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This belongs in the Optimization forum. -- Pauper

Dude, it's "Three Faces of Evil"; it's deadly enough without me throwing in stuff that Mearls didn't originally include. If they try the same cheese in "The Spire of Long Shadows" (levels 13-14) though, then all bets are off. I disagree. From SRD, p.173: "At the upper end of the rope, an...

WotC, as an entity, doesn't care about cons, per se. They have vendors who organize their Organized Play events for them -- at most of the big cons, that vendor is Baldman Games, and at smaller cons, it's a local who may or may not have been part of the old 'coordinator' system. Baldman probably...

You know how I like to say that optimization is a bad playstyle because it drives out all other playstyles? This is a great example of that. -- Pauper

That was pretty funny, I have to admit. In reality, though, we covered the exact scenario in our game last night. The party decided to Rope Trick short rest after the first room of the dungeon, after fighting just two tiefling guards. (We're playing "Three Faces of Evil" from the Age of Worms...

Considering that GenCon doesn't have actual turnstiles, I suspect their 'turnstile' attendance is a mathematically calculated value close to what others would call 'footfall': (# of 4-day badges sold)*4+# of individual day badges sold They do have staff at the doors to the event and dealer...

5 out of 5 rating for Delta Green: Handler's Guide It may seem like a non-sequitur, but this book is structurally the book that fans of D&D's Forgotten Realms have been asking Wizards of the Coast to produce for nearly five years now. The Delta Green Handler's Guide is, in large part, just...

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It should be noted that the DMG rules for cover are tied to the Playing on a Grid optional rules -- if you're not using a grid, those rules don't apply. The same applies to miniatures game rules -- they depend on the use of a grid/map, and aren't as useful without it. In the Basic Rules, there...

This belongs in the CharOp forum. Thanks, -- Pauper

This belongs in the CharOp forum. Thanks, -- Pauper

Disagree. As Treantmonk himself points out, there are plenty of tools usable to be able to find a rope trick, if you suspect one is around: 1. Truesight (largely restricted to higher level/CR opponents; this also defeats illusions) 2. See Invisibility (the entrance is "invisible", so the...

Chaosium is a perennial ENnie winner -- even in 2015, when WotC was cleaning up awards for releasing 5E, Chaosium still garnered a Gold and Silver. And Arc Dream will be back next year, if my first couple of perusals of the Delta Green Handler's Guide is any indication. They may not be...

If you use Rope Trick to do a short rest recovery in 'hostile territory' and aren't ambushed as soon as you come out of the extradimensional space: 1) You're in a very low level party whose opponents aren't aware of the trick, 2) Your DM isn't doing her job, or 3) You're playing Adventurers...

Which is kinda weird, because they jumped 100 years into the future to 'wipe the slate clean' and then kept all the iconic characters, even bringing some back. Considering that every D&D book published is effectively a Forgotten Realms book (via Adventurers League), FR isn't going anywhere any...

I feel as though this discussion really belongs in the Optimization forum rather than the General 5E forum. -- Pauper

Sort of -- in practice, it was difficult to get a 'special mission' in order to rank up to faction rank 3 before reaching Tier 2, so you'd still end up with a magic weapon, it just would take longer. With the new rules, you no longer have to wait even that long. I didn't have a problem with...

So we've gone from 'D&D as a system doesn't presume you'll ever have magic weapons; the combat system is balanced that way via bounded accuracy' to 'we assume every character will have a +1 weapon of their choice before reaching 5th level'? I guess third-edition thinking never really dies...

Keep in mind, though, that the fact that a 'living PDF' exists on the DMs Guild doesn't pre-empt the publication of a hardcover Eberron book, which will likely contain duplicate info to the PDF, specifically the race and class information. And yes, Mearls has stated this explicitly. So buying...

One of the nice things about Ravenloft is that it avoided the 'rockstar designer' trope by cloaking its developers in the shadows, metaphorically. The TSR/WotC team responsible for approving line materials became known as the Kargat, while the largely freelance development staff writing the...