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How to deal with players rejecting the question premise
For example, from "Beneath a Metal Sky," one of the scenarios in the core rules. One of my players was asked "How did your first pet die?" He answered that he'd never had a pet, because it didn't suit the character.
But from my perspective it feels…
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How to deal with a really persuasive character?
I'm currently running a 5e campaign and one of my players has pretty much maxed out his persuasion ability very early on in the campaign.
I don't recall exactly what he has but he rolls more often in the high twenties/ low thirties than not. He…
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What's the difference between Apocalypse World 1e and 2e?
The second edition of Apocalypse World was recently released, and I'm unclear what's significantly different about it from the first edition. I've even been told it's substantively identical, by someone who was nonetheless very excited about 2e.
The…
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Why did the designers make Werewolves *immune* to most non-silvered damage?
The Werewolf's statistics are that of a CR1 monster, even though it is listed as CR3 in the Monster Manual, presumably as a result of playtesting.
By my personal experience with pop culture, Werewolves in fiction tend to be susceptible (not…
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What is a plot hook, exactly?
I hear the term "plot hook" a lot, but I've never understood exactly what it means. I thought it was a method for introducing the player characters to an adventure, but the term doesn't seem to be used that way. Take, for example, this list of plot…
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What happens when you bring a creature down to 0 HP entirely by a "Sword of Wounding", but choose to deal nonlethal damage?
The Situation:
The Sword of Wounding has the following magic effect:
Hit points lost to this weapon's damage can be regained only through a short or long rest, rather than by regeneration, magic, or any other means.
(DMG, p.207)
If you deal…
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What would happen to my Intelligence score if I am affected by Feeblemind and attuned to a Headband of Intellect?
The description of the Headband of Intellect says:
Your Intelligence score is 19 while you wear this headband. It has no
effect on you if your Intelligence is already 19 or higher.
The Feeblemind spell description says that my Intelligence score…
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Is leveling up mandatory?
In D&D 3.5e, being behind in levels compared to the party grants the relevant characters more experience per encounter. Intuitively, this is because the encounter is relatively harder for them and it works as a catch-up mechanism.
Now, as experience…
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Is it possible to play D&D 5e solo?
Is it at all possible to run a solo game where you act as the DM/GM for yourself? I know there was a 4th edition adventure published in an old issue of one of the D&D magazines but recently I read somewhere (Reddit I think) that the games Outbreak:…
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Is a character with the Polearm Master and Sentinel feats unbeatable in a duel?
One of the benefits of the Polearm Master feat (PHB, p. 168) is:
While you are wielding a glaive, halberd, pike, or quarterstaff, other creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they enter your reach.
One of the benefits of the…
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Can a Bag of Holding be opened from the inside?
The party rogue found a suit of armor that happened to have an evil soul bound to it. He unwittingly stuffed it into his bag of holding to sell the suit of armor later. The animated suit of armor does not need to breathe and to my understanding is…
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What are the ramifications of replacing a square based combat grid with a hex based one?
I have a personal preference for hexes over squares - the latter present some problems in terms of diagonal movement, and aliasing for certain area effects, that are just handled better with hexes.
So for systems like D&D 3.5 and 4e, and also less…
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What happens if the entity a warlock has a pact with is killed?
Fiends and Archfey could be killed by a rival trying to usurp their power.
If this is not covered in the 5e RAW, is there a good resource from another edition that could be helpful in determining how the death of the being with whom a Warlock has a…
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Why are the Faithless condemned to the Wall of the Faithless after death?
If you live in the Forgotten Realms and die without worshipping a deity, you are sentenced to the Wall of the Faithless by Kelemvor to serve as another proverbial brick in the Wall.
But why does this happen? Is it because otherwise the souls would…
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Does going outside of range or line of sight after casting a spell have any effect?
Does going outside the range of the spell or breaking line of sight between the caster and target break concentration or otherwise affect control over the spell?
For example, a Heat Metal spell has a range of 60 ft. If I cast the Heat Metal spell on…
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