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Do we know that for certain? I've not read the DMG and I'd be curious to see where it is, so feel free to quote. What they specify in the PHB pg 28 (2024) is that IF you had Resist Necromancy and Resist All Damage, it only counts once. Damage is halved, not quartered. I have no problem with...

Actually, from the same article I quoted previously, I would assume PSB resistances still exist because of this text on Deflect Attacks: Deflect Attacks — Level 3 Formerly Deflect Missiles, as the name might suggest, Deflect Attacks now has much more usability. No longer limited to Ranged...

I only did a quick google, because I didn't want to run down to my car, but... if what I saw online for 6th level monks is correct, it's not that their blows aren't magical - Empowered Strikes lets the monk choose to do either Force damage or their normal damage type. Force damage would bypass...

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but I was glad to see that it specificially says you can only take a long rest every sixteen hours. I'm sure 2014 might have said that, but I don't know anyone that did it here. It was like alpha, long rest, alpha, long rest... ymmv

For me, I feel I have a decent system mastery of the games I play. I personally don't enjoy min maxing. I will, for instance, if the game is set up as some kind of survival/no punches pulled scenario, but even then, I play a support role. I don't mean a cleric, for example, but rather I fill...

If only we see Bolo from Aeor try to get her drinks from 'these bags' <points at automatons>

Side note: one thing I noticed in the 24 PHB that I'm not sure I saw in 2014, and I'm sure I didn't see used at tables I was at, was the clarification that you can only take a long rest once every 16 hours. No alpha strike, sleep for eight hours, alpha strike, sleep for eight hours. That...

I default to something game designer John Wick said, and I believe: When people talk about 'game balance', really what it seems they're talking about is 'equal spotlight'. In my experiences, it's not that players are concerned that the thief does X more damage always, as much as they want...

This. Given his experience, would it be fair for him to give reviews and opinions on 5e if the book he skipped was the Player's Handbook? Clearly he's gamed a long time, so if the defense is he doesn't need to read the DMG, then clearly he doesn't need to have read the Player's Handbook...

Yes, but if you're going to talk on a system, shouldn't you have at least read 1/3 of the system books? Would you trust someone reviewing the Star Wars original trilogy, only to find out they didn't even watch Empire Strikes Back? They're not really reviewing the whole system, or series...

Greyhawk maps will always be my favorite. I think it's nostalgia, which to quote Judge John Hodgman, is our most toxic impulse.

I agree with your point about newer players and evolving views, but there is a very large amount of content creators that players and viewers take as the final word on the subject, to the point that their insight on DPR and theorycrafting your character is considered the be-all end-all. To...

I think there's a difference in the fact a lot of these creators have made videos, and profits, saying 'WotC failed to address this, and so here's what I eventually had to do' to then, some years later, say 'Wow, it was there the entire time'

But, then you'd have gamers up in arms (no pun intended) that this is making light of people being shot. It wouldn't particularly bother me, and I happen to know a gamer who did 8 years for committing manslaughter on her gamer husband with a deer rifle.

With the text, my feeling is this is a 'represent using a weapon you're not proficient in'. There's an assumption that because he's a dwarf, he must be a martial class and also proficient with a firearm. It's a static picture. It's not like you can see or tell that that gun is going flying...

If I recall right, his sleep and charm actually came from the Staff of Magius that he used since the get-go

I don't recall where I saw it, but I saw an amazing idea for this: You can trade gold for xp. HOWEVER, you can't buy things that will be materially useful for adventuring. You have to waste the money on ale and whores - and if you think back, that's generally why a lot of old characters like...

They did address that in the amount of time that it takes to make - again they point out it's another good use for Bastion rules - but I believe it was James who said it's measured in person-hours, so two workers cuts it in half the time, four quarters it.

That's the problem. That's entirely a DM decision. RAW, especially to get higher level items, it cost a metric boatload of XP. Who cares about gold cost - that's easy to make back up - but once you have a PC in a 2-player and a DM game start falling that far behind, it was my best hope to...

I played a magic item cleric who basically armed the other party member (an astral deva from Savage Species). The downside to 3.x crafting is the sheer amount of personal XP you had to spend to make items for people. They weren't using milestone levelling, where hypothetically I could craft...