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Hey! We used those last session! The warlock used the mirror to look around corners in a demonic temple. And the paladin's collapsible pole blocked a door in a hallway without using spikes.

It also applies to your Steed's attacks while you are mounted. (assuming the "share spell" aspect of steed hasn't changed)

A friend of mine exploded once. He doesn't recommend it. He delivered oxygen to nursing homes and his van exploded. Five things kept him alive. He made his dex save. Only 55% of his body burned. He wrapped his body around the steering column, protecting his face, lungs, eyes, chest and...

Keeping a focused healer around is a Good Thing (tm). And Belkar did learn from Shojo about the value of allies.

I take a lot of my cues from Earthdawn. There are unwritten rules for non-adventurers. Treat all adventurers as heroes in the hopes they lean into it rather than deciding to be villains and level the village. Magic is incredibly useful and anyone with it can be both a massive boon to society...

I realized I had implicitly answered my own question on how to handle tests that realistically require multiple distinct steps reliant on different stats without rolling repeatedly: make the character roll using the weakest stat because that is likely where they will fail. A carpenter working...

There is a broad sweet spot for granularity in the market where desirability drops off very quickly on either side side. Venture beyond it and you become a dreaded "niche" game. Anathema to Hasbro Inc. As fate would have it, I was in a "historic combat fencing" club in college (sponsor was...

Speaking as an engineer who has to grudgingly do far more carpentry than I want, this is a gap in system granularity you don't want to stick your hand in. Meaning that from base principals I can reason out what to do for a lot of complex carpentry. "Cut this board along this angle to get a...

I am going to show my age but that is 100% Lyta Fjord

Thats a better AoE & longer range than the 9th level artificer artillerist fire cannon and a less resisted damage type that in some cases actually doubles. The artillerist cannon can be self mobile and has hp so it can also be a form of meat shield, but it takes a 1st level spell for every...

Yeah, the fighter is the only clear choice. I might haste whoever would benefit from a speed boost. The extra attack isn't a big deal but a free dash on top of double move speed could make a big boost depending on play style. Cast a spell with 120ft of movement has options. If the rogue...

I started using a DOS database. Then on my Palm devices I kept things in the notes app with the wiki plugin and all files synced to the PC. Now I use Obsidian, which runs on all my devices and keeps the files in simple markdown/text files. Obsidian is awesome. A relationship graph...

If you are being "the" note taker, it should be as close to objective and as complete as you can. Otherwise your notes are just fiction and not actually of any utility to the group. Which isn't to say you can't write it "in character" to add flavor and for your own entertainment. Notetakers...

I agree with all of this in general but would like to add some nuance from my experience. Another way to think of encounter tactics is to think of them as a cultural or regional. They can be used repeatedly in specific locals. I.e. slippery, sliding shale that threatens to send PCs over...

As players get more tactics, GMs need to do the same. There are things you should never do at lower tiers because it's a guaranteed TPK. But these are heroes that can survive those threats. In general: Action economy - More is better. be willing to use numbers of enemies. It requires some...

I would suggest you make your modern GM map for your own sanity with points of interest and their connecting roads Then make yourself a grid with travel times between adjacent points along the common path; whether that is boat, path or road. Redraw the map using 1 day=1 unit but keeping things...

Keep in mind, Forcecage won't work on many winged Large creatures while in flight (or with their wings extended to make slam attacks), many Huge creatures can be more than 20ft tall (some giants) or long (tyrannosaurus) and Gargantuan critters just ain't going in there ever. And if they don't...

If you don't want the PCs to face a dragon in a terrain of the dragon's choosing that has the maximum preparations (aka the dragon's lair), simply don't let the lair be located (scrying returns blurry images, divinations report "uncertain", etc) and force them to ambush the dragon in the open.

Forbiddance is a permanent spell that the dragon could have made a deal to acquire, or taken a lair belonging to another dragon that already had it. If you go Forbiddance, it took a month to cast so there's no reason there wouldn't also be an array of Glyphs of Warding cast by the cleric...