D&D (2024) 2024 Player's Handbook preview: "New Spells"

[FitzTheRuke]

Just as long as Magic Missiles stays the GO TO double tap option when you need to kill something and waste their Death Saves.

Don't only PCs get Death Saves? You like to double tap PCs with Magic Missile? You're a mean DM!

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Don't only PCs get Death Saves?

I have to do this...

Technically, everything gets death saves by default. DMs are just advised to not bother for most NPCs.

 

[Garmel]

Not originally, but Bigby wasn't originally a Gnome.

This Evard has weird skin, but no Elf features? Could be Warlock weirdness?

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

I've always thought so, given that name.

 

[Weiley31]

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

I've always thought so, given that name.

He basically rolled the Gnome option when Reincarnate was used on him.

 

[Weiley31]

Don't only PCs get Death Saves? You like to double tap PCs with Magic Missile? You're a mean DM!

AND YOUR PC IS NEXT!!!!

 

[Scribe]

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

Yes, retcon from Bigby's book of Giants I believe.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Wait a minute. Bigby is a gnome now?

In Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, he recounts how he had a fatal incident with a giant's club, and (supposedly) the best Mordenkainen could do was have someone cast reincarnation, causing him to return as a gnome. He very much suspects that Mordenkainen chose that option for the lolz.

 

[Kurotowa]

He basically rolled the Gnome option when Reincarnate was used on him.

Yep. He got splatted by a giant, and Mordenkainen insists that all he could find on short notice was a Druid with Reincarnate, but Bigby suspects it was Mordenkainen deliberately trolling him.

 

[Charlaquin]

Not originally, but Bigby wasn't originally a Gnome.

This Evard has weird skin, but no Elf features? Could be Warlock weirdness?

Mixed ancestry, maybe? Would be consistent with the UA approach of “pick one to get the benefits from and mix-and-match descriptive traits as you like.” Mechanically a human, but got purple skin from drow heritage.