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Take out #3 and you have the house rules my group has been using for a couple years now. (We limit short rests to 2/day. Otherwise the short-rest classes would go from underpowered to grotesquely OP.) I do find it fascinating that Wizards is so reluctant to go this route. They are clearly...

Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2023 is the most peculiar blend of wise sage and douchebag.

How are you defining "reprint?" Does it have to have the same mechanics, or the same concept, or just the same name? If they take an existing subclass and make some balance tweaks, and adjust it to fit with changes in the base class/core rules, is that a reprint? I don't think we're likely to...

I very much like the idea of druids choosing one wild shape, or a few of them, rather than having the entire universe of shapes available at all times. Then put a list of beast statblocks in the PHB, all of them with stats that scale by level. Perhaps the default druid chooses a single wild...

Given that most of the debt is apparently owed to other companies he owns, I'm entirely convinced it's a scheme to hide assets. Presumably his thinking is that he can put in a bunch of claims on behalf of his other businesses, and then WotC (and his lawyers in the WotC suit) have to fight for a...

IANAL, but I'm fairly sure it doesn't work like that. If that $384K was spent on legit business expenses, well, that's the risk you take when you extend credit to a small business. But if it was spent to install a new swimming pool at LaNasa's house, the shield of the LLC gets a lot less solid...

That is not consistent with the approach Crawford described. A change has to score significantly better than the original to be incorporated. It is the change that has to prove itself; if it doesn't, the original prevails. That's why they're going back to the old subclass progression. If they...

I had a player with an Undying warlock in a strongly undead-themed campaign. Among the Dead was often helpful, but far from OP; even in that campaign, it did not compensate for the general suckitude of the Undying patron. It's not like you're reducing the amount of incoming fire, you're just...

Strahd certainly can overcome it. He can use Legendary Resistance to auto-succeed on the save, and once he does, he's immune for 24 hours. Of course, that means he's weakening his defenses against spells, while facing a known spellcaster. If he doesn't think that's a good tradeoff... that's his...

You are correct. The text of the ability is quite clear. You, personally, must target the undead, personally, with an attack or spell before it can ignore AtD. (The fact that the language suggests "choosing another target" strongly implies that it is meant to be used in combat.) The wording of...

I... don't feel like I need to? Why would I "respond" to someone not liking the same things I do? I shrug and move on to another topic, and make a mental note that socializing with this friend should mostly happen in a non-gaming context.

Two of the power sources contain one full caster, plus a half caster with a strong thematic tie to the full caster. "Divine" might as well be "cleric" and "primal" might as well be "druid." The third power source has four full casters crammed into it*. Bard, sorcerer, warlock, and wizard all...

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that you specifically were contemplating this -- that was more of a generic/rhetorical "you."

The D&D rules do not attempt to answer this question. The goal of the rules is to make it clear in 95% of cases what a given spell can or cannot do (with the remaining 5% being left to DM adjudication). The rules are not trying to explain how the spell does what it does, nor to formulate a...

There are two key rules in play: Total cover will block a spell unless the spell says otherwise. (PHB Chapter 10, "Casting a Spell," the section on targets.) Many spells specify that you must be able to see the target. The questions then are, first, what counts as total cover? And second, what...

Trade goods were the usual plunder for Golden Age pirates, but there were also hauls of treasure worthy of the gaudiest pirate fiction. The Nossa Senhora do Cabo carried gold, gems, and religious regalia worth a million pounds sterling when it was taken. The capture of the Ganj-i-sawai was a...

Cloning a full spellcaster is the issue you hear about because a) that is the most abusive use of the spell and b) if you have access to simulacrum, then you're guaranteed a full caster available to copy. So, if anyone is inclined to abuse simulacrum, that will be the choice they reach for under...

Either WotC is going to change things or they're not. If they are, then "more martial options" is a perfectly reasonable idea to fill the space. If they're not, then there's nothing more to be said. Personally, I would like to see some of that space used for martial options; some of it used to...

It's a 7th-level spell, so by the time the PCs have access to it, they are 13th level. 1500 gp at that point is not quite trivial, but hardly a serious burden. And once you create the simulacrum, it sticks around until "used up," so you can make one and keep it on ice -- so to speak -- until...

That doesn't make it significantly harder. It just makes it tedious. I've put in my time filling sheets of notepaper with inventories of fluff, string, and tiny stale tarts, thanks. As for 40% of the book being devoted to spells, much of that could be solved by consolidating and deleting...