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So... balanced as long as you assume that 1 hit = 2 damage, which has it's own problems, but close enough. Right! That's what I was missing. My understanding would be that the fighter would take his pool of dice, subtract one for doing multiattack, and then assign each of the remaining dice to...

The question then is why should someone in a city not be equally able to maintain their gear, especially when according to the lifestyle rules, someone in a city is apparently LESS able to construct a secure shelter and therefore more reliant on their armaments?

Ouch! I mean I have no idea how money works in your campaign, but this seems really harsh compared with some other material components. That's cool, what do you have legend lore do? I agree to an extent, but it's not "just because of a 1st level spell". Knowing a specific spells means you...

Identify says nothing about getting command words. I would say that getting the information "the item was turned to stone by a spell, and a command word will turn it back" is pretty useful, and not something you could necessarily otherwise guess. Further, if the character's dig deep, I would...

Observation of a few baseline creatures (elk vs giant elk, bat vs giant bat, horse vs rhino vs elephant, pseudodragon vs various dragon sizes) doesn't suggest there's any inverse relationship between size and AC. They all have some modicum of natural armor plus their dex mod. So no, the AC of a...

The downtime rules are awful. For starters there are two places that describe what happens when you practice a profession to handle your lifestyle: one says you get a poor lifestyle with a profession, and a comfortable lifestyle with survival. The other says that practicing a profession gets...

Sure they do, it's an effect that is negated with practise when fishing, and it doesn't matter a whole lot when you are talking about perpendicular angles and monster sized targets. Call it out in the narrative of failed attack rolls, and you are done. I wouldn't bother. The dragon will already...

In this case, you have completely changed the rules for underwater combat, which say that ranged weapons miss at long range and apply disadvantage at short range. Now that might be fine, but it's something you should probably have advised players about up front, not suddenly sprung on them once...

The ideal situation is to make a maze that find the path helps with but does not overcome without some additional puzzle solving effort. Which is fairly easy to do: most of the suggestions for 'an interesting maze' don't actually lose anything if you know the direct path, because "choosing which...

Yeah, but warriors already lag when it comes to fighting groups... now they're giving up dice and having to learn maneuvers to be poor at it? Exciting! aww :( That's not really what the cantrip users are trading "slightly degraded combat efficiency" for. They're trading it for "massively...

In the adventure, the dragon is 20-30ft away. That means that parts of the dragon that are below water actually have ~20-30ft of water in the way of attacks and spells. So - 20ft of water? I could see that blocking most attacks. HOWEVER In the real world, fishing with a bow and arrow is...

I own the books, and also use digital resources. I find that digital resources can be good for looking up specific rules on the spot, but that the books are superior for actually playing the game.

I think to make this work, you need to tune tightly between spells used to overcome challenges and spells used to beat the maze. As for time pressure: There should always be time pressure. The bad guys should not be sitting on their laurels waiting for the good guys to beat them.

The key with a mapping challenge is that 'mapping' should be as simple as "drawing a set of interconnected blobs", not "draw out the exact shape of each room on a grid". And it should be triggered by something other than "one of the players has been keenly keeping a map". Telling the players...

Two person group checks are basically like assisting, only worse. I'd rather just allow assistance. And for higher numbers, I'd rather avoid group checks in situations where they would be helped by characters simply leaving, or where they end up with weird effects "We're going to talk to the...

Which is what assisting is for! No, you roll too low and you don't convince the NPC that you know he can't arrest you. At which point he tries to arrest you because you're not going to be able to cause a fuss. Then you either get arrested or trigger a combat, which most likely results in...

... assuming you use all your short rest dice. My experience has been that most members of the party don't, and taking a long rest is almost never predicated upon someone running out of HP.

I would say that removing the phrase "although doing so ends the spell" does what you want, and makes essentially no change to the balance of the spell.

I guess the real question is thus: How often has the extra 1-2 hitpoints per level made a difference? How often did a hit leave you with only those hitpoints? After all, yo-yo healing has often been complained about on these boards. If you're constantly dropping to zero and being healed by a...

Yuck. I'd just errata that bit out.