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Live or Die situations like that would probably call for raging just to make the ability check in the first place. Or inspiration, etc.. Anyway, if the barb had to rage so often that this is a normal problem, then I'd say he's either way too focused on being able to Frenzy every fight, or the...

I think it's aged better than expected. The exhaustion thing sounds really bad, but I think people tend to forget that the barbarian doesn't have to Frenzy every time he rages. Instead, that feature should be saved for the "boss fight" of the night. Mindless Rage also sounds underwhelming...

I've always just rationalized HP as a "resource" (luck, experience, etc) that allows your character to turn a fatal attack into a miss or graze in a REACTIVE way. So if someone gets "hit" with a sword and takes 15 points of damage, what probably happened was they were able to avoid it at the...

I've never found D&D to be particularly good at handling sci-fi, regardless of the edition. It usually always comes down to hit points, and I guess there's just a line people are able to draw between imagining someone taking 10 sword slashes to die and someone else taking 10 gun shots to die...

OK, fine, the rules are horribly unclear on how Magic Missile works with Mirror Image for you. Fortunately for you, this very thing has been cleared up by the "Lead Rules Developer of Dungeons & Dragons!" https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/709558830175092736

Only if the spell states that it's an attack... I'm not sure what RAW post you're referencing, and I'm not going to go digging through 24 pages just to try and find it, but feel free to show a link. I'd love to see it.

They are pretty clear to me. Mirror Image doesn't prevent or make more difficult someone from targeting you. It just makes attacks possibly miss. Magic Missile isn't an attack, it's a spell. It's no different than if someone wanted to cast hex on the MI'd mage (or Cure Wounds or Enlarge or...

I can't help but ask "why?" Is there really a market for pre-printed character sheets these days?

It doesn't really work, in my experience. Not with 5e, anyway. CR balancing isn't actually that hard with it (assuming all sides hate each other equally, you can safely just double the total number of opponents). The problem is that you're adding a bunch of potential complexity to the...

Feel free to house-rule it that way, but it's not the way it works.

I'm amazed this is still being debated, considering Crawford cleared it up a year ago... https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/709541359422582784

Greenstone is correct, though. Mearls (I think it was him) actually used it as an example in a podcast talking about spell targeting. http://media.wizards.com/2017/podcasts/dnd/DnDPodcast_01_19_2017.mp3 I want to say the conversation starts around the 6 minute mark, but can't remember for...

5+stat mod per 3 levels, as a rough baseline for expected damage.

Between having your holy symbol on your shield and a free item interaction (drawing or sheathing your weapon), what exactly keeps you from spell casting as sword-and-board RAW?

Just remember that the more accessible poison creation is to the player, the more likely they are to see enemies use those same tactics.

5e treats "surprise" more like a condition that everyone starts with on the first round of combat than an effect that you gain by fulfilling certain conditions. It's basically impossible to surprise someone who's already involved in combat -- in the mechanical sense of the word -- regardless of...

I just re-purpose old discount GM screens that I find at hobby stores. Most have a few from older or maybe just crappy games that didn't take off for cheap. Just print out your panels on 8x10 shipping labels and slap them on the inner faces. I did try that binder screen years ago, but it...

5e monks are a bit too well-designed, compared to all the long-rest style classes. They basically do everything.

lol, 5e is such a hot mess.

Wow, times have really changed. As for the topic, I think there have always been a shortage of DMs -- it's just scaled up a bit now, and maybe amplified by the dynamics of more fluid or temp players coming and going. Especially if you do AL. It's not so bad for the classic "home grown" group...