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  1. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General How would you make this ruling? Vortex Warp

    It's not even very powerful. The kobold caster in your example is using their entire action for a CHANCE at maybe freeing their enemy teammate from a grapple if the PC fails a saving throw (on a stat that everyone puts points into). I can't imagine any players being too worried that a...
  2. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General How would you make this ruling? Vortex Warp

    You're stretching WAY too hard to find physics-based reasons to ignore the game mechanics laid out in the rules. Show me a statblock for Gut Bacteria and then I'd agree that it's a creature that would be left behind when teleporting
  3. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General How would you make this ruling? Vortex Warp

    With a normal grapple, you could Vortex Warp the enemy away to break your teammate out of the grapple. The targets gets a saving throw against the forced teleportation, and everything discussed is moot if the fish makes the saving throw, but the discussion is around what would happen if it...
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    D&D General Can a Wish spell move a moon to cause an eclipse?

    My answer for the PCs: If it makes the plot more fun and it's an interesting way for the players to solve some challenge in front of them, then hell yeah it works! If it trivializes or circumvents something fun that the DM had planned, then I'd figure out some excuse for why it doesn't work as...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Wargamer Takes Shot At WotC for Not Respecting Forgotten Realms Canon.

    Oh my god how can they not respect the canon that I totally understand when I don't even know the difference between a Fighter and a Paladin!
  6. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    All monsters come with whatever abilities the DM gives them.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Sigil Review Thread (+)

    This summarizes my experience. I kept getting a bunch of installation errors but stuck with it long enough to eventually figure it out (it worked smoothly downloading with Edge but not Brave, Firefox, or Chrome - what are the odds?). Then I finally got it open and it looked cool but I had no...
  8. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    Correct answer here is that it totally depends on the world the DM is running. In a Low Magic world where PCs are some of the only spellcasters, it's a huge stretch. In a High Magic world where NPC Adventurers of higher level than the PCs are commonplace, not remotely a stretch at all. For...
  9. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    Literally every PC adventuring party is going to have someone with Dispel Magic available. It's really not much of a stretch that most packs of non-beast monsters would have the someone with the spell
  10. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Why Did You Take That Level of Fighter?

    ^This. Any Caster planning to use a weapon will usually start with 1 level in Fighter to gain Constitution saving throw proficiency plus Weapon Mastery plus Fighting Style plus Shield proficiency plus maybe they care about Heavy Armor proficiency. Added bonus is that you're also just a 1 level...
  11. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General My Requirements to Run a 1-20 Adventure.

    Well duh if you have a great group of people to play with for free then that's infinitely better. To be Captain Obvious for a second here, not everyone has a group to play with for free. You can do all the apples to oranges comparisons you want, $20 is just not particularly expensive to do...
  12. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General My Requirements to Run a 1-20 Adventure.

    I don't understand the part about wanting to play DnD with strangers online even for free (not for me!), but if you're having a good time then $20 for 4 hours is pretty cheap. That's less than the sandwich I had for lunch today and that only took 4 minutes to eat
  13. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General If we were re-designing the Tiny Hut-esc 'instant shelter' spells what would we change?

    I had not heard of Galder's Tower before, I see no problem with it other than I'm not sure if I'd allow the sourcebook (no one's ever asked). It's the same level as Tiny Hut and worse in just about every way. It's a big visible building that draws attention, and it's made of real materials...
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    D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

    Biggest ones for new 5e players would be Critical Role, Dimension 20, World of Warcraft, Baldur's Gate III, Skyrim, Minecraft, Pokemon Tied for last on the list would be every book
  15. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    Of course the reason can purely be because campaigns fall apart before they reach high level. High level play is really fun but not really if you just start off there. Just because you technically could start watching a movie at the end doesn't mean that people "dislike movie endings"...
  16. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2014) Why Do Higher Levels Get Less Play?

    In my experience the only reason high level DnD isn't played very often is that groups fall apart due to other obligations (not due to the poll options of losing interest and wanting to start over). Any time I have actually gotten to play high level DnD it has been awesome. It's just a rare...
  17. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Agreed, there are 3 components to his claim and I dispute the other two. Wealth increases with Age, ok sure I'll bet that's true. Dollars spent increases with Wealth, debatable. Prospensity to prefer older DnD editions increases with Age, I disagree without evidence
  18. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    Yeah of course DnD Cruises are a thing. D20 Cruise and D3atSea are the two main ones I've seen. There's also DnD in a Castle which looks freakin awesome.
  19. DrJawaPhD

    D&D General Why grognards still matter

    It should be trivial to find a citation that Wealth increases with Age (I think up to ~60-70, as folks generally start hitting retirement). Doing some quick searching into citations for Money Spent on Hobbies vs Age, everything I found did NOT support the OP's claim, and rather showed that...
  20. DrJawaPhD

    D&D 5E (2024) Do We Really Need Levels 11-20?

    As much as I would pay any amount of money for WotC to invent a way for my DnD groups to stop falling apart due to people having other obligations, I'm not sure that's a reasonable ask
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