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I'm honestly kind of curious why people would even be talking about jumping ship at all. If anything the OGL 1.0 is absurdly generous to the point that it allowed D&D's closest rival, Pathfinder, to come into existence basically by copy-pasting 3.5 and adding some house rules.

That is....significantly more information about will ' wisps than I expected there to be. Makes me more interested to use one, though. Thanks for the stellar work as always!

5E as is already has enough rules variants and options that so far One D&D just seems like more for the pile. For example, we have 2014 Dragonborn, Wildemount's Ravenite and Draconblood Dragonborn, the various Fizban's Dragonborn (that surprisingly isn't just the One D&D Dragonborn), and now the...

The only ranger I've ever played has been a harengon fey wanderer, so I have two separate options for bonus action abilities to get out of dodge: Misty Step and Rabbit Hop.

Skipped Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse because I already have the original books they draw from and the accompanying monster card sets. Further, from perusing reviews I don't particularly care for most of the changes they make, especially not enough to stop using the monster statblock...

5E's also been inconsistent on what Tiamat's alignment is, with some statblocks labeling her as Lawful Evil and others as Chaotic Evil. Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes even states she is a force of Chaos bound in a plane of Law. I think it's simplest just to say that Tiamat and Takhisis are both...

"Takhisis is Tiamat, but if Tiamat dies it doesn't effect Takhisis in any way." Is it so hard to just say that one is an independent aspect or they're echoes of one another or something?

Some of these changes feel weirdly arbitrary, like the aartuk priest no longer being a priest.

I guess I could have titled this thread "Persistent Spell Effects: Do Any Move Along With Vehicles"?

This isn't a 5E source, but while looking around for opinions on this I learned that the Pathfinder 1E Skull & Shackles adventure path apparently included a ruling that Rope Trick would not move along with a ship. Not saying I agree with that, just that it's a ruling I found from a published...

New spell ruling questions, this time about Rope Trick: Is the portal that is generated intangible so that creatures and objects could move through its space? If cast while on or in a moving object, like a vehicle, will the portal stay in place or move along with the object? I ask because a...

I'm curious how much more difficult the encounters will actually be from baseline, but apparently the designers think they'll be difficult enough to warrant an extra feat.

It's such a minute amount that I don't bother unless the party wants a lavish lifestyle. It's not exactly the same thing, but Matt Mercer telling his players to mark off one silver piece when they use the cable car in one city has become something of a running joke in the current campaign of...

I really appreciate they made the hill dwarf cleric female. You see plenty of elves and some orcs in Japanese fantasy, but almost never dwarves. As far as art style, I prefer the one in the older releases Sacrosanct posted. It reminds me of older Japanese fantasy art like from Slayers or Dragon...

Why indeed? If it's just supposed to be one 5-foot square then it shouldn't specify a point in the spell description and should be more like Create Bonfire, and even it it was supposed to affect four squares it would just say so and not mention being centered on a point, similar to how Evard's...

Something that crossed my mind just now is that, if you go with the "centered on an intersection" interpretation of a point described in the DMG for Cloud of Daggers, since the area doesn't completely cover any one space it should be possible to use the squeezing rules to move through unharmed...

Do you mean that you center AoEs in the centers of spaces rather than on intersections? Or am I misunderstanding entirely?

My issue with this is that Cloud of Daggers states it is centered on its point of origin, which contradicts the normal rules for cubes that say a cube's point of origin is not inside of its area of affect unless one chooses otherwise. In the case of Cloud of Daggers the cube's point of origin...

Going by page 251 of the DMG I would say this is less of a "change" and more a valid interpretation of the spell's mechanics. The text of Cloud of Daggers says it is centered on a point of origin, which by the DMG would be an intersection of squares when playing on a grid. In other places a...

I changed the title of the thread to better get across my question. Unfortunately it doesn't seem I can change the wording of the poll.