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What if your character is both trained in category and group of a weapon, does your character get 2 bonuses because of its proficiency when attacking?
I am making a dwarf barbarian character and as a barbarian he is trained in simple, martial and unarmed attack. I also choose dwarven weapon familiarity as its ancestry feat so now he is also trained ...
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How are random encounters accounted for when tracking monster count in Keep on the Borderlands?
We are currently playing the original module Keep on the Borderlands. The module has pretty clear instructions about removing any humanoid that is killed in the Caves of Chaos from future encounters:
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How powerful is this homebrew Barbarian Path of the Colossus compared to other martial subclasses?
As DnD 5e has aged it's become more clear that Martial classes lack a fair amount compared to their spellcasting companions. They offer less utility, fewer defensive options, and in some cases fail to ...
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Can I take the Bastion Dedication if I have the Hardwood Armor impulse?
Bastion Dedication has a prerequisite:
Prerequisites Shield Block
Hardwood Armor gives you the ability to use Shield Block, but not the feat itself:
When you use this impulse, you can also create a ...
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How can I remove smoke from a bag of holding?
If I fill a bag of holding with smoke, could I remove all of the smoke by reaching in, or would I have to turn the bag inside out to release the smoke? I feel like removing the smoke by hand wouldn't ...
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Can you use True Polymorph and an Intellect Devourer to potentially learn Deep Speech and a secret?
I have been thinking of making a homebrewed campaign where, as part of a bigger plot, the party needs to learn Deep Speech and a secret that a particular Intellect Devourer learnt from consuming the ...
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Will using a weapon not as intended (improvised) still generate "on-hit" effects?
I found this question asking whether a net as a melee weapon would still trigger the restrained condition: Can you make a Melee Weapon Attack with a Net?. The highest voted response suggested that ...
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One of PCs backstabbed a powerful ally. How do I punish them without seeming like singling them out?
Followup to this question.
So, I'm running a Starfinder game, and we are 50 sessions into this campaign.
The campaign involves the fate of a small but strategically important settlement, which several ...
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Casting spells while out of hearing and sight
There are other questions addressing how casting attack spells while hidden blows your cover, but what if you are out of the range of perception for the target?
Some additional background: based on ...
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How can I optimize my familiar as a pack-mule?
Low strength spellcasters could use a strong, loyal companion to carry any loot and excess equipment. They can fairly easily get a loyal companion in a familiar, but most familiars aren't exactly ...
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Is there an established term of art for a game system that relies heavily on GM discretion/judgment?
In studying, running, and designing games, I keep running into this concept in its various forms, usually implicitly.
Roleplay-heavy games like Wushu have GM (and player!) discretion as a lynchpin, ...
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Can I misty step into a location I can see through Clairvoyance?
I hide in a bush that is 2000 feet from "a location familiar to [me] (a place [I] have visited or seen before)". I cast Clairvoyance to "create an invisible sensor" of sight in a ...
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Can an Intellect Devourer use Body Thief on body that already has an Intellect Devourer in its skull?
From looking at the mechanics of Body Thief I can't see why not, but I may be missing something.
The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an
incapacitated humanoid [...] If it ...
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Rouse Skeleton and movement
Rouse Skeleton is a spell with 60 feet range:
On subsequent rounds, the first time you Sustain the Spell each round, you can move the area of skeletons up to 20 feet within the range of the spell and ...
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How long do Intellect Devourers live?
I can't see any information on the lifespan of an Intellect Devourer in the 5th edition of D&D monster manuals. Is there any information that says or hints in other sources/books, including past ...
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Can a creature controlled by Dominate Person warn his allies?
My D&D group has run into this problem multiple times and we were never able to find a solution to it according to the RAW.
Situation
If an enemy casts Dominate Person on a PC and commands him or ...
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How Do I Decrease Training Time?
Resources. Receiving training in a language or tool typically takes at least ten workweeks, but this time is reduced by a number of workweeks equal to the character’s Intelligence modifier (an ...
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Do Skeletons need to breathe?
Cloudkill says only breathing creatures are hurt:
You deal 6d8 poison damage to each breathing creature that starts its turn in the spell's area.
Do characters with the Skeleton ancestry need to ...
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For an exponent 1-4 skill, do I have to fill all my routine tests before I can start counting difficult + challenging ones?
BWG 42:
Advancing an exponent 1-4 skill requires a number of routine tests
equal to the exponent. Also, for exponent 1-4, a character needs
difficult tests equal to half the exponent, or challenging ...
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Which Esoterica actions can I use if I choose the Thaumaturge Dedication?
The description for Thaumaturgy Dedication states the following (emphasis mine)
Choose an implement; you can use it to Glimpse Vulnerability, but don't gain its benefits. You also gain a few ...
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Player charmed by Orb of Dragonkind: what can be done?
I have a player that has attuned to an Orb of Dragonkind and failed the check to avoid being charmed by it. This part of the item applies (emphasis mine):
While attuned to an orb, you can use an ...
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When is Animate Objects more effective than Fireball?
My wizard has both fireball, and animate objects.
Animate objects at first sight is such a cool and flavorful spell. I was excited when I got it because it is considered one of the highest output ...
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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
Monk's Ki feature Flurry of Blows is defined like this (PHB, page 78):
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus ...
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Means of pretending to be Dominated, thralled, or Charmed
Is there any means for a character to pretend to be subject to a mind-effecting spell or ability after resisting or being immune, so as not to alert the caster?
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Can I spend additional ki points to make additional attacks with my Flurry of Blows bonus action?
I just re-read the rules about monks and I wonder how to interpret this from the PHB:
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes ...
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help with optimizing an effective character level 8 barbarian soulknife build [closed]
everything good? A while ago I saw a guy on a forum saying that he had a prestige class that could create an energy blade that all attacks were directed at touch AC, I found this idea very interesting ...
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Potions crafting - homebrew ideas [closed]
I am not satisfied entirely with Dnd 5e potions crafting. I am considering to implement simple system, which doesnt take so much time of downtime activity to craft, but needs specific ingredients. For ...
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Do ghouls receive Feeding Ground bonus when being subjected to Predatory Aura on regnant's territory?
Feeding Grounds (VtR2e 112):
Feeding Grounds (• to •••••)
Effect: Your character has fertile feeding grounds, whether officially granted or not. Dots in this Merit represent the ease of hunting in ...
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Help with AnyDice for custom system
Can someone please provide guidance on how to make my system work within AnyDice?
The gist is: player stats dictate how many dice in a pool of d8s are rolled, if they have gear or skills proficiencies,...
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Optimizing Animate Objects spell against nonmagical damage immunities
Suppose I am a Wizard who likes to cast Animate Objects in combat. At my present level, I am likely to encounter foes with resistance or immunity to nonmagical physical damage. As detailed in this ...
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Can a vinyl mat be folded without damaging it?
I am going to be traveling by plane and was considering taking my vinyl mat along to run a short session of 5e on it. My problem is that it doesn't matter which way I roll it up, it's too long to fit ...
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Does an opportunity attack allow a monk to use their unarmed bonus attack if they still have it and it’s still their turn?
I’m theorycrafting a new character with a buddy. We’re debating the following.
Say we have a monk with access to the dissonant whispers spell from something like the Fey Touched feat. When they cast ...
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How exactly do ability score adjusting magic items and ability score improvements interact? [duplicate]
Obviously the tomes and manuals are clear-cut in how they function, but when it comes to magic items that "overwrite" or "replace" an ability score with a value, such as gauntlets ...
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How can I word the rules for a custom Magic item that allows a caster to cast a spell (but still requires the spell slot and component)?
I DM for a party that would greatly benefit from having access to the spell Revivify, but the only caster in the party is a sorcerer. I’d like them to have access to raise dead effects, but not at the ...
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Would a Lich/Wizard casting Globe of Invulnerability, Prismatic Wall, and Shield (as needed) be "invincible"?
In Dnd 5e, would casting Globe of Invulnerability at 8th level (concentration) on a surprise round, then Prismatic Wall (action) around the caster at the top of the next round, and Shield (Reaction) ...
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Falling on Multiple Creatures Simultaneously
What is the RAW method of resolving situations where large or larger creatures fall on multiple creatures at once when splitting the damage? I have been just splitting the damage among all involved ...
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Can unarmed strikes be used with Dread Ambusher?
I’m currently playing an unarmed monk. The build is to run as many attacks as I can without going too far into multi-classing fighter (I’ll go two levels in to pick up action surge). I’m considering ...
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Is there any official holiday-themed content for D&D 5e?
Obviously, the various fantasy settings may have their own, special holidays, for example in the Forgotten Realms, there are five annual holidays falling between the months, like Midwinter oder ...
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Is a Superficial wound actually worse than a Light wound?
An interesting detail of Burning Wheel (Gold Revised) tests is that (unlike some other TTRPG systems) the exponent and the obstacle number are not "symmetric", in the sense that (say) a B4 ...
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Clarification on semantics around melee attacks
The game uses various ways of describing a physical melee attack:
Melee Weapon Attack
melee attack with/using a weapon
attack with/using a melee weapon, or attack with/using a weapon (without the ...
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What does the +1 to damage rolls of Inspire Courage apply on, exactly?
In Pathfinder 2, bards get the Inspire Courage cantrip which, among other things, provides a +1 status bonus to damage rolls.
For the most basic scenarios, this is a no-brainer: hitting with a sword ...
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Wavejumping: Newly Discovered Move Tech for Martials?
Was wondering how reasonable this ruling is RAW (RAI this was almost certainly not the intention but hey martials take what they can get). Ruling assume you're using Falling onto a Creature Rules ...
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Falling onto a Creature vs Moving Around Other Creatures Rules
So I was looking into the 'moving around other creatures' section in the PHB and found this
You can move through a nonhostile creature's space. In contrast, you can move through a hostile creature's ...
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How do the range modifiers work in ranged combat?
The rules:
Sample Missile Weapons:
Weapon
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Rock
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3 Hex
Dagger
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Rifle
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No missile weapon may be fired at an opponent in the attacker's ...
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Are there guidelines for mandating lifepaths and skills for players?
I have been thinking of running a game where players would all be from the same academy but I am not sure on how that would work with the lifepath system. Are there any official or widely recognized ...
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Can a Gnoll Pack Lord target itself for Incite Rampage?
Incite Rampage (Recharge 5–6).
One creature the gnoll can see within 30 feet of it can use its reaction to make a melee attack if it can hear the gnoll and has the Rampage trait.
A Gnoll pack lord ...
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Do creatures attempt a saving throw immediately when a Whirlwind is moved onto them on a turn subsequent to the initial casting?
The Sage Advice Compendium (pp. 19-20) contains a ruling about the spell moonbeam and other similar spells. The ruling provides a list of spells that are covered by it:
blade barrier
cloudkill
cloud ...
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What's the benefit of choosing Cartomancy over Metamagic Adept?
I was looking at Cartomancer as a handy way to use normally tactically unwieldy spells in the heat of a fight. Here's the relevant quotes:
Card Tricks. You learn the Prestidigitation cantrip and can ...
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Have different types of normal clothes ever done anything in DND?
In 5e there are common clothes, travellers clothes and fine clothes, but I don't think they actually have any rules around them.
I have found there isn't much in the way of clothing materials on older ...
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Possibility to gain magic items as feats, class features, or background
Besides the three "default" ways of getting a magic item by finding, buying, or crafting, are there other ways for a player to gain them? I found the second level artificer feature "...
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