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Yes, and the Player's Handbook is not a suicide pact. I doubt anyone is going to seriously entertain Polymorph as: "One 7th-level creature you can see within 60' gains 157 temporary hit points." I can see exactly zero DMs allowing that, but that is the literal result of this interpretation...

Eh. The low HP of wild shaped Druids in 2014 is kind of an illusion, though. If you're reduced to 0 hp, you revert to your normal form and keep taking damage against your real hp. In 99 cases out of 100, that's basically temp hp. 2014 just creates this bizarre mechanic for it. The only "risk"...

I don't think that assumption is actually supported by the text of Nick. I think it's left intentionally ambiguous. Every other mastery property explicitly states "this weapon". Nick does not. Indeed, it just backreferences the Light property. It would have been really easy for Nick to read...

I can attest to this. My cousin has some land that's in a mostly undeveloped and forested area known for hunting and trail riding. Well, he went up there and found a vehicle, a cargo trailer with a big air compressor on it, and a bunch of other stuff on his land. Like ruggedized toolboxes, work...

So it's real weird. In the original 2e PHB if you look at the list of acceptable multiclass combinations for half-elf in the multiclass section, it lists fighter/druid and ranger/cleric. But if you read the entry for half-elf, it specifically says "ranger/cleric (or druid)". Yeah, probably...

Almost never. With that group we mostly played 2e, so I don't think we ever threatened to reach the level limits. If you happened to roll well enough to play a ranger or druid, you played a half-elf to multiclass it. Everyone wanted to play the elusive half-elf druid/ranger. Somebody in the...

From my memory, the classic party was a Fighter/Thief, Thief/Mage, Fighter/Cleric, and Fighter/Mage.

One thing that disappointed me about TWF in D&D 2024 is that it's heavily keyword-oriented, very synthetic in its language, and even more obtuse in how it functions. Instead of giving an example or providing clear guidance, it tries to write something that will dodge disingenuine rules lawyering...

No, that's not always the case. Communication is always a two-party affair, and you cannot universally put the blame on one party. Language is inherently abstract, and most words have multiple meanings. Meanwhile, if there are two possible interpretations of a given statement, and one doesn't...

I would guess... making Paladins no longer able to nova smite? Maybe making TWF semi-decent again? Honestly, most of the changes I really like are balanced by changes that feel like shuffling deck chairs. They barely touched spell balancing, and walked back a lot of changes that were nerfs...

I don't see why I'd want that. And I say that not to poo-poo your idea. I say it because over those 30 years we have strongly favored rolling dice for characters for D&D. I can't imagine one time in the past 30 years across all the editions that I've played that I've ever wanted to play...

Funny, I've noticed that people only make this objection when they also dislike the opinion being expressed. Being upset that people state opinions without carving out an exception for their opinion to live in is a form of sealioning. In effect, it sounds like you're saying, "I don't like that...

If we're talking about what I select, then, yeah, about 1/3 is probably closest to what I never use simply because the situation doesn't come up. Like I often have Feather Fall prepared above level 5 or so. I essentially never need it, but when I do need it, there's almost nothing else that...

This is me, too. I am a veritable Victor Frankenstein when it comes to plundering adventures. I've taken narrative frameworks, dungeons, rooms, encounters, NPCs, etc.

No, that exacerbates the entire problem they're trying to fix. The solution would be to eliminate damage dice entirely.

Because modifiers reduce how swingy the damage dice are. If you're doing 1d8 damage and the opponent has 21 hp, then it takes between 3 and 21 hits to defeat the opponent. If you're doing 1d8+5 damage and the opponent has 43 hp then it takes between 4 and 8 hits to defeat the opponent.

On Reddit people were saying that there had been much higher than expected QC issues, and a significant amount of the print run was not something they could release. Whether or not that's true I have no way of knowing, but it's very sad if they're not going to do anything to fix the problems and...

We tend to make encounters Deadly or Deadly+, so I'd say we average 2-4. It's difficult to say, however, because we don't use conventional XP. We use what most people call milestone XP. As a result, I don't really know how far we get through the daily XP budget, which is really the information...

Artwise I think it seems better. I admit I've only flipped through it a few times, but in the 2014 PHB some pieces didn't seem to have the right geometry. Nothing seems to stand out like that in this edition so far. That's true, but round metal, glass, or stone pellets certainly predate ball...

I rather like putting the spell list in the class descriptions, but I remain inordinately frustrated that the table doesn't include the 🤬 page numbers of the spell description.