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Shoot down? No. Modify? Yes. One of the things I make clear to players when they join my game is that broken combinations can, and probably do, exist straight out of the PHB. If something pops up during play as broken, I will fix it. By that I mean that I'll describe to the player how and...

No, so far as I know, you can't do that in one round. The pegasus' fly speed is 90 ft. If it dashed, it could move a total of 180 ft. So, at best its movement would allow you to get 170 feet up, drop the grapple target, then come 10 feet back down. That also assumes the pegasus starts its...

For me, I'd say it's a confluence of poor indices, the amount of cross-reference required, and the lack of easy reference stat blocks for spells and other abilities. I've played and enjoyed every edition of D&D from BECMI to 5th. Each has their features and their flaws, and I don't begrudge...

That title . . . made me think this was a completely different kind of thread.

Well, it's starting to look like my group's issues might be solved. . . because there may not be much of a group anymore. As I mentioned, this past Saturday was the first game session after the hiatus my game took (because the place we usually play closed down). I spent about $400 on a table...

We used to play weekly, before the game went on hiatus. I anticipate returning to that schedule, barring any complications. As for splitting the player group and running the same adventure for each, I don't see that as much of an option. If I were running a published adventure, I feel that...

The group I currently DM for, the largest group I've been part of, is 8 players. It's a real challenge to manage that many people. I don't mind a bit of frivolity and joking around the table, but keeping 8 people mostly on-task is rough. Our sessions typically run about 3-4 hours, and I'd say...

Do you really need much to imprison a mage? I mean, wouldn't a blindfold, a ball-gag, and restraint mitts work? Can't use spells if you can't see the target, or enact verbal or somatic components. Effectively, mages become the maximum-security prisoners of the fantasy realms.

And that assumes they actually get fed. I've heard that some prisons in antiquity didn't feed their inmates. Instead, people who cared for the incarcerated had to bring them food.

It also allows you to control how often concentration stacking is available by controlling the dispensation of the consumables.

I think it's more than reasonable for longer-lived races to face longer sentences. However, that assumes the notion that punishment is what matters in determining sentences. In a system that attempts to balance the victims' need to see the offender punished (and, to a certain extent, that of...

In one of my homebrew settings I sort of allow Concentration stacking in that I have consumable magic items called Power Components. A Power Component is consumed in casting a spell, and it allows the caster to choose one method of enhancing the cast spell. One of the enhancements available is...

The lower spell levels have a lot of nice utility spells. Relying on cantrips for damage allows you to choose a bundle of helpful utility spells for your first and second level spells.

So, I do allow social skills to be used by PCs against PCs. However, there's an issue of subtlety to it. That quote illustrates where I have a problem with your approach. I wouldn't have described the successful check as the barbarian's instincts being to go along with it, or with him having...

So Badgerborn would be a race? Because . . . the brotherhood of mammals . . . I guess? The same thing for intelligent animals?

I say the more racial options the better, especially monstrous ones. You don't have to use them, but those of us who've tired of the traditional fantasy races (or, at the very least, of their traditional presentation) probably will. So, adding more races increases variability of playstyle...

Every other published setting. Homebrew was more popular than FR, but WotC doesn't own homebrew.

Alcoholic was only an example of changes beyond the container, and the container itself was also only an example. Let me be more direct: my game world doesn't use video game logic. Healing potions aren't always red (though some are), potions that restore spell points aren't always blue (though...

My general philosophy is that everything is optional, so check with your DM to see what's allowed.

Anecdote time: My players whose characters didn't have darkvision, about half the party, felt really insecure about not being able to see in the dark. They asked if they could buy something to give them darkvision. I allowed them to buy darkvision goggles from a dwarf smith. They excitedly...