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The bonus to Stealth is nice for fighters that don't go for the "noisy" armours.

Kudos! They did an excellent job.

Agreed. The DM can set a penalty of some kind for ability check failure and "you cannot try again until you have a long rest" might be appropriate. "You cannot try again ever" would be harsher, but for DMs that think "well if you couldn't get out of it, then it must be too tough for you". I...

I imagine that in most places buying poison is illegal, and therefore the price gets marked up because you are buying from the criminal underworld that can set the price high.

They came kinda/sorta close with the Dax symbiote stuff in DS9 (and almost in TNG), but yeah, they could do better there.

For soldiers it would be rather simple to have them all be in the same military unit and go on adventures as that unit (or the special forces part of it). Since they would all have the althletics skill, presumably the DM would provide athletic things to do. For criminals, well they could all...

Two things I think would be useful on the character sheet are not in the official one. Are there any 5e character sheets that include exhaustion and "spell currently concentrated on"?

The only trouble I can see with the sleep spell (and its meaner cousins the power word spells) is that there is an asymmetry with DM and Player knowledge. The DM might know what the PC's hp are when casting sleep but the PCs generally don't know what the NPC hp are beyond vague descriptions...

This made me go "what?" at first but now I like it: If fighter A has a reach weapon, fighter B can start 10' to the east of A, go to 5' north of A, go to 10' west of A, and not draw an aoo, since fighter B never left fighter A's reach. If fighter A does not have a reach weapon, fighter B could...

It makes for an interesting dichotomy between the dex fighter that dumps str and the str fighter that dumps dex. Both have their advantages.

Whips are martial weapons, finessable, and cheap. So both dex-fighters and str-fighters can get their Indianna Jones jones. ;)

In that case, it would be a foolish evoker indeed that overchannelled evocation cantrips in a spammy way, if they had any higher level evocation spells left that they might want to overchannel before their long rest. So maximizing cantrip damage would likely come into play only after all (or at...

Speaking of overchannel, does the necrotic damage kick in if you switch up spells? If you maximize fireball in round one and the maximize lightning bolt (for the first time that day, wrt lightning bolt) in round two, do you suffer necrotic damage because you overchannelled twice or do you avoid...

It does make me wonder whether "teleport without error" will appear in the PHB. And every PC should BURN their cut hair, toenail clippings, etc. NEVER lend anyone a book or other object from your home, and indeed NEVER let anyone into your home that you don't trust absolutely. Leaving trinkets...

Or the DM introduces a snake (wasn't that how the battle between Arthur's and Lancelot's forces happened in the King Arthur stories?)

I think in another part of Basic they treat 0 level spells as 1/2 level spells so I would go for 1d12 damage as a 0.5 level spell, when overchannelling cantrips.

I disagree. Getting specific examples out there helps more and thus adds to the general statement. And people disinclined to allow non-binary gender will hopefully get a reeducation by the players that want it in there. It will lead to multiple teaching moments. That is how bigots learn to...

Well if it goes on for too long, Basic has rules for exhaustion due to not eating, drinking water, or resting. ;)

Indeed. Well at least Clerics with the Life domain get the former for free on their "prepares spells for the day" list.

So as long as each side has a caster with Silence, then fighters suddenly are very useful in combat, as each caster stops the other caster? ;)