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Totally agree. In addition you can use penalties for resting to often like this even when there is no overriding time constraint. For example if the party clears most of an area of a location but then rests leaving some creatures alive I would have them join up with and inform the next group...

We have just run through a dungeon level in Princes of the Apocalypse which the party did in a single adventuring day. There was a total of 13 encounters. One was a spell trap, two were spotted and avoided, one we talked our way out of and the other 8 were combat encounters. There were 4 main...

You only get that (+INT damage) at 14th level though. Before that both the fighter and paladin typically do more damage on a single attack without feats due to a combination of duelist or great weapon fighting, divine smite and maybe improved critical. I would also usually expect a bladesinger...

I house rule that elven chain counts as light armour as well as being wearable by those non proficient. Makes it roughly equal to studded armour +2 for an armour wearer, slightly better than mage armour for a wizard and slightly worse than a robe of the archmage. I make mithril armour...

In relation to sword burst and the sorcerers distance spell ability, its difficult to say whether the range wording is intentional but I'd probably suggest not as it seems too specific. So theoretically a sorcerer could apply metamagic distance to increase the range of the spell and in this...

Just to confuse the issue, Salvatore writes about the Dragon Queen story line here http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/1484_DR

I think its also worth adding that his adventures aren't very time sensitive either. In WG5 he provides a 'what actually happened in play' example where his character got turned to stone by the golem and the remaining character had to leave the dungeon, recruit some allies and then return with a...

Many people seem worried about the effect of these spells when cast on the PCs when you have specifically said that you don't overuse caster NPC's. As long as a spell caster PC takes the correct spells or scrolls (assuming you allow crafting of these) then it won't be an issue So a houserule...

It certainly seems odd that a 16th level barbarian that then takes a level in warlock can cast eldritch blast better than a 10th level warlock. Or a 19th level fighter can take a feat and be able to cast a 4d10 firebolt whereas an 8th level fighter only get 2d10. Its balanced but still seems...

It depends on how you allocate magic items. If you simply use the item description then studded leather +1 is rare like all +1 armour. However if you also use the treasure tables as an indicator then the good magic armour like studded, half plate or plate is incredibly rare and only appears on...

What you want is AD&D Unearthed Arcana, Tempus Fugit, 5th level illusionist spell

Well since this discussion is about plate armour (and AC) and the Dex fighter typically has a lower AC and doesn't wear plate anyway I'm not sure what your point is. I wouldn't say that the strength based fighter isn't worth playing regardless of feats

I would ignore CR at this level. You need to look at the monster and compare against the party. So for example if the party fights Tiamat and isn't prepared they probably don't stand a chance. The only realistic way to attack her in melee is by flying as she can attack from reach and has no...

Then you will be aware, and to quote you, you are 100% wrong on the detail. SCAG is a regional book and has lots more information on the Sword Coast region than the 3rd edition Campaign Guide. I am aware that you don't think that information is useful but it seems to be useful to others. Plenty...

I totally agree. That's what the book does pretty well, and based on that I would love some more regions down the line but not sure if we will ever get them

Maybe its you who needs to have another look at how little information there is in the 3e campaign guide. The sword coast and the north gets a total of 18 pages of which over 4 are wasted on utterly pointless stats for NPC's you will likely never meet and even less likely fight. I mean, for...

There is plenty of new content in SCAG as far as I can see - they haven't just rehashed the old text. In this particular example there are 7 and a half pages of content on the dwarf kingdoms alone which I have not seen much of before. You'd probably need to go back to 1e/2e for this much detail...

Nothing wrong with a STR and DEX fighter. I'm playing a medium armour wearing elf fighter who is good with a bow and longsword. The party is quite stealthy so its important not to let the side down by wearing heavy armour

When we play a generic fantasy game then FR is a great example of this and so we base many of our campaigns/adventures in it. We make fair use of character trees to so there are often relationships of some type between one set of characters and another. We also mix up adventuring groups...

Well the flame tongue also does 2d6 extra damage so its not too out of place to be found at 7th-8th level. However I think what is missing is some extra background on the fact its an intelligent evil item - probably because the DMG wasn't completed at the time of writing. When we played this...