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I encountered the same thing. I tried to be economical in my use of resources and push on hard, until I discovered that the game expects you to take a lot of long rests and you miss out on story if you don't. Now I take a long rest pretty much any time something important happens. For instance...

Yup. BG3 taught me this lesson painfully last night. (Okay, it wasn't actually a BBEG, but it was an opponent in a BBEG fight. I used a high-level spell slot on magic missile, since I wanted to be sure of taking it down, and my wizard was an evoker with an amulet that gave him an extra missile...

Thanks for the replies, all -- both comic and serious! (Which is not to say people should stop replying.) Here's what I've come up with for my campaign. It's likely way more than the players will ever know, but knowing it will help me tremendously in describing mind flayers, their feeding, and...

Interestingly, if you apply both of Crawford's rulings here, they solve this problem. Ruling #1: Each missile counts as a single instance of damage. Ruling #2: You roll a single die and use that damage for each of the missiles. Since the damage is the same for each missile, it doesn't matter...

Using mind flayers in my campaign, and that plus BG3 got me thinking about something that's bugged me for years (and is now highly relevant to me, since I will need to describe the corpses of mind flayer victims): What is the actual physical process by which a mind flayer extracts a humanoid...

I overrule RAW when I believe the result of applying it would be nonsensical. I try to be very sparing with this. In the situation described, I might rule as Mercer did, but only if I had been applying a general rule that the monster's size made it immune to any kind of damage or effect from the...

For those like me whose eyes just glaze over listening to video interviews, here is a more or less legible transcript. I created it by copy-pasting the raw transcript from the YouTube video into GPT4 a chunk at a time, and telling GPT to fix transcription errors and add breaks and punctuation. I...

The new blue dragon is awesome. I love the slender, serpentine look.

Elixirs are a really nifty way to push back against the 5-minute workday, particularly if you make them a little harder to come by than BG3 does. Though I would probably retool it into a one-shot item that provides a buff to the entire party -- that way you don't have the elixir-drinker keen to...

On the survey... I was pretty harsh on the Bastion system. I did try to make clear that I support the idea of a stronghold mechanic, but I really don't like this implementation of it. It's way too fiddly and also way too focused on having everything feed back into your adventuring power. IMO...

I didn't even notice the schools, but "poison is necromancy" makes perfect sense if you think of the schools as character themes rather than mechanical functions of spells. Does this spell feel appropriate to a necromancer? Then it goes in necromancy. Whether it specifically involves draining...

Tolkien obviously drew heavily on Beowulf for "The Hobbit" -- I mean, Smaug basically is Beowulf's dragon. He flies, he breathes fire, he hoards treasure, he is roused to fury by the theft of a cup from that hoard, and he is slain by piercing his vulnerable belly, by a foe whose home he had...

It is absolutely not "universally held" in the fandom that the black arrow was magical. Maybe in your bit of the fandom, but not in general. "Never missed" does not mean "cannot miss." It only means that, in the limited number of shots he had taken with it over his life, Bard personally had...

You can't vote strategically here without knowing how everyone else is voting -- otherwise, as @Amrûnril points out, you may well push a "needs iteration" item up to "ship it as-is." And since ENWorld is very unlikely to be a representative sample, we have no way of knowing how everyone else is...

Death knight conflicts with a very nasty undead monster, but "reaper" is perfect IMO. Bonus points if you can convince your DM to let you wield a scythe (with glaive or greataxe stats maybe). Grim champion? Pale knight? Deadlord? They could work, but none of them are as simple and evocative as...

Why not? I mean, seriously, why not? The ability to scale up a beast's statblock would be useful to DMs as well as players; sometimes I want the PCs facing a giant wolf from the elder age instead of a regular wolf. And once WotC nailed down the basic formula for adjusting beast stats, it would...

This. As far as mechanics are concerned, the nonhumans in D&D (at least, the PHB nonhumans) have been humans in funny suits for five editions now. They got a handful of odd little tricks, and some dinky modifiers that didn't take you out of the human-normal range unless you rolled incredibly...

The notion goes back to 2E as I recall. (Maybe older than that, but 2E was where I first encountered it.)

Question 1: There are no ability scores. You have a single proficiency bonus, which you either have or don't on any given roll -- no other modifiers. If your proficiency bonus is +6, and you are proficient in Stealth, then your Stealth check is 1d20+6. If you aren't proficient, it's a straight...

Necromancers as they stand suffer from a some significant play hassles: 1. Any necromancer worthy of the name commands a horde, not a singular undead servant; but tracking a bunch of undead minions can slow battle to a crawl. On top of that, it presents major balance challenges, where fights...