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Group playstyle discussions are exactly what you should have before starting play. If you know this kind of thing comes up and it's not for you, hey, maybe you shouldn't join that group. Which isn't to say that you don't have the right to play how you want- you just need to find people who...

Let's not forget that command only lasts one round. So, for instance, if you command a king to resign, he might announce, "I resign from the crown!" and then immediately follow it up with "Just kidding!" or "What was I thinking?" or "Belay that!"

No, but command can't do that either. I'm not sure what your point is. I thought you were asking whether a dm would allow creative use of their weapon attacks. "Can you summon a chandelier" in this context is like asking if you can use command to set someone on fire.

Trip, disarm, slide the enemy around, damage the environment (cut a rope to make the chandelier fall on your foe), pin the foe to one location- yeah, I think this is basically the same principle at work.

A bow is neither a club nor staff, so no. Not sure if the spell is different in the 2024 version; my answer might be different if it is.

I mostly agree with the OP. Where I differ is that what OP describes as changes to the flavor of the spell are, in my judgment, actually not flavor at all but mechanics. "Flavor is free" is for things like "I want to use elf stats but call myself a belf instead and be blue". If you mess with the...

Without actually seeing the final product, I can't say for sure- but I am not happy with the amount of power creep (e.g. cantrips doing more damage, more dice for healing spells), the disconnection of mechanics from the story of the game (e.g. conjure spells, the new stunned condition), and some...

Nothing wrong with it at all. In my game last night, I used a big bird that was a relative of an axe beak- that had the equivalent of fighter levels. It had both Action Surge and Second Wind. I don't think anyone expected that, and it made the pcs immediately re-evaluate how tough this foe...

I'm going to buy it but I don't know that I'll run it. I will almost certainly use some elements of it.

I may have missed this, but has magic missile been clarified to remove/revise the ridiculous "roll one d4, apply to the damage of each missile" ruling?

A quick note- there may be no proficiency bonus per se and little to no bonus for ability scores. There aren't a ton of modifiers brought to bear. Likewise, there are no save proficiencies; I'm considering a set of standard DCs or maybe even just having all DCs start at either 10 or 13 (not sure...

I've been doing some work on this, and on how the fighter would end up looking using the battle die as a primary feature. Of course, without the overall system, it's hard to evaluate this. But for starters, elements that are relevant are: There are no bonus actions; instead, you spend part of...

Is this confirmed, or speculation?

In my opinion- By the MM3, 4e monster design reached what I feel is the apex of DnD monster design. The solos were well-designed, they had gotten past a bunch of the early issues, rejiggered the math to make them more fun and less of a slog, and rewrote the classics to be in line with the new...

It has been explained. You replied to that explanation with, basically, "And?" It seems as though you either don't want to accept or don't understand that the issue described is, in fact, an issue in this industry. I'll take the word of those (multiple) people who do who have chimed in in this...

Never. I hate death spirals.

Hard disagree. That changes LRs from "let's make this fight last as long as a boss fight should" to "how many crappy saves can we trigger with meaningless effects to drain those LRs?" Automatically triggering LRs misses the point of LRs.

I have a friend with a cat named Gandalf, pronounced Jandolf.

There were other song-based villains, including the Necromancer (based on the Rush song) and the Queen of Spades (a false identity of Lolth, based on the song by Styx). I'm pretty sure that the "Silver Mountain" was a demiplane or otherwise isolated prison for him, equivalent to the Demiplane...

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