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We are having fun, and part of the post is that I can't figure out how to do a Charisma-Investigation. I am looking for some ideas and inspiration. We have done Strength-Investivation, mostly by tossing a room looking for something.

Oh I would never be on board with someone else playing my player character. Not to mention my characters are generally extremely complex and playing them is difficult if you don't understand how they are put together. We ran into a magic mirror that created an evil duplicate that attacked the...

The Tavern Brawler feat is fine. The sailor background makes no sense at all for a stereotypical Monk. I am not saying you should not be able to use that background, but it should not be the "default" Monk background. I think that should be Accolyte or Sage, or maybe Hermits like Cream said...

Strength is usually my Dump stat, and Constitution is usually my secondary dump stat. In this case it is Intelligence and Wisdom though because I really need a Strength of at least 13 for heavy weapons and I will be on the front line and felt I needed a 12 Constitution. The PC is a point buy...

Yeah we don't usually do that, and I think it is kind of a violation of player agency. Back when I first started playing A LOT of 5E, I was worried about story inconsistencies - "Mike just randomly found us on the 4th level of an exctremely complex dungeon on the other side of a one way...

Now you are changing your tune. So we go back to the action you are readying is "release the energy" .... you previously told me this was untrue and I was readying the Magic action which is completed when I "release the energy". Which is it? It is only the same difference if you don't have...

This is what is so screwed up about the 2024 backgrounds. Most Monks are sailors ..... really?

The word "Action" which never appears like that with a capital A anywhere in the text. EXACTLY you lose the action if you don't use your Reaction! You say the Reaction completes the Magic action when you ready the spell and if you don't take the Reaction then you would not get to take the...

Ha Ha! Unfortunately that would be based on my Player Charisma, not my Character Charisma .... and as a player mine is not very good.

Around 15-18 I think. We found one on a natural 20 (19). We only have 4 players normally and the Rogue (who has a good investigation) is out.

Sorry I thought I was clear. He is out of the game for two weeks due to real life stuff. We were fine when he was still there.

Ok we are in a Dungeon full of secret doors that you need an Investigation check to find. The whole party dumped Intelligence. We do have a Rogue that has expertise in Investigation, so he is pretty good at it, but he is out for 2 weeks. The rest of us have a -1. The DM lets us use other...

Did you read what I posted. You are not Readying the Ready action and as I keep saying "Ready Action" is not a thing in 2024. I never said you are and you don't have to pick one of the actions off the table. You cast the spell as part of Ready when you Ready a spell, the action you execute as...

But it does not have to be a "main action", it does not have to come from the list I posted above. The description gives two examples and neither of these use one of those 12 actions on the table. When you ready a spell, the so called "action" you are readying for execution on the trigger is...

No it actually isn't. It is capitalized and referring to the action. Otherwise why would they capitalize it in the middle of a sentence like that? Are you suggesting this is an uncorrected grammar error? If so then it is still RAW because that is how it is "Written". And like I said if we...

You have this backwards. It is not lower case, it is upper case: "When you Ready a spell, you cast it as normal (expending any resources used to cast it) but hold its energy, which you release with your Reaction when the trigger occurs." PHB p. 373 Also if we are parsing words like this, the...

You need to differentiate between "action" and "main action" you mean "main action" here where the PHB in the section you quoted means any action at all. When we use the term "action" in this forum typically we mean one of the 12 "main actions" If you read the PHB section on Actions, There...

Not true. "Ready" is in a table of the games "main actions" Ready is specifically refered to as "this action" in the description of ready Ready has specific rules for "Ready a spell" Those specific rules dor Ready a spell do not say anything about a "Magic action" All his interpretation...

It doesn't say that either. The rules factually do not say this. You are misinterpreting them and believe this is what they mean, but they do no say this. No it doesn't say this. The rules specifically say in writing that you can "Ready a spell" as part of the "Ready action" and they say...