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    DDAL Gambling in DnD Adventure League

    I hate to contradict others in this thread, but AL rules specifically state that you can't transfer gold between player characters. The only exception is pitching in to raise someone from the dead.
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    DDAL Questions about AL

    Current season is season 9, as previously mentioned. The rules for starting with a common item are: You can't have chosen to take Plane-Touched Wings(the season 9 option that lets you make an aasimar or tiefling and get wings at 5th level), and the item can't be magical armor, weapons, wondrous...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Questions about the noble background ability Retainers

    There's no official ruling, so that puts it back to ask your dm. In my experience, most dms won't let you do something like that for actual gain. If you keep it confined to flavor, for example the noble fighter with a retainer that cleans him using prestidigitation, that would probably be okay.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Warcaster/Sentinel/War Ruby combo

    If you want pact of the chain you may have to just put your sword away when you cast spells, which honestly isn't that big a deal since you aren't using the cantrips from sword coast adventurer's guide. Without them your sword is worse than eldritch blast in terms of damage output. I'd stay...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Warcaster/Sentinel/War Ruby combo

    Treasure points are outdated, they were very unpopular and ended up being scrapped after 1 season. The current rules for magic items are that you can get what you find(Everyone in the party can get the same item somehow) up to a limit based on your level tier. Common items such as the ruby, and...
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    Class Guides

    I'm afraid you got the outdated version here, the up to date one is A Collection of D&D Class Build Guides - Wiki Thread the Second.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Off hand grappling?

    You can't use 2 weapon fighting to grapple, because in order to make the off hand attack you must attack with a light melee weapon. There is also a restriction on what you can do with the bonus action attack, it must be made with a light melee weapon as well. Grappling isn't a light melee...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Level was your 1st Character Death in 5e?

    My first death was as a level 5 paladin in the CoS AL modules. The zombie beholder disintegrated me, and what made it worse is that I found out later it should never have run away in the first fight, and therefore shouldn't have been in the fight where it killed me. Rather predictably, my new...
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    The Thread In Which We Rant

    Dear DM: This is Adventurer's League, not your home campaign. That means you can't do a Warhammer 40k crossover in Lost Mine of Phandelver. This really happened, and even after a complaint by the most senior DM there he's still doing things like that. Maybe not quite as extreme, but he's still...
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    D&D General Hilarious typos in D&D books

    The typos, while normally frustrating, aren't nearly as bad as the places where the book contradicts itself on the same page. I had to cross reference with an archived 3.5e book to find out what language fiends speak, for example. They listed both abyssal and infernal as the sole language of...
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    D&D General The Official Laugh at your Players thread

    I wasn't a DM in this one, but it's still funny. Playing AL, doing some low level stuff from PotA, we are on a cliff overlooking a bandit camp. My character starts making his way around to the low ground, while he's doing that the storm sorcerer jumps off. Several other people follow the...
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    Hero Forge Custom Color Mini Kickstarter Is Live - And Funded!

    From what I can tell, if you want the color printed minis you only get 1 dollar off now that the early bird deals are sold out. That's assuming the 40 dollar price for color printed minis stays the same from now until launch. The main draw for me was early access to the new tools. Whatever your...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simple Encumbrance system (to make Strength matter)?

    That seems pretty accurate, given that I'm looking from the player's perspective. In a dungeon crawl, maybe I'd be okay with -10 speed on a melee character(ranged I'd be fine with it), but I'd still worry about the occasional big room. I'd always be worried about something happening to the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simple Encumbrance system (to make Strength matter)?

    To be clear, I don't find the default rules restrictive, even with my 6 strength kobold monk, but with the strength x5 variant a 10 strength character can't even carry their explorer's pack without being encumbered. A 12 strength character can carry the pack but only has 1 pound free after...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Shadow Blade = Pass W/O Trace?

    That's likely because of the minor typo that changes the whole meaning of the sentence. Then instead of them. Not trying to be strict on grammar, just thought you should know what caused the misunderstanding.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Simple Encumbrance system (to make Strength matter)?

    I've never played in a game where encumbrance was strictly tracked, but I do want to point out that if you are using point buy or standard array that the 8 usually has to go somewhere. Unless you are playing a mostly SAD character, you just don't have enough points to put 10-12 in all your off...
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    Survivor Celestials: COUATL WINS!

    Couatl 21 Deva 8 Ki-rin 19+1=20 Pegasus 19 Planetar 17-2=15 Solar 22
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    Survivor Celestials: COUATL WINS!

    Couatl 24 Deva 18 Empyrean 5-2=3 Ki-rin 21+1=22 Pegasus 18 Planetar 20 Solar 23 Unicorn 14
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    Survivor Dragons: BLACK DRAGON WINS!

    Black Dragon 9 Blue Dragon 12 Gold Dragon 11 Green Dragon 12-2=10 Red Dragon 9+1=10 Silver Dragon 16
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    Survivor Dragons: BLACK DRAGON WINS!

    Black Dragon 18 Blue Dragon 17 Gold Dragon 18 Green Dragon 20-2=18 Red Dragon 16+1=17 Silver Dragon 16
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