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  1. The Grassy Gnoll

    D&D 5E (2014) New York Times remembers early days of D&D

    I remember I was on a family holiday and I heard that Mazes and Monsters was due to be on TV so I badgered my parents to let me watch it...and was promptly horrified at what I saw. Luckily, both mum and dad fell asleep and my brother thought I was a weirdo anyway, but even he could see it was...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Warlock broken?

    Yes but where does it say the warlock gets the benefit of a special ability (eg magic resistance)?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Warlock broken?

    I may be missing something, so please can someone tell me where to look: There are a few comments I've seen that say your Chain familiar bestows its special abilities on you - I can't see that anywhere. Or am I getting confused?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Other names for halflings

    Yeah that always bothered me, too. Just because "hobbit" is vetoed, doesn't make "halfling" work well, especially in the sense that the race would call themselves that. "Hin" works (although I suspect it's lifted from Hîn or Chîn which is Sindarin for "children", so, still a Tolkien fallback...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Barbarian Totem: The Bunny

    Set up a thunderwave type effect by banging your (rear) leg hard on the ground setting up a shockwave to make enemies fall prone?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Barbarian Totem: The Bunny

    Magic Carrot? Vicious Mockery?
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    D&D 3.x Thoughts of a 3E/4E powergamer on starting to play 5E

    We recently went a session-and-nine-tenths without a combat and they were the most fun sessions we had. But the players were happy to crank out the attack rolls again.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ritual Spell Casting

    It's effectively the same thing, isn't it? Prepared spell = spell in your spell book. The difference is that with the divine casters, their "spell book" can change from day to day.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Looking for inspiration

    Welcome, neighbour! Have some start up XP. Unfortunately I know zero about the scenario you are looking at, so I can't be any real help.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ritual Spell Casting

    ^ this. Op asked specifically if he could cast Detect Magic as a ritual as a Druid. Thems the rules.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [Question] Medusa and Sight Based Spells (Magic Missile, Blight, etc.)

    "A creature that can see the medusas eyes" would indicate a backstabbing attack is fine (no eyes in the back of its head). Aside from that, on reflection, you're probably right.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [Question] Medusa and Sight Based Spells (Magic Missile, Blight, etc.)

    I'd allow it. There's no specific line about being able to look into the target's eyes, just being able to see the target.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Ritual Spell Casting

    So long as Detect Magic is on your list of prepared spells, I'd say it's fine. It doesn't use a spell slot so it makes no difference if you've got a full set or none.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Warlocks and Multiclassing

    Off topic but, my concept of the sailor (or maybe pirate) warlock/monk... The GOO is the obvious choice for a seaman abandoned to the ocean but the Fiend's Dark Ones Blessing works well as a 'you will be rewarded for sending me souls'. So I had a thought to change things by having a Deep One...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Starting level

    So, pretty much as expected, the majority of voters who expressed a preference start at 1st level. There is a pretty high proportion of support for starting at 3rd - a shade over a quarter. This is seemingly down to a choice to have the starting characters begin as more fully-actualised...
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    Is'Merith - Campaign Thread

    High five! Oh wait. I'm a gnome. Low five!
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    D&D 5E (2014) Eliminating Non-Human Deities from FR

    The idea of a deity being the personification of a given concept (eg justice), phenomenon (eg storms), or nature (eg greed) fits perfectly with a by-another-name worship of said deity by a number of races, precisely because the personification itself is reflective of the person relating to the...
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    Is'Merith - Campaign Thread

    So by tools do you include my staff? Cause, I'm thinking if that happens, NUNCHUKS! Yeeeeeah! So, either way, I'm good. Plus I have thieves tools so the party won't be without if the worst happens. You can do it!
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    Is'Merith - Campaign Thread

    Use my staff as a crank handle?
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    D&D 5E (2014) Warlocks and Multiclassing

    The concept is Monk/warlock with sailor background, pact of the blade. Pact weapon is an auto-prof; but to use martial arts/FOB you need a monk weapon pact weapon. Thematically, trident for this character is the perfect default pact weapon but not a monk weapon. Tridents are mechanically the...
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