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There's the classic Life Cleric in plate & shield with Spirit Guardians up and Dodging. Toss in Warcaster and a level of Sorcerer for Shield and you have a nigh unmovable, damaging barrier in the front line.

As soon as I saw the words "...in the real world" I was thinking there would be trouble. The monk is powerful enough as is. If it works for your game, have fun, but it's not something I'd have at my table.

Much prefer to run homebrew. But in 5e I've mainly run published content since the lion share of my gaming has been in AL.

Paladins already have a cantrip. It's called Smite.

1) The rules for interacting with the illusion are given in the spell description. 2) Can't make a swarm of bees since the illusion is of a static object that has no other sensory characteristics (sound, smell, touch, etc). Dirt wall would work until the goblin determined it was an illusion...

So the goal is to create a viable pricing method for magic items that determines gp cost based on the item's utility to game play, correct? The first thing you need to do is to determine what factors you want to quantify - bonuses to hit, number of charges, levels of spells usable, special...

I believe the younger generation calls those 'save points'. :)

Statistically no one survives a 60' fall IRL. So in my home game I put in a rule that falling incurs max damage (so 6hp per 10'). At 30' and beyond you also roll a Dex Saving throw, DC 10 + 5 per every 10' past 30' (so 15 at 40', 20 at 50', 25 at 60', etc), with a failure indicating reduction...

I get it. Perhaps parts of overland travel can be abstracted to use up resources? Traveling through the forest? Okay, you'll need an Int (Survival) check for overland navigation, a Wis (Survival) check to circumvent trail hazards and a Wis (Nature) check to appease the local fey into not...

Why? It just sounds so artificial. Rest is based on the opportunity to rest, not some set number of exertions you go through before resting.

Somewhat on the topic, I like it when someone in the party takes up the mantle of group leader. It's best when this person is direct but keeps everyone else involved and part of the decision making. The worst are those who just assume power and leave the rest of the party behind as they...

My Great Weapon & Polearm Master has a Cube of Force. In most fights he can turn it to 'keep out living creatures' and attack from 10' without fear of being hit back.

One of my worst, involving both a dick player and a weak, enabling DM, happened back in the '80s. Our party was playing City System in Waterdeep and discovered that one of the players (the dick in question) was actually playing a Drow priestess and causing woe to the party behind their backs...

I write a 1-2 page set of notes before each session, starting with a RECAP from last time. Then I have headings like ENCOUNTER, EVENT, BACKGROUND and a couple more that I use to organize the notes, using bold for key info. These notes are then kept in the same document and become something...

Really, it doesn't matter if (some) actual bats have excellent night vision. The DM said the thunderclap blinded the echo location of the bat and it was dark, probably assuming the bat then couldn't see because they're not an expert chiropterologist. That's fine. If the player wants to...

One reason many of my PCs have the Message cantrip is to do 'secure comms' for pre/post-battle discussions. I'll mention using that if it seems like a thing that my PC would be concerned about.

Season 7 is supposed to last "a year". So I expect that round about GenCon we'll be seeing a new HC that will also presage the new AL season. I remember Greg Marks talking about all the work that was going into prepping for a long Season 7 way back toward the end of Curse of Strahd.

Yeah, "gotchas!" like that are a sign of a dick DM.

I doubt I'd have my foes be so meta about it, but sure, if an enemy has a spy that could get that sort of info, they'd certainly act on it.

When two honey badgers collide!