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First of all this is not accurate, the Magic User only hurled a single fireball, he did not 'keep hurling' them. Hurling a fireball at a 60' long creature while it is engaged in melee with half a dozen humans who can move along its length to stay clustered together without hitting them is a...

It's not just small and petty, it's factually incorrect. As I pointed out in my response to him, THAC0 was actually a 1e concept. Also, for other readers I want to note that while lowkey13 is slyly insinuating that I got the to-hit rules wrong in the shortcut I used, all of the characters are at...

This is pretty impressive, because it's hilariously wrong in multiple ways. There's already been a cite, that you agree with, that shows that "To Hit A.C. 0" was a term used in the 1e DMG. Your insistence that no one could possibly have abbreviated a term already in use to it's obvious acronym...

I would not assume that every tarp and tent was on the deceased pack animals and is now consumed, that every barrel, cart, or large pot was completely obliterated, and that they players can never find a cactus or tree to hollow out. The spell only requires a single container, it doesn't require...

Oh right, I forgot that one. But it still does that on it's own, it doesn't have anything to do with shield mastery, or being combined with shield mastery. I'm still perplexed by what the OP expects to happen by involving shield mastery.

No, neither ability gives a reaction attack, just something you can use a bonus action to do. Having two feats that give a possible bonus action doesn't give an additional reaction or additional option on your reaction. And I'm really not clear on what you think is different about using those...

Azzy's description of the spell that you responded to is incorrect; the spell doesn't actually have any timing restriction, and operates continuously. A correct rephrasing is "Calculate your AC using any bonuses you wish. This includes class features, armor, shields, dexterity, feats, natural...

I am not a fan of shocking grasp. It's not actually a get-out-of-melee-free spell - it's a get-out-of-melee-with-one-enemy-if-you-hit spell. Disengage is free gets you out of melee with everyone with no AOOs, if you just want to get away it's the better option. To get someone away from you, you...

You have to pick one or the other to use your bonus action on each round. You might want to have both 'extra damage', 'knock prone' and 'knock back' as options on your bonus action, but they don't combine with each other at all. You would be able to get the saving throw benefits of shield master...

Yes, people did - I experienced it and called it that myself. And people certainly used the term when playing 1st edition AD&D after the 2nd edition books came out. And 1E and 2E have coexisted for longer than 1E was out without 2E. And just in general, the 'logic' that I must not have actually...

This is an utterly bizarre and absolutely incorrect criticism of the fight. First of all, it's flat out verifiably factually incorrect. Elwita the 6F absolutely did not have the best saving throw at 11. Karraway the 6C actually had the best poison save at 9, and Eljayess the 3C/3F also beat her...

This is just hilarious. As you pointed out, "To Hit A.C. 0" actually originated on P196 of the 1st edition DMG in Appendex E: "Alphabetical Recapitulation of Monsters (With Experience Point Values)", it was not created in 2nd edition. People with mild intelligence realized that, other than the...

That's a good one I hadn't thought of. Unless you have really excessive 'down the ravine' falls then they won't match real world scariness. I agree that's not one worth worrying about, though. Another one is that the 'bad guy has knife at the innocent's throat' technically suffers from the 5e...

But I've seen people comment on this like lack of water is a major problem for all Tier 2 PCs, that it's something that should be a major plot point if it happens and not just 'oh well we'll use up 1 first level slot' or includes a caveat like 'as long as no one has a level of this common...

People have argued that the wording of how clerics select their prepared spells meant that clerics get to pick spells from any level they can cast. I didn't think it's a correct reading, but it was an incorrect reading that multiple people argued for and used, and this errata clears it up...

In another thread, someone mentioned the idea of a monster destroying the PC's supply wagon during a desert trek, and pointed out that being trapped in the desert with no food or water was a really scary situation. I've also heard people talk about being stranded on partially wrecked ship with...

Mechanically what do you expect the necromancer to do? The core necromancer gimmick is to raise undead and have them fight for him. If you want to raise a bunch of undead and use them to fight for good goals, then mechanically you're going to use the same abilities and combos as the cackling...

It's happened in this thread! What I'm talking about is players doing the thing where they decide that something like sanctuary or the dodge action works one way, then complain if the DM has it work a different way. I think that the player deciding what has to be secret from enemies, not telling...