Search results

I imagine that a magic missile passes all the way through you. It's not like an arrow that sticks into you, and it's not like a club that knocks against you. It is force without matter. It can pass through matter, and it applies evenly to all the areas it passes through. This means a magic...

I disagree. It lasts 24 hours. Therefore, if you cast it right before taking a long rest (or even better, right before finishing a long rest, and yes you can do that by RAW), you get your spell slot back and you have free food and healing for the entire next day. Just ask my players, they do...

I voted Warlock. Because if Warlocks are a thing, then what the heck are Clerics? The coexistence of Cleric and Warlock as core classes implies that there is a very big difference between "real gods" and "not gods," which I don't like. I like the idea of crazy cultists worshiping random weird...

Level 14-ish. We did the entire Tyranny of Dragons campaign with no character death (and no real threat of character death at any point). We played a bit of Princes of the Apocalypse, and there were a few moments of genuine deadliness, but these were not winnable encounters. I think I've seen...

So far, no encounters have felt deadly in 5e--except for ones that felt unfair, like a CR+10 monster with breath damage 3x the characters' max HP, or five wraiths coming out of a wall behind you and hitting you with surprise life drain. I think a big part of the problem is the labels of the...

[note: I wrote most of this post and saw that Lanefan had already said basically the same thing already, but I'm going to post it anyway because maybe it's valuable to explain it in different words or whatever.] I think the solution we're looking for is to make General 5e into a sub-forum (on...

Here's how I'd handle it as a player (and how I'd prefer players handle it when I DM): Say "Really? From 70 feet away?" If the DM says yes, that's the end of it. This particular monster is shooting you from 70 feet away and you have to deal with it. The DM has no obligation to run the monsters...

Roll 1d4. The book is fine. Of course a seafaring wizard would invest in waterproof spellbooks. The book is ruined. Oops. The book is largely illegible - for each spell, the reader must make an Arcana check (DC = 15 + spell level) or be unable to read it. (Only the party's highest Arcana...

Huh. I was kinda hoping they'd try to fix the PHB ranger first before completely jumping off the deep end.

I like a tight mechanical system, but I'd rather keep the specifics vague. I don't want to worry about the difference between a flower garden and an art gallery, for example. I want players to be able to come up with anything they want. How about this: Whenever you take a long rest in the...

Maybe it's supposed to be finger of death.

Role: A solitary warrior who lives outside the protection of civilization, using a diverse set of skills to survive in the monster-filled wilderness of the D&D world. Mechanics: Combat features, exploration features, some spellcasting for more combat and exploration features (spells are such as...

Oh. That's dumb. I guess I've been playing it wrong all this time. Wait, what is even the point of the antimagic eye, then? I thought the whole point of the beholder is that it disables your magical stuff and then shoots lasers at you. That's what's scary about it. If the antimagic eye disables...

Wait, I don't understand the problem. Beholders have an anti-magic field coming from their central eye (which is not random, and is active all the time). How are they defeated by a darkness spell?

After running it for a while, my biggest piece of advice is to ignore the hooks it gives you--especially the Mirabar delegation, which is the main hook at the beginning, and then the authors apparently forgot about it for most of the rest of the book. If I were starting again, I'd try to come up...

My ideal D&D product model: #1: Produce a large quantity of cheap or free micro-content (small dungeons, feats, spells, class options, setting elements) that can be modified, expanded, and easily incorporated into an existing campaign, on a weekly or monthly basis. Unearthed Arcana is doing a...

Where is that implied? In the rules, it says you can change your list of prepared spells "when you finish a long rest." Not "any time during the day after you finish a long rest." So like, you take a long rest. The DM says "Your rest is uninterrupted," and the players reset their HP, HD, spell...

The "type" of book doesn't matter as much as the quality/usefulness of the book itself. If it's good, it's worth converting. If it's not, it's not.

That's from the second issue (the videogame one).

This really belongs in the Character Builds and Optimization forum, not the general 5e one.