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Elves didn't evolve though. They were created by Corellion. Also, consider that a longsword is a weapon of war more appropriate to the masses where a rapier is a dueling weapon more appropriate towards one on one matches. So when little Johnny elfling is growing up he get's taught the...

Mearls can't keep himself strait so I have no faith in his rulings and read those as no more authoritative than anyone else with a lot of DnD experience. Crawford I'll give more consideration to. But to worship at their feet as the RAW gods is a little ridiculous.

Heaven forbid they have a non-optimal story based approach to the races. Not everything has to be mechanically advantageous. Elves and longswords have gone back at least as far as 1e. It's a DnD-ism.

I haven't read through the rest of the thread yet, but just from reading the oath the first thing that popped into my head was the Norsemen from 13th warrior. Especially the smaller guy who always translated for the Arab. They were always laughing and happy and willing to sail off to another...

I don't have the book with me right now, so I can't say what all a cleric multiclass get's at level one. But whether it's cleric, wizard, sorcerer, etc the character will potentially gain access to every 1st level spell of the class plus any other class ability that comes along with level one...

As a PC centric rule meant to deal with a PC owned business that is part time, they work well enough for me. I prefer a little more dungeons and dragons in my DnD than running a business. For NPC's, if it really matters you could use it as an idea spark or simply forget it all and do what is...

If you are any casting class you can take a 1 level dip into cleric and cast cure wounds at your highest slot level. But you also gain more spells as well as other class features and delay your regular class features a level. For a feat, one spell and two cantrips seems about right.

having read the original module, my suggestion would be to have the aboleth, wounded/sick/bat**** crazy and limit it's physical abilities. Then utilize a screen of controlled creatures (orcs, nothic's, etc). Maybe the the aboleth strikes out every now and then, but mostly it just babbles...

CR is more of a warning flag in 5e than a measure of a creatures power. CR compared to character level let's you look at a creature and decide if it's appropriate. Otherwise encounters are built solely on XP budgets. You can easily lower the CR of the Aboleth by restricting/eliminating...

Whether it did better or worse, considered a financial success or not, or even whether it was a good thing for the game or not is all speculation outside of WotC. Personally I think they are reacting to more fans saying that they liked things the way they were vs more fans saying they like the...

steeldragons I definitely see where you are going with your interpretation. I would like to point out that the designers have clarified that warlock spell slots can be used for things like Smites, sorcerer points, and the ranger thing so they're not completely cut off from regular spell slots...

I like to think of it as you know the spell and can cast it with your spell slots like normal and in addition you can cast it once a day at 1st level. But I haven't tried it in play so I can't comment on whether that's too generous or not.

Because everyone needs a place to start. A foundation to build on if you will. Even us "old timers". Otherwise we would just stick with the previous editions. But if we want to join in the fun of the new ones we need a basic structure for the game to build on. We just don't think that...

Saeviomagy Another thing I'd like to point out that may help you see where I am coming from is from a post earlier in the thread: So, NPC's can never do anything that the book doesn't explicitly have rules for? :erm: But if you see the book as a set of basic guidelines or examples of how...

Yes, my comment was a bit snarky but the point is that there is a generation gap. Older generations learned to try things and take risks. Newer generations have warning labels on everything and loads of instructions at the tip of their fingers. They may be able to run game after game that is...

You don't have to let go of the weapon though. They've said that you can pull out and use your material components with the same hand that you cast the spell. So whether you are holding a lantern in one hand or your greatsword you can cast the spell one handed. At most you have a second item...

There are gamers here that believe that if it isn't written down in the books, the RAW says that it can't be done. I feel bad for all those poor characters without clothes because the rules don't say how to put them on. You can buy them, but there are no rules for putting on clothes. I guess...

I don't blame the forgotten realms. It's the players on both sides of the table that have ruined the setting for me. Both DM and player who worship at the feet of cannon but you hear about the players messing with a DMs game more than a DM ram-roding a world towards their players because...

I'll wait to see if they ever actually release some details on the sundering. I'm not buying and reading 5 books just to get a vague idea of what changes. 4e was the best thing to happen to the realms since the original grey box IMO. I didn't buy any of the 3x books because I was already...

You also have the option of changing the resting mechanic so that the adventure "day" is actually longer. So you could have PC's clearing out one hex per day but they are only able to take a short rest once every week or 4 hexes or however you choose to set it up.