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  1. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) I'm really hating Constitution right now

    I personally wouldn't do this, or play a game where someone did this, but it sounds like for you the best thing would be to simply remove the choice. Remove one of the standard array scores (either the 12 or 13 to be 'balanced', or the 8 if you're feeling generous), tell your players to use...
  2. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) ForgedAnvil D&D 5E Character Generator

    I'm not sure I understood this completely but your character's Dex should be 13 (11 from your roll and an additional 2 from your race) and its Armor Class should be 12 (11 from the leather and a additional 1 from your Dex modifier). Leather armor doesn't normally add to your Dexterity score...
  3. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Swashbuckler

    ? The idea is that you attack in melee (with a melee attack) first, use Fancy Footwork to move away from the one you attacked, then fire the hand crossbow with your bonus action.
  4. FarBeyondC

    "Named" Dagger of Venom – Adventure's League

    As far as I can tell, you're correct. At the very least, there's nothing in the descriptions of the two items that hint at special properties at this time.
  5. FarBeyondC

    "Named" Dagger of Venom – Adventure's League

    Assuming it's A Night to Remember (CCC-GARY-01) that you've gone through, and that names haven't changed between the Con and now (well, when I bought my copy of the set), the names of the daggers should be the Left Hand of Sybil and the Right Hand of Sybil individually or the Fangs of Sybil as a...
  6. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Missile vs. Mirror Image

    Question. How is the place an illusion is not a location?
  7. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) ForgedAnvil D&D 5E Character Generator

    Would it be possible to re-upload the last beta until it's determined what's going on with the current version?
  8. FarBeyondC

    "Other Resources" and Volo's Guide to Monsters

    At least according to how I'm reading it, Volo's (and other things) should count for this purpose, but just in case I missed something, I'll ask here: Does Volo's Guide to Monsters (VGtM) qualify as an 'other resource' for the purpose of Wild Shape, Beast Companion, conjure spells, etc. as...
  9. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) A Matter Of Initiative

    A brief and (hopefully) simple question for the disjunct: By default rules, is starting combat on an initiative other than the highest initiative allowed? Bonus: In what situations would you consider it reasonable do to such a thing?
  10. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) How to deal with a Warlock gaining Detect Magic as a cantrip

    There's simple things you could do if you want to, on occasion, catch the warlock by surprise. Just use non-magical traps and hidden weapons, or mix non-magical traps and hidden weapons in with the magical traps and hidden weapons. Detect magic is absolutely useless against those. Use magical...
  11. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Polearm Master Feat

    No, it isn't. The effective attacking range of the pike is 10 feet. There is no stated length for the pike- or any other weapon, far as I've seen.
  12. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Dragon Sorcerer Draconic Wings and Magic Robes

    No, however... Sounds like magic items that are worn adjust themselves to the wearer by default, unless something in the story suggests otherwise.
  13. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Where does optimizing end and min-maxing begin? And is min-maxing a bad thing?

    You wanted it more than the other options available. Point-buy forces you to choose nothing. You, adhering to whatever standards it is that guides your character creation process, forces yourself to choose. I'm of the opinion that this- -has an obvious, understood "Within of the bounds...
  14. FarBeyondC

    D&D Beyond Beta: Your First Thoughts Thread!

    Sounds good enough, I suppose. Let me go check it- ... You know what, nevermind.
  15. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Clerics and GFB/BB

    Arcana Cleric (1st level) + Magic Initiate Druid (for Shillelagh more than anything else) will get you there. 1st level Arcana Cleric gives you two cantrips from the wizard's spell list (including GFB and BB), making both count as cleric cantrips (and would thus use wisdom for the casting...
  16. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) class mastery

    Why not just take all (or multiple) subclasses simultaneously, then? A (admittedly cursory) look at the current subclasses suggests to me that taking more than one subclass at once would grant you more versatility, but not all that much more power (other than from the increased versatility)...
  17. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Do you feel 5e pressures you to build strong over fun?

    Let's see... Just as there's plenty of imperfectly legit, imperfectly illegit, and perfectly illegit playstyles. Definitely an OnlyWay believer myself, said OnlyWay being "do what you like first, everything else second". Not so much a caller-outer, except when defending someone else...
  18. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) good things, bad things and things you would change about 5e

    No. It sounds like he's referring to a combination of expertise + reliable talent, where you end up with a rogue potentially having +15 to a given skill and the inability to ever end up with less than a 10 on the die.
  19. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Sharpshooter

    The first paragraph does not, in this case, override the bullet points. Now, moving away from what the rules say for a moment... In my opinion, that first paragraph is the effective cause for a given character being able to now do what the feats allows for in the bullet points. Which is to...
  20. FarBeyondC

    D&D 5E (2014) Sharpshooter

    And I believe that organization serves a useful (and interesting) purpose. I disagree. They could have easily have made two entries for dagger, or any of the other thrown weapons, if they wanted to. It would have been wasteful, mind. They could have also easily made a third category for...
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