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Yeah, might be too much reliance on natural language. If I say I hide behind the dresser, and then I move from behind the dresser, I'm no longer hiding behind the dresser, and wouldn't expect to still be considered hiding there. If I want to sneak past the guards, that's something else. I'm...

It feels so right that new Stealth rules have a 1000+ comment page. It's almost like it's a design goal with D&D to give us something to argue about :)

Got it. In that case, I would rule that if you make two attacks (via action surge, Haste or Extra Attack) you could Nick on one attack and bonus action attack on the other.

I thought they decoupled the bonus action attack from the attack action. So that you only have to have a light weapon in both hands to use the bonus action attack regardless of what you did with your action. IE, you could cast a spell and then make a bonus action attack with a light weapon...

I am def going to have to plan a BG3 reunion one-shot to test this out in the fall. Maybe a defense of the House of Hope scenario.

@DavyGreenwind following up on this, does the skill section (or perhaps exploration or social encounters) call out that the DM may ask for a check based on what the player describes their character as doing, even if they didn't take one of the explicit actions called out? Or conversely, does...

Were they primarily showing the DM view on the back screen? You could see the players screens in front of them from time to time, and I'm wondering if everyone can see the realitive health levels of all the combatants, or just the DM? Also, I actually don't like exactly knowing what my PCs...

My guess is that out of the gate, if you build a character with 2024 rules, you'll default to 2024 spells, feats, backgrounds and species. They may eventually add the ability to pick and choose, but unless there is a LOT of demand for it, I think it will be low on the priority list. That...

Same. At the very start of it they were looking at the screens a bit more, but with 20 minutes it felt very similar to people looking at a battle map on a kitchen table. One thing I did notice was that all the play was on the ground. I was hoping to see some 3D movement, wondering if that's...

Saving throws are always associated with an ability score. Death saving throws are not, they're just a 55/45 straight up chance. You can still use heroic inspiration to reroll though, because heroic insipiration allows you to reroll any die. But also, Death Saving Throw and failure/success...

Dungeon Dudes mentioned that a death saving throw is specifically not a D20 test, so it won't count against those.

Overall pretty impressed with what I saw at this point in development, certainly seems like it's ready for public playtesting (I can imagine there were quite a few people on the development team sweating bullets during that 90 minutes). Think it was smart of them picking Abria to DM this as she...

As a huge BG3 fan, this is freaking amazing!

Well, martials at least get to keep their higher HP and AC, so if the whole group is exhausted it at least gives the party a chance to let the spellcasters use ST spells while the martials soak damage at the front line to get out. If it effect DCs as well (and then also AC) the party would be...

For what it's worth, at my last job our company had a youTube channel where we would repost new trailers from upcoming films (which is allowed) but every month or two one of them would get struck down as a copyright violation and we'd have to spend a little time communicating with youTube and...

Thanks for the link, great article on Sigil! Getting more and more excited for this. I've always wanted to use 3D terrain for my home game, but the expense never seemed worth it and now my games are almost always online anyhow, first with Roll20 and now with DDB Maps (which has greatly cut...

Between Karlach and Astarian appearing in this and the previous note that Sigil would be bringing in a lot of BG3 assets, I'm hopeful that perhaps we'll get a level 12-20 tabletop adventure continuing the story of BG3 playable in Sigil (or on the kitchen table). I wonder how many non tabletop...

Just saw in a flip through video (Nerd Immersion) of the Playing the Game chapter that the basic order of play, (DM describes the scene, Players describe their actions, DM narrates the results, asking for a D20 Test if the result is uncertain) remains in 2024 as the basic order of play. Actions...

Well thats why Nobels pay good money for bodyguards and wizards to cast Alarm around their room every night :) It sounds easy but the reality is a whole adventure worth of planning and making checks to actually pull it off in that manner

Hmmm, would love to see how these actions are presented in 2024 then. Perhaps someone at GenCon can chime in! Still, I imagine the general order of play is still in tact, and that means that if someone hides and then moves from that position, I as the DM can have them make a stealth check to...