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I am playing a battlerager with 3 levels of fighter (champion) for the critical hits. While at first it might seem I have no choices in combat but rolling a D20, this is entirely wrong. Let's see what this non spellcasting class has as combat choices (including GWM feat): 1. Swing great axe...

The problem with PAM and GWM is simply that you have a set of weapons for which both apply, and the rest don't. That's it. This means, by definition, those that apply to both are markedly better than those that are not. I house ruled that any weapon that applies to PAM does not apply to GWM...

I am almost positive it even says in the Cragmaw description that the floor of the second level is now the roof for the ruined structure.

Agreed. The first two levels of exhaustion are not that bad. You just need to make sure the 3rd time you use it is the last encounter of the day before a long rest. There are also ways to remove exhaustion, including Greater Restoration, which the party has at 9th level and while it costs 100...

If you look through the various variants and options in the DMG you can find a bunch of ways to add tactics to combat. The flanking rule, the various injury rules, the weapon speed rule, and variant initiative rules. Heap enough of those onto the base system and you will probably have a more...

I am confused. How is a 21 AC at all game breaking? I can toss a crapload of lower level creatures out of the Monster Manual with +5 to +7 to hit. They hit between 25% and 40% of the time! Also, every class is designed to have holes in its "armour". You mentioned one...a low Wisdom save...

I have noticed that in the official scenarios there are instances where the text requires proficiency in a skill to have a chance or even allow a roll.

But this is true of everything in D&D. Our characters cannot feel pain. Getting a sword through your ribs hurts...a lot! Even if you get healing soon afterwards. But the players don't feel pain and so are quite willing to take this immense pain over and over again. Similarly, who in real life...

Like: Rod of Lordly Might...the Swiss army knife of magic items!

" In a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, the DM might offer a short phrase as an answer instead. " So no, they don't have to be Yes or No questions. But I stand by my initial contention that this spell should not be used in the way you are...

Hitler, Stalin, Idi Amin?

In Living Greyhawk, at a convention in Southern California, a person did just that at a mega event in which an army was invading the city. His group was tasked with defending the docks and denying their use to the enemy. When he and his companions were being overrun, he called Broken Arrow and...

Intimidation: You can run but you can't hide! If you surrender you will live. If you flee, we will hunt you down and kill you and anyone who gives you shelter....painfully. No matter how long it takes.

I have thought that the bard is singing all the time during combat (when not casting spells) and that the inspiration is simply weaving the inspire by name into the song or including a verse at that moment particularly apt to influence the person.

To be less flippant, I am not sure this is a proper question. Commune should be reserved for actual necessary resolutions and not as a faux newspaper interview of your deity. As such, given that we have absolutely no information as to what is going on in your campaign or with your PC, how could...

What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favourite colour? Boxers or briefs? Do you always tell a lie?

Except at mid levels Dispel Magic is available, and if you use the proper spell slot there isn't even a check; it automatically works. So I might be inclined to submit that if your players don't like the already nerfed save or suck mechanic in 5th edition (in every instance I can think of you...

The bonuses elves had in AD&D were rather astounding when you added them all up. Not only did they have the abilities in the PHB, but they also had some wildly powerful abilities from the Monster Manual write up (like surprising opponents 2/3rds of the time, et al) and they had additional...

Exactly. I can't think of too many adventure episodes that take more than an hour of any sort of activity, so I'd be inclined to, as a player, before entering any set piece dungeon or caves, to state I am starting a long rest and then head in. I can almost guarantee I will take much less than an...

This is a huge problem IMO, and one that I finally could only resolve by taking the player aside and informing him that RPing is a group activity and unless the rest of the players are on board, it ain't happening. The issue is that making up a table is never satisfactory. If there is no risk...