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No, you don't prepare individual spells, you prepare a list of spells. When you change the list, you aren't preparing some spells to change and leaving the rest alone. You can think of it that way in the game if you'd like, but the rules don't speak of it that way. You prepare a new list, which...

That wasn't the nature of the point under discussion, but you're right about this, I was being liberal in my reading of the RAW. Interpreted strictly, you can only change your spell list just as you finish a long rest. As you said, I would house rule that as something like "once between long rests".

Please reread what I wrote. You don't need to wait until the next day to change your spell list, if you haven't changed it since your last long rest. Unlike 3e and prior, you don't have to prepare/memorize the list every day; you can keep your list from the previous day, then change it if you...

I thought this was interesting: So they do consider Kara-Tur and Zakhara part of the Forgotten Realms setting, and not as entirely separate things. (It was unclear when Kara-Tur showed up in the survey but Al-Qadim didn't.) Which means... even if all they support in published adventures is...

Right, you only spend the time to prepare when changing the list of prepared spells. The terminology is throwing people off, as others have noted. A caster has slots used to cast prepared spells, but a caster does not prepare spells in slots. A caster prepares one, single thing: a list of...

That's a good question. Here's the deal, from my PoV. Calling something "doublespeak" (a word which is doublespeak for "lies") is something you can do based on facts. If a company representative tells you "Smoking is good for you, it doesn't cause lung cancer!", you can call them on it. You can...

Who ever said that WotC claimed, or should claim, full credit for any of these products? You're making a straw-man argument; no one said anything like that. IMO, they've been very generous in promoting the small companies they're working with, compared to how most companies handle this kind of...

Ah, so you didn't say this in your first post to this thread? And you didn't use the term "doublespeak" at least twice more after that? Using your preferred sources of dictionary.reference.com: and Merriam-Webster: So your're right, you did avoid using the word "liar". But who's engaging...

You should review your history. WotC, and TSR before them, used freelancers on a lot of products. Among many others, perhaps you've heard of Ed Greenwood, Keith Baker, Erik Mona, James Jacobs, or Jason Bulmahn, all of whom wrote for TSR/WoTC when they weren't employed there? And I'm not even...

Some of that. There are equipment changes: plate armor doesn't exist, and steel is generally hard to come by. Magic isn't changed, but is rare, so your wizard PC works normally, but is one of maybe a handful of arcane magic-users in a large city.

Yes! I backed the earlier Kickstarter and got PDFs of all three versions, but decided against a hardcover since 5e was coming out. I was about to start on my own conversions, but they'll get my money for a physical book now!

Agreed. 5e design is closer to 3e overall than 4e, so conversions are a little more straightforward. If you have both versions, though, it's worth looking at the 4e monsters to see if there are any cool special abilities worth converting.

My last two bags have been Wenger SwissGear messenger bags, something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Wenger-68360201-Sensor-MacBook-Notebook/dp/B00HD9CBRG/ Lots of pockets, including a padded compartment for a laptop (and my current one has another padded sleeve for a tablet), but still...

It doesn't. "Ranged attack" doesn't imply the use of Dexterity, unless you're attacking with a weapon.

I think the point Obryn was making is that marking is not an abstraction in the context of a soccer/football game. When someone is told to mark an opposing player, that person knows what to do and is aware of the fact that he or she has marked someone else, in real life. Perhaps it's the general...

Oh, well, too late to take that bet. I guess The Sage is part of the 1% of us that doesn't clearly understand how this works and found another way to interpret the rule. ;)

Ah, good point. I hadn't thought of the necromancer, and construct allies; niche usage, but it gives the spell more of a purpose.

No, you're not the only one. "Bothered" might be too strong; "slightly irked", maybe.

Speaking of power creep, I'm wondering if we're not seeing some in reverse. A few spells seem a little weak to me. The one that stands out is the highest-level new spell, Abi-Dalzim's horrid wilting. An 8th-level AoE spell that does 10d8 (45 avg.) necrotic, and doesn't affect constructs or...

Did you do the illustration for the whirlwind spell, with the gnoll? I was wondering if that was you. I love it! The gnoll looks fantastic, and I appreciate the Egyptian trappings flying around; it really tells a story.