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This seems like a very good rule of thumb.

My experience is that it really depends on your playstyle. Personally, I give out inspiration like crazy. If a big boss battle is ahead, I'll give out all my inspiration. If you are newer to 5e, here's my Bard tip, you will come back and thank me: When you give someone inspiration, take a...

Baldur's Gate 28 Baldur's Gate II 28 Chronicles of Mystara 14 Eye of the Beholder Series 27 Gold Box: Pool of Radiance Series 3 Gold Box: Savage Frontier Series 12 Icewind Dale 21 Icewind Dale II 17 Neverwinter Nights 19 Neverwinter Nights II 24+1=25 Planescape: Torment 22 SSI Dark Sun Series...

These are both reasonable concerns. The Lore Bard will be wearing studded leather (AC 15), and have no defenses beyond cutting word, which works (sometimes) only against a single attack using up your reaction. With d8+2 hp, there is reason to be cautious. Actions while concentrating is also a...

If you were a redbox player, then you remember gaining a level when it was, "Roll a d6. 3. OK, add 3 to your HP. Alright, level up done!" 3.5 had an issue with "dead levels", where you would also gain a level, and nothing but HP. I find 5e very engaging for level-up. I have yet to gain a...

Hi, I think a War Cleric/Fighter can be pretty effective. You've got pretty decent stats, here's what I would recommend: Level 1: Grab War Cleric. This gives you spells, including combat buffs, your heavy armor and weapon, and the ability to use your bonus action for an extra attack 3/day...

Thanks for that Mistwell! I tell you, I've wished many times I could go back and revise a couple of points I made on that podcast, but it was something I really enjoyed doing and would do again if I got the chance. Frankly, I love any chance to talk D&D, it is a passion for me that I'm very...

That's interesting, I haven't heard before of Prayer of Healing getting regular use. Not at all, in fact, nobody has even bothered to cast it up to this point. We tend to find rests sufficient for between combat healing, so I end up using 2nd level slots on spells I will get more use out of...

This. The pause/set action/have everyone move before action takes place style of NWN and NWN2 was fine for the time, but if you actually made turn-based 5E in a video game, hoo-boy!

OK. Let's consider some real game applications. Your 4th level party is in a fight with a Hill Giant. The Hill Giant hits the fighter doing 18 points of damage. The fighter only had 10 HP left. The fighter falls to 0HP and goes down. A goodberry would bring him up to 1 HP A healing word...

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I suppose you could say the enemy you were fighting, and was wrecking you so bad you needed to escape into a Rope Trick also had a bunch of reinforcements nearby, and they go and get them, and come back, and then wait for you below the Rope Trick. Well, I guess you were dead either way then...

We are discussing the value of a low level party using Healing Spirit vs. Rope Trick to recover during an adventuring day and this is your comment. I have a vision of how a session with you might be... Pauper DM: OK, and with that final attack, the Bugbear chieften clutches the arrow that...

This will be very handy for when I'm brainstorming illusion ideas. Thanks for this!

It's exactly the similarity that is the problem. I wish the sorcerer had unique spells, or abilities that made them stand out more. Naturally when you have a 9 level arcane caster, it's not power that is the issue. But when I play a warlock, I can see significant ways my character...

I guess my first comment would be, "ambushed?" I would think the last thought before leaving the Rope Trick would be this. My second comment would be, if the party is unobserved entering the Rope Trick, and pulls the rope in after they've entered, then even if the enemy figures out what...

Completely agree. +10 stealth for everybody for an hour? Crazy good. Really takes the sting out of disadvantage for wearing heavy (or some medium) armor too. Had a Ranger that wore half-plate. He had a +4 stealth with disadvantage. With Pass Without Trace that meant a minimum roll of 15...

Easily my biggest issue with the class. The Sorcerer spell list is a poor man's wizard spell list. It appears as though they took the wizard spell list, chopped off 1/3 of it, and slapped 'Sorcerer spell list" at the top.

No. OK, so this is how it went down. This is a campaign that the DM is converting on the fly from a previous edition. Usually that works fine, but at level 7 my halfling bard took over 100 points of damage from an enemy in one round, killing him outright. I decided the replacement character...