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A lot of the suggestions for the Command spell are meant to stand alone. In other words, there is value to the caster inherent in the action, but largely as a delaying tactic. "Surrender" was one such option that intrigued me. If the target believed that the caster would take no prisoners, it...

I'm very close (1 or 3 weeks from now) to resuming my 5E game on alternate Monday nights, with 2-3 slots open. Very grim storyline with some high points. Significant player agency (death is voluntary). Magic items are 99% nonstandard. Playstyle ranges from by-the-book tactics to experimental...

I'm not excluding OSR adventures. I don't mean simple narratives where I have to fill in level appropriate challenges. I don't mean stat-free. I don't mean scalable adventures. I don't mean progression based adventure collections (campaigns). If you know of any adventures that can be...

Put on your GM hat: When you narrate the effects of Devil's Sight (DS) and darkvision (DV) ... Does the character actually recognize the difference between dark and light? Foundational information (please correct if wrong): For typical (racial) DV, areas of dim light appear as if it was...

I don't want to spill any details of my campaign, but suffice to say that I've been running for the better part of four years (IRL) now. In year one, I introduced several themes, concepts and NPCs. There was a hidden overarching theme which many characters began to suspect in year two, and...

Background info ... please feel free to cite any other factors that may be relevant to the discussion. Cleric, page 58: "You prepare the list of cleric spells..." "Preparing a new list of cleric spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation..." "The power of your spells comes from...

Has anyone experimented with giving spellcasting classes a different spell list? Generally speaking, I'm not sure this is a problem (see Divine Soul). But adding flavor to a campaign by giving ONLY cleric spells to an wizard who has access to divinely inscribed spellbook, or ONLY magic user...

I really like the request and response threads. And I find that I periodically need some inspiration, so I'm gonna kick this one off and see how it goes. The only restriction I propose is that you constrain your requests with mechanical conditions, not world-based ones. In other words, don't...

The rules. Yep, those things that give a game structure, provide us with a generally equitable environment, and deliver a framework for shared communication. As a GM, you have the latitude to break the rules. Do it too much, and you might alienate your players. Do it too little, and you...

This is an inane question. I just wanted to establish that up front. Detect Magic, and in fact many other spells, are stopped by various barriers. Do you rule that the barriers must be continuous to qualify as a barrier? Or are you looking at the total amount of material through the range of...

So, interesting thought about Invisibility, the spell. You can cast it on yourself or someone else, and it ends if the target attacks or casts a spell. But there's nothing that says that the you can't maintain a spell and stay invisible. Of course, the caster can't maintain more than one...

If a vampire casts Mirror Image, do the duplicate images cast shadows? What happens when you cast Antipathy on yourself, targeting creatures of your own type? Feel free to add your own whatchamawtf items. I found this in a casual search for something similar, but I'd be more interested in...

So, I don't really torture my players. I mean, kinda. But sometimes I just torture their characters in my head. Like, I was just imagining an entire encounter full of Diviners with Lucky. The fate of the world doesn't hang in the balance. These guys know exactly which way the scales will...

Just as a thought experiment. I'm trying to determine how many hangers-on a character could have in 5E. Obviously, this would require multi-classing. I have listed the minimum character level to the left of each line. (Level 1) Many spellcasting classes have Find Familiar. Find Familiar...

What ONE or TWO characters (class builds) would you choose to go against thousands of orcs for the purpose of rescuing several dozen hostages? Assume the expected hierarchy, tension, and hangers-on implicit in a horde that large. I'm arbitrarily capping character level to 18 or (preferably)...

I need a physical description of a hero. All I can come up with is *blank*. And I'm not sure I want *blank*. But damn, he kinda just pops out with that "heroic" look. I'm not saying who blank is, because I don't want to poison the pool of ideas. What's this for? I'm designing a magic item...

I'm finding it difficult to parse Dark Delirium, and I fully acknowledge that I'm likely reading too much into it. Blame it on general English geekiness and micro-analysis. The following Dark Delirium description was grabbed from the 5E Fandom wikia, but I have inserted line breaks as they...

How would you rule this, or want it to be ruled? Enemy: Orc that's smarter and stronger than the average orc. Player character: Warlock who has cast Darkness on a mobile source that she's carrying. She also has Devil's Sight. Player character: Arcane Trickster with a Familiar Orc outside...

Another way to put this might be, "Which capstone abilities are so desirable that they deter you from dipping into another class?" But sometimes you don't even look that far ahead. Sometimes it's just "What do I want next?" I realize that this is very subjective, and dependent on HOW you play...

This is a little painful. Bear with me. I'm tinkering with a battlemaster build, and I get to wondering. QUESTION 1: If you apply a superiority die that manipulates your attack roll (only Precision attack, from what I can tell), and you have advantage or disadvantage, do you have to spend...