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If I was fireballing chickens instead of hexing them, would the DM Asmodeus take away my powers then? Why? Do any class abilities have a caveat: Caution! Does not work if your DM suspects you my using the game rules to do things the game allows but the DM doesn't like? Does my fighter's sword...

There is an irrational, knee-jerk reaction to the phrase: "Bag of Rats". In reality, the laws of physics work how they work. What you or I think about those laws can not change how they actually work. In our D&D fantasy worlds, spells work how they work. Spells do exactly what it says on the...

OP here: I talked to the DM and laid out the legal choices. He ruled that they all act on my initiative, but immediately after I complete my turn. Fair enough, I think it's the easiest to manage. As for the poisoned daggers sidetrack, it's good to encourage ideas, but not every idea is a good...

Specifically, if you animate, say, ten objects, do you roll separate initiative totals for each of the ten? Do you roll once, and all ten act on that initiative? Or do you not roll at all, and have all ten do what they do on your (the caster's) initiative count?

Metamagic is good, ritual casting is good, how can I have both? Oh, yeah, the Ritual Caster feat FTW!

That's a metagame reason; because the players can read the statblock of the spell. But the creatures in the game world cannot be aware of game mechanics, and neither spells nor metamagics can make decisions about how they want to work, they just work the way they work. Whichever way these...

I can certainly accept that the way they chose to communicate which creatures can be affected by the spell was deliberately changed, while at the same time they did not change which creatures are actually affected. Sure there is: clarity. It makes sense that things that work the same way...

I have a 5e spell app on my phone; that's what I referenced for the range entry for thunderclap as 'Self (5-foot radius)'. The app says this spell appears in Elemental Evil and Xanathar's Guide to Everything. Checking my hardbacks:- Princes of the Apocalypse (I think it and Elemental Evil are...

Sword burst's range entry says '5 feet'. Thunderclap's range entry says 'Self (5-foot radius)'. Sword burst's description says 'Each creature with range, other than you...' The range is 5 feet. Thunderclap's description says 'Each creature other than you within 5 feet of you...' There is...

Well....spirit guardians....!

I'm creating a Divine Soul sorcerer. I have the Distant Spell metamagic, which says, "When you cast a spell that has a RANGE of 5 feet or greater, you can spend 1 sorcery point to double the RANGE of the spell". The spell spirit guardians, under the 'Range' entry, says, "Range: Self (15-foot...

That's....interesting.... Meanwhile, I need a game supplement to help me with my campaign gods set in an ersatz Scandinavia! Deities & Demigods does the job. Did you see that Thor has 26 Str when he wears his Girdle of Strength! But stats only go up to 25! Thor is awesome! And that full page...

That's....interesting.... Meanwhile, I need a game supplement to help me with my campaign gods set in an ersatz Scandinavia! Deities & Demigods does the job. Did you see that Thor has 26 Str when he wears his Girdle of Strength! But stats only go up to 25! Thor is awesome! And that full page...

You mean, they got Thor's hit points wrong? Well, 'inaccuracy' may be an appropriate criticism of a scholarly work on the subject, but here:- * the very idea that it's even possible to be 'accurate' regarding a system of belief which changed over 100s of years, that you could capture a moment...

You mean, they got Thor's hit points wrong? Well, 'inaccuracy' may be an appropriate criticism of a scholarly work on the subject, but here:- * the very idea that it's even possible to be 'accurate' regarding a system of belief which changed over 100s of years, that you could capture a moment...

Taking away the ability to shove first nerfs the feat, and makes the sword & board style less attractive. The advantage still has to be earned via an opposed roll. If you nerf it, those who care about being effective will choose PAM & GWM instead. Why would you want to encourage everyone to make...

Thanks! Natural Language FTW! Yes. One consequence of that is that a rule which says something has no power to prevent other rules from making exceptions. If it did then the whole 'specific beats general' would be impossible. So, the rule which allows movement between attacks in no way...

Thanks! Natural Language FTW! Yes. One consequence of that is that a rule which says something has no power to prevent other rules from making exceptions. If it did then the whole 'specific beats general' would be impossible. So, the rule which allows movement between attacks in no way...

Well, it is a point of pride that 5e is written in 'natural language'. So, in normal language as opposed to 5e jargon, are conditional statements causal? Is the order required? Yeah, I feel sorry for anyone who has a misguided view of the English language. Poor James. : (

Well, it is a point of pride that 5e is written in 'natural language'. So, in normal language as opposed to 5e jargon, are conditional statements causal? Is the order required? Yeah, I feel sorry for anyone who has a misguided view of the English language. Poor James. : (