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    Does Wizard school Savant work when crafting scrolls?

    RAW it wouldn't, but I was thinking of trying to make the case to my DM that it should have some benefit when writing scrolls from your chosen school. Is that too much?
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    How come BBEG coming out never have magic weapons or items?

    So how come even guys like Grazzt seem to have non magical weapons? I get that all their attacks are effectively magic, but almost no weapon wielding monsters seem to be able to find even a +1 weapon to use? You think being Demon lords or even just a high ranking Marilith they could swing...
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    Medium characters grappling large creatures?

    Ok, I'm sure this has been asked and answered somewhere, but I'm bad at looking up old threads. The grapple rules say you can attempt it on creatures one size larger, but is there a penalty stated somewhere or some advantage to being bigger than your opponent? Seems like it would grant...
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    Linking feats/ability improvements to Character level, any good reasons not to?

    So I have any number of house rules for my campaign, and one I'm considering is just linking feats/ability scores to class level like is done with the proficiency bonus. The main reason is multiclassing is a nice way to do things when you want to achieve a desired effect on a character that...
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    Need help figuring out the CR on a custom bad guy

    I'm making the BBEG in a dungeon crawl essentially a Storm Giant with 11 levels of Sorcerer and troll regen, with immunity to fire. It's a Frost Troll type guy, but Fey instead of giant. Anyone know what or wanna guess what the effective CR on that would be?
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    D&D 5E Taking suggestions for an adventure

    So, the party is a 15th Level Warlock(Infernal Bladelock), 14th Level Paladin(Devotion w/high AC and flaming hammer). Mission goal is retrieve a lost elven sword from a badass Fey Troll in his cave. The bad guy is a tweaked troll, one from the Feywild. I've read a lot of the Dresden Files...
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    Some random house rules for things that bothered me

    Some things that bothered me and what I've done or proposed, there are more, but here is what I felt like mentioning here today: Things that bug me 1) Giant creatures hit really not much harder than medium ones. Big things should be REALLY scary to fight in close combat for man sized stuff...
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    D&D 5E Does "Nondetection" cancel out see invis?

    Just wanted some clarification if an invisible creature also has Nondetection up and "can't be targeted by any divination magic" if this means that See Invisible doesn't work against it. This spelled out somewhere? If so I must have missed it.
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    D&D 5E How do you guys handle pricing one shot magic items?

    I'm sure we're all familiar with the listed pricing and suggestions and this has probably been discussed at length, but I'm trying to find something that makes a bit more sense regarding making/purchasing/selling some one shot magic items. Namely, the prices listed for purchasing them seem to...
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    D&D 5E Campaign Idea help: Rise of the Azer

    Ok, so I'm thinking of a big campaign arc soon involving the Azer making a play to depose the Efreet Sultan and reclaim the City of Brass, which they built. I run a 2 man party, my brother and his roommate, 14th level, and climbing, Warlock and Paladin. Recently we had a cool adventure where...
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    D&D 5E Barbarian Brutal Crit and Sneak attack dice

    Quick question, I made a barbarian NPC with rogue levels. He's high enough he gets brutal crit, I was wondering if the extra die of damage granted by it also applies to the sneak attack damage. It is my understanding the sneak attack normally gets included in the bonus dice for a regular...
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    D&D 5E Does Rogue Uncanny Dodge stack with Resistance?

    Title says it all. But I've got a Barbarian/Rogue in my campaign. If he's raging and gets smacked in the face with a hammer for 20 damage, half to 10 because of rage, then uncanny dodge to halve that to only 5 points of damage?
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    D&D 5E Glibness vs. Angel's Divine Awareness

    Some Angels have Divine Awareness that says they know if they hear a lie. Glibness says it's magic makes whatever you say magic that determines if you are speaking the truth indicates you are being truthful. Who wins? I mean it is "divine awareness", so that does seem to root for the side of...
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    D&D 5E Question about Druid Wild Shape

    Ok, so I have my players encountering a 20th Lvl Druid soon. There will be a bit of a fight, and at 20th Druids can Wild Shape as often as they want. Question is, when they change into an animal, they get it's HP, and upon being knocked to 0HP, they revert to normal form. RAW it seems to...
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    D&D 5E Mutants in DND!

    Ok, not really, but no one I play with is really into 5E sorcerers because we do a pretty good mix of combat/out of combat and the few sorcs we tried felt pretty useless half the time. That being said, I decided since all the Sorcs were going to be NPC's to have some fun and design them more...
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    D&D 5E Extra Attacks with Dwarven Thrower?

    Just wondering if a character with more than one attack per round can throw a dwarven thrower multiple times. The description says that it returns to the users hand "immediately" after the attack which leads me to think you can, but also seems kinda weird. Any rulings on this?
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    D&D 5E 7th Level Spells allow lots of minions!

    Ok, so I have an NPC bard who's actually a main villain pretending to be one of the good guys, and he currently is 13th with access to the following: Magic Circle, Planar Binding, Conjure Elemental. If he casts the circle at 4th level it will last 2 hours, giving him the time needed to...
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    D&D 5E Do Immunities to damage confer immunities to additional affects linked to the damage?

    There are several abilities in the game that deal damage and also have a side effect. Ray of Frost deals cold damage and slows, Phantasmal Killer deals psychic damage and fears, etc... If you are immune to the damage type of the attack, are you also immune to the side effects? Or vice versa...
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    D&D 5E Pixie's are pretty awesome

    So I think Pixie's should have a higher than 1/4 CR rating. With Conjure Woodland beings, using a single 4th level spell you can summon 8 of them. Flying helpers with superior invisibility that can cast Detect Thoughts, Dispel Magic, Sleep, Confusion, Polymorph, Fly, Entangle, Phantasmal...
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    D&D 5E Dispute about Rings of Elemental Command

    These rings say they grant advantage on attack rolls vs. elementals of that type. I wanted clarification on whether that meant any creature of the subtype "Elemental" or the actual specific creature Elemental of that type. Thanks.
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