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Could be. I like that it's not obvious either way.

Overall I like it. My first thought with the wood elf village was "Finally, wood elves that don't live in treetops." This piece has a sense of reality to it that I love. I like high fantasy too (pun unintended) but it's nice to see elven architecture that isn't in the style of Qualinost or...

I can say with some certainty that, unless you have advantage, at least 95% of the time it does not matter at all. ;)

The way I'm interpreting it is that you can use Athletics to jump and climb, and you can use Acrobatics to balance and move through or around enemies in ways that you normally cannot without provoking an attack of opportunity. I suspect the tactical rules will support the latter, thus making...

Your concern is valid. Dragons are like levers. If you put a lever in a dungeon, someone will pull it. There are three things that I would do: 1) Make sure they encounter the cultists first, or at least encourage them to do so through the druid NPC. 2) Instead of the druid asking them to...

Seriously thinking of retooling this adventure to make the dragon into the BBEG.

I have to believe that they chose to set prices for things like potions of healing at 50gp to make it just out of reach of a beginning 1st level party. You wouldn't want everything easily obtainable at 1st level, particularly a magic item, even a low power one. The herbalist able to create...

"Evil turns upon itself." - Dragonlance Chronicles

I got sticker shock looking at the total price, but the unkeyed ones are the ones I want, so yeah, it's a good bargain and I will probably buy them. Good to see artists getting another revenue stream. One factor with fantasy art cartographers is that they are fairly specialized, and so they...

That pretty much distills what I was thinking and more eloquently. And I was hoping to see something of this sort in the rules, but it seems like that was not their intent. Ah well, as long as we get good stuff out of it. I think this is why my wife likes dice rolls for things like this. It...

Chaotic Good is more of a stretch, but I think with some effort you could spin it so that just about anything makes sense: She believes in strength and supports laws that she knows are harmful...but only because she's a fanatical soldier raised in a Spartan like city-state as a berserk shock...

Yeah, that was my first thought, but that's the quote right out of the basic rules. My second thought was, "why label these ideals with alignment at all?" I think ideals can be chosen independently of alignment for more complexity; the default assumption is that you would pick one that...

I think that's good advice. Shame it wasn't in the Basic rules, but maybe something like that is in the Players Handbook or DMG.

I got to thinking about this when my wife rolled up a wood elf fighter the other night. We hit a small bump, and I wanted to share this experience to gather thoughts on the subject and hopefully make things smoother for others. She likes to roll dice, so naturally when she got the opportunity...

Maybe update your original post with a link to that, and summarize how this relates to D&D? I think you had the makings of a good post here, shame to just let it stay off topic and let it die.

I did like the Warlord, and if it's in 5e I'll allow it if someone wants to play one. I can get over my quibbles.

Even the term bloodied implies that hp are indeed, meat, at least sometimes, but of course that's just the name of it and it has no effect by itself. Regarding effectiveness of warlord healing, I honestly don't remember. Perhaps I'm thinking of low levels. I do appreciate your concern, and...

Sorry, didn't mean to imply you did. This is not a bad point, even with just magical healing I'm not one to describe people getting eviscerated or limbs lopped off. Perhaps my definition of "grievous wounds" isn't really that grievous, I just like to describe some blood now and then, so in...

So clerics don't really heal? They just remove fatigue? Not in my game. And who says you can't be heroic while gravely wounded? Ignoring a serious injury while pushing yourself to your limits is heroic. Hit points are an abstraction, I know that. But that's a good thing, I can describe it...

It doesn't. However, where does it say never do it? Furthermore, I believe I've seen examples of such dialogue in earlier editions, but I'm at work and can't quote anything. When a player character can heal someone up to full hit points with a few words of encouragement, the only way to avoid...