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Yeah, Alignment is now just an addendum to a character's Personality Traits, Ideal, Bond, and Flaw: a way to help provide interesting role-play opportunities. I'm fine with that.

While I agree that rapiers, and weapons in general, have been handled in a less-than-elegant fashion in 5e, it is really only a single point of damage per attack. That doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things.

Blade Ward; Abjuration cantrip; Casting Time: 1 Action; Range: Self; Components: V, S; Duration: Instantaneous You extend your hand and trace a sigil of warding in the air. You gain 3 temporary hit points. If you cast this spell again, temporary hit points gained from prior castings of the...

Yep. I see it now. This feat just went from forgettable to broken.

The feat could be written more elegantly by simply saying: "When making a melee attack, you may add both your strength and dexterity modifier (max +5 total) to the attack and damage rolls." That said, why would someone take this feat over +2 to their combat stat? While this feat offers some...

What if we cast Light on a baby giant, and the giant grows up to be larger than a 10' cube?

Would you let it be cast on a 10'x10' piece of linen, then allow the players to cut it vertically in a zigzag pattern so that it remained one piece but could then be extended to 50'?

The OP is essentially asking for a DM ruling here, as this scenario is not covered by the rules. I'd ask the player which end of the stick was glowing, and then allow only that part of the stick to glow once it is split in half. This just kicks the problem down the road. The problem is still...

I made a small Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of player's passive skill scores. It also has a column that provides randomly generated stealth checks with applicable bonuses. Instead of having them roll their stealth checks, I just use the randomly generated values. That way there is no need...

My current Blade Pact warlock has the Mobile and Defensive Duelist feats. He has a lot of fun bolting across the battlefield with Expeditious Retreat to stab people with his rapier.

I'd allow a player to use Thieves' Tools (Int) proficiency to recall or apply lore relating to the use of thieves' tools, locks, and mechanical traps. For instance, I might let the player use this proficiency when determining whether some discarded wire in a prison cell was used as a rudimentary...

Actually, I suspect you were just trying to save face by switching from an incorrect argument (It is RAW that concentrating on a spell is no more strenuous than "eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds") to an irrelevant and non-contentious argument (It is RAW that "eating, drinking...

No. It isn't contentious. I don't see anyone arguing that "eating, drinking, reading, and tending to wounds" breaks a spellcaster's concentration. Have you seen anyone at all argue this? Even a single person? The entire crux of the controversy is whether concentrating on a spell is more or...

Sure, but answering the first question doesn't help you answer the second. In fact, I'm really not sure of the relevance of the first question whatsoever. Warlocks want to know whether they can cast Hex then get their slot back with the short rest while keeping Hex up. How does saying "Reading...

I would suggest letting them know when they pass certain checkpoints. You could say that they are winded below half and bloodied below one fourth.

You just drew an inference as well. While it might be a reasoned inference, it remains just an inference. In other words, you gave your own personal interpretation of a set of rules that does not give us an explicit answer. That's perfectly fine, but it ain't RAW. I'm not. I'm just pointing...

I'd hate to be a broken record here, but the inferences you, doctorbadwolf, draw from the rules are not RAW. That is literally you making a judgment call, which is the opposite of RAW.

It would be helpful if you could share a little about how you see your warlock. What is your warlock's alignment, personality traits, ideal, bond, and flaw?

This sounds like a reimagining of Gotrek and Felix, with your character playing the role of Felix. I believe he was some sort of bard or chronicler in that story.

I suppose it is competent yet unexciting.