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These two questions use the phrase "game term":
Is “a special melee attack” an actual game term?
What does 'ally' mean, as a game term?
Both answers seem to make a distinction between game terms and regular English, but what exactly does it mean for a word or phrase to be a "game term"?
I will ...
In D&D 5e dragon scale mail grants many buffs, one of them is advantage on saving throws against dragon breath weapons. Would this apply to the dragon head breath weapon from a chimera?
Build him by feel
SevenSidedDie has an excellent answer about why there's no definitive Gandalf build, but I think we can talk constructively about how to go creating a Gandalf build.
You want to "recreate Gandalf from the books" "in D&D3.5 terms." You can't, not precisely. D&D isn't a good fit...
The cantrip mind sliver from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (p. 108) has a secondary effect that subtracts 1d4 from the target's next saving throw:
[...] subtract 1d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.
The spell bane from the Player's Handbook (p. 216) has a s...
Unsurprisingly Poison and Force, respectively
Here is a nice summary of Monster Manual
I shall transfer the relevant parts of the chart here in case of link rot:
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\text{Acid} &18 &15 &0...
The "Damage Rolls" section of the rules (PHB p. 196, also in the online Basic Rules) says this:
If a spell or other effect deals damage to more than one target at the same time, roll the damage once for all of them. For example, when a wizard casts fireball or a cleric casts flame strike, the...
The Evocation wizard's Empowered Evocation feature (PHB 177) reads:
Beginning at 10th level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to the damage roll of any wizard evocation spell you cast
I have an evoker with a 16 intelligence (+3 modifier). I cast Magic Missile as 1st level targeting 3 ...
