D&D General Portable, Renewable Fuel Sources

[Stormonu]

Plant Growth could do wonders if you allow it to double the growth of trees, instead of just their fruit/nuts/whatnot.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Additionally, many are talking about "every X" having cantrips, but that's a base assumption that no official setting makes about the playable species.

Well, except every fractional CR NPC in every WotC product has all the racial features.

• Drow commoner - Out of the Abyss - dancing lights @ will, darkness, faerie fire, levitate , etc
• Wood elf - storm king's thunder - Mask of the wild, fey ancestry, etc
• Dwarf guard -storm king's thunder - dwarven resilience, darkvision
• Tabaxi minstrels- Tomb of Anihilation - feline agility, darkvision

These are CR<1 generic background npcs. All of them have racial abilities. They don't even get names,

Plus decade of Appendix B in the monster mmanua l2014 that said "you can add racial traits from the PHB and it doesn't affect CR" and gives the example of a halfling druid with the Lucky feat.

And before that 7 years of 3e where all instance of a race got their racial traits. And NPC classes levels.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Plant Growth could do wonders if you allow it to double the growth of trees, instead of just their fruit/nuts/whatnot.

The "overgrowth" form of Plant Growth is permanent (instantaneous) and would produce a lot of extra limbs and make spindly little twigs thick enough to impede movement over 3/4 of an acre. It's not logs but its still fuel.

 

[bedir than]

Well, except every fractional CR NPC in every WotC product has all the racial features.

• Drow commoner - Out of the Abyss - dancing lights @ will, darkness, faerie fire, levitate , etc
• Wood elf - storm king's thunder - Mask of the wild, fey ancestry, etc
• Dwarf guard -storm king's thunder - dwarven resilience, darkvision
• Tabaxi minstrels- Tomb of Anihilation - feline agility, darkvision

These are CR<1 generic background npcs. All of them have racial abilities. They don't even get names,

Plus decade of Appendix B in the monster mmanua l2014 that said "you can add racial traits from the PHB and it doesn't affect CR" and gives the example of a halfling druid with the Lucky feat.

And before that 7 years of 3e where all instance of a race got their racial traits. And NPC classes levels.

NPCs are not designed to represent the common person of that species, per the designers and the game in 5e.

I do understand that 3e treated all rules as relevant to every one and every place and every thing.

 

[kigmatzomat]

NPCs are not designed to represent the common person of that species, per the designers and the game in 5e.

If "drow commoner" isn't expected to represent a "common" drow, then "natural language rules" means nothing means anything at all.

 

[sevenbastard]

Once you figure out you can keep feeding l the same troll to the pigs you can make a lot more bacon.

 

[Stalker0]

If "drow commoner" isn't expected to represent a "common" drow, then "natural language rules" means nothing means anything at all.

Yeah, further if the PCs aren't typical....and the NPCs aren't typical.....well then show me in the book what is typical?

If every high elf you show me gets the cantrips....than its seems more reasonable to assume elves get cantrips than to not assume it, as I have 0 evidence to the contrary to tell me what a bland old elf is.

 

[Horwath]

Plant Growth could do wonders if you allow it to double the growth of trees, instead of just their fruit/nuts/whatnot.

I always assumed it doubled all output of plants, a tree grows two years worth in one year.

 

[Marc17]

If "drow commoner" isn't expected to represent a "common" drow, then "natural language rules" means nothing means anything at all.

My current deduction is that the designers of the current D&D just make the RAW so janky by design so that the DM has to take control and house rule their own game.

 

[Stormonu]

Once you figure out you can keep feeding l the same troll to the pigs you can make a lot more bacon.

Even better if the pigs start regenerating themselves. As the old adage goes, "you are what you eat" - and with magic involved that can become literal.