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Do mounts impact party XP threshold for the purpose of building combat encounters?

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Does a Control Weather effect and Gust of Wind effect stack or not, and why?

magic psionics weather

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How much room for Call Lightning

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What defines a harmful effect or ability?

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Did Spirit Guardians just wipe out the Orc army?

dnd-5e spells movement

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What is the interaction between Aura of Vitality and the Cleric of Life's Blessed healer feature?

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What are the official languages available to players?

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Can a Necromancer Raise a spawn of Kyuss?

dnd-5e undead necromancy

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Shrink Item and the Oversized Starknife

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Can a player have and use both Bardic Inspiration and DM's Inspiration?

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How big is the Waterdeep City Guard?

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What is Dark Speech?

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A Rogue dilemma: to roll for Stealth, or not to roll? [duplicate]

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Are there any 6-level-spell progression classes with wildshape?

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Which Cthulhu Confidential scenarios can be played as one-shots, without spoiling the campaigns?

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Are there any rules or guidelines for large character races?

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Do Guidance and Bardic Inspiration bonus dice stack?

dnd-5e spells class-feature bard stacking

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What happens if I use the Twinned Spell metamagic on Simulacrum?

dnd-5e spells sorcerer metamagic

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If I cast Simulacrum on myself, will the simulacrum still have the spell slot used to cast the spell?

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Games with with strong settings that are more lighthearted (or at least not so bleak) [closed]

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What are awesome things that D&D had historically that are (or were) missing in 5e? [closed]

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Is the gaze effect of a medusa blocked by an antimagic field?

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Can a PC choose ‘Beast Speech’ as a language?

dnd-5e languages

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How does the Natural Weapons option of the Alter Self spell affect a Longtooth Shifter's Shifting Feature?

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How does a dragon gain Challenge Rating & thereby increase their spell power? [closed]

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Which (if any) fiends die of old age?

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What are all the ways to increase the chance of a critical hit?

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How should I determine ability scores for a clueless alien? DnD 5e [closed]

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How does one track/incorporate errata in relation to printed rulebooks without having to memorize, or constantly check against, the errata?

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How do we deal with my DM's house-rule about critical damage?

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My DM insists on rolling a single save for groups affected by AoE save spells. How does this affect my odds of successfully affecting the enemy?

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Can a cleric of an evil god use healing spells?

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For the Charger feat, is it possible to move at least 10 feet in a straight line while staying within an enemy's reach?

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“Episode Boss” encounter balance assessment

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Understanding CR calculations of these monsters from the Monster Manual

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Is it okay to have a DMPC who is also the BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy)?

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Is the Alchemist class presesented balanced? [closed]

dnd-5e balance homebrew-review class

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Can I benefit from more than one celerity effect in the same round?

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How to deal with a player who says no all the time?

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What happens to a lich's soul when it dies with a Ring of Mind Shielding?

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What happens when a wood elf and a dark elf have a child?

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How do you handle Iotum in Numenera?

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Are D&D novelizations considered canonical source materials?

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Player action choices on official adventure books

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Using AnyDice to determine the odds of getting a specific number sequence on multiple dice

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Dice probabilities when rolling more dice than needed

statistics anydice

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Do the high-fashion armour clothings from Run & Gun that are tagged as 'Newest Models' lose armour rating over time?

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