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Are personal spells subject to spell resistance when they affect other creatures?
Spells with personal range do not have the spell resistance entry, I'm guessing this is because personal spells are supposed to only affect the caster, and it wouldn't make sense to try to resist your ...
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Does Illusory Reality allow you to reverse the effect at will?
Jeremy Crawford describes using the Illusionist wizard subclass feature Illusory Reality to create a real bridge and then causing your opponents to fall because it is no longer real (video as part of ...
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Do you get your resources back once a holding project is finished?
In Song Of Ice and Fire TTRPG book there is a house action called Begin A Project which reads as such?
Another way to improve your holdings and resources is to begin a project, an investment of ...
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WHFRP 4e - Access to skills and Attributes from a changed career path
It is very clear you can only easily take Talents from your current career path, but are different career path skills and attributes still open to you?
For example
I was an Outlaw.
I am now a Duelist.
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Can I use guidance for initiative?
Can I use the Guidance cantrip to roll Initiative, immediately after the gamemaster says: roll Initiative?
Our gamemaster says: Initiative is a Dexterity ability check and not a skill check, so it can'...
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How can the Etherealness spell be used effectively in a party-based game?
How can the Etherealness spell be used effectively in a party-based game?
The spell lasts 8 hours and only affects the caster, seemingly encouraging long solo actions.
In actual play, how do groups ...
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How exactly can XP be used?
In Roll for Shoes the sixth bullet says
XP can be used to change a die into a 6 for advancement purposes only
But how much XP a player has to spend, exactly?
Some questions like this and this one ...
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Is the rule about non-replaced 2014 features being retained in 2024 games default/RAW or optional?
In this video Jeremy Crawford explains that features that appear in older books that are not replaced in the new books can still be used:
Crawford: I'll start with options that are in the 2014 Player'...
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How is the native plane of existence of Zariel and Tiamat defined for Banishment?
The spell Banishment affects creatures differently depending on whether they are native to the plane of existence you're on. In many cases this is easy to determine, but there are some examples where ...
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Does the Oil of Sharpness allow for creating permanent +3 weapons?
I'm unsure if this is a typo on DDB, but the Oil of Sharpness lacks text it previously had which limited it's effects to 1 hour:
For 1 hour, the coated item is magical and has a +3 bonus to attack ...
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Can you drink or apply a Potion of Greater Healing as a bonus action?
The Potion of Healing includes a specific clause about consuming it (PHB, p. 228):
As a Bonus Action, you can drink it or administer it to another creature within 5 feet of yourself.
The Potion of ...
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Why is running away discouraged?
This question is prompted by a recent question How to deal with a player who wants to run away?, and my thoughts from my first few sessions of D&D. This bit sums up what seems to be the default ...
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How to deal with a player who wants to run away?
I'm GMing for a group of seven-year-old players. One of my players fears their character's death. Not role-playing fear as the character, but that they don't want their character to die.
A lot of ...
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Can virtue rolls to resist frenzy/rötschreck continue after failing?
Context:
Vampire: the Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition
A character has succumbed to frenzy or rötschreck because they haven't scored five Self-Control/Courage successes, but they haven't botched ...
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Does lack of transformation cause a severe power disparity between player characters?
I am using Grim Hollow's Transformations in my game (which I declared I was going to do at the start of the game) and one of my players stated that they do not wish to gain a transformation. I am okay ...
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