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'Somehow' covers no longer being concealed If you are invisible to me because you are behind a turned over table, and then you come out from behind the table and I'm looking at you, I can see you.

Invisible (Adjetive) not visible; not perceptible by the eye: invisible fluid. withdrawn from or out of sight; hidden: an invisible seam. It absolutely fits the definition of invisible. You are invisible until you are visible, either because they search for you and percieve where you are...

No, becase the invisible condition ends when you can 'somehow' be seen. In the case of the Hide Action in combat (different than trying to sneak past guards in exploration in which the DM would set a DC for your stealth to beat), the minute you step out of cover, if the monster is looking your...

Quick question, the rule posted at the beginning is about taking the Hide action, presumably in combat, but a DM could still ask for a stealth check if you're in the exploration pillar the old way, right? Like, if you're describe an action to sneak past guards or sneak up on a monster, the DM...

Fantastic write up! Baseball and Football fan here, and even worse than statistics is the new reliance on 'Analytics'. It's the reason that the Dogers have been unstoppable in the regular season the last 6 or so years and yet constantly get knocked out of the playoffs, because their manager so...

And in that way, the reduced nova capability in 24 should help make the game easier for DMs, and combined with the revised CR system make combat more predictable than it was in 14. That said, d20 resolution combined with bounded accuracy will still lead to some fights being way easier than...

Bah! Seems I've slipped out of sync with the timeline again.

Excited to see Treantmonk's review tomorrow and also some reviews from the GenCon crowd later this week!

While I appreciated the cameo's and send off to the 20th Century Fox Marvel films, and had quite a few good laughs, I felt the movie was borderline terrible, and the long fight sequences boring as all heck. Also, what a waste of a great villain who could have made a truely epic challenge for...

While I think it's fair to say that some decisions and actions in game are based upon playing to the audience, I would argue that the vast majority of their decisions and actions are based upon what they find fun. Even in a live show, where that percentage is a bit higher as they feed of the...

I mean in terms of mixing a build. They have said, and it continues to be true, that you can use a 2014 built character next to a 2024 character in adventures published pre and post 2024. The compatibility rule is that anything reprinted in 2024 superceeds anything prior to 2024 when building...

I didn't forget. That was for compatibility with all the subclasses not in the 2014 PHB (both 3rd party at WOTC). Making sure that your Everything Guide or Wildemount setting or 3rd party subclasses would continue to work. They never said it would work with 2014 PHB subclasses. This is the...

They've been quite clear for a while that you can run a 2014 character fully built with 2014 rules next to a 2024 character. The only news here is that in addition to that, you can use any 2014 option with a 2024 built character that hasn't been updated by the 2024 rules. So explicitly you can...

Love this, and think you are spot on. Again, had the players had just another 15 minutes to talk through it a bit, it probably wouldn't have been as jarring. Worth noting that the PC (played by Laura Bailey) who jumped at the decision to go along with Ludinus is also one playing a new...

@Parmandur thank you for introducing me to the Dungeon Dudes! Had never checked them out and after a 6 hour rabbit hole journey into their content yesterday, am hooked.

So let's try a specific example from Critical Role. Spoilers ahead for Episodes through Campaign 3 Episode 100. In Episode 98 (Live show at the greek) the party is in a dungeon trying to thwart the plans of the BBEG, an elf archmage named Ludinus. They are looking for something he needs...

Weirdly, I've come to really appreciate the standard rule for 0HP after playing BG3 a few times and have taken inspiration from the way encounters are built in the game to the tabletop. That said, I've also been using a house rule for the last couple of years where dropping to 0HP gives the...

Human Elf Dwarf Dragonborn Orc Goblin Bugbear Gnome Changeling Fairy With only 10, I would make Tiefling/Assamir/Genassi a template to put on top of any of the above species.

I also feel that C3 is a bit slow (in some way similar to the way Wheel of Time slowed starting with book 7), but my thinking is that the reasoning is more related towards their desire to stay away from D&D IP, which then puts a lot more work on Mercer, and in turn, he's relying more on the...

I think the closest they've ever come to this may have been at the live show at the Greek. A decision was made at the end of the episode (rushed because they were on a hard time limit) that felt like the players knew that the PCs HAD to make the choice they did to set up the next three...