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Purchasing of stolen goods for fair prices without bringing the heat down.

But, "radius" is not defined as a circle around a point of origin that needs to be on a grid intersection. The entire grid rules of 5e are completely optional. Claiming that the definition of what spells do is defined by optional rules is sort of backwards. If your explanation of how a 5e...

I did that with all of the half-races. The Bael Turathian empire used magic to produce half-elves, half-orcs, muls, goliaths, and tieflings. The noble caste mixed their blood with fiends to enhance their ability to use magic, and bred special-purpose slaves using half-human stock. Half-orcs...

So, "within a 5' radius" of a castle won't include someone touching the castle? Then, I will never understand you.

If spells are 30% better than his model indicates, then when you subtract away at-will, consumables are like 50%-75% better than the model indicates. The conclusion is not supported by the data. Like the data is great, the conclusion is way stronger than the data provide evidence for.

I'm just curious; why would it require significant server CPU -- with Java wouldn't the app that did the simulation be downloaded to the client system and run the sim there?

Talking about a 15' radius is going to confuse the issue. Imagine a spell with a 5' radius around a creature. Like "A flaming aura surrounds the air within 5' of the creature". If you cast it on a dragon 20' by 20' dragon, does it cover some 10' diameter sphere? Or does it cover everything...

In my world building, I have an explicit Law-Chaos axis. Road and Wall societies are on the Law end of the axis. Hill and Sky societies are on the Chaos end of the axis. As I want extensive wilderness, but also want huge cities, I make my worldbuilding cause this. Road and Wall exploit...

They beat part of the "civilized" people. See, what if the elves and dwarves won the first centuries of the war? They pushed the orcs back and back, claiming more and more territory with magic and fortifications. Then the orcs found their own magics and ways to defeat the fortifications of...

He reproduced much of the WotC design with a bunch of errors. Those errors are usually bounded by 25% ish. The errors he gets include: 1. Spellcasters aren't worth the same XP as other classes. 2. Classes with rest-based resources are worth less XP than other classes. 3. Classes with...

This kind of spell should require concentration. It is an extraordinary sense that cannot be gained through most other means. But I would probably roll it in with another effect, because completely separable magical effects are boring. Earthen Integration - Concentration (1 hour), self, 2nd...

Spending spells shortens fights and saves HP. You are finding one small part and grabbign onto it and ignoring the other parts. A PC's ability to kill monsters depends on spending spells. Spending spells both boosts the PCs damage which reduces enemy damage, because it makes foes die faster...

Also, note that +X items are mechanically surprisingly powerful despite being very pedestrian. A +2 weapon (+2 to hit +2 damage) can easily do as much damage as a flametongue (+2d6 fire damage) despite the 2nd requiring attunement. Avoid giving out vanilla +X weapons. Avoid making their...

Sure, I'm just explaining the problem. Either have your plots move at the speed of "the world is ending tomorrow/the invaders arrive tomorrow/etc, feel free to take a long rest but then the world ends" or use gritty rests and have plots move at the speed of "the world/etc ends in 10 days". Or...

So, if your players are having 1 encounter/day, and your expectation is that fights are going to be close, a party of 6 level 3 characters can blow away CR 7 foes. Try adding up the level/CR of both sides. The default assumptions is that you'll have like 7 encounters where the typical one is...

The yield of an enslaved person is going to be less than a free person, or the cost to get that yield will be higher (in terms of supervision). Prior to the current era, people spent a good 50% of their income on food. You can give slaves worse food, but that will be another reason to reduce...

All of this "primary casters get X, non get Y" make me think you are playing without any multiclassing. Which is great and all, but useless for me. And if you back load it, adding a save or two at T3/4 isn't going to make that much of a difference between primary casters and not. I am in...

To me, sorcerers limited list is part of the mythos. They aren't generic arcane casters; they have a set of magical talents. I'd rather gice them: 1. A chance to not use a spell slot when they cast a sorcerer spell, 2. Strip flexible casting, 3. Make metamagic be short rest based. 1 amd 2 are...

Yes, it passes around in schools. Around here, there is zero ability to send a kid to school without the child unmasking in a poorly ventilated room to eat with other people. And there is no in school mask mandate, so it swirls around in the community of people with kids. So they kid will...

There are two tiers of saves -- Dex/Wis/Con is top tier, and Str/Int/Cha is not. With multiclassing in mind, they all have to be either good or bad. Barbarian (STR / CON) + Dex Bard (DEX / CHA) + Wis Cleric (WIS / CHA) + Con Druid (INT / WIS) + Con Fighter (STR / CON) + Dex Monk (STR / DEX) +...