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True Strike shines when there are more non-cantrip attack roll spells and consumable attack roll items in play. Unfortunately, in the base game (at least after early levels), there's a general lack of viable non-cantrip attack roll spells and consumable attack roll items. If more non-cantrip...

It's worth noting that spells are balanced with PC use in mind rather than monster use against PCs. It's because there's a significant amount in difference in how PCs and monsters are built. This is why spell damage should be tweaked when a monster uses it, to fit in line with the guidelines in...

Psionics and Lovecraftian horrors invading in the absence of gods to stop them would go a long way to making this setting immersive.

Beware the legions of Tum, mightiest of the Scro.

The existence of Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound implies the existence of Mordenkainen's Pretty Kitty.

Well, it really depends on how the writer approaches the circumstances of the awakening imo. Making a journey a dream but not making the events within it meaningless in the aftermath of waking up is possible. Whether a writer has the ability to make things work after trying so however may be...

Considering how the adventure begins, I wouldn't be surprised if Spelljammer Academy turns out to be an illusory dream all along, pulling threads of memory from different dreamers to form a world where familiar faces appear, but not how they are in the waking world.

I've been planning to write an adventure after I finish my Realmspace Traveller's Guide for DMsGuild. Strangely, the adventure that I brainstormed might be a very fitting sequel to the Spelljammer Academy adventures, even though it'll take a much darker tone than what seems to be the tone for...

The thing is, the Charm Person spell does not overwrite memories beyond a superficial recognition. The fact that your party members are so hostile to the "friendly acquaintance" will bring up the "WHY???" of the situation, and then you have to wonder how you even know the "friendly acquaintance"...

You might start seeing the caster as a friendly acquaintance, but once they start attacking your allies no matter how much you protest, your own feelings become suspicious and that would arguably become an Insight check (with a reasonable DC) to realize you've been affected by something strange...

It's up to the DM how this plays out, but it's worth noting that the charmed condition doesn't necessarily make one friendly to the charmer, at least not in 5e, and being unable to attack or target the charmer doesn't prevent one from attacking the environment or objects near them. DM: "You...

I think that most DMs who would be DMing at such high levels would probably have some sense of the balance up to a certain point. Beyond such a point however, I agree that the difficulty ramps up higher and higher. The relative scarcity of 7th to 9th level spells compared to other spell levels...

Yes they are powerful, but I think that something like a low level spell getting tweaked to have better range wouldn't be all that horrible to give at that point, especially when a 9th level spell slot is used for it. I feel that Wish being 9th level and not spammable like a cantrip does a lot...

Exactly. That was the point I was trying to make in response to Mort's "You don't get to say..." which was said in response to me describing that a DM determines what is or isn't established in their campaign world. The Wish spell says "You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope...

I only brought up references and logic to explain my disagreement as part of civil discourse, which was not meant to be disparagement. If the worry is balance and shenanigans, I think a reasonable compromise would be to set an Intelligence (Arcana) check (or perhaps a different ability...

By logic, a tweaked existing spell would be a homebrew spell, since a homebrew spell by definition is a non-[official content] spell, therefore a tweaked existing spell, which is not [official content], IS homebrew.

The spell text DOES say: "...you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires." and there's no fancy setup for casting Wish like so many of the spells it can duplicate, so I'd argue one can indeed say [any spell text in metaspeak even if it's just a published spell with...

How would you define "established" then? In-game, the wizard may know nothing about the intricacies of faith that enable a cleric to cast divine magic, yet still recreate a spell that normally only clerics would be able to cast, by the description of Wish itself. If the DM "establishes" that a...

Wish can be cast to duplicate any 8th level spell or lower. Now say somebody wants to cast a low level spell with enhancements that don't appear when upcasting the spell. Some might say that triggers the danger aspect of Wish. Others might say that as long as the tweaked version of the spell...

He might not physically be in season 1 because he couldn't come to Wales during lockdowns, but depending on how things go, a possible season 2 might see Val come back on screen as Madmartigan.