The Book of Exalted Deeds says that evil means used to prevent greater evil cannot be used by good characters, and says: Some good characters might view a situation where an evil act is required to avert a catastrophic evil as a form of martyrdom: "I can save a thousand innocent lives by sacr...

The Troll's Regeneration feature states: The troll regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the troll takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of the troll's next turn. The troll dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate. L...

This answer has two broken links. The answer itself will be fine since it already recite the summary of the link content, but what should be done with the link? Leave it alone? Comment that they are broken? Remove the hyperlink?

I realize they're commoners but at 4 HP, an encounter with 2 regular size (tiny) rats could be fatal. Even if the commoner survives, he/she is going to at 1/4 to 1/2 HP. So seriously to critically injured by 2 rats. Is that correct?

Is there a way for someone who is not a monk to catch a projectile, similar to the monk's Deflect Missiles feature? Let's say there are some bad people with bows. Can I ready my character to catch an arrow coming their way?

Based on questions like Medix2's, Medix2's other question, and my earlier one, there is a big disconnect between the historical guidance for supporting subjective answers and what the community likes/expects/wants. My original question about how to back up was specifically for addressing this. I...

Here's the situation: An ally is being restrained, and grappled by a NPC. The NPC is dragging the character. My character, seeing this, decides to use Water Whip on the ally. He's going to take some damage, but since he's restrained, he will have disadvantage on, and likely fail the Dexte...

Large party, level 6 Storm Sorcerer, Shadow Sorcerer, Lore Bard, Dual wielding DEX fighter, Thief, Moon Druid, Forge Cleric We are repeatedly running into a problem encounter, that we've had to run from or take NPC losses, only killing less important enemies. Setup, hobgoblins all mounted on w...

Most spells state the target as something you can see. for example the magic missile spell says : Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. But recently I saw that the guiding bolt spell does not. It states this: Make a ranged spell attack against the tar...

In my role as a GM for a SR5 group i often have the problem, that the decker in our group is not in the field with the rest of the team, which is perfectly fine. But after the fact complains, that he is bored, while the action happens inside the complex he decided to stay out of. Since his chara...

Is there a way to increase the damage taken by tabaxi's claws? For example, increasing the die number/number of dice or something of the sort?

After failing the saving throw for mental prison, the target is subjected, among other things, to this: If the target is moved out of the illusion, makes a melee attack through it, or reaches any part of its body through it, the target takes 10d10 psychic damage, and the spell ends. (XGtE...