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Cheers to all three of you for these! I've been meaning to track down all variants, and now I don't have to! :D

Why? The average *human* might have Str 10, but soldiers, by the very definition of their jobs, undergo training that, at the very least, builds up strength and endurance. I'd say the average soldier has Str 12 or 13. This soldier can carry up to 60 pounds before having his speed reduced to 20...

Sounds perfectly reasonable. Porters and mounts to carry equipment, establishing a "base camp" to leave the heavy camping stuff behind (and slowly moving the base camp closer to the PCs' location as the delve progresses), or otherwise enduring the penalties for light encumbrance, seems to add a...

Yes, definitely.

Actually, Ibn Fahdlan was originally sent from Baghdad to what is now Bulgaria, but along the way is drafted into going to Scandinavia with the Northmen.

See, now you're creating a new 4e mechanic to mimic the 5e mechanic. Which is fine, if that is your goal. But mine is -- as I said -- to teach the 5e mechanics as efficiently as possible. As for Channel Divinity being in the game: they *are* the same mechanic, except CD is a short rest-based...

That's the whole point: teaching the 5e Spellcasting system by framing it on 4e's AEDU structure. That's why the cantrips are powers of their own, and the higher-level spells aren't: in 5e, you can cast the same spell again and again, until you run out of slots, and you can cast a spell using a...

To be fair, 4e powers *did* have descriptions. Here's Fireball, from Heroes of the Fallen Lands:

Despite not being codified, "bloodied" and "save ends" still show up in the 5e ruleset. For instance, high level Champion Fighters heal hp every time they begin their turn below half their maximum hp. And carrion crawler poison paralyzes its victim for 1 minute if it fails the initial save (the...

To be clear, I'm not retrocloning 4e or anything. It's just a thought experiment and visual aid to help 4e players better understand some 5e concepts. GMforPowergamers: I'm actually thinking of doing this for the Basic Wizard.

A few years back, Rob Schwalb did an experiment on his blog: he took bits of the 4e cleric and reformatted them to match the visual look of previous editions of D&D. Since a couple of my players were coming from long-running 4e games (even though they played 3e before that), I decided to do the...

Mearls himself said that when his answers contradict Jeremy's, Jeremy's answer takes precedence, as he's the rules expert.

The DMG has a whole Improvising Damage section (pg 249), calling out those times when *monsters* do unexpected stuff. I'd go with that: A tarrasque scooping up a Gargantuan handful of debris and flinging it at a pesky wizard looks to me like being "hit by falling rubble in a collapsing tunnel"...

And I answered with "Rappan Athuk had Orcus-worshipping orcs". And asked if there was a reason for not using Gruumsh.

Dude. Homebrew. Gruumsh can be as associated with the Abyss (or rule the whole thing, using Demogorgon for a carpet and Dagon for sushi) if the DM wants it.

Any reason why Gruumsh couldn't be considered a Demon Lord? He *is* CE now. Rappan Athuk had Orcus-worshipping orcs.

Anything that prevents the druid from taking actions will keep him/her from wildshaping. This includes anything that imposes the following conditions: - Incapacitated - Paralyzed - Petrified - Stunned - Unconscious

I believe you mean 126 hp, since an elemental form eats up two uses of Wild Shape. And the druid can't cast Foresight while wild shaped (can't provide material components, which Foresight does have, along with a one minute casting time). Of the 9th-level spells, the only one he can cast is Storm...

Spending two uses of Wild Shape in a fight against a single CR-appropriate creature *is* a resource expenditutre. The equivalent would be the Fighter spending all of his Superiority Dice and his Action Surge in a single fight. At 6th level the druid can turn into an AC 12, 42 hp, +7/+7 (9/12)...

Like I said, I didn't try to mimic the exact encounter, because the power levels of 4e and 5e PCs don't match. I just built appropriate encounters using the XP budget for a 1st level party of 3, and spread them throughout the adventure. For "solos" and "elites", I'd be tempted to just use a...