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    D&D 5E (2014) New Spell: Galling Stone

    I believe we can all accept this as an expert opinion!
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    D&D 5E (2014) New Spell: Galling Stone

    One more thing: Are there any other spells that allow for an object to be magically created within a target's body? I can't think of one off-hand, but I don't know if this spell would violate general RAI.
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    D&D 5E (2014) New Spell: Galling Stone

    So, you've experienced gallstones, eh? And the experience left you feeling mean enough to want to inflict it on someone else. Heh-heh-heh. You're my kind of devious. I've never had gallstones myself, but I know people who have, and I've got enough sympathy for their pain that I'm relieved that...
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    Players building v players exploring a campaign

    Yeah, this. I created my campaign world over a span of decades starting in my mid-teens (a not uncommon scenario among lovers of make-believe), in my case in the late 1960s, re-directing it when I began playing RPGs. I've borrowed heavily from both published material and the imaginations of...
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    D&D 5E (2014) [5E] Interjection Games Ultimate Runesmithing PF to 5e Public Playtest

    I'm still going over this, but have to leave for work. This is an intriguing concept, and you've obviously put a lot of time and thought into it. I'm impressed. Limiting inscriptions to only non-magical items and tools the runesmith is personally proficient with is a nice spin, carving out a...
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    James Bond And The Espionage Role-Playing Game

    Add another to the list: Agents of S.W.I.N.G. by James Desborough, Postmortem Studios, built on the FATE system. Setting is in the 1960s. I've played in two adventures, and enjoyed both of them.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Reckless Attack / Mirror Image

    Btw, I salute your coming up with a Barbarian/Wizard. As Leatherhead observed, it's something of a counter-intuitive combination. Otoh, many of us know (or know of) someone who may be brilliant, thin-skinned and hot-tempered. This class combo might become a new trope, unlikely as it may seem at...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Reckless Attack / Mirror Image

    Although @Leatherhead raises valid points, I'm with @Rexwell on this one. Even with advantage vs. your PC, the images reduce the chance of your PC taking the damage from a successful hit. Reckless Attack has its consequences; mirror image moderates those consequences a little. Sometimes, a...
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    When D&D Campaigns Become Franchises

    Hmmm. WGUP. I think "Wig Up" might join my lexicon of phrases such as "lock and load", and of course, the original - "Watson, the game's afoot!" as euphemisms for "Chat-time's over, it's time to play."
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    Snake Optimization

    First, a Word to the Wise: Never call a Yuan-ti useless. They spit poison, you know. I'm probably preaching to the choir with the ideas below, because you've already been thinking about this longer than I have. Looking at snakes as a general category, you've got your biters and your...
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    D&D 5E (2014) [5E] How to Spend 1 Million Gold

    You can start the party at that bar/pub/tavern (?) ... at the End of World, then finish it at that Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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    D&D 5E (2014) [5E] How to Spend 1 Million Gold

    I can't remember a thread where I wanted to click "Laugh with this post" for such a high proportion of the comments. But, also, a pet peeve. Unless you're deliberately misspelling the word rogue as "rouge" (an all-too-common practice in our imaginative community), which my warped sense of...
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    Druid subclass: Circle of the Warden

    Yes to this. Limiting the Warden to just the two forms, one generic and one specialized as you've delineated here, works well and gives us a solid structure to build on. Agreed. Let's strike the idea of being able to combine the features of two different forms at the same time. Having the...
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    Cleric leaving his Deity

    Excellent though fodder for campaign development.
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    what was your favorite long-running dragon magazine comic?

    For me, Wormy wins out over Snarfquest for first and second places, although it's close. I loved the artwork, the storytelling, and the character development in both of those.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Experiences with a level 6 Bard/level 4 Warlock (planning to take a 5th level of Warlock next) and a piece of epic verse...

    Simplest fix: this is the translation into English. It's perfectly metered in Common.
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    Druid subclass: Circle of the Warden

    The variant warden type associations, for example, Wild = fey/forests, sound good. Going with two primal forms at 2nd level, what if "X" was a generic primal form common to all the warden sub-types, while the other one was specific to the theme? Perhaps that common primal form could include...
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    Druid subclass: Circle of the Warden

    Good point. Although 4e had a feat option for genasi to manifest more than one elemental form at a time, which inspired my consideration of the druid warden being able to assume two primal forms at the same time, it's over-powered/unbalanced for any class. Let's strike that idea.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Sorcerous Origin - Lichtouched

    Dread Master, I bow before you. This is wonderful. So, in the manner of overly-ambitious apprentices throughout history (well, at least since that Disney film), I'm stealing it for my campaign's Icarus Files.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Creating new spells

    There's a lot of latitude in 5e for DMs to use their own sense and imagination. You're "sensing" that creating a high-level spell seems too easy. One thing to build into it might be to add in the costs of the material components that were tried and found ineffective in making the wanted spell...
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