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For questions about Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition, an RPG published in 2014 by Wizards of the Coast. D&D 5e is a heroic fantasy RPG inspired by the mechanics and settings of all previous D&D editions. It was previously code-named D&D Next during the playtest period. (For questions about the 2024 revision of the D&D 5e rules, see the [dnd-5e-2024] tag.)
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Why would knights be useful in a world with wizards?
Setting matters
Various settings assume different levels of access to magic. Eberron has a "magic-punk" feel, and generally assumes that magic is relatively cheap and plentiful; the Dark Sun setting v …
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How to solve over-discussion in combat?
First off, these things sometimes happen. If this is a one-off occurrence, I wouldn't be too concerned: people sometimes get it into their heads that they need to do something "weird" for no good reas …
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What CR should my party of 9 be facing at level 16?
Negdo's answer is 100% correct. This is meant as a "but if you really want to anyway..." follow-up.
The main challenge with designing an encounter for this party is almost certainly action economy. On …
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Are there any ways to exploit this feature that creates a copy of a magical weapon?
The duration of the copies needs to be specified, or some other limitation on their use needs to be provided. Without such a limitation, there's a clearly-unintended, rules-lawyer-ey interpretation of …
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How fragile is a clone, regardless of maturity? What if it was cast via Wish?
tl;dr:
both sides of the question have some aspects that the GM needs to rule on
breaking a clone's vessel trivially is kinda a dick move, so this GM's interpretation is that they're not fragile per- …
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Who decides when you roll or take a passive perception check (especially for traps)?
The basic game loop for D&D is:
The GM describes the world.
The player describes what they want to do, given that state.
The GM decides whether what they want to do is possible and how difficult it i …
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Can Magic Aura fool Hallow?
Let's say I'm a PC who would be excluded by a hallow effect, but I don't want my party members to know. I've been casting Magic Aura to hide the fact that I'm undead from the paladin.
Our cleric has d …
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Can characters travel between permanent teleportation circles?
My experiences on both sides of the screen are that anything more than cosmetic adjustments - especially to abilities that players can access - are fraught with weird interactions and unintended conse …
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How should I handle giving a certain player a special ability in order to encourage roleplay?
Step 1: prepare answers to "obvious" questions.
Note that these aren't questions that we need answered in order to answer your question, but that probably need to be answered within your game world.
N …
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What happens when a bard riding a found steed casts Time Stop, or, does Time Stop target the...
Time stops except for both of you ...
RAW, this probably doesn't work the way you want it to.
Time Stop has a Range of "self", which means that it targets "you" and only "you". That could be interpret …
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What happens after the Clone spell activates?
@J.A.Streich's answer is great. I'm going to come at the question from a different direction.
I'll assume that the clone's maturation is complete for the duration of this answer.
What happens after Cl …
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What would happen when you cast the spell Identify on a Genie Warlock's vessel?
This GM would be conservative in what information Identify can reveal.
Specifically, identify says:
If it is a magic item or some other magic-imbued object, you learn its properties and how to use th …
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Are creatures in combat aware of the effects of others turns' in the same round before they ...
The Combat section of the SRD (System Reference Document - to summarize greatly, the SRD is the "open source"-ish rules of the game without content that is specifically copyrighted outside of the SRD: …
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Would a feature similar to Divination Wizard's Portent with values from 0-23 be overpowered?
This is probably over-powered.
Normally, there's a 10% chance of a given portent roll portending a crit, split evenly between success and failure (ie., either a natural 1 or 20). ... with some fuzzine …
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What rules exist for running a mixed in-person/asynchronous campaign?
I'm currently a player in something somewhat similar: a West Marches campaign on a dedicated Discord server. Characters live in D&D Beyond (one of the GMs splurged on "all the books", which was quite …