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My perspective on DM "cheating" (which seems to be what the last few pages are about) is that it's only cheating if you do it to try to "win at DND" against the players. If you move HP or save or AC values around without it fundamentally changing the end-result the players get, it's not really...

If you want to be a real delight, you can rip off the latest Lich boss fight from World of Warcraft and have it go like this: Each time Acererak is "killed", he respawns instantly with full health and full spell slots unless the players enter a rift left by his corpse and battle his spirit (use...

I'd personally say "loud enough that someone will probably hear you if you're otherwise trying not to be heard".

I'm not sure how to answer, since the example left me more confused than when i clicked the title. That said, it does seem like a frustrating and antagonistic interaction.

I certainly agree broadly, since i generally think the game would be better off with less "good at everything" archetypes.

I generally find that in D&D, it is often a bigger problem that you can be too good at too many things than the opposite. The infamous "do everything Wizard" being just the most famous, but probably not the most egregious example.

Humans of course! :love:

If you want "America" as in "The United States Of", rather than pre-colonial america, Monsters of Murka Campaign Setting has got you covered! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/309974/Monsters-of-Murka-Campaign-Setting-5e This delightfully satirical yet at times also charmingly earnest...

Esper Genesis is, imo, easily the best Sci-Fi adaption for DND 5e out there, so this is one of the very few third party books I'm actually incredibly excited for. There are two podcasts that i know of of actual play of D&D 5e: Esper Genesis, Espersito and Inglorious Bards Season 2 and both are...

If you are sufficiently prepared, and your opponent is sufficiently unprepared, they will be "Surprised" and will not be able to do anything in the first turn of combat regardless of the initial initiative role, so there is still a benefit for setting up an ambush or whatever.

I like it as a pre-made/pre-detailed fantasy-urban hub for "exploring the planes" adventures, but I'm not super invested in the specific lore or plot of of the old 2e modules.

Drizzt is the only guy still getting novels though!:love: but while I'm not surprised a 5e gamebook character would be more popular than a novel character, i can't really understand why Xanathar specifically, over any of the other main book guys like Strahd, Tasha, and so on, or maybe one of...

Maybe, par excellence, the peaches are full of brightness?!

Unlike Elminster, the Realms most popular character and frequent frustrater of forum posters, Drizzt Do'Urden, unsurprisingly got a card (with variants!) in the very first Forgotten Realms Magic set. ;) Oh, and so did Minsc/Boo. For real though, i hope to see Horny Gandalf make an appearance in...

The best sci-fi conversions I've seen for 5e keep the new rules to elements that are completely absent from regular fantasy (i.e the internet, space ships, etc) and leave most of the moment to moment rules the same. This leaves them space to really spend on material that helps get through the...

This thread is about Barbarians, but in either case, the "non-spellcasting-magic" of the various Barbarian subclasses, or Fighter subclasses like Echo Knight and Rune Knight, as well as the boatloads of supernatural powers either can get in 4e, go quite far beyond that. In 5e, Fighter has more...

Right, but whether that is enough is sort of what the thread is about, isn't it? The only "waggling" the "magic" barbarians do is smashing, and the only magic words they use are "angry yell", but they still cause "magical/supernatural/otherwordly" effects to happen.

"Drizzt D'ourden & the CIA and the Heroes of the Lance" is the most absurd crossover i never knew i wanted until now.

God cards for the various Forgotten Realms gods commonly found on the Sword Coast would be great additions, slightly in the style of the Theros god cards, i imagine. (FR Gods are usually more similar to those than, say, Kaldheim Gods).

It'd be amusing if one of the known (or unknown) D&D "whales" like Vin Diesel or Joe Manganiello dropped a casual 1-10k on something like this. I know i would if i was a D&D fan worth 20 million, and I'm not even a 1e fan especially. These people are definitely out there!