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  1. Nickolaidas

    [5E] Interrupting a Spellcaster via Ready Action

    I think that dnd4vr makes a solid point. And to take it a step further, I think that the character who rolled a higher initiative gets to interrupt those who rolled lower. So yes, if the PC Fighter (who plays before the Grimlock), says that he readies an action to hit the Grimlock the second...
  2. Nickolaidas

    [5E] Interrupting a Spellcaster via Ready Action

    Thanks for the feedback! You too, dnd4vr!
  3. Nickolaidas

    [5E] Interrupting a Spellcaster via Ready Action

    The way I see it, an attack used as a readied action - which is used as a reaction, acts like the counterspell (which is ALSO a reaction) - it is done before the spell (which is counterspelled) can have any effect. However, while counterspell is a sure thing (unless the spell is quite a few...
  4. Nickolaidas

    [5E] Interrupting a Spellcaster via Ready Action

    So basically the only reason a PC would ready an action to hit a spellcaster is to break his concentration IN CASE he casts a spell with ongoing duration.
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    [5E] Interrupting a Spellcaster via Ready Action

    Initiative Order: 1. PC Fighter 2. Grimlock 3. PC Wizard 4. Mind Flayer Arcanist --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "DM: PC Fighter, what do you do? PC Fighter: I grab my spear and ready the following action: The second I see the Mind Flayer...
  6. Nickolaidas

    A gelatinous Cube and a 10-feet corridor ...

    But the fighter isn't pushed; the Cube WANTS him to stay in its space - the Fighter pushes HIMSELF away from the Cube - ergo, it's a move he's doing willingly.
  7. Nickolaidas

    A gelatinous Cube and a 10-feet corridor ...

    Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! So basically, it's yet another arbitrary situation where I have to be the final umpire and decide whether I want to punish the PCs for sticking together, or throw them a bone and let a successful save be a successful save. *sigh* decisions, decisions ...
  8. Nickolaidas

    A gelatinous Cube and a 10-feet corridor ...

    Player's Handbook - page 191 "Whether a creature is a friend or an enemy, you can't willingly end your move in its space." Doesn't the fighter moving 5 ft backwards to escape the cube counts as 'willingly ending one's move in its space'?
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    A gelatinous Cube and a 10-feet corridor ...

    So, I'm DMing a custom adventure I made and there's this situation in a dungeon ... a 10-feet wide and say, 50 feet long corridor has a gelatinous cube in the middle. Like this: XX XX XX XX GG GG XX XX XX XX X=empty corridor square G=Gelatinous Cube The PCs are walking down the corridor and...
  10. Nickolaidas

    D&D 5E (2014) When a Lightning Bolt spell met the floor ...

    I just think that dragons being deprived of a breath weapon attack towards enemies in the ground when the dragons themselves are in the air (like they do in Skyrim for example) is a major handicap, as is also a spellcaster being unable to fire a lightning bolt to a flying enemy (while the...
  11. Nickolaidas

    D&D 5E (2014) When a Lightning Bolt spell met the floor ...

    So the only way a diagonal line of lightning could've hit the paladin and only the paladin would be for the attacker to be at least 5ft above the ground? Like, for example, a Young Blue Dragon firing his breath at a party of 4 adventurers (with them having formed a square formation) while flying...
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    D&D 5E (2014) When a Lightning Bolt spell met the floor ...

    Okay, so I've been DMing 5E with my brother, my sister-in-law and my kid nephew. I ambushed their group with some Dragonborn cultists of Blue Dragon heritage. At some point, my brother's paladin was surrounded by a Maw Demon on his back, one Dragonborn cultist to his front, and one Dragonborn...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Transformers: Is This The Next Setting After Ravnica?

    I would buy the :):):):) out of this.
  14. Nickolaidas

    Eberron It Is? [UPDATED & CONFIRMED!]

    "More planes in 2019." Praise the (Dark) Sun!
  15. Nickolaidas

    "Dust" and "Midway" - Codenames for Upcoming D&D Hardcovers

    Jungle? Whoa, hope it's Yuan-Ti focused.
  16. Nickolaidas

    Planescape WOTC Teasing Planescape?

    Hmm ... could this be 'Dust'?
  17. Nickolaidas

    Planescape WOTC teasing planescape.com

    Hmm ... could this be 'Dust'?
  18. Nickolaidas

    WotC's Irwin, Tanji, and Crawford on Tales from the Yawning Portal's Art Direction

    This is actually one of my tiny complaints with 5th edition - not enough art in the modules. I'm not saying it should become a comic book but I'd like to see double the art in the modules.
  19. Nickolaidas

    D&D 5E (2014) Your one hope for D&D?

    Dark Sun Setting.
  20. Nickolaidas

    "Dust" and "Midway" - Codenames for Upcoming D&D Hardcovers

    I sincerely do *not* want Midway to mean midway between 5E and 6E. 5E goes very slow in terms of content so it shouldn't be updated to 6E with less then 20 books in 5E's name. 5E is the first edition I'm 100% invested in (have all the books so far, something I'd *never* done with any D&D E...
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