@TheDragonOfFlame This is something D&D struggles with constantly. It's built up an assumption of "reasonable expectations of real-world physics except when explicitly opposed by magical rules," but its inspirational source material tended to not have that assumption in the first place. TONS of fantasy stories love having people running around with swords bigger than themselves, it's a sign of how awesome they are.
But D&D backed itself into a "realism" corner which makes that kind of awesome stuff need explicit justification rather than simply allow cool stuff to exist.
@Joshua No, I mean it: have them find a limited-use item that casts the cantrip you need them to have.
Scroll, wand, potion, beer can you smash on your forehead, whatever flavor is amusing and reasonable to justify "and then you can do the thing I need you to do."
Good evening (or good day) - does anyone here use paper miniatures (like One Monk or PrintableHeroes) in their fantasy rpgs? Do you prefer bases with a slot, like the LITKO 20 mm bases with the slightly curved slot? Or are bases with a clip preferable to keep the mini standing upright?
Blink dogs aren't invisible, they teleport rapidly. And in most versions of D&D teleportation means very rapidly moving through the ethereal plane. So it'd be like running through a waterfall.
I've done the folding triangle minis before. Easy to set up, but they also tend to get knocked around easily. Anytime someone moves a book, there's a whoosh of air that moves the paper.
@BESW Oh yea, even cheaper than buying plastic bases. Just replace the gnome art with whatever monsters you're playing (unless you're running a gnome campaign).
Cool, thanks for the gnome print & fold tip. BTW the PrintableHeroes artwork is beautiful, don't know if I'll ever want to go back to lead or plastic minis.
@RobertF best paper minis I ever used were made by a three year old with a box of crayons, back in 6th grade. He covered the paper with crayon drawings of “drags on and dun— and dun— and the room you’re in!” We cut them out and used them lying down to represent various characters. They didn’t stand up but they worked well
(I remember a lot of things my siblings have said, but that quote was one of my favorites apparently, given its existence in my diary)
@Joshua Ignore anyone who tells you you "can't use the Grease spell" for something. The rules do not describe what happens if you try. That's different from "you can't".
I'm a new DM/player with only a few weeks of experience in playing the game at university. My flatmates and I decided that we should all have a D&D game after I explained the concept to them.
They elected me DM, as I'm the only person in this group who has had any experience playing. I decided to...
@Joshua The creators of the ancient lava tube also used Mending to make repairs, and the party can find or was given a repair construct, which needs to be calibrated on-site and afterwards has a limited number of charges of Mending it can cast per long rest, but it only works on things made in the ancient site.
@HotRPGQuestions I have half an answer for this but I’m too tired/lazy/done with thinking for the night/busy to write it up fully. But it would start with “you’re doing fine”, “talk to them and tell them the problem you’re having” and/or “have you tried something where the adventure is less scripted or you don’t have to do all the talking”
The wikipedia article includes the line "[The Author]'s "sexual philosophy" is "widely detested"" which rather suggests any further discussion might be better made among dragons
