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  1. Thaumaturge

    D&D 5E (2014) Dragonborn and Tieflings, post-Sundering.

    On a related note, I'm going to have any half-dragons that interact with the party call the party's dragonborn names. What are good racial slurs for a half-dragon to call a dragonborn? (Should this be its own thread?) I've already got: lizardborn, diluted, little lizard man. Any other ideas...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Does anyone who got an mm at Gencon want to offer up spoilers to us?

    Huh. Yeah, I looked in the index. The problem is I looked for ogrillon, but they're under "Half-Ogre". And I didn't think to look there. Ogres mate with: humans, hobgoblins, bugbears, or orcs to produce half-ogres. (They eat: dwarves, halflings, or elves). Human mothers usually die during...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Battlemats?

    I love to talk about my table, thanks for asking. :) It takes a while, yeah. It took us almost exactly a year (placed our order at Gen Con 2013, got it the week after Gen Con 2014) to get ours, and that was with us getting bumped up in the queue by 3 months (I don't know the reason). Much...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dragonborn and Tieflings, post-Sundering.

    This is how I'm ruling it at my table. My one dragonborn PC in HotDQ is playing a character who was away from home on a mission during the Sundering, and lost his family. Dragonborn in my FR are a people without a land. A diaspora of dragonborn looking for their place in the world. If we get a...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How should I lead my players from Phandalin to Greenest?

    I second this. You'll have to scale down the scope of the raid on Greenest, perhaps, but it should mostly work as written. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Anyone else feel individual initiative is more trouble than it's worth?

    I've recently started using the Chris Sims method. I stole it from his twitter. It has worked out well so far. I'm able to avoid clumping and such. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) I'm incapacitated, but I can move just fine.

    I'd say a mobile potted plant is no more overpowered than a stationary one. (But, yes, your point is generally true.) Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Meld into Stone - easy long rests mid-dungeon?

    Now, he'd be surprised that he didn't pause the TV, and then he'd rewind the show. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Preview: Intellect Devourer

    I don't usually read many after action reports, because they get too lengthy. I'd read this, though. I expect it to be quite short. :] Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) I'm incapacitated, but I can move just fine.

    In 5B? Nothing merely incapacitates. It's either like Mistwell quoted, or incapacitated is part of another condition (stunned, unconscious, petrified, or paralyzed). I can't as easily do a text search of the PH(B). :) Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) I'm incapacitated, but I can move just fine.

    The funniest part is in the section on knocking people out: So when you want to incapacitate, you actually don't want to incapacitate, because incapacitation isn't incapacitating enough. :uhoh: Though incapacitation is a sub-status of unconscious. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) I'm incapacitated, but I can move just fine.

    ...that's what it says. Crazy. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Battlemats?

    I've spent the last year or so deprogramming my group from needing battlemats. And then I got my Geek Chic table. So, yeah, we'll be using mats, but mostly for big events. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Steve Winter Clarifies a few HotDQ Issues.

    And note that a number of the things I quoted are addressing issues that aren't errors: how perception worked, how they intended the castle to be run, or if errata would be collected somewhere. And many of the errors are fairly minor. I'm glad to have it, though. I'll sit down and update my...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Steve Winter Clarifies a few HotDQ Issues.

    Updated the first post. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Steve Winter Clarifies a few HotDQ Issues.

    Over on the WotC boards, here. He's going over missing info and the like. EDIT: I've added it here. I suppose he won't mind me copying his stuff. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Magic Initiate, High Elf Cantrip and Proficiency Bonus

    Come on, now. The material component for minor illusion is just fluff. Thaumaturge.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Shields and Somatic Components: Will you play it "as is?"

    The guy playing a bard in one of my campaigns brought this up. We came up with a "parrying tamborine". He holds it in his off-hand, can use it as a focus, and can use it to parry blows, which confers a +2 to AC. His hands are both full, so he can't really manipulate objects or anything without...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Cutting Words and game flow

    Cool. Thaumaturge.
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