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Yeah the problem there is Wish, as usual lol.

Simulacrum is probably fine. Stepping back from game balance for a moment, within most settings one could probably cast a better (i.e. able to rest, heal, and gain experience) "summon martial" with enough gold to cast the spell in the first place... by hiring somebody for 1,500 GP. Simulacrum...

No clue if it'll work like this, but I really like the idea of certain festivals or holidays essentially being circle casting of spells by the whole town. It also gives fun plot hooks, like, "try to stop the not-Grinch from stealing not-Christmas, or the whole town (and possibly even the...

This used to be one of the primary impacts of the Deafened condition (now it basically doesn't do anything). Making every spell above a certain level a gamble is something I think should never be default, though, so resource expenditure beyond spell slots is probably better. But - even though...

The issue I've always had with default alignments in a stat block has little to do with the philosophy of 'alignment' or 'default alignment' and more to do with the fact... it's the only thing in a block of RAW text that isn't actually RAW and barely even qualifies as lore (except for extremely...

You'll need a lot of replacements to deal with this turntable with a basilisk on it. :p Meanwhile, the animated armors are going through the suspiciously lifelike statue garden that suddenly appeared on the battlefield with a bunch of hammers, completely immune to the turntable basilisk.

Why risk your troops? Have basilisks on swiveling platforms and replace your main forces with smaller numbers of animated armor. Combine the advantages. On second thought, maybe you don't even need the basilisks anymore - you no longer need to feed or provide lodging for your troops. The...

Biblically accurate angel designs having been on the table but cut for space gives me hope we may still see them in supplements down the line.

Universes Beyond is a bit of a sore spot with MtG fans at the moment - while potentially not the cause, the sharp uptick in UB stuff (which is going from "zero sets in standard" to "half of all sets released into standard" this year) dovetails with a perceived decline in the care and attention...

The point I was making (and the reason I specified the name of the spell) was that Hold Person's name is problematic if they don't want it to be making a statement about personhood with it. I'm aware that wasn't the intent, but it hasn't been targeting by body shape for a while... so the name...

It is a representative stance the rules make, not one I am making. It is also not something I believe, don't speak for me. The name of Hold Person is obvious, but there's also stuff like the Marriage mode of Ceremony only being able to target humanoids. Don't put this all on me, I agree that...

(For the record, I'm not familiar with this dude's work at all - I just clicked on the video out of curiosity.) Not exactly what he says there - it's more "species without mechanical differences are just variant humans," which I can kind of agree with as a concept, but there are mechanical...

This feels a little bit like trying to still have their cake after the ship has sailed away with it and the crew ate it. I'm not (just) mashing idioms together for fun here - family-friendliness in practice is largely dependent on the DM and the players. There's also plenty of baseline stuff...

I did not know that. However... I feel like it's diluting the accepted meaning of 'fiend' in 5e cosmology to apply it to a species native to and living on the PMP. Kurtulmak's in Avernus (IIRC) and that doesn't make kobolds fiends. Unless sahuagins being native to the PMP is also being changed...

Sahuagin, the angry fish people, are now... fiends? Is this entirely because of the 'sea devils' nickname? I don't like nominative determinism at the best of times but between this and the Purple Dragon Knight I'm discovering an immense distaste for retroactive nominative determinism. If it's a...

If you mean for manticores, my best guess would be because in fantasy they're generally seen as more beast-like. Putting a human head on a hostile beast doesn't gel well with most people's expectations. If you mean for sphinxes... AFAIK that change hasn't really occurred. This is very much one...

I don't like the new sphinx design, but I've never liked D&D's winged lion 'sphinxes,' partly because sphinxes in pretty much every real-world culture they appear in have non-lion parts (usually human heads, sometimes even human bodies with lion heads IIRC) besides the wings, if they even have...

I feel like a lot of people repeating the explanation given in the video don't realize that Gith don't grow up in the Astral Plane at all - time doesn't pass there, they all have to be moved and raised on other planes. It seems like Crawford also forgot that detail during the explanation and was...

It could only target humanoids in 2014 also, but yes. I mentioned this in another thread but all of these changes have made necromancy decidedly worse RAW (losing 'goblinoids' in their entirety especially hurts the amount of stuff you can raise). You're basically limited to finding bandits to...

Humanoid feels like a category error at this point. It's trying to be a creature type like the rest when really it's half creature type, half meta type for certain kinds of NPCs (and PCs) under the very old assumption of "humanoid = person" and "non-humanoid = monster" that the game had almost...