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We have an Expertise Die (d6) instead of doubling your proficiency. For knowledge checks if it is something general you roll d20 If the knowledge checks are for something specific we roll with disadvantage The Expertise Die can be for either check. The randomness I find makes rolling fun...

Agree. That I also found to be the best if you're only using published material.

In no particular order Mission Impossible (Ghost Protocol, Rogue Nation and Fallout) - Just edge of your seat action with a great cast and tight dialogue Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Masterfully made. Unbreakable Series (Unbreakable, Split and Glass) - Fell in love with the story, the idea was...

Correct! I was looking for this!!!

True, the fighter and barbarians are a menace (especially multi-classed) shield, hasted, enlarged etc - those usually can get neutered with spells or controlling the environment but the casters are the ones that can counter that, control the battlefield and accentuate the power of the melee...

Upscaling the damage does three things: makes the spells more useful makes the fights more deadly (counters the hit point bloat) shortens combat I would also increase the damage done by natural attacks done by larger monsters (bite, claw, weapon). The conditions of push or prone being...

This is a good point. The other thing is to have the intelligent foes target spellcasters. Grappled them, move them (pull or teleport them), drop them prone, sunder their spell focus.

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I have an Artificer but he's the generous type and not a min/maxer so he's dolled out most of his infusions, but I can see how it could be an issue. But what's your PCs AC and how does the Abjurer play any roll in the AC as any wizard class allows for Shield or are you referring to the temp hit...

I have more but that subclass didn't need anyone with math or testing to see it was bad.

You don't need a power gamer to understand the issue with rests. They don't even follow their advice of 6-8 encounters in the APs. Your whole shtick with 5e is playing with Bounded Accuracy and then you release a class that makes +x weapons and armour with no guidance. And anyone can tell the...

They released the Twilight Cleric well into 5e tells me all I need to know about their design process...

That They (and the playerbase) currently do plug and play from 5e adjacent systems which is also a great thing for the playerbase; The D&D player base is primarily split in 2 and I would imagine it be quite concerning for WotC; That the entire history of the game, particularly adventures of any...

@pemerton thanks for this. A few questions. 1. Did the second evil water spirit taint the water that was already on them? I ask you because you said they emptied their waterskins and you never mentioned they refilled them. 2. This sentence I equipped Malicious Pranks, and scripted...

Goodness! - I meant repository ofc. Ah well! Let's leave it for the laughs :ROFLMAO:

I'm always amazed at the amount of innovative fixes that exist for the system and creative narrative behind it. Enworld is a great suppository for these.

I struggle a little with that sometimes. I know SC in 4e are explicit with the stakes declared upfront but in this retaliation (assassination attempt) was a consequence which would have been unknown to the PCs (and by extension the players). If I was transparent with it, the fiction is known...

So, this actually happened in our last session. I offered the PC (through the fiction, via an NPC) the opportunity to Short Rest since they had been up the whole night through to the following morning. Had they taken it the opportunity, it would have led to their 3rd failure in the Skill...

I've been running high level characters for a while (currently 16th level), but I do not have any monks or warlocks. In fact I've banned monks outright, but that was a thematic preference and because the 1-time I did allow them to the min-maxer of my group, he just created the most annoying...

This was an idea for the setting. But exploring this idea of residual energy collection - since in my games we play with Magical Disease which may occur by one having too much exposure to magic retaining that residual energy may bring about arcane afflictions.