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    D&D 5E (2014) Classes that Suck

    No, and that is why 90% of the Sorcerers I saw in my 5 years of running D&D every week were Draconic Sorcerers. They're why Sorcerers don't suck. +3 AC is huge with bounded accuracy.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Classes that Suck

    At low levels the Sorcerer is better than the Wizard because a Draconic Ancestor Sorcerer gets +3 to AC all the time, to match that the Wizard has to cast Mage Armor every 8 hours. It's all about survival. When you're up against low level monsters with about a +4 to hit then (assuming Dex 14)...
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    D&D General A more story-based mechanic for "somewhat grittier" healing - has this been done in D&D before, and would you use it?

    So if I am a level 1 Wizard and I don't have 10 hit points i can't recover from a contusion without magic, because a long rest will never give me 10 hit points?
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Most Popular D&D Classes & Subclasses

    Many characters are level 1. Druids don't pick a Circle until level 2.
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    Worlds of Design: Medieval Travel & Scale

    The Roman mile was 5,000 roman feet and the roman foot was 11.65 inches. This makes a roman mile 4,854 feet. Thus 20 Roman miles was more like 18.387 US miles; still a long way to walk but not quite as bad as 20 US miles.
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    D&D General Why can Giant Eagles, Giant Elk, and Giant Owls speak?

    Because birds are amazingly smart for the size of their brains. Make them giant sized and their brains will be more than smart enough to talk. They also have the ability to talk, as seen (heard?) in parrots. Also, Tolkein.
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    Kickstarted Tabletop Games Do Well In 2020 Despite Pandemic

    Since 2020 sales were up $37.1 million over H1 2019 and up $23.7 million over H2 2019 there could have been no Frosthaven and sales would still be well up. It looks as if the H1 2020 vs 2019 would still be a higher percentage increase than 2019 vs 2018 or 2018 vs 2017, even without Frosthaven.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Stealth and sleeping creatures

    The test of the "Sleep" spell supports this interpretation, because it causes unconsciousness and it refers to those affected as "sleepers". However, it is just not 100% true that a sleeping person is totally unaware of their surroundings, or how would alarm clocks work? Maybe they're unaware...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Stealth and sleeping creatures

    There are no rules that say that blindsight has any penalty just because you are asleep. I would just give them a -5 to their Passive Perception, because being asleep should put you at a disadvantage.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Triple Move- Way? Or No Way?

    If you have a move of 30 dashing at 60 feet per round would be a mile in 8 minutes and 48 seconds (88 rounds in a row). I could do this when I was in high school (but not carrying a heavy load) and I did not have a CON of 88.... I'd call it more like CON rounds of Dashing while in combat and...
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    D&D General Fantasy Racism in D&D

    To paraphrase Tom Lehrer - "Oh the dwarf folks hate the elf folks; and the elf folks hate the dwarf folks; and everybody hates Tieflings"
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    D&D 5E (2014) When I don’t know what they know (Icewind Dale)

    I live in Anchorage Alaska. It rarely gets below -20F [-29 C] but there was that one month in 1989 when Siberia gave us its weather, and this is what it was like one morning when I had to walk 1.5 miles to class: Dawn, 40 below F [also -40 C] with a wind pushing the chill factor down to about...
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    D&D 5E (2014) WotC Confirms Horror-themed Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

    Does anyone else want to see the stat block for stack of three Kobolds in a trenchcoat?
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    D&D 5E (2014) New products featuring Vistani will be?

    Players Handbook Reincarnated, of course. All the races (including some, but not all, from non PHB sources) re-done as Ancestries and Cultures. Vistani will be a culture. It will be made clear that they take people of all Ancestries. They'll also fix the Ranger, add in Artificers, add about...
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    WOIN Moving through an occupied square

    Deleting, was wrong.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Downtime XP farming with animate dead or conjuration spells

    No, that is the capacity of a "pouch" Those cost 0.5 GP and weigh 1 lb. In contrast a "component pouch" costs 25 GP and wighs 2 lb. No size or weight limits are listed for it. Specific beats general. You may not extrapolate the capacity of a "component pouch" from the capacity of a "pouch".
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    D&D 5E (2014) Downtime XP farming with animate dead or conjuration spells

    Rules do not have an intent. Anything you can possibly get away with by rules lawyering the heck out it is what you are always meant to do. Anything else is bad-wrong-fun.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Downtime XP farming with animate dead or conjuration spells

    No size is specified for a component pouch, only a weight. By the rules as written the pouch can hold an infinite supply of components of any size. You are making up D&D rules.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Downtime XP farming with animate dead or conjuration spells

    Animate Dead says that it requires "a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, and a pinch of bone dust". The size of the piece of flesh is not specified. Therefore a PC can declare that the piece of flesh they are using is a 99.5% corpse. Since components are free this makes the corpse free...
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