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I don't think that natural armour should stack with worn armour. If it did stack, I'd expect every intelligent creature (dragons, kraken, aboleth, angels, etc) with natural armour to be wearing a set of plate on top for additional defences. Facing Tiamat with 33 AC (18 plate + 15 natural) would...

2.5 Hours per week at the FLGS 4-6 Hours per week online 4-6 Hours per 1-3 weeks for a home game Total of 6+ hours per week, spread across multiple tables.

I started a swashbuckling piratey game on the weekend. As a first level character with access to four powder kegs (DMG 267-68) and a few flaming arrows from crewmen we dealt 1/4 of a CR 23 kraken's HP before it decided to run away. Gunpowder, Keg For 250 gp you get a 10 foot radius explosion...

I've been loving these updates. I spend six days each week looking forward to the next update.

Grapple with first claw attack, grapple with second claw attack. Next turn, spend action to rip the pesky wizard in two.

Trade good can make excellent loot in the right situation. My players came across an isolated town that had been plagued by orcs from nearby mountains for the last several decades. After a particularly viscious attack thirty years previous, the town was forced to abandon their iron mine...

"You can perform the somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a shield in one or both hands." I should have been more clear. I was trying to say that he'd be fine for cantrips and some spells, but anything requiring material components would not be possible.

With both hands on his halberd/glaive/pike he's going to have a hard time using material components. Eldritch blast is going to be fine, but something like Hold Person would not. AoO on approach in exchange for being unable to cast a sizable portion of your spells is a fair trade in my mind. If...

Dwarves don't eat. They are clockwork constructs that gnomes created for heavy lifting and reaching the top shelf (designed with gnomish shelves in mind). A small army of elite gnomish ninijas travel the world and hand crank dwarves at night to prevent them from shutting down. Alternatively...

5+1 players for my home group. 5 PHB 3 DMG 3 MM 2 Starter Set 1 HotDQ 1 RoT

I gave the ranger in my game a homemade bow of web (think wand of web, but works through the arrows it fires). The ranger also has the sharpshooter feat. I have had to make all dragons in my game the spellcaster variant with the Featherfall spell.

Your readied action in this situation would be the Dash action. When the door opens you would have your full movement (I assume 30 feet in this scenario) to move into the room, exactly the same as using a dash action on your own turn. If hit by DW before your readied dash is used, you would move...

Using spell slots, I forsee a lot of defensive spellcasters taking a level in wizard or sorcorer. Paladin 9/Sorcorer 1 would have 13 uses of Shield each day. Cleric 9/Wizard 1 would have 32. Even a third level War Cleric 2/Wizard 1 would be able to fire off 7 Shield spells daily. Elditch Knights...

In this situation Elgweth must have had a turn in the previous round in order to ready an action. You are correct that there is no change to initiative order. Round 1: Orcs run towards door, but do not get to it. Elgweth uses action to ready an attack. Round 2: Orcs open door, Elgweth uses...

I love the look of this. I would, however, make a couple of tweaks. Instead of losing 1d6 HP on going down, HP maximum would be reduced by any excess damage beyond 0. If an attack brings a character to exactly 0, then there would be no loss of HP max. If the same character has 1HP before getting...

For myself, no. I understand character creation and can make a PC in just a couple of minutes. For my players, yes. Some players are just unable to get their head around character creation. I'm not sure if it's the layout in the PHB, the order of the steps, or something else, but some of my...

I'm finding that launching ambushes on a ranger with the sharpshooter feat is extremely difficult out in the open. Even with ranged attacks, most monsters tend not to cause serious damage. I've had to find imaginitive ways to get enemies through the deathzone that is 100-600 feet from the...

"What would you give to defend you homeland, soldier?" "Anything, sir." "Including your own life?" "Yes, sir. I would give everything I have to protect those I love." "What if told you that there's a way that you could continue to protect them after falling in battle?" Good aligned wizard...

Something I do is award a level of exhaustion upon reaching 0HP. Sure, you can get back up and keep going, but you will be weaker for the rest of the day. If you go down a second time you will now be slowing the party down. A third time and you'll be lucky to hit enemies and pass saving throws...

I see alignment as a necessary evil when I am creating a character. It is, in my mind, how an observer would label the character after watching them for an extended period of time. I always make sure to have a decent sized backstory for my characters before playing, however I do not know for...