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All types of Genie can fly. Djinni are better at it than others and Dao are the worst, but they can all fly. It's an innate genie thing. On another topic, I reverse engineered a 5E version of Limited Wish from the class feature and the Wish spell. ==== Limited Wish 7th-level conjuration...

Well there was also a druid in the party, so I'm going to say "less so than a druid can manage". Wild shape plus some of the lower level druid utility spells really are the swiss army knife of D&D.... There's normally something a Mystic can manage in any given situation, but the something they...

Sunday we wrapped up a 5 game set in Eberron that went from Level 1 to 11. I played a Mystic using WotC's playtest rules put out in 2017. https://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/UAMystic3.pdf While 1 to 11th is technically only "half the levels", it covers the half that the vast majority...

Ah, but look at normal weapons in the PHB. They are listed as "1d8 Slashing" or whatever, same as the soul knife is listed as "1d8 psychic". The bit about adding stat damage to weapon attacks is not in the weapon description itself, but in the combat section as a special general rule for all...

One of my DMs invested a 1st level summoning spell on the Wiz/Sorc list. It's a one action casting time that summons a CR 1/4 creature (determined by the DM; player has no input). Lasts for Concentration up to 1 hour. Cast as a 2nd level slot for CR 1/2, 3rd level slot for CR 1, 4th level...

Not brought up so far, but there's also an advantage with magical weapons. If rolled randomly, a strength warrior can use anything while a dexterity warrior will have to hope a finesse weapon appears. Some of the better ones are specifically described as longswords as well.

If a druid is in wildshape and hit by an attack that reduced their maximum hitpoints, such as an attack from a wight, does that reduce the maximum hitpoints of both base and wildshape forms or does it only apply to the hitpoints of the animal/elemental form? If a wight reduces the max hitpoints...

A PC I play in a long-running but slow-moving game has just made 10th level. To give you an idea how slow-moving, this character started out in 3E, was translated to 4E, and was translated again to 5E. Slow-moving as it has been, the DM has been reasonably generous about letting me scribe new...

I think a lot of the issue is, how many life-or-death struggles is a group of people going to get into in a single day? The 15 minute work day isn't as much of a problem in exploration-based games because the assumption isn't that, "If we keep going on, we _will_ get into another fight, no...

It seems like the role of the Feywild in Darksun is not so much "magical desert" or "natural world turned up to 11" but more "you can't get there by just plain walking". That is, the Feywild is the place for fortresses that only appear for one night out of the year and then vanish again. The...

Permanent NPCs aren't there to solve problems for the PCs, they're there to creation complications for the PCs. Sometimes they may be the solution to the problem, as in, "We need somebody with the engineering skill so let's cart around this NPC engineer," but they don't solve problems. I find...

So I am fulfilling a long-cherished ambition of mine and playing a Blood of Vol cleric that rebukes undead. Death and Necromancy domains. (I don't think either is that great, but they seemed like the best of the available four.) Currently 4th level. What are some tricks and tips for playing...

Big mistake on the part of the elves. They ought to have mutiliated the corpse too so that he can't easily be added to the enemy's ravening horde of undead. But I'll forgive them for the joke. One gobbie made good, many more to make good, I say.

I guess Soth was bluffing. Note: Don't play poker with that death knight!

The terminology here confused me a little, because there's a distinction (for me) between combat being a grind and combat lasting too long in real time. I see "a grind" as being when a combat stops being interesting, because it's devolved into the party and the monsters just slugging it out...

It's worth something if you're a wizard with a strength of 10. (Starting at 8 with two tier increases.) Remember the purpose was to make the items useful to everyone except those already playing strength-based classes.

See, we solve that problem by bringing back the ability minimum for classes. It would even fit with the 4E philosophy of avoiding newbie traps. Creating a character with a low score in your class's primary attack stat is one of the few ways left for people to screw up their character, so why...

I tried to address that near the end. Basically, don't sweat the small stuff. I would assume that any magic item ten or more levels less than its Creator can be constructed with with an extremely modest amount of effort. It's also assumed that PCs will pick up a lot of this during the natural...

Just wrote this up and I wanted opinions. ***** Materials-Based Magic Item Creation for 4E D&D Introduction: For some campaigns, the magic-for-cash construction policy promoted by third and fourth edition D&D may be consider inadequate or unflavorful. The following is offered as as set of...

Well now it stops being unworkable and becomes pointless. The players are your only audience. If they never know about it, then who is the concept supposed to entertain? Is the DM just going to go giggle to himself after every session when the players complain, "Your plots are getting really...