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L3 exhaustion gives you disadvantage on spell attack rolls and concentration checks.

Players Option: Cannibalism & Necromancy is my favorite of the 2e splats.

Fantasy Grounds somehow does not have basic things like Fighters' Second Wind and Rogue's Sneak Attack coded into it. You have to manually add all that kind of crap. You also need to use a 3rd-party mod for a Ring of Protection to actually give +1 bonuses. There's no good reason for this.

Roll20's interface sucks for open-world-ish campaigns, but it works reliably and is free. Pretty sure it's the top VTT right now at 5 million users. I use Fantasy Grounds, but it can be kind of janky. A while back, it decided that nobody was going to get maps, just a gray screen. Then, a few...

Because they read online that it's "optimal" to reserve any healing for 0 hp, because at that point, the amount of monster-inflicted damage negated is maximized. Whack-a-mole with Healing Word isn't particularly uncommon.

Druids at level 4 are pretty useless when they get separated from the party and attacked by about 5 ghouls. :cool:

I've never seen Exhaustion death happen, ever. Someone did actually get to level 5 once, but at that point, you are physically incapable of adventuring any more. His buddies carried him home.

Schadenfreude is essential to the human condition.

I never had that experience, since our Paladin really liked rolling damage dice. The more, the merrier!

I've been running D&D 5e with exhaustion at 0hp in my WoG/ToEE campaign for years, and ditching a dungeon after 5 minutes is definitely not a good idea. It works fine. Players heal earlier rather than later and play more defensively overall. It's not until your 3rd level of exhaustion that it...

Shield is a reaction spell that lasts a single round, and an EK can only cast it a few times per day. If your DM hits you with 6-8 encounters, you aren't even able to use every encounter until fairly high level, let alone every round. These kinds of temporary, contextual buffs aren't really what...

Here's how I think of it: d20 + modifier is a dead simple RNG to use. It's fairly easy for players to intuit, "I have a +10, so I have to roll a 6 or better...I have a pretty good chance of this." A quick player might even notice that he has an exactly 75% chance of success. The price of this...

The problem is you aren't casting it. Your simulacrum is.

They also wanted some way to make high-level monsters feel epic other than giving them enormous bonuses. Sure, if your party is going to go literally kill Erythnul, they should be 20th level, have some divine blessings, and some epic magic loot. In 3rd edition, Erythnul has 73 AC. His attack...

Straight Fighters and Paladins with AC 21 by 5th level aren't that uncommon. No need to get fancy about it. The thing is, getting much above that requires spells and magic items. Since in 5e, magic items are rare and discretionary, there's no reason at all to think a 17th-level Fighter will have...

In the games I've run, the rogue gets sneak attack probably 95% of the time, up until I stopped reminding the rogue player every game how to strategically use Ready or otherwise choose a target to ensure he got it, at which point the frequency dropped to about 20%. The best-planned rule system...

It's a comparison of a single turn. Yes, if the DM consistently gives the rogue endless hiding places while taking measures to ensure the melee characters can't engage, the rogue will greatly outdamage any melee class, especially once the melee players get fed up with not being allowed to...

The funny thing is I said that, yet I had a player who had really been into 3.5 who demanded I explain why a monster was able to do anything it did. Every session, every new monster, he'd say at least once, "What?!?!? How is the monster able to do that?!?!?!" "Because a bugbear gets +2d6...

In a campaign where most battles are foes lobbing arrows and spells at each other from ranges between 300' and 150', and the DM isn't letting the rogue hide much, it's a pretty crappy class to play. In a typical dungeon crawl, the rogue should be almost always having sneak attack, since he can...