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Let's just say that the last year of playing D&D without the ground shifting beneath our feet has been a breath of fresh air.

I only had a problem with the following ruling. It's inconsistent. "If I have 10 temporary hit points and I take 30 damage from an attack while concentrating on a spell, what is the DC of the Constitution save to maintain my concentration? The DC is 15 in that case. When temporary hit points...

Unless you like healing in combat and design your PC to cover both healing and damage in the same round. I just started playing last weekend (nephew offered to DM) and I created a Life Cleric 1 / Necromancer Wizard 5 (now 6 since we were just at the cusp of level 7). I have no problem ordering...

And so the "bigger, better, badder" race begins.

I checked old FR maps and ended up calculating it as 2.8 miles per hex, so I rounded it to 3 miles per hex. This then makes it one hour per hex on foot so that players can easily calculate distances (I found a players map online which the players bought in Triboar). Err, why? Wouldn't the body...

I don't have that problem as a DM, so I don't have it as a player. As a DM, I have the NPCs do nastier stuff then this. However, I did find a great FR deity for this (half elven) PC: Naralis Analor (also spelt Naris Analor) is a minor elven god associated with healing, easing of pain, and...

Yeah, I considered that. But then, they aren't exactly freshly killed. Btw, it's faster to just make soup. :erm:

I wasn't actually thinking of these skeletons as medics, but you're right. I was struggling with coming up with names for these guys (our Druid player often conjures two animals and calls them Sparky and Lutz), but you've convinced me on the name of the first one. Bones (aka Dr. McCoy). :lol:

In our game, the Druid gets random creatures. Conjure Animals does not state that the Druid gets the exact animals he wants, so in order to cast it to get the chance to "look at it" could mean casting the spell a lot, at least at our table. As is, Conjure Animals is powerful. Allowing the...

One cannot create skeletons from freshly killed hobgoblins. Those would become zombies. Skeletons can only be created by piles if bones. I will discuss this with my DM. I think that medium armor is reasonable, but I am also ok with the skeletons out of the MM. I do not want to overshadow the...

Thanks for the replies guys. Here is what I ended up with: I was not able to get the Con (12) and Dex (14) and Wis (14) I wanted, so I switched the PC around to have Dex 10 instead of 14 and use Plate and Shield instead of Breastplate and Shield. This does mess up Stealth and Dex saves and Init...

Why are the skeletons proficient with nets? Skeletons are +4 to hit. Non-proficient would lower that to +2. Same with heavy armor. It lowers their speed to 20 and they would be at disadvantage for Str/Dex attacks, saving throws, and ability checks. Granted, Skeletons have armor scraps and can...

With low level wizards in mind, a player in my group is taking over as DM, so I get to yet again play a Wizard. Granted, my Wizard is starting at level 6 with 5 levels of Wizard and one level of Cleric, so he will be bypassing some of the low level growing pains of 5E wizards. However, for...

My nephew was interested in DMing, so I gladly handed over the reins. I am bringing in a CN Half Elf Life Cleric 1, Necromancer Wizard 5. This guy struggles between life and death thoughts a lot and has problems with his dual heritage, elven and human. A lot of things are polar for this guy, so...

It's actually a fairly decent compromise. DPR-wise, it tends to be partway between +0/+0 and -5/+10 for both low and high-AC foes. At a 50% chance to hit, it's actually a hair higher than +0/+0 or -5/+10 (normal damage depending). It's a middle ground solution because if it is used all of the...

I guess you missed the part where I stated "I agree with you that at higher levels, spell casters can nova for more damage."

I claimed no such thing. I claimed (and you quoted): "5E is fairly well balanced. These two feats are not (IMO). You are making an assumption here that the DMs who feel that these feats (combined with other obvious spells and such) are overpowered will feel that other combos are overpowered...

Actually, it is the opposite of that. You made the claim, you need to provide the proof. Forcing your audience to provide the proof would be shifting the burden of proof. The burden of proof is on people who believe in UFOs carry extraterrestrial visitors (i.e. those who make the claim), not...

If you are making a claim on the power of any of these, please state the exact specifics of class, race, feats, and spells (and/or DPR) that make them so potent, more so than other options at those levels. For example, Maze is an 8th level spell. That doesn't matter at ~95+% of all tables and...

Feats are optional. Watering down or removing a feat is not going to cause a domino effect. It takes 10 seconds to revisit it and state that you are either going with the errata, or your houserule. It took a lot more time for you to write this post than it would for a DM to decide to use...