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It would be pretty weird to me that sending three missiles against one hobgoblin involved rolling three dice, but sending one missile against three hobgoblins involved rolling just one.

AFAIC, if you are reduced to zero hit points, you are gone, and once you are gone, the second ability never comes online. Unless the ability that brings you up to 1 hit point specifies it takes effect before other effects are applied, it clearly doesn't. by the time Mister Zombie is making his...

RPG characters and creatures are created. To some extent, your class, feats, special abilities, and so forth represent things you trained, but also things you are naturally good at learning. In real life, we sometimes find we have different strengths and weaknesses, which sometimes align with...

My FLGS sold out of Monster Manuals before I could get there today, and I was pondering maybe just ordering one line. One option is the DND Beyond bookstore, which I noticed has a physical + digital bundle for not very much extra money. I haven't touched DND Beyond in a while, and I can't even...

Yes. Those limitations only exist because of how classes work in 5e, those aren't real limitations of the world at all.

If someone wanted to get the abilities of another type of wizard, I would probably write up some feats that let them do that in a limited way, just like you can pick up Magic Initiate, Battle Master maneuvers, etc. If the question is no larger than, "how can my character do this?" I think that...

Logically, you could. In this case you are up against a bit of reification: those are class features, and you can't multiclass between subclasses in the same class. The fighter can, by taking levels in wizards.

What you are saying is very close to my own feelings. However, I recognize they are just my feelings. And to acknowledge the other end of things, there is a lot to be said for getting on with the game, so all those imaginative elements can play out. I mean, when 3.5 came out, I liked a lot of...

Feel free to present this proposition.

I'm not saying they need stats. You said they were an example of reification. So the spirit animals summoned should correspond to some kind of spirit animal that exists in the game.

Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!

Summon Beast was what was mentioned. Where can I find the stats for spirit animals? Where do they come from? Is there a spirit animal somewhere in the MM that deals Force damage?

Sure, you can summon a "seal." But either it can't swim, or it can't breathe air.

Like, one striking example of reification for me was when a hobgoblin in 3e always had to have a bunch of class levels, because they were a humanoid with no extra HD. But they also weren't a normal playable race because they were ever so slightly superior to a normal PC race. So if you have a...

I described it as the revised edition in the third sentence, there is no confusion, just people who either didn't read or are looking to argue over nothing.

Call it a distraction if you like. The fact is, they didn't give it an official name, and I don't feel like typing out 5e (2024) for the next decade.

Which is also not an official. I don't feel like doing the extra typing, or for that matter pretending like D&D wasn't revised. But you know, I figure people can call it what they want. It'll settle out in the end. 5E, as you will recall, wasn't even 5e at one point.

The edition after 5e.

First of all, let me acknowledge that I'm using ludification wrong, because it means to mock, tease, or make fun of. However, it comes from ludus (game, sport) and so literally means to make a game of. I just want to make an observation about some of the changes from 5e to the revised edition...

I'm not sold on the elementals with thundering javelins angle. Like, I guess it's fine, it's unlikely to impact my home campaign. But they had existing lore. In fact, they have already had their special equipment described, and it did not involve elemental powers. They also have some fairly...