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Past editions are moot as far as RAW is concerned, and in this particular case, Jeremy's opinion is irrelevant. The wording is very clear - with no mention of hemisphere, so underneath, it's vulnerable.

Ah you're right - the dangers of reading it, starting to type and then going off for a coffee before finishing the post :P

It's ONLY a dome; "A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains stationary for the duration. The spell ends if you leave its area. Nine creatures of Medium size or smaller can fit inside the dome with you. The spell fails if its area includes a...

Damage isn't fully 'meat' trauma though... so it may look as if the creature got lucky or avoided the biggest part of the blast etc. I give a relatively low DC (8-10) Perception or Investigation check (depending on the circumstances) for characters to notice unless it's blindingly obvious like...

Don't look to tone down anything - run the sorcerer with their full abilities and hit the party hard. The sorcerer is an NPC interested in continued existence and the continuance of their plans - play the sorcerer like that! If the party take a pasting, give them a way to retreat and lick...

This Cantrip is pretty good, not a trap choice. Rogue looking to sneak attack you - 1 action and you halve the impact of their opener if they get the drop on you... for a CANTRIP! (remember the sneak attack damage is the same type as the weapon, thus halved along with it...). In fact it pretty...

"How can you be so sure Stonebridge is host to an underground cabal of fiendish warlocks Ser Tristram?" "Open sewers... yet no rats..."

The GM changed a core class ability after the game started and the character had already been agreed. The rules do not state anywhere that a GM can ride roughshod over a core class ability and the effected player after the fact in this manner. Not only that, the GM did it because he/she didn't...

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I used various examples, one other one illustrated in detail, and a few others off the top of my head as self-evident instances of where metagame knowledge can trivialise an encounter. If your argument remains the same no matter what contradictory issues are raised in debate, then it isn't a...

Evidence if it was really needed that people in this thread can say one thing 'categorically' and then utterly contradict themselves in the next sentence whilst throwing in a personal dig for good measure. You demonstrably don't know me on any level, and haven't made any kind of point I can...

I use a very simple and accessible example and you act like my entire argument is simple. *wags finger*

Twas the Long Rest of Warlock Twas the long rest of Warlock, in Leomund's house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. Her rat-bag was hung on her black belt with care, In hopes that a Hex target soon would be there. The Orcs were nestled all snug in their beds, While dreams of dead...

Yeah but a trip to the pub will be ruined if I don't know how every beer I'm gonna drink tastes before I drink it apparently! lmfao

For future reference, I may on occasion want to take a point to it's extreme logical endpoint (in this case where does one draw the line on metagaming, and if you argue it's ok in principle then you have to accept the absurdity of it taken to extremes...) just to point out how ridiculous I think...

Yes - the issue of one player knowing more than others and ruining their sense of discovery is an angle I had not yet considered, and is yet another string to the metagaming slaying bow...

... a great theory you have there, but after over three decades of playing and primarily GM'ing with a whole lot of people I can count on one hand the number of times I've felt the need to pull someone up on metagaming. This debate is a storm in a teacup and a mountain made from a molehill...

It trivialises the challenge, and without challenge, the game is dull and ultimately unsatisfying. By your logic on this issue, the GM could show the characters the adventure module, hand out stats of all the monsters and then pack up and go home. I can honestly say that I personally don't...

Actually I was using the troll example as a well known general one - I had no idea you'd brought it up specifically. Please rest assured that if I make a point directed to one person I do try to make it clear, rather than indulging in the kind of passive aggressive posts one sometimes sees...

Just to clarify my position using your conversation as a contrast. I am talking about metagaming as when rules knowledge is used by a player to advantage a character who doesn't have it; I am not saying all character actions have to be 'medieval/fantasy' simulationist or they are metagaming -...