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Hey, shan't yourself, pal!

If there's an enemy within five feet, you have disadvantage on ALL ranged attacks, not just against that enemy.

Grapples and shoves are expressly called out as special kinds of attacks which do not use attack rolls but are still made with the attack action. Fireball is not an attack, does not call for a spell attack in its description, and is not made with the attack action. Where are you even getting...

Also statues. It is a conundrum.

You could multiclass into wild-magic sorcerer for tides of chaos and bend luck, and take empowered and heightened as metamagics.

One thread on buffing the champion. One on nerfing GWM. I'm getting mixed messages.

This is exactly my point. We do not know. We cannot know. All we have from the spell description is that the sphere can be moved by creatures inside and out, and that it stops everything from passing through. Beyond that, the possibilities for what happens are infinite, because it's magic. You...

This calculator (http://www.ambrsoft.com/CalcPhysics/acceleration/acceleration.htm) puts 30 mph right around 30 feet, without accounting for air resistance. For comparison, a typical parachute slows the user to around 17 mph. This one (http://keisan.casio.com/exec/system/1231475371), with air...

Fair answer, but two things. First, your position still requires a fairly big assumption about how the gravitational interaction passes a barrier that either cannot be modeled in physics or has exceptional physical properties with unknowable ramifications. The occupant only accelerates downward...

This is not correct. As you say in your next post, magic can affect gravity as easily as it can mass. Also, after all this Newtonian talk, the definition of "weight" that you give in your next post is decidedly non-Newtonian. "Weightless," as used in the spell description, is a much more...

I'm not sure this silly question about a silly game is worth continuing to hash out, but . . . If the sphere stops energy from going through either way, how will the energy of the fall get inside? Edit because I just saw this: This is not correct. An object cannot have weight without having...

Well, in point of fact, they do deform when they strike. The two games you cite are both designed to have the most elastic collisions possible, meaning that as much energy is retained within the system as possible, and none of the moving bodies in billiards or curling is massive enough that its...

I'm glad I don't believe everything I'm told.

Or go blaster and be the best one in the game. It is absolutely absurd to say that a full caster with more than 150 spells on its list cannot compete for variety with the "3 or 4 different types of builds" which are effective for fighter.

Whether or not the sphere could bounce would depend on its properties. A bouncing ball deforms when it impacts, turning kinetic energy into potential energy and then, when it returns to its original shape, releasing it into kinetic energy with a different velocity, sort of like a spring with...

You raise a good point, though it is not, strictly speaking, explicit in the spell description. Moving by pushing on the sphere's "walls" [I find the use of this word, in the plural, quite odd.] to roll it might not require a physical interaction with the ground; it might be a further magical...

My advice: use "a bit meh" to describe more things, and maybe mix it up with "kind of blah" and "sort of whatever."

I think that this is unambiguous. The passenger cannot gain energy, which must include kinetic energy from falling. He or she would therefore "impact" after a long fall with no more kinetic energy than he or she had at the start, which is none at all. In fact, this raises the prospect that the...

I hopped on anydice to find an average damage for a first-level chaos bolt: http://anydice.com/program/b3ac You can play with the maximum function depth to control for the number of potential targets. Once you get above four explosions, the gains are pretty slight, with the mean damage settling...

I had fun (in a too-brief campaign) as a life cleric/abjurer. The advantages of life cleric are that bless and cure wounds are auto-preps, so you can use your choice preps to take abjuration spells, you can heal reasonably well using low-level slots, and you get armor and shield proficiencies. I...