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No, you get your martial arts damage when you make a melee weapon attack using a monk weapon or unarmed strike. You are making a melee spell attack here.

If you think that a human could read the text in dim light, then yes. The rules are a little ambiguous about what dim light really is,* so there's no more definitive answer than that. But for a typical parchment, I would allow it. -- * see for instance...

Well I would say there are still at least two rules-defensible interpretations to the whole thing: - You could say that the raise dead etc spells take precedence over the vampire effect, and they bring you back with 1 hp. - You could say the spells bring you back at 0 hp, then you need a...

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I like the idea of saying 3x move per round is really the fastest a creature can go, and reflects their "racing speed." Rogues and monks can readily move that fast in combat, but other characters have to make a check or perform a special action ('run") to do so. I don't like the fact that...

So correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have said that you are unconscious while you sleep? Not that you are necessarily sleeping while unconscious, but you seem to be making the distinction here differently than I would.

Based on how I read the rules, I would indeed say that you can't prepare spells after a long rest that you haven't benefited from. In an actual game, I would let someone do it, but that is sort of a separate question. I agree it is good question. And at some level I agree with the distinction...

It looks to me like you are basing your reading of the rule based on how you picture the vampire bite working, rather than vice versa. Which is totally fine, but not really grounds for a useful debate.

That distinction seems like slicing the cheese pretty fine... I think I agree with you here, but boy that is a pretty contrived example. In contrast, I think that regaining spell slots, eliminating levels of exhaustion, making saving throws against a disease and ending effects that are reducing...

I think they worded it as they did, in terms of benefiting, because they don't want to imply that you can't lie down and sleep for 8 hours if you are at 0 hp.

I don't think there is any reason to conclude that the benefits listed in the PHB are an exclusive list. For instance, that section doesn't say anything about recovering spell slots, but I guess you would not allow someone to recover spells if they started the long rest at 0 hp?

I allow it when it comes up, but I don't think it makes much sense. I agree it would be more logical if you could only dash once per round, but eh, it is just a game. If I ever ran an actual chase scene, I would use the DMG chase rules instead.

Ending the vampire's max hp reduction sounds like a benefit to me too.

Well to be fair, a vampire is a CR 13 monster. It's not absurd to decide that it takes more than a 5th level spell to counter a vampire's effects. Not that I object to your solution, just that I wouldn't say it was a no-brainer. Allowing wish to work is a no-brainer.

Just to give you a simple way to describe the method (or an equivalent anyway): - Roll your hit die. If you get less than half the maximum value of the die, then add half the maximum value to your result. Or to describe your method exactly: - Roll your hit die. Divide the result in half...

I agree with your alternatives, and this here is I think the most sensible way to play it.

No, being at 0 hp is not a condition for instant death. Being bitten by a vampire and getting reduced to 0 hp is. Not "having been bitten by a vampire," but actually being taken to 0 hp by a bite. Just like in "When all your walls turn to jell-o, the house collapses" the condition for collapsing...

Yes but that's not the form used here. The right analogy is "When all your walls turn to jell-o, the house collapses." Present tense, not a verbal phrase like "are turned." Now you might be saying, "yes but your house won't stand as long as the walls are jello." Sure I agree, but that is...

Only if you ignore the tenses of the verbs involved. I gather you feel OK with that, but I don't know why. The text has the form "Something happens (present tense) if something happens (present tense)." Try substituting some other phrases in: "You collect $10,000 if the hurricane destroys your...

IMO the rapier is a little too good, but I'm OK with the finesse rules in general. So I just say you can't use the rapier with a shield, and that works for me.