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"4e had fake high level play," "4e had high level play," I think this just depends on how you define high level play. Obviously number-wise, yes. It went to 30. Basically epic levels... By numbers. 4e had you fighting gods. Literally it had rules for how you could permanently kill bahamut (and...

Ha, I missed the first part of the feature description. Reading failure! My bad. Yeah, that's a silly error.

OP thinks Don means "to be wearing," so you need to be wearing the armor in order to utilize the action that lets you put it on. Which wouldn't make sense, if you misunderstand what the terms mean. OP, don is the act of putting the armor on. Doff is the act of taking it off.

Maybe the descriptors were cut for length, or the map-maker and designer weren't on the same page. It's Adventurer's League, Jake. Here's more context that doesn't seem to help, because pelts making up a crude tent is described but not pictured in area 3. My guess: the map was made first and...

Nah, the room doesn't give any help with a description there. I'd agree that they're probably some hanging leather or cloth to help give the room privacy, since it's the lair.

Post a pic so we have some idea, yes go for it.

Nice breakdown. Yeah, it's complicated. I can understand why people just want to say "cast whatever with whatever in your hands so we can get on with the game," but I don't want to let that slide without some sort of investment (a feat via war caster, or that attunement item ruby). I do wonder...

Find books of random tables that you like, I'll try to link the ones that I enjoy a bit later on. There are tons of published and free resources. I don't even necessarily use the thing I roll on the table, I tend to scan the whole area and see what sparks inspiration- but rolling gets me to that...

You know it's funny now that you mention it, I don't know that this has actually come up. The characters that were taking warcaster were either clerics n paladins, so I reasoned they could touch their focus with their weapon hand when they had warcaster (since they can do the somatics with it)...

I guess I'm one of the hardass DMs mentioned. Two-hander? No problem, you just need two hands to attack, not hold. But you're not gonna sword n' board AND cast spells unless you sheathe/drop the sword. Or take war caster, which yes is a feat tax but lets you have your cake and eat it too. I...

I believe 13th Age, and maybe some other ttrpgs as well, have lower level spell slots phase out as the character levels up. Cuz yeah in 5e casters have scaling cantrips, there's little reason for them to cast a 2nd level acid arrow when they can throw a 3d10 fire bolt or ray of frost.

Yeah, but with all the bonuses 5e PCs can stack having non-attunement +1/2/3 items seem very unnecessary.