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Good thing you're not in a snarky mood, huh? :lol: But seriously, I don't think giving myself the best shot at making something cool that's neither over- nor under-powered makes me a bad DM.

Yup, and I hope you're right! I'm all about DM-empowerment, but I'm also all about informed decisions. :P (Can you be "all about" more than one thing?) (Also -- I am aware of the irony inherent in the "informed decisions" line and basing an argument off a 1-page preview. I'm hoping no one...

To be clear, I am absolutely NOT advocating for a a-la cart point buy system like PF's Advanced Race Guide. Let me expand on the half-giant (from Dark Sun, for those who may not know) example to give you an idea of what I'm thinking. Here we have a few potential issues. 1) Large size. What...

Which of course begs the question of why even include it in the book in the first place. ;) My opinion is just this: If you're going to cover a topic, cover it in depth. Sure, let us DM's keep control of the final outcome. But inform us about what we're getting ourselves into if we decide to...

I'm going to respectfully disagree. While I'm not a proponent of the school of thought that everything needs to be balanced to a perfect degree, having some basic guidelines for how strong a player race is supposed to be is clearly needed. If you give your race the equivalent of a 4th level...

Interesting. But their example of creating a new race makes it feel a lot like "wing it" is the official procedure. That's fine for something similar to an existing race. It's less good if you're going to introduce a very different or alien race.

I dunno. I ran a few ghoul encounters when my players were at levels 3&4. Now at 5th level, they will (and have) charge(d) a stone golem. But if they see a couple ghouls hanging around a cemetery, they will straight up leave town.

I went with Merrow. Lots of Merrow. The MM's bit about seaweed and corpses added a lot of flavor/fear to their sailing.

I'll throw another vote at Red Hand of Doom. Castle Ravenloft takes a little bit of work (I'm still unclear on how K31a ties in with... well, anything), but can make for an amazing experience. The Expedition to... also seems good, but I haven't run it. I was also a huge fan of Dragon...

My memory is not doing me any favors today. I could have sworn there were creatures in the MM's appendix that did 0 damage. But I was wrong. They either do a straight 1 point, or are listed as "having no effective attacks" like the frog. I would say that, yes, a minimum of 1 was intended.

Given the casting time, this is perhaps not the best example. But yes, on the whole it's a good point.

I would go with a minimum of 1 for hit point gain/hit dice use, but a minimum of 0 for damage. I don't really have a reason, it's just what feels right to me.

Cool. Thanks for sharing!

Yeah, on retrospect, I'll have to retract my statement. I'd read "replaces components" and remembered that bit (and considered somatic and verbal components to be... by definition components), but forgot that it was explicitly under the material component header.

Kind of. He can use his holy symbol as a focus to ignore that restriction, which is often emblazoned on his shield or armor.

You know that legendary actions refresh at the beginning of every round, right? That means she can use a breath weapon (on average) 6 times more often than the red in your example. Edit: Maths is hard.

Unfortunately, the most logical place to put that would have been in the Monster Manual. I agree, rolling up treasure in 2E was some of the most fun I had as a teenager. ... I was not popular in high school.

I'm sure you meant long rest, but I thought I'd clarify just to keep any misconceptions from moving us off the same page.

Nope.

I'm with the crowd that thinks the intent of the rule is to protect you for one turn. Otherwise, you could (ridiculously overblown example coming in 3...2..1..) spend your dice for Evasive Footwork, then walk 12 miles to the next town.