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And for the people saying "Prime is a terrible deal and I already have Netflix"... You don't have to subscribe to Prime to watch stuff on Amazon. It just means that instead of seeing the little "included with Prime" banner, you'll have to click on "$26.99 to purchase Season One" before you can...

Plane shift requires a forked metal rod worth at least 250gp attuned to the destination plane of existence as its material component. If they don't have that, it's a no-go. And it also sounds like you have to have at least some idea of where the destination is located, and even then, your...

Joe Manganiello's character Arkhan the Cruel crossed over from Critical Role's first campaign into the Descent into Avernus module, so there's already a canon connection from Critical Role to WotC content. I'd bet more is coming.

At least in 5e, that's exactly the monk's 9th level ability - run across vertical surfaces and liquids without falling (As long as they don't stop in the middle of the move...) :)

Good point. But I'd be tempted not to make it TOO difficult due to "rule of cool" and all, so if it were a coastal area or such I'd probably handwave it as "Oh look, you found a whaling harpoon." :)

Seriously, the ballista example: "I tie the rope to the bolt and then around myself." = Sleight of hand check to secure the knots. DC 10 - you know how to tie knots, but you're in a hurry. "I fire the ballista at the dragon." = ranged attack with a siege weapon. +2 to AC due to the increased...

This is an underrated pun, right here. :D

Ah, I see they Sage Adviced this one. However, their wording still isn't airtight: Two-Weapon Fighting (under melee attacks, not the fighting style, not the feat) says "When you take the Attack action and attack with a light melee weapon that you're holding in one hand, you can use a bonus...

45. And if bob the fighter was using a scimitar (or other light weapon) and happened to have, say, a dagger in his other hand, he could make a bonus action attack with the dagger each time he takes the attack action with the scimitar, for a total of ten attacks in a single turn. :D

Playing D&D should be fun. I highly suspect that a player made to feel like they're ruining everyone else's fun because they didn't study their character hard enough is probably a player that's not having fun. Character sheet apps are a mixed bag. It's great because they automatically calculate...

The druid can collect the gold and "spend" it by hoarding it in a bog. And then use it at an appropriate time to flood the market and tank the local kingdom's economy, returning "civilization" to a state of nature. :)

I prefer actual dice. That said, if you have a player that can't math, or who likes to cast fireball but only has the one d6 and has to roll and roll and add and roll and add and roll and add and roll and add and roll and add and roll and add and roll and add every single time, then someone get...

Also, just for completionism, the Acquisitons Inc. book has the Verdan race, five new character backgrounds, and about five new spells, and a boatload of fluff to fit characters into an Acq Inc-style campaign.

Heck, listen to the first few podcasts of Acquisitons Incorporated. They start off running 4e and Chris Perkins does a pretty good job explaining the system to the players as they go.

From what I can tell, older edition playstyles were better suited to just publishing "here's a random 10-page dungeon. Have someone show up at the local tavern, send your murderhobos here, and let them kill everything and take the loot and go home." Current style of play looks for a narrative...

... for 5e I don't even write an alignment on my character sheet. Because in 5e "alignment" is only a broad reminder for the player as to how they designed their character's personality. It has no in-game effects (aside from "detect good/evil"). So, about the paladin in this case, look at it by...

TL;DR version: This idea is already supported by WotC. However, published material defaults to a "most-frequently-used" distribution that makes it easier for new players to grasp how the system works. Power users are encouraged to do whatever the heck they want.

No. All the books referenced are for 5e.

There's a whole section in the DMG about using alternate stats for ability checks, so any of this is allowable by RAW. Talk about it to the DM and then describe it appropriately: "I climb the wall using my dextrous monk training to find footholds and handholds invisible to my clumsy fighter...

For sorcerers, one option is to allow a quickened spell on a bonus action PLUS a spell of any level with your action. (Don't restrict it to a spell + cantrip as RAW.) ... and in this kind of setting I'd definitely be spamming every spell at max level anyway. :)