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Is that specified in the rules? Ignoring grapples for a sec, if a monster is fighting several adventurers and drops one with their first attack from a multi attack, I would think we'd want them to pick a new target for the second one. If a monster is fighting one adventurer and drops them, I'd...

Springing off from this point, because I think there's a thread-relevant way to phrase this: "How canonical should we treat by-the-book item rarity when deriving a price for it". I think that we should basically ignore by-the-book rarity -- let that literally be how common or uncommon the item...

It's a concept from some other message boards which the OP defined in teeny leetle letters; it asks us to keep-on-subject in terms of how to design it specifically, rather than backtracking to ask bigger-picture questions. In the OP's own words: I think until we start getting into specifics...

Okay, but now what does "no physical form" mean in D&D terms? We still think it's a creature (because a detect evil and good -- a spell that detects creatures -- detects it). We think it has a space (because the spell that detects creatures detects it in that space). We think it "disappeared"...

One more thought (triple posting... sorry...) -- how does the "disappeared" ghost interact with See Invisibility? Since the ghost isn't (rules-y) invisible or ethereal at this point, my contrarian reading indicates it doesn't ping, but others might disagree! But since the general opinion is...

Maybe! But the text of Divine Sense includes that the divine sense is blocked by total cover. What stops the "disappeared" ghost that seems to be located "inside" the possessed humanoid from having total cover? It might be that the possessed humanoid provides only partial cover -- but the rules...

Taking this as literal, the rules are interestingly unclear. Let me see if I can demonstrate the other reading better. The text of possession says the ghost "disappears" and that it uses the possessed creature's statistics (with some specific substitutions). Statistics includes creature type...

When Shadar-Kai were first introduced, they were fey (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fey_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)#Shadar-kai but note the misspelling as "Fae"). 4e made them humans, but elves seem to me the perfect answer for making a fey PC subrace.

I'm planning ahead a little in my campaign, and am probably about to have a few villains who use living NPCs as catspaws and spies. They pick a living innocuous humanoid (a washerwoman, an orphan, a traveler, a beggar), put a loyal ghost in their head, and then the ghost comes back later with...

My version is a little bit similar; when you are Rested, sleeping for eight hours makes you Restless and you are mechanically taking a Long Rest. You cannot otherwise take a Long Rest; trying just gets you (at best) a Short Rest. When you are Restless, one day of carousing, three days of any...

I think 5e could have merged bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damages into one type -- "weapon". There's at least three more modifiers that apply to lots of weapon damage, much more frequently than the distinction between piercing and bludgeoning: magical, silver, and adamantine. Those don't...

I think you've got all you need, I'm just brainstorming for fun :) Depending on local conditions, you might also consider "childhood friend" or "diplomatic baggage" or "spouse's family's token". I mean, the person would be the spymaster, but also a political appointee to make the spouse's...

I really like the paciFIST. Its souped-up lay on hands might be too good, but it certainly makes a statement, and I like the direction it's heading. The kensei, though... I definitely want what it's dishing up, I just don't like the way it's phrased. I would rather allow martial weapons as monk...

My wish-list? Sort of how the fighter has the "eldritch knight" to let them mix in a little wizard, I'd like some monks which fit a few more needs. The "assassin" monk. We have the "burglar/illusionist" monk with the way of shadow, but I want a semimagical assassin class which subsumes flurry...

Here's a few options. "All elves can become human, and this one chose to". I mean, if it was good enough for Tolkien, who am I to argue? For this to work, the character was elven the whole time, but is choosing to become human in order to... well, I guess that depends a little more on plot. Get...

IMO, it's solid; not as good as Strahd, but that's not an insult! I've only used as very small part of it -- my large party of ninth level characters stormed the Hill Giant hall, delayed until nighttime, didn't quite take out the watchtower before the alarm was rung, and then made an assault on...

Could you talk a little bit more about the differences between steeldragons' cleric and the PHB's paladin? After all, they're a divine half-caster with limited use low-level healing, delayed spellcasting pickup, etc.

I'm not a fan of wildshape on my druids-of-the-land. I don't think you could safely pick wildshape out of the druid-of-the-moon; it's their whole reason for being, so it's not going to sub out easily. Ignore them; focus on the druid of the land. You could replace wildshape with 1-for-1 uses of...

Do you want half-finished rants on how to use skills as a DM, too? :-D Firstly, 5e doesn't really prepare us well for "unnecessary rolls". If you have a narrow crack to squeeze through, there's a tendency to ask for an acrobatics check to see if you fit; even setting the DC to 5, what exactly...

I'm shilling, but I'm not the author (or affiliated thereof) so I hope that's okay :) Have you looked at http://www.dmsguild.com/product/175883/DD-5e-NPC-Foe-Expansion?term=foe ? I've found it short, sweet, and invaluable. It gives us 15 NPCs in your range that feel like a very natural...