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How to restore a destroyed vampire as a vampire?
A vampire has been slain, i.e destroyed, through use of holy magics and substances, though the body is still intact. However, there are those who would want to restore it to its unlife, since the ...
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What hidden class abilities are there in D&D 5e?
We say that there are no hidden rules. But some of them are hard to find.
Specifically, Holy Water contains* a rule that:
A cleric or paladin may create holy water by performing a special ritual.
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Does a crit fail on a Telekinetic Maneuver make you fall prone?
The Telekinetic Maneuver spell lets you Trip an enemy with a spell attack roll. If you get a crit failure on a Trip, you fall prone.
Obviously it's a little ridiculous for a telekinetic trip to make ...
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What classes, feats, or abilities lets you have advantage on attacks at the start of your turn?
I'm working on a wizard build using Jim's Magic Missile, and to reduce the chances of a nat 1 I'm trying to think of ways to gain advantage on the spell attacks. However there are some caveats I need ...
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Forgotten Realms maps, why the changes of scale?
Recently, I went looking at various maps of The Forgotten Realms, from generally looking at Faerun, to looking specifically at The Sword Coast.
From what I can find, in 2nd edition, this map features ...
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Does Bravery feat makes you immune to Frightened 1?
The last part of Bravery feat description is this:
In addition, anytime you gain the frightened condition, reduce its value by 1.
Does this mean that Frightened 1 gets reduced to 0, thus rendering ...
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Does a Battlerager Grapple count as an attack for the purposes of damage resistance/immunities?
Battlerager Armor SCAG p121
When you choose this path at 3rd level, you gain the ability to use
spiked armor as a weapon.
While you are wearing spiked armor and are raging, you can use a bonus
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Unchained rogue damage output
I'm in the middle of my first campaign and am still confused about calculating hits and damage.
I'm a level 5 unchained rogue, 18 Dex, weapon focus on daggers and 2 masterwork mithral daggers. I just ...
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Is there any way to initiate a grapple from a range?
I like the idea of making a grappling character, but the party I would be making the character for needs some kind of ranged attacker. Is there a way to combine the two concepts and either start ...
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Price lists for magic items in big cities? [closed]
As the previous person mentioned, I am running Shadow of the Dragon Queen. Unlike Waterdeep on Toril (which has literally almost anything for sale), in Kalaman there are only two (2!) magic shops in ...
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Preparing a murder mystery for player consumption
At this stage in my homebrew sandbox game, the PCs are Lv14, Rogue, Cleric, Wizard and Fighter. They are also filthy rich by the usual standards of D&D, having been sailing around the world in a ...
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Should a stealth check be opposed by vigilance or perception when opposition is not actively searching?
In our Edge of the Empire campaign, we are often wondering how to deal with a situation where a character is attempting to use Stealth to avoid being detected by someone who is not actively searching ...
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How important is Waterdeep: Dragon Heist to the story of Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage?
I want to run the adventure Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage, but my players usually don't like playing characters below level 5. Since Waterdeep: Dragon Heist is the lead in to the Mad Mage and ...
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How do some Hunter’s Tricks work when used by an animal companion?
Hunter's animal companion can use hunter's tricks from ranger skirmisher archetype.
A hunter may teach her companion hunter’s tricks from the skirmisher ranger archetype (Pathfinder RPG Advanced ...
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How to get Shield Block at level 1 on a non-human Kineticist?
I want to create an Air Kineticist in Society, with Bastion Dedication on level 2,to have a meaningful way of spending my reaction.
For Bastion however, you need Shield Block, and I can only see 2 ...
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