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Does a resurrected wizard remember their prepared spells?
Imagine that a wizard died in a fire, and their spellbook burned, too. They were in the afterlife for about a month and after that resurrected. They no longer have a spellbook.
Do they remember their prepared spells?
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Why is it so important for the party to acquire the Tome of Strahd?
In Curse of Strahd, as part of the Tarokka card reading, the party are told the locations of three "treasures"; the Sunsword, the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind, and the Tome of Strahd.
Looking at the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind's description in Appendix C…
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Does Forgotten Realms setting count as “High magic”?
Could you please provide some sources about that? I am asking about the categories listed in the DMG in the Starting Equipment equipment table, and for calculating price of enchantment items and such stuff.
Is there some rule of thumb to…
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What magic extends life or grants immortality?
Are there any magic items or spells that extend the natural life of a creature (meaning the age of the creature, and not preventing death from a wound or injury) or that grants immortality in the 5e books published by Wizards of the Coast.
I'm…
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How can I find out about the game world without meta-influencing it?
I'm a fairly new D&D player and as you can see from one of my other questions I'm attempting to play as spoiler free a game as possible.
With this in mind I try and keep my reading about D&D to a minimum and tend to ask my DM (either 'in-game' or…
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Which creature is depicted in this Xanathar's Guide illustration of a war mage?
In Xanathar's Guide to Everything on page 59, there is an image of a war mage with some kind of creature on his shoulders. The creature looks vaguely like a Ki-Rin to me, but since Ki-Rins are creature size Huge, I believe we can rule that…
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When did rolling a natural 20 on the d20 become a "critical success" in the history of Dungeons & Dragons?
I've only played Dungeon @ Dragons in its 5th edition, and I have only limited exposure to earlier editions from PC games, but never understood the rules behind them (or knew the calculations), so I've never known whether the term “natural 20” and…
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I keep rolling terribly. How can I keep playing this character and have fun, despite my luck?
I've always wanted to play D&D before, and recently I finally found an online play-by-chat group I can play with regularly. I spent a lot of time chatting with them and building up a fun noble bright paladin that I thought would be cool and heroic,…
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What are the mechanical consequences that arise for a PC with the undead creature type?
A tabaxi ranger/assassin in my game made a pact with an unknown power (homebrew deity-like undead necromancer from the Death Plane). To achieve this he became an undead tabaxi (and he took one level in warlock). So now he is a creature that's both…
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Does the Detect Evil and Good spell let the player know what kind of ground (consecrated or desecrated) they have found?
In D&D 5e, the detect evil and good spell states that:
For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there…
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How big is the area of the web spell created by a Cloak of Arachnida?
A Cloak of Arachnida allows the wearer to cast the web spell, with the additional property:
the web created by the spell fills twice its normal area.
The area of an ordinary web spell is a 20-foot cube. What would be the shape and size of the…
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What is the difference between giving advantage on a roll and reducing the DC?
I run a 5e campaign, and I like rewarding my players for thinking outside the box, roleplaying well, etc. Suppose we have the following scenario:
Violet is a bard, and is attempting to intimidate a city guard while they are alone. The nearby…
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How much information should the defender have when deciding whether or not to cast Shield?
I'm playing a 5e campaign as a Fighter, planning on becoming an Eldritch Knight.
Thus far (we're still level 1), the DM has been resolving attack rolls against us by telling us the result of the attack roll, and asking us if it hits:
DM: "The…
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Does an intelligent undead have a soul?
This is a question that arose when an evil cleric PC cast Create Undead on someone (who was dead at the time and was never an undead before) and then commanded (as in, he used his Command Undead class feature) it to tell him all the information he…
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Is an attack made with an unheld Dancing Sword considered made by the character or by the sword itself?
A Dancing Sword can be launched by its controller to make melee attacks at range:
You can use a bonus action to toss this magic sword into the air and speak the command word. When you do so, the sword begins to hover, flies up to 30 feet, and…
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