can be deadly. I like to provide variety through tactical setups. It's OK if the players have encountered the monster species numerous times in the past...

I hated it. I couldn't go into specifics at this point, but I do remember that the new version was the thing that convinced me to stop subscribing to dndinsider.

That is completely beside the point, and you know it. I'm starting to dislike conversing with you.

Absolutely I am. With bounded accuracy, I think it's bad for the game to give permanent bonuses to hit. The proficiency bonus is more than enough to keep things fair. Once your to hit bonus gets to a certain point, you stop caring about it -- you no longer need help from spells or friends to...

Because full-blooded orcs hear the voice of Gruumsh all the time, making it literally impossible for them to react to emotional stress in any way other than violence. Half-Orcs can control their rage and act civilized if they want to. If you actually read the descriptions of the two races, the...

No, sometimes we talk about the facts of D&D, and I was pointing out that your opinion runs directly counter to the facts. By all means, carry on with the discussion if it entertains you.

This entire discussion hinges on the supposition that Orcs and Half-Orcs are these fixed, immutable quantities, and that when you use either term, everyone automatically knows precisely what you mean down to the tiniest nuance. In reality, different DMs have very different ideas of what an Orc...

Not sure why you're dancing on the edge of an edition war, but "4e did it, so it must suck" isn't much of an argument. "Stock and trade" is even weaker -- as we all know, a lot of D&D traditions have been left behind, and I think most of us here feel 5e is better for it. Sure, the first +1...

To me, that's a worst-case scenario. Plus x is about the most boring thing a weapon or armor can do, and it defeats the purpose of bounded accuracy.

You don't have to be married to a damage type for the feat to be useful. When a monster resists 80 percent of the spells you know, you'll be very glad you get to ignore resistance with at least one of them. Pretty much all demons resist fire AND cold AND lightning and are immune to poison...

In the story as it was related, the DM tried to stop the player from legally using both Dark One's Own Luck and Hellish Rebuke in the same session. These are both very basic components of a warlock's arsenal, and in both cases, the DM was incorrect in his assumptions about how the power in...

If a wizard is not an evoker, you should not be judging his utility based on damage. So if damage is the only benchmark you care about, assume you're talking about an evoker. That's actually why the 5e wizard is by far my favorite iteration of the class -- the subclasses make such a huge...