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Darts don't lose any effectiveness by being used in melee to stab someone. The only difference between a dart and a dagger in melee is that darts don't have the light property... And count as ranged weapons so you can't take the Dual-Wielder feat to use two of them simultaneously in melee. And...

Most maneuvers work with any weapon including (but not limited to) swords, bows, nets, daggers, and dead goblins. The exceptions are: Evasive Footwork is triggered when you move. Feinting Attack requires you to designate a target within 5 feet of you. Lunging Attack requires you to make a melee...

However, if you use only the bolded text to determine what type of weapon is being used, then any ranged weapon used within 5 feet of an enemy necessarily becomes a melee weapon, despite still being used to make a ranged weapon attack. Unless firing an arrow from a bow at an enemy within 5 feet...

And if your DM's feeling generous (and you're a high enough level), perhaps Find Steed lets you get stronger or more varied steeds. As a DM, I'd let you could summon a griffon, pegasus, or nightmare once you're powerful enough (although Nightmares would only really suit Oathbreakers and the most...

I say that thou forgot to replace the bolded Mystara with "Dragonlance"! ;) Three reasons Dragonlance is worth playing from someone who's never played it: 1. It isn't FR, so I can ignore the DL canon to make the world as I want it instead of having to ignore the FR canon to make the world as I...

Because that makes sense... Change the entire weapon system to accommodate one extremely uncommon build, then homebrew a feat to return things to the way they were before. It would definitely be easier to leave the rules as-is and suck it up that you can't use Sharpshooter with daggers. Also...

It wouldn't break the game, but it would screw with the weapon system as it stands: Because ranged weapons use Dex as their default ability score but melee weapons use Str, any thrown weapon would have essentially have the finesse property when it's thrown (but not otherwise), making a Str-based...

Later on it says in the Thrown property section: If the thrown weapon became a ranged weapon for the attack, rather than being a melee weapon used to make a ranged weapon attack, then that last sentence wouldn't need to be there. That also supports the idea of weapons being either melee or...

Darts are considered a ranged weapon-- the only damaging ranged weapons with the Thrown rather than Ammunition property-- in Sharpshooter the qualifier for the -5/+10 is "before you make an attack with a ranged weapon" so you'd be able to use Sharpshooter in conjunction with darts. That's...

Only if darts are your thrown weapon of choice. It does, however depend on your DM's interpretation. If you allow any attack with a thrown weapon to be considered "an attack with a ranged weapon" then sharpshooter works, but if you interpret it that throwing a dagger is a ranged weapon attack...

There's a table in the back of the DMG for calculating their CR based on how much HP they have and how much damage they can pump out in their first 3 turns of going nova (modified by AC and hit chance/save DC). EDIT: Changed "difficulty" to CR because CR determines XP.

Which is a meaningless point, because GWM gives an explicit increase to damage. If the theoretical maximum of damage isn't higher with an ability that increases damage than without it, then you've broken mathematics... So why bother saying it in the first place?

My DM does that! In Giant Spider form I've yet to go full Charlotte's Web for the sake of communicating messages, but I've certainly been tempted to...

Edited: no longer relevant.

I know how the spell works, but the turn order matters. Say you have two PCs at init 20, then the shielding wizard at init 10, then two more PCs at init 5. On round 1, the first shield would only be present for 2 attacks before dissipating; if the wizard had init 1 instead of 10 it would be...

Guards are on the MM pg. 347: after Gladiator and before Knight. And they only have spears, but for the semblance of fairness we'll say they have light crossbows because they're little more than point-and-shoot weapons. If you're looking for a dedicated archer, the Scout fits the bill (MM 349)...

I dont have my books with me atm, but I think my point stands without it. Bearing that in mind: Let's say the city guards are, in fact, using the Guard template. Assuming 1% of the people in a city of 25,000 are guards (which is a lot), and the rest are commoners, that's a force of 250 troops...

IMO, templates are entirely unnecessary in this edition. If you want a headless horseman, you can simply use an NPC block (Knight or Veteran on a Warhorse) modifying HP, AC, and damage to fit the intended CR. I can't see the $3 investment being worth it, when I could make a (nearly) identical...

"This monster gets a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls made with a longsword." "This monster gets a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls made with a shortsword." "This monster gets a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls made with a bastard sword." "This monster gets a +1 feat bonus to attack rolls made with a...

I was running LMoP and I killed and beheaded Cyanwrath: after beating him the first time I let him withdraw, the second time he got no mercy. It didn't help us out (either in intimidating cultists or negotiating for a bigger reward), so a couple days later I tossed it in our camp latrine. :lol: