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@clearstream and @Rune: are we at least in agreement that a character must accumulate 8 hours of downtime to complete a long rest, even if we radically disagree about what "downtime" means? If so, can we also agree that you successfully complete a long rest if you accumulate eight hours of...

Let's look at the text again: A long rest is a period of ex-tended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps for at least 6 hours and performs no more than 2 hours of light activity, such as reading, talking, eating, or standing watch. If the rest is interrupted by a...

You're overlooking the required minimum 8 hours of downtime. The rule helpfully defines downtime as sleep or (up to two hours of) light activity. It further defines light activity. Fighting is neither sleep nor light activity, so time spent fighting can't count as downtime, and therefore can't...

I have 8 hours of downtime. The 59 minutes of adventuring is not sleep or light activity and thus doesn't count towards the minimum required downtime.

I disagree. The current text that you quoted says that a long rest is "a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which a character sleeps or performs light activity". So benefiting from a long rest requires at least 8 hours of downtime, and downtime is defined as sleep or...

That's a very fair point. I considered "performance-oriented D&D" instead, but I fear the reduced emphasis on quality will be less palatable for those who want to emphasize Critical Role's worth as performance, and simultaneously less palatable for those who don't want it's worth as performance...

I believe the issue is that @Snarf Zagyg framed the discussion as whether Critical Role is "overrated, underrated, or goldilocks." After reading the OP and the follow-up explanations, I personally get the impression that Snarf's actual point is rather more nuanced than the categorization...

Odds of a crit on 19-20: 1d20: 10.0% 2d20: 19.0% 3d20: 27.1%

No, but according to JC you do add your dex mod to the damage (with the timing of the damage determined by the timing of the normal damage roll for the item in question). It makes these weapons much more effective than they first appear. Other potential add-ons to damage depend heavily on how...

Pact of the Tome. Write whatever you want in your Book of Shadows (secrets, blackmail material, agent identities, cipher keys, whatever) then burn it. It only takes an hour to resummon it whenever you need access again, and until then it literally doesn't exist and so can't be spied on or broken...

In Hide and Seek, the goal is to make the other player unaware of one's location. Hiding in the same place repeatedly makes it trivial for the other player to be aware of one's location, no matter how quiet you are. Conversely, in the example with a single pillar, the goal at my table isn't to...

Generally yes, because the Arcane Trickster's strength is predictable and consistent. However, the Thief might give it a run for its money depending on how a particular DM treats improvised grenadelike weapons (there are something like half a dozen different possible interpretations), and how...

Correct. Or the target might move so that anyone shooting from around that pillar wouldn't have line of sight, or move to try to attack the Rogue in melee, or any other countermeasure. Of course, in a more complicated scenario where the target's knowledge of the Rogue's location is not...

Personally I separate what the target can detect from what the target knows (or think they know). Hiding at my table simply prevents the target from detecting the hider's current location, but doesn't make the target forget whatever they know about the Rogue's location. So, in the example with...

There are many different ways to round. For a fun chart showing ten of those methods, check out this Wikipedia page. The method taught to children might be standard in U.S. grade schools (although it's definitely not standard in various professional fields, even within the U.S.), but it would...

I allow repeatedly hiding in the same position, on the grounds that even though the targets (think they) know the rogue is there, the successful hide check means they can't hear the rogue start moving to give advance warning of an incoming shot. By contrast, someone not hidden in the same...

There is no limit on the number of spells that can be cast in one turn (other than the number of actions available), unless one of those spells requires a bonus action. So one can cast a spell with an action and then cast another spell with a reaction. However, if one casts a spell as a bonus...

I would also note that in 1500 posts it has not yet been discussed whether everyone is using the same definition of the word "rule". Arguing about whether or not something meets a definition without first establishing that definition seems doomed to be inherently unresolvable. From my...

Bold emphasis added. I agree that contracts get tested in court a lot. It does not follow that most boilerplate language is tested, nor does it follow that most boilerplate language is created in response to specific case law. Note that of all the contract cases filed, only a comparatively...

Emphasis added. We apparently have wildly different perceptions of how comprehensive extant case law is concerning contract language.