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The immediate question I have is this - If you were a cabal of mages or priests who wanted to keep a Very Bad Thing imprisoned, why in the seven hells would you ever "disguise" it as a tomb something else likely to attract interlopers? Better to disguise it as something innocuous and...

For reasonable ACs, Melf's Acid Arrow deals more damage on average than Scorching Ray; of a less frequently resisted energy type. It is a better spell. Of course, Magic Missile is better than either.

I'm not entirely sure what is being requested here. From a psychological standpoint, even if a population ceases to venerate their previous head deity, they are likely to have a morality shaped by (in the case of drow and elves) centuries of history and tradition relating to that worship...

Honestly, the implementation of Regeneration in 5e is one of the most idiotic design decisions imaginable. Or at least the part where it is almost always shut off by the most common cantrips. I've never ONCE, not ONE SINGLE TIME in hundreds of games over the years since 5e has come out ever...

Blade Ward is a funny trick for Tiefling warlocks to pull when they invest in Armor of Agathys. Also occasionally amusing (if usually a waste of an action) on eldritch knights with the War Magic class feature (single melee attack as a bonus action after casting a cantrip) and/or sorcerers with...

Beyond the fact that I tend to play relatively few melee characters, I just don't find the prospect of roleplaying a goliath particularly compelling.

Do we SERIOUSLY need to have this discussion? It is trivially easy to bypass Counterspell. For counterspell to work, 1) the counterspelling PC needs a reaction available, 2 ) the enemy caster needs to be within 60 feet, and 3) needs to be seen casting the spell. Enemy caster runs behind a...

Any number of ways you can house rule or improvise your way out of it. One I've used in the past was to give the Uber-Wizards of Legend a "Spell Lock" abjuration that imposed disadvantage on Dispel checks and added +5 to the DC*. Often still possible to dispel after "locking" with several days...

Good blend of power and limitation, as long as the DM is not a phallus about it. The one I have some (minor issues) with is Dispel Magic: It's a little too easy to dispel ancient magicks cast by the Uber-Wizards of Legend that have endured for eons. Not an insurmountable issue, just an annoyance.

I use dreams fairly frequently (as in maybe once ever 8 sessions or so?) Primarily for two purposes: 1) They're one of my preferred methods by which spirits or deities communicate with clerics, paladins, druids, warlocks, or other character with a strong supernatural connection. Directly...

Short answer: Boot him. Longer answer: If you wish to continue to be friends with the guy*, tell him that he's not a good fit for the group; explain why; stress what you like about the guy; provide examples of ways you can still hang out. And boot him. * or appropriate other gender

The main issue with the assassin is that it is VERY DM dependent. The chance for surprise tends to be inconsistent in most games IMX (though of course the character and party can usually take steps to increase said chance). Furthermore, the other features of the subclass can often be...

I'm not so sure. Gnomes have a pretty heavy presence in folklore prior to D&D. Garden gnomes predate D&D by at least 50 years, if not more. I also note that gnomes as a playable race came about a year after the English translation of this fairly well known book. The 5e forest gnome seems very...

I can't help but notice that KKK titles have, for at least a century and a half, been... strongly evocative... of fantasy and myth: Grand Wizard, Goblins, Cyclops, Ghouls, Hydras, Titans. Maybe it's just that there's a lot of white supremacists who are attracted to reducing complex, thinking...

In this particular case, I tend to rule #2 - with successful stealth check. My informal rule is that if you can manage to get within 10 feet of a SINGLE enemy, you can step out and make a single melee attack before losing stealth. Exceptions may exist for creatures like beholders that have...

Please, someone explain to me: Is this 90+ page thread STILL carrying on debate over 1-2 posters' intractable and INSANE presumption that a SINGLE vignette from a SINGLE splatbook is somehow now the one, true portrayal of Halflingness?

The only answer I can come up with is "Yes." And also "none of the above". I make widely variable settings. And a major "city" might actually be anything from a full-on futuristic Space Station with magitech fantasy elements, to the classic medieval walled city, to a bunch of mud huts, to a...

Seems a fairly simple matter just to introduce some special high-power, magically resistant poison; something that might also even be part curse or spell or magic item. Particularly considering that rulers of fantasy kingdoms might be normally expected to have poison-curing magic around. One...

I've run a number of games where PCs became undead and/or immortal. The thing is, mortality is such a huge and canonical drive and characteristic of sentient experience that I sort of think it's...bad roleplaying... not to include some downside to losing it. Powerwise, it's the equivalent of...

I generally restrict flying races in low level games for balance reasons. And kender because it's tailor-made for griefing and I don't want to have to deal with intra-party conflict. I might alter something like Yuan-ti, which I think has a notable powerjump over other PC races. Otherwise...