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What would be a good idea for the Criminal Mastermind is mundane disguises as a very common city denziens, for example when ever they commit crimes they were uniforms of the Sewer crews. This might help also, making of mind clones like in Age of Worms. A mind flayers dominated doppleganger...

This is correct. For this reason, as DM, if a player declared they are using the dodge action (as an action) I would ignore that for first attacker against them that round, at least. You have to let the players get their stuff across, and having a creature not attack a PC because they declared...

I think ability to access a situational would rely more on cunning and awareness, which is related to wisdom IMO. I play it the same way you do also, in your typical fantasy world most would be aware of magic effects on a basic level.

Don’t have to check the time stamps. I said I didn’t see it. I was in court, then in court, then in court again, then on a break took a quick look, typed my thread on word on the phone while waiting in a Nursing Home, then posted it, then saw my client in a nursing home, discussed with his...

I agree except when I said what you said above it was claimed that I also had no idea what I was talking about and it that it wasn’t circumstantial and that since I didn’t see it all the time I had no experience with it and no right to an opinion. Furthermore other posters claimed that if I...

For interrogation use Detect Thoughts, for a person to lie or obfuscate they have to think of the truth first and then create the lie or obfuscation. Zone of Truth just gets them to not lie as opposed to telling you the truth. All you know with Zone is whatever they are telling you isn’t...

The purpose of the thread is to get different perspectives. You gave yours so thanks. So far on this thread and the other one I have seen that Dodge as an Action probably isn’t used all the time and probably isn’t awesome. I have seen that it is situationally useful, which is what I thought...

I think this is true also and what a DM should do. Knowing when you are in a good circumstance like having advantage goes to a enemies cunning, which is implied by their wisdom score. It also follows from what you say you are essentially using your action to force an enemy to attack your...

Thanks. So, using your example, they would have missed %85 of the time anyway (base %15 hit chance) and hit you %2.25 of the time even if you use the Dodge action, so %87.25 of the time using the Dodge did not alter the outcome. I agree that not every encounter is a race as you say, but the...

I started this post by asking the OP to post a separate thread on his claim that dodge as an action (not a bonus action or free action) is “awesome and used all the time.” Monks and others using Dodge is a different situation entirely as the action cost is much less. I started a separate...

One of the things that I am trying to see is if it’s awesome and I should use it all the time. So far it appears it is situational, which I always thought it was. I need to see what they other thread though says, which I didn’t see today when i posted.

I didn’t see the other thread. It’s my fault. Did it show that it was awesome and should be used all the time?

Can you post the accurate math? From what has been posted here and elsewhere without your a**hole****ess advantage/disadvantage is a flat -5/+5. You clear have a different perspective then others Post your academic credentials also so we can see if you actually know of what you speak...

Practical issues: 1. Scrying costs money. A caster that can cast scrying has far more important and lucrative things to do then be in Law Enforcement. Most likely he would be an expert for hire, charging market rates for casting of that spell. Even wealthy cities won’t pay that rate except...

Sorry for the improper format of numbering, I pasted this from Word and they didn't port over right

On another thread, a poster stated that he used the dodge action “all the time and its awesome”, I thought that using your action to dodge was a waste of an action and stated my belief that in all the years of playing I have only seen it used 4-5 times. I asked to claimant to start a dodge...

What happens if Dodge has no effect, which it wont in some cases? I will start a separate thread on this.

BTW I think you have done zero analysis either, just some personal experiences. You also have not kept statistics or done anything on how it relates to party success either, you just want to argue since you left feels is hurt. So like I said start a thread on dodge usefulness and greatness...

If you have a party of 4-5 PCs and you don’t do your damage then party damage has decreased by 20-25%. That means the enemy dies slower and is alive longer to cause more damage and effects. Essentially you stunned yourself, since you can move. You correct, over many years and plenty of...

Its not a combat simulator, however properly run it simulates the flow of combat very well