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I'd go with #1, making the ruling that the Jumping rules are telling you what your 'maximum' jump distance is based on your Strength score, not what your 'jump speed' is. (The rules themselves don't make that distinction, but treating the calculation as 'max jump distance' capped by move speed...

It's a solid read; I'd recommend it. One point for Realms nerds -- I haven't seen anything reversing the destruction of Tilverton by the forces of Shade in 1372 DR. (This was actually a late 3E event, around the time of "War of the Spider Queen", not a 4E event, but given that so much of 4E...

Considering that the discussion of Operation OBSIDIAN (the ill-fated operation that results in the loss of Delta Green's official status) makes it pretty plain that OBSIDIAN basically *is* a Mythos version of Apocalypse Now, I'd say 'yes'. I think Mr. Helton doesn't quite give the book enough...

I'm going to take a slightly different tack here. I don't disagree that all of the elements under discussion here were part of the 4E design/intended experience, and I agree that 4E set out to, and did, solve a lot of problems inherent to the design structure of 3E. But, since the first release...

You could certainly rule this at your table, but it wouldn't be correct based on the published rules: "[W]hen a reaction has no timing specified, the reaction occurs after its trigger finishes (DMG, p.252). In contract, an opportunity attack specifically takes place before its trigger...

I feel the author missed an opportunity by not naming this article, "Dude, where's Mike Carr?" -- Pauper

Ultimately, the 'official source' is what the DM decides to go with for her campaign. I played in one Realms game where the DM agreed that the star elves in his game were basically all clones of his wife's character. -- Pauper

There's a certain class of player for whom, if a particular action has any chance of hindering rather than helping things, then that action will never be taken. 5E in general is very much in the 'all upside' design philosophy -- there's very little that has potential downside, and even the few...

Charles Stross's Laundry Files novels are another good example -- a secret organization, filled almost entirely with people of good will, who nevertheless have to make difficult choices and do terrible things to keep even greater horrors from consuming the world. -- Pauper

There's really just one problem with this concept when applied to horror games (as opposed to intrigue or similar types of games): part of the thing that makes a game a 'horror' game is the presentation of the unknown and/or the uncanny. A well-developed, competent organization with...

My guess: No sourcebook. Perhaps an adventure, containing elements from two beloved former settings, hodge-podged together in a way that no one who is actually a fan of one of those settings could love, plus some other extraneous stuff salted in for 'rule of cool' purposes. In parallel, an...

AL is deliberately kept as low-maintenance as possible, under the design philosophy that the kinds of players AL is trying to attract would be turned off by heavy bookkeeping and onerous character creation restrictions. The few fairly strict rules that do exist are there in the name of play...

Mainly based on this: Firearms are in the DMG, but are not in Adventurer's League, so even if they are included in a hypothetical Giff Extra Life write-up, they wouldn't be made AL-legal, based on the above. As for Lantan, it was used to justify both firearms (smokepowder) and warforged PCs...

First off, Nintendo buying 'D&D' makes no sense -- D&D is a product, owned by WotC, and though it's not WotC's only product, it's one of their biggest. If Hasbro was interested in selling off the D&D division of WotC despite its powerful brand recognition -- there's still a D&D movie in...

From the standpoint that it would likely 'sell' well and thus bring in a lot of $$$ for Extra Life (an annual charity event that various gaming companies such as WotC participate in), it would be a good idea. From the standpoint that the Giff have no real history or place in the Forgotten...

I think the OP's optimism has been thoroughly trampled by this point, but I'll just chime in to say "Dark Sun material" does not mean a campaign setting, any more than "an adventure set in Ravenloft" meant a 5e revision of the Ravenloft Campaign Setting. -- Pauper

You're right, in 5E there isn't a 'surprise round' that functions differently than any other round of combat. In fact, the 5E rules for surprise explicitly allow individual creatures on each side of a combat to be surprised in the opening round, so the mechanics are pretty significantly...

OK, I'll bite -- here's my breakdown, with the caveat that some of my responses have already been noted by other posters in this thread. OK, first up, a fair number of things we must assume, because they're not mentioned in the scenario: 1) The party is travelling at a Normal pace; as such...

I disagree, at least within a Fifth Edition context, and think this explanation misses a key point in the original question. If you are summoning creatures to "fight against unwinnable odds", the key determinant as to whether the act is evil or not is whether or not the summoner is part of the...

This is a curious amount of thought put into this one spell, but honestly, it's unnecessary. For the shield spell to work, all that is required is that the caster know whether or not an attack against him hits -- it does not require the DM to roll in the open, nor does it require the DM to...