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It's a problem seen across the gamespace, and I think the cause of it boils down to the diverse audiences D&D tries to serve. If you're trying to make your game hit a broad audience who wants both dungeon survival and monster fighting you have to somehow develop, say, a healing mechanic that...

There's something that seems off about this statement to me. If we go back to the example on swinging a sword vs. the talky bits, both seem to me to hinge on one shared rule: "Pretend to be your character." In certain circumstances, pretending to be your character means doing something with a...

Misspelled "though" :)

Arrow tracking matters if your D&D game is about dungeon survival or emergent gameplay. Arrow tracking doesn't matter if your D&D game is about monster fighting or storytelling, though. An infinite quiver as a magic item makes a lot of sense, but it'd only really be valuable to the first...

Yeah, that sounds intentional to me. Good catch!

I agree. I also think that because we live in a world where being paid for our work is how we access food, housing, and healthcare, replacing a human with cheap AI ("bending the cost curve") is not a necessary or defensible way to adjust. Yet it is a very likely short-term way companies will...

I find that it impacts play a lot because it impacts the characterization of the warlock character - players like answering the question of why they undertook the pact, why it was worth it, what they hope to do with it. Often, I've seen players answering this question with reference to the INT...

Part of the fun of playing a warlock is playing someone whose gift might go up in fairy smoke (or whose dark magic might cost them their soul, or whose alien insight might lead to madness). A warlock likely is giving up a lot for very little, in a classic Faustian sense. It's pretty fun to play...

The 2014 edition for Wand of Fireballs says you can use an action expend a charge to cast the fireball spell. The 2024 version could have the same language (and in that case wouldn't be kosher for Fast Hands). The 2024 version could also have different language. If it says you can use a Magic...

No, I'd say they're charming an arch fey. CHA 16 is a heroic level of charm, a level of attention-getting that most people aren't capable of. Enough for an arch fey to notice them, to have them stand out of the crowd. Enough so that when the warlock reaches out to form a pact, the creature is...

Charisma. Int would make sense for an occultist, but that's just a wizard. They've got the books and the rituals and whatnot. Warlocks make pacts with things. Deals. Their Charisma gets them a better deal, helps them charm the fey themselves, helps them wheel and deal with a fiend.

As a subclass feature? Sure. But not buried in some arcane corner of an ambiguous multiclassing interaction. Exceedingly poor design if you hide your best options under a few layers of optional rules that aren't clearly explained or signposted. WotC is capable of mistakes, but this would be...

That reading makes some sense - it's the de facto Magic action I talked about above. It's possible to read "requires the Magic action" as including all single-action or longer spellcasting, since all single-action or longer spellcasting does use the Magic action. It's also possible to read...

Yeah, I think you've got it right. I think the reason for picking them during your rest is to emphasize your own strategic load-out. If I pick three masteries, I'm going to pick the three weapons I've got the biggest chance of using, so I'm thinking about balancing that choice - making sure...

You gotta have a friendly NPC running your bastion! Or else, whose roasted ashes will the PC's be able to mourn after the red dragon torches it? :devilish: Seriously excited to see what's in store for bastions, especially if they can make it relevant to the PC's. I've always had a bit of a...

I think that second point is where the specific wording comes in. If the item says it takes the Magic action, then it does, and Fast Hands can apply. If the item instead says you cast a spell, then the item does not take the Magic action, and Fast Hands does not apply. According to my favored...

Pretty sure this is incorrect on the RAW. A scroll of protection is not a spell scroll. Those are two distinct magic items (that both happen to take the appearance of scrolls). Scrolls of Protection are not in the '24 PHB. Evidence for this includes that they have different entries in the '14...

As a fan of meaty HP who has long been told I'm Doing It Wrong, I've been a little surprised to see a more meaty HP take in general when I listen to other groups. Listening to some D&D podcasts and watching Vox Machina really reinforced that meat is a significant part of HP for more than just...

No specific description of a Spell Scroll says that it takes a Magic action to cast as far as I can see. We don't all agree. I don't know what the wand of magic missiles will be like. I don't have the '24 DMG yet. I could see it being a situation where the designers allow it to be covered with...

The counter-reading is: Scrolls don't require you to take the Magic action. They require you to cast a spell. Using the Magic action isn't a requirement of the item. It's a requirement of the spell you're casting (evidence for this is that bonus action spells and reaction spells don't take the...