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Back to a first-page comment: I disagree with this a bit - if the player chooses to have the other person do a check, it's fine. I have seen players respond to another PC trying to talk them into something with "OK, make a persuasion roll" and decide how they respond based on the person's roll...

This is also a good time to throw in some trash talking from the bad guy. *bored sigh* "Deal with this rabble, I have better things to do" can hit some players/characters in exactly the right place to motivate them to track him down later.

If you really need a villain to get away, then just have them escape. The PCs may not even know the method they used, and not all magical effects are listed in the spell list. But most of the time, especially in modules, it's more fun to have them play by the book and see if the players can stop...

It looks like you have multiple of these guides and they're not in the 'satire' category, so I think you're serious. This is an awful guide, with numerous major flaws. You use an oath that's not in the official rules, create a character with a bunch of odd stats and never boost them, and make...

It's not just a matter of organizing information, it's a matter of not including it at all! But I agree, I'm amazed at how much text they'll give to an NPC while managing to not reveal things like... what they even look like, or what their building looks like.

After running some of the Season Eight Adventurer's League mods, I am definitely in favor of boxed text. While I would be fine in theory with ditching boxed text in favor of a description of what's in the room from which I'd construct my own 'boxed text' for players, what I've seen in practice...

I don't really see any evidence that it's 'one of the most popular', except in the literal sense that any edition is 'one of' whichever category you name. Getting a small-scale kickstarter off the ground where people are basically paying for a nicely printed version of the old rules is not an...

One thing people forget about light is that it can be useful to illuminate your enemies but not yourself. If you cast light on an arrow and fire it at the enemy or cast dancing lights far from you but near them, you can generate a situation where you can see them but they can't see you. While...

I don't see what the problem is. A druid in animal form doesn't wear clothing or armor, it merges into the form or drops to the ground. Therefore, the druid is not wearing any sort of pants or skirt. Since the druid's butt is fully exposed, they are mooning everyone constantly while wildshaped...

There's nothing that says it doesn't work, and if you really want to give up all of your attacks to make one attack that has less chance to hit and does less damage than using a real weapon, as a DM I'm certainly not going to stop you. I'm also not going to make combats easier on you just...

Future proofing against what? I don't see what they are supposed to proof against, or how this would defend against it. And creating and publishing a functional RPG that people like to play is a significant hurdle, making something that competes successfully with D&D is not that easy - lots of...

The plan seems like a way to spend a lot of effort to turn a popular, money making show that they really enjoy being a part of into a less-popular show that makes less money and involves more work that they don't like, but allows them to say they're playing their own game instead of D&D. I...

How large is your home group, and how 'optimized' do they play? Most adventures have a section at the front to figure out how your group scales from 'very weak - weak - average - strong - very strong' based on the size or level of the group, and you use this to scale the adventure. In pickup...

Oh, here's a question: could you make hero's feast permanent? The feast has to be consumed in an hour and disappears, but the effects last for 24 hours naturally. You'd have to spend 365,000 gold to cast hero's feast every day, but assuming you've got that money would it work?

For comparison, if you use a 9th level slot each day, you can get "can’t be surprised and has advantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. Additionally, other creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls against the target for the duration." for eight hours.

As written it's any spell effect that you can see. With druid spells, you could get 5 person longstrider (Which is probably a bit of a price break over items), pass without trace (by my interpretation only for the caster), Freedom of movement, stoneskin at absurd cost, Find the Path (so you'd...

One odd effect: You can make a conjuration spell go non concentration and last all day at the cost of having gems on you and one sixth level spell slot. While having an all-day elemental or wolf pack is not game breaking, you are letting a shepard druid (or other summoner, but they come to mind)...

The problem for me with 'turn on a timer' is that I'm not actually in the game seeing what happens. If the DM hasn't adequately described the situation, I end up having to use big chunks of what are supposed to be decision time for clarifying things that the character would either already know...

If you're having that hard of a time following the conversation, nothing I can post is going to make sense to you.

It isn't RAW, and if it's not RAW it's a house rule. A lot of people do not accept Crawford Tweets or sage advice in their games. Acting surprised at this well-known fact is silly, as is being surprised that people make feat decisions based on the rules they use and note some tweets or message...