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I'm wondering if you're working to solve a problem that you perceive to be true, but have not seen in game play. The first post speaks mostly to high level spells causing significant change in an encounter. Later it's mentioned that lower level control spells are messing with an encounter. If...

I allow spell changes because all of my players have come from version 3.5 and make assumptions about the spells based on past knowledge and don't read the PH close enough. I've had one class change, but that was from the UA Mystic when it was only specified for 5 levels. Once WoTC released...

In my game there is unseen and unheard. If a creature is unseen it can be perceived in other ways. If a creature is unheard, it can be perceived in other ways. If a creature is unseen and unheard, then it can be perceived by non-common ways only. Some examples. An invisible creature...

I went sorc 3 to get the meta-magic running. I then took 2 levels of cleric to get the flavor of thunderstorms and lightning. I went back to sorc for the remaining levels. I like playing with the sorcery points and possibly twinning Cure Wounds or possibly twinning Chromatic Orb and...

In one encounter I ran the warlock cast Darkness in an area and the cleric cast Silence in the same area. I assumed the NPCs were disoriented and not sure what to do next other than get out of the area and find an area where they can hear and see. Prior to them getting a turn to move, because...

I'm running the Tempest Cleric / Storm Sorc build in AL, but using human. The AC capabilities of the build are outstanding. I put strength at 9, so I'm limiting my character to medium armor. I set my dex at 14 for the +2 bonus to AC. While carrying a shield and a focus the character is...

Did you get a chance to review the Monk: Way of the Shadows? This may have some features that you would find interesting and could possibly be flavored as gifts from a patron.

As others have said, I would recommend your DM consider using the passive stealth check for the PC. This allows the DM to get an idea as to how stealthy your character is normally. If something would change that would cause the characters stealth to potentially change then a roll is most...

In the analysis I did, linked above, I found that the two weapon fighting style becomes equal to or surpasses the great weapon fighting style for the fighter class with a pole arm, page 17 of the PDF. The slight shift up sets the great weapon damage apart from the two weapon damage for the...

A player and I went over the different fighting style a lot about 3 or 4 months ago. My conclusion was that a rule change to swap the abilities of Dueling Fighting style and Great Weapon fighting style made things more balanced. Refer to this post...

Think about the role you would like to play in the group. If you run 3 levels of rogue to start with, then the other players may lock your character in as the trap disabler, lock picker, 2nd story work character. With that in mind, you may want to consider conjuring items that would be useful...

I currently use the max damage plus one die roll, i.e. 2d6 greatsword crit is 12 + 2d6 + strength bonus. When looking at class balance I found this change causes the Champion fighter to exceed the Barbarian in damage at level 20. It also gives a step bonus to the Champion fighter through all...

I run my game as you are indicating. All the players and the DM are in the same room. The dungeon map and avatars are on the TV screen. I purchased the ability to use dynamic lighting in Roll20 after messing with fog of war. I like the dynamic lighting because then I don't have to worry...

I'm going to recommend Volo's Guide to Monsters. There is expansion on Beholders, Demons, Dinosaurs, Giants, Gnolls, Hobgoblins, Kobolds, Mind Flayers, Orcs, and Yaun-Ti. They also added an abjurer (CR 9), archdruid (CR 12), archer (CR 3), blackguard (CR 8), champion (CR 9), conjurer (CR 6)...

I'm working on populating the Howling Hatred temple in Princes of the Apocalypse for level 9 & 10 PCs. There is a room that has an individual cloaker. This is a CR 8 creature that is supposed to use hit and run tactics, but is not equipped for that combat style, so I thought I would add...

Did you know there is a Forgotten Realms wiki? It seems to be updated pretty often and has a lot of links to cross reference to. In addition, there are two authors that I can think of releasing novels on the realms, Ed Greenwood and R.A. Salvatore. Finally, there is The EdVerse, which has Ed...

I was thinking the same as Hemlock and Jer with regards to the armor and granting a magic item when the DM sees fit. I would also suggest that giving proficiency in a specific armor type also considers keeping value in the feats that allow characters to become proficient in an armor category.

I did a scan of all of the spells looking for spells that haven an area of effect and the text "target" rather than "a creature" in it. There are six spells: Calm Emotions, Circle of Death, Confusion, Fireball, Mass Cure Wounds, and Slow. The most logical use of the text on page 204 would...

I don't recall the limitations of using the blade song and if it works with equipped armor. I've found that taking level of cleric can grant you proficiency in medium armors and shields. If the blade song does act as a bonus to AC then I would recommend looking at the cleric paths and find one...

Out of curiosity, if you use the un-modified XP for the encounter and divide it by the daily total of the four level fifteen characters what is the estimated percent of their resources consumed? Based on the description, I'm going to guess between 25% and 40%. The players should start to...