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  1. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) Can you hear the audible version of the Alarm spell if you are more than 60 feet away?

    Or, as I suggested, the sound is quiet enough that it's inaudible outside of 60'. Or the magic places the sound directly into the minds of creatures within 60', etc.
  2. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) Can you hear the audible version of the Alarm spell if you are more than 60 feet away?

    The spell only does what it says and doesn't do what it doesn't say, so the sound is not audible outside of 60 feet because the spell doesn't produce a sound outside of 60 feet. From this, it might be surmised that it's a "quiet" noise which, in my games, has a maximum range of 60 feet (2d6 x 5).
  3. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) The "General Nature" of a Trap

    I don't think "within line of sight" requires the caster to look in a particular direction, just that a line from the caster to the trap is unobstructed.
  4. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) The "General Nature" of a Trap

    The spell let's you (the Wisdom caster) sense the presence of a trap and learn "the general nature of the danger posed" by it. So I would focus in my description on the danger the trap represents to the PCs, in the case of your example, danger of falling and being impaled. I also found this...
  5. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Charles Person, the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, has died at 82.
  6. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords, has died at the age of 76.
  7. Hriston

    Paragons of neutral good

    Sam Gamgee. He’s unfaltering in his loyalty, but he uses the ring (and eavesdrops).
  8. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't Angels concidered a type of Empryeans?

    Close enough to what though? I'm not sure we're working with the same concept of what this monster's supposed to be.
  9. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2014) Not upgrading? What version of D&D 5e are you sticking with?

    I voted 5.0 but consider 5.0 to have been completed in January 2016 with the release of the SRD and 5.1 to have commenced with the release of Curse of Strahd in March 2016 followed by the release of SRD 5.1 in May 2016, so it includes the core books plus the EEPC and SCAG as far as player...
  10. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't Angels concidered a type of Empryeans?

    I think it depends what we're trying to describe. The Nephilim are a race of humans with angelic ancestry (like Aasimar). "Children of the gods" is a much wider concept that doesn't necessarily entail any mortal parentage.
  11. Hriston

    D&D 5E (2024) Why aren't Angels concidered a type of Empryeans?

    Empyreans seems like a strange choice of name for children of the gods of any plane. It makes some sense when limited to children of celestial gods, but the word itself suggests origination in the realm of spiritual fire, which I would equate to the Positive Plane. Now, in my homebrew cosmology...
  12. Hriston

    “Monstrous” NPCs

    For the edition of D&D I play (5.0), I don't distinguish between monsters and NPCs. I have "encounters". Whether the encountered creature(s) will attack or talk first depends on a few factors: If their Int <5 and they aren't surprised, they attack. If their Int =5 or greater and the party is...
  13. Hriston

    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    Then it isn't slavery.
  14. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    I'm just going to leave this here:
  15. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Jean-Marie Le Pen, far-right ultranationalist neo-Nazi French leader, has died at age 96.
  16. Hriston

    NPC Deception/Persuasion and player agency

    When I have an NPC lie to the party, I treat it the same as with any other hidden information in the game. Like, if the party is walking up to a hidden trap, do I just tell the players it's a normal hallway with nothing unusual to see, so I can spring it on them? No, that would be a gotcha, so I...
  17. Hriston

    D&D General Who was your first character, and do you still play them?

    My first character was Albion, a human paladin, whom I made in 1981 or shortly thereafter. I named him after the giant son of Neptune whom I read about in Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall, a children's history of England. He was like a representation of my higher self, at least 6 feet tall...
  18. Hriston

    AD&D 1E Holy Symbol Spell Purpose?

    I’m not aware of rituals as a thing in AD&D. (Not that they might not exist, but maybe I’m just not familiar with the particular publication you’re thinking of.) Where are you finding that? As for why these are spells, because they let you do things you can’t normally do and because there’s no...
  19. Hriston

    AD&D 1E Holy Symbol Spell Purpose?

    Like it says in the spell, it's to replace a lost or damaged holy (or unholy) symbol or create a backup, so the cleric doesn't have to go back to town to buy a new one if the one they bought at first level gets destroyed somehow. Of course, the cleric could always buy a backup ahead of time, but...
  20. Hriston

    D&D General Muscular Neutrality (thought experiment)

    What do you mean by "having to"? This seems to imply an obligation to be altruistic. Where does that come from? And how do you reconcile that with the service being voluntary? You seem to be contradicting yourself. No one is forcing you to be good.
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