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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    Yeah, I also agree with that. The spell is cast on your turn, any effects that trigger when a "spell is cast" are executed at this time, and then the energy is held until the designated Reaction trigger (or lost if that trigger never happens / the character chooses to abandon it). The slot is...
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    D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?

    It completely depends on the person! Some people thrive on feedback and would be happy to hear it! Some people might be drowning beneath all the rules of 5e and really only open up to alterations once they start to feel a little comfortable. Definitely one of those 'play it by ear' situations...
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    D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?

    Another vote for leave it alone. First games can be make it or break it for new GMs, and a really critical experience could make her give up the GM seat permanently, either because she doesn't feel confident about it, the players were unhappy, or a million other reasons. Now is the time for...
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    D&D General The D&D Memes Thread

    Partyboob gives me Guitar Guy At The Party vibes! This... uh... is clearly about Bards. Yes.
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    Yeah, some of their anger seems to come out of nowhere, which speaks volumes about there being some OOC issues that already have the players on edge / tired of his crap. Though there were also plenty of legit moments of tension, like the famous time Tiberius argued with Scanlan about swapping...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    "Can't cast spells" probably negates "you cast it as normal" no matter what side of the discussion you are on.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    I was speaking generally, in the sense that it seems against the intended purpose of the new limitation imposed on Action Surge. Not you specifically, since you said you believe it IS the intention of the designers (and you've always been an honest and cool person to my knowledge). I've done...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    Oh, to be clear I absolutely believe your position is a valid interpretation of RAW. It just feels like a bad faith interpretation of RAI. But I'm the furthest thing from the fun police. I would have also rewarded my player for the clever interpretation at the table and let them do it, then...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    I suppose there's some precedent in the Rogue using a Readied Action to sneak attack outside of their turn. And the designers are on record that they are fine with sneak attacking outside your turn. I imagine some of the reluctance stems from the intentional change to Action Surge to prevent...
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    Yeah, he definitely needed to go. Though I will say he had a few great moments, and I will even defend him about the time he killed that woman with a glaive and caught crap about it, when Grog murdered surrendered prisoners just a few episodes earlier. But once he started literally cheating and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    You might have answered this earlier in the thread, but do you believe this is RAI?
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    D&D 5E (2024) Using Action Surge to cast spells in 2024

    It's a half-artifact from 2014 where the Ready action didn't include casting a spell, but you could cast a spell and hold it like a readied action. The distinction is that the latter meant the spell WAS cast and is thus lost if not used. Two seperate things. 2024 put both of these under the...
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I'm faux devastated Emily Axford isn't in CR4. :cry:
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I think they did a great job on the whole, with the biggest thing they dropped being all the 4th wall breaks (including Sam Songs).
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    D&D 5E (2014) New Species - Zeetvah (Snarf’s People)

    Sounds like a bard to me! Wait, it's not?
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    D&D General Onboarding a newbie

    Give them 3-4 premade options and describe those options in vivid narrative detail. Then ask if they want to change anything. Don't limit those changes to just stuff in the book. They might say something like, "Oh, I like the big sword guy, but I wish they were a girl. And not a human, but like...
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    I mean, it would be pretty on brand! C1-3 minor spoilers:
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    D&D General Disaster Patrons and Their Longsuffering Warlocks

    I absolutely love the idea. But also, now I'm thinking about actual disasters as your Patron. Like, you're the long-suffering warlock of a titanic hurricane or avalanche, and the longer you stay in one area (measured in days or weeks) the more your patron manifests. Or the disaster might even...
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    Critical Role Releases New Campaign 4 Trailer

    To be fair, Liam has always wanted to be an actor showing his chops. Great odds he plays something like a College of Tragedy Bard with a lost or endangered family this time around. :geek:
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