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I actually made a rogue styled after Sherlock Holmes. He's 12th in my campaign, 20 INT. Relatively low dex, but in addition to Observant I gave him Keen Mind as well. Has a decent WIS, and he is OUTSTANDING at noticing things that the DM wants noticed, and many traps and such that he...

Couldn't agree more with that, especially the gimped Prof bonus by CR. A CR X monster is supposed to be an average challenge for a party of Level X, not a deadly one but still should content with them a bit. I'm not sure how to fix it, but I was thinking something like adding some variable...

And now we get into the more hairy aspects of the situation. The player character who will be using the glibness, intends to deceive without actually lying. Lying is the basest form of deception, literally misrepresenting the truth by speaking falsehood, but proper deceptions are done without...

Some Angels have Divine Awareness that says they know if they hear a lie. Glibness says it's magic makes whatever you say magic that determines if you are speaking the truth indicates you are being truthful. Who wins? I mean it is "divine awareness", so that does seem to root for the side of...

Thanks for the feedback. It does appear to be crazy powerful as is, I'll house rule some limits probably just for my sanity. Each form has hp, retains damage between shifts, and if a form "dies" it can't be used again that day. Not much of a limit, but bopping between Air and Earth...

Ok, so I have my players encountering a 20th Lvl Druid soon. There will be a bit of a fight, and at 20th Druids can Wild Shape as often as they want. Question is, when they change into an animal, they get it's HP, and upon being knocked to 0HP, they revert to normal form. RAW it seems to...

Ok, not really, but no one I play with is really into 5E sorcerers because we do a pretty good mix of combat/out of combat and the few sorcs we tried felt pretty useless half the time. That being said, I decided since all the Sorcs were going to be NPC's to have some fun and design them more...

Assassin rogues also can wrack it up. Had an NPC 17th Lvl Assassin with death strike do 188hp on a hit in the surprise round. Killed the person it was meant to kill to advance the story line but also kinda freaked me out. And that was not counting the 8D6 poison damage that your typical...

Sounds like a pretty intense fight. Pretty scary with a Meteor Swarm appetizer from the BBEG to start off the real fight. Got any more details on the gear the players were using, how much recon they had prior to the fight, and any spells used going into it? Fights like this can really swing...

Well static defenses are really only good to provide a speedbump to enemies. Unless there is a relieving force coming or some kind of shot clock holding the attacking army together they can wait out, sieges rarely go to the defender. The invaders have magic as well. And while the defenders...

While often your numbers will be correct depending on the target's AC, your point is unlikely to affect the decision making process of a player to want to specifically hit a bad guy in the face with his hammer from 50ft away :) Funny, the image I got was more Capt American doing that with his...

Honestly, that sounds like an awesome idea, and one oddly enough I just did for my own campaign. If you'd like some inspiration for running it I'd read the "Black Company" books by Glen Cook, the first book especially is all about this type of thing. Great book(s), and fairly easy reading...

Tornado Elemental + Evard's Black Tentacles + Create Food and Water = Flying Spaghetti Monster Elemental Mortal enemies! Good vs. Evil, Wretchedly Inedible vs. Righteously Delicious! You're right my friend, the possibilities are endless :)

Well an air elemental still has mass and a physical form, it's not insubstantial like a ghost, so I would assume one moving against an air current would be analogous to a fish swimming against a current. It would cover more ground if it didn't have to fight the current, but being a fish would...

Agreed, making it into a grenade does seem to be not only unbalancing but against the spirit of the spell as well. That being said, if the PC's have an HQ of some type no reason not to put one in a "Safe Room" or bolt hole to lure invaders to in a pinch.

Well instead of doing the whole cast for a minute then run up in the last round to finish the spell, couldn't you just cast it on something like a small box, carry it with you, set the trigger for when the box is opened, then open it when you need it? You'll still take the hit unless you plant...

Good to know, thanks! Soon entering my campaign is a 12th Dwarven Fighter with this item and Sharpshooter :)

Just wondering if a character with more than one attack per round can throw a dwarven thrower multiple times. The description says that it returns to the users hand "immediately" after the attack which leads me to think you can, but also seems kinda weird. Any rulings on this?

Which is exactly why in the olden days most nations or cities decommissioned their armies except for a handful when the fighting was done. The idea of large standing armies being maintained is a modern concept, only modern economies have enough production to maintain that, it was ruinous to...

Why not? If my players want to do something, I let them try. I had a friend that never wanted to play high level campaigns, anything over 10th was too much for him. His reasoning was that characters with 8th and 9th levels spells and abilities like that would just take over the world. I...