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I'm joining another Roll20 game (man, my spring contract can't start soon enough) where the only major session zero rule was "no multiclassing and no feats" for just that reason - most of the 'issue' builds require them and he wants us to "kill goblins not look up rules" . He is however...

Stool was the favored sprout of Rashaloon who gave us a way out (skipping the deep gnome city) who gave us a map to a portal out - guarded by the drow. After we killed them we escaped to the surface and stopped the adventure there. Our NPCs: Buppido: Beaten to death by drow guards as an...

I'd say until the mummy lord is fully destroyed, regional effects remain - like, if you kill a dragon, some of its regional effects persist for xdx number of days. I would also offer a proactive way to solve it. The players know going in that 1) they have to destroy the heart to get that...

So, I'm not getting fat, I'm turning into Christian Bale? Niiice...

Please. This is most certainly a criticism. Typing that it isn't doesn't negate using "two-dimensional characters" in the pejorative sense (and "murderhobos" is nothing but) or saying things like "I feel sorry for you". You've made it clear you don't think some players are playing 'the right...

Roll20 does that, but the dice are digital, so you miss the visceral feeling of rolling the dice. It's basically a random number generator in graphic polygon form. I don't mind, but some do.

"What you YOU do with your wealth?" That question depends on the group. I DM my son and his friends - 9-10 year old boys don't care about (or really understand) the use of money beyond buying things. I played in a 24th level 4e campaign where we would play several sessions engaged in...

Yeah, I was being slightly sarcastic (although most 3.5 games I played ended up being stat'ed that way). But, I do see the need for an array - I was on Roll20 a couple weeks ago and the first thing the DM said was "either you get a camera and point it at the dice as they roll in such a way...

That's why we combine the best of both: Everyone rolls stats and we use the best array. Actually, I was once "point buy is like participation trophies". After playing on-line and with new folks as I moved city to city - I realized that it wasn't that point buy was bad, it was that my playing...

Most of the time I've seen it it's been for guidance plus bless, or eldritch blast plus hex; I did see a human wild sorcerer take it for mage armor. It's not "optimal" and I wouldn't say it should be banned, I included it since I've seen PCs with it at several sessions. Lucky, btw, is the feat...

I always consider 'monster' abilities this way: The expectation is 1 'big bad' versus multiple PCs (with minions sprinkled in to offset level/number of PCs). So, not a big surprise Dracula is more powerful than a single PC? The question mark is because, I guess, that's actually a debate for...

If you're converting: Our old 4e DM is coming back from deployment this summer and we're starting up a 5e replacement (it's what we all play, and our DM doesn't want to pay for DDI). We were 24th level, so we're starting at 16th. Given the HUGE amounts of magic we had (seriously, we had like...

In general - I've played in maybe 20 games with feats and outside a couple of +1 attribute feats taken to shore up an odd state, every feat taken was one of the usual: -5/+10, lucky, magic initiate, resilience, polearm/shield master, sentinel. Most games where I see feats come in to play are...

The first 5e game I played at the FLGS was right after the DMG came out. It did not have any of the optional rules (MC, Feats). 6 PCs, everyone but the DM was new to 5e, and a couple of players were new to DnD in general. We made 3rd level characters (we played a reworked Forge of Fury)...

I experienced a new "deal breaker" last night. the DM for my long time group is on deployment, so one of the players has taken over. She's a great DM and the game has been fun, but...she's a poor judge of players. Our first replacement was a friend of a friend that thought this was Game of...

I take that as "either/or" - the aboleth can make a multiattack with its action (3 tentacles) or it can make an attack with its action (one tentacle, tail, enslave, whatever).

First - context: My personal interpretation of psionic (c'mon spellcheck, how is that not a word?) powers is that they are mentally altering the way the target perceives the world, not mentally altering the actual world. Less "I summon an actual, physical, real demon to attack you" and more "I...

Actually, no it is not. You misunderstand me. You are applying the Grapple rules (declare, make an opposed check) to Disarm. The Disarm rule (DMG, p 271) is an attack roll vs a skill check, NOT a contested skill check. It is 1d20+proficiency+attack modifier vs opponent Athletics or...

Solid. Two questions: 1) How are you adjudicating Disarm/Trip in your games? In ours we use the attack roll vs target Str (Athletics)/Dex (Acrobatics) check as per the DMG (p271). If that's the case, then the first part is already done (the "successfully hit" part) and the rest isn't...

Most literary vampires (from classic literature, not some potboiler or improbable fan-fic) took days, if not weeks, to transform a victim, slowly draining their life force. IIRC, Lucy in Dracula is slowly drained over weeks, and Mina is attacked over several days. Of course, that only works...