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Yeah. RAW it works, but even if they're not sending them to another plane "they cast haste, then hop in my backpack for full cover" is the other option. Ofc one could then say "ok sounds like your equipment's all going to start taking damage from fireballs etc" but that's an antagonistic...

It's a frightfully boring and efficient use of a ring of spell storing, especially since the familiar has its own attunement slots and the caster can just dismiss the familiar safely to a demiplane so there's no way to try to threaten the concentration of the haste spell 😅 It makes me want to...

I believe they're referring to the newest of those game series. BG3, and D&D: Dark Alliance.

For me it's more a question of design and balance, with some concern for practicality and realism due to a desire for some degree of verisimilitude. Yes, light and darkness is something that I personally care about as a GM (unlimited cantrips and lots of darkvision/devils sight don't make it...

Just some interesting numbers shared- obviously not directly tied to the graph but it's relevant. 10M users in 2022 to 21M today.

So far the only "yes" has been with the asterisk of it being a magic lantern 😆 Well that makes me feel a bit better with my decision. I do wonder where the idea originated... Was it considered in earlier editions? I can't recall.

The imp makes an incredible scout, and it's expendable, and heck your familiar can even serve as a concentration-bot with a ring of spell storing for haste and bless. I don't personally think it's a "combat pet," but I suppose some folk might see the familiar at early levels' efficacy and wonder...

Casters don't have d4 hit die anymore, though. That gap closed a bit when wizards etc were upped to a d6.

Lol yeah, the lantern shield was "real" and no one has any real idea of its practical purpose afaik, because it looks like something you'd get from a knife shop in a mall :'D I think it just goes to show that everyone gets crazy ideas now and again, and the results might not be ... useful.

I think this is where the idea came from, at least for my groups.

OK so I've tussled with this a bit as a GM, I've gone back and forth... lanterns: Wear them on your belt, yes or no? Is it RAW (assume 5e or 5e-derivative such as A5E or ToV)? Is there anything supporting or denying it? Is it stupid and dangerous so no, it's not an option (because you'd have to...

Hide behind the pile of dead bards!

Ugh. One of the few times that I regret not fudging dice was with a first-time player, we spent an hour making his lvl1 dragonborn sorcerer, he got crit insta-dead in the first round of the first encounter by the two goblins at the start of Phandelver. On the other hand, as a seasoned DM, if my...

I basically never gamble at casinos, etc. Twice I have, ever, because that's where bachelor parties were... I will say that I played on machines that I liked the intellectual property of- one was Lord of the Rings, and another was.. was it Star Trek? That'd be ironic. I don't know if my $5 was...

The latter part :) And I wasn't deriding it, it's just looking at design from, like I said, more of a gameist perspective as opposed to simulationist. But you're in good company, that's how 5e's been headed since the late 2010's. I'm not sure where I fall on that gameist-simulationist curve...

Sounds like a 4e solution. Not that that's bad, 5e has gone in a distinctly more gameist direction over its development cycle, which heads more in the 4e direction.

Alter to need, ofc :D https://a5e.tools/node/1832

Yeah "modern" DnD, 3e and afterwards, has a lot more to keep track of. I play OSE with a group still, that we play purely Theater of the Mind no problem... but modern DnD has a lot of moving bits and pieces.

Ha well, my hurdle was just understanding how all the different notes + links worked together, were set up etc. That's why I mentioned wanting a campaign to reverse-engineer, just having a little generic skeleton of a thing with all examples of linkings etc; that's how I learn best...