@aleguarita about Monster Hunter UA: if the I use Monster Slayer feature and roll a critical, the extra superiority critical dice are maxed? yes
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) April 6, 2016
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Can an Earth elemental Grapple with a creature and then pull them underground?
@JeremyECrawford Can an Earth elemental Grapple with a creature and then pull them underground and leave them there to die?
— Steven Connor (@Mazoshi1987) March 4, 2016
An earth elemental's Earth Glide is meant to apply to itself only. #DnD https://t.co/HiSsQyJy6H
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 8, 2016
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How a magic item that recharges at dawn is on a plane without a dawn?
@JeremyECrawford A staff of healing recharges at dawn. What if the party is on a plane without a dawn?
— Jeremy Land (@WatchtowerNorth) February 23, 2016
If you're on a plane of existence without a dawn, your magic item recharges at a dawn-equivalent time. #DnD https://t.co/pBrOJtugwJ
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) February 27, 2016
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Does Truesight sees through physical things?
@JeremyECrawford Truesight sees through magical darkness. But does it see through heavily obscured areaa? I.e. a fog cloud?
— Cleric-of-Zarconis (@ZarconistPreist) March 2, 2016
Truesight pierces darkness but is no help against physical things (fog, smoke, bushes, etc.) that obscure. #DnD https://t.co/iMWO5quNCE
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 2, 2016
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Ed’s Siege of Dragonspear and Amber Scott
I am saddened by what I hear of the current kerfluffle raging about Siege of Dragonspear and the trans character Amber Scott designed and included in it.
Folks, the Realms have ALWAYS had characters (mortals and deities) who crossdressed, changed gender (and not just to sneak past guards in an adventure, by way of shapeshifting magic or illusions), were actively bisexual, and openly gay. How underscored this was by TSR and later Wizards varied over time, and was always softpedaled, because D&D wasn’t a sex game, and we generally don’t rub the reader’s nose in sex unless there’s a good in-story reason for it.
But even deities have changed gender, sometimes for good, and the servants of deities (Elminster, in ELMINSTER: THE MAKING OF A MAGE) have sometimes been forced by the deity to “spend time as the other” to learn what life is like.
So it has always been there, and is an integral part of the Realms. With that said, I’ve never met a gamer yet who doesn’t tinker with every adventure to “make it their own” at their own gaming table, so if trans, LGBT, or sexual matters at all don’t suit your tastes and needs in your gaming sessions, leave it out or change it.
But D&D has half-orcs, and half-dragons, and half-elves, and has magic items that specifically change gender, right there in the rules. Surely, if you can handle the basic notion of cross-SPECIES sex, having a full variety of gender roles should be something that doesn’t blow your mind. If it’s not for you, that’s fine. I hate wearing certain shades of yellow. But I don’t scream and yell at someone I see wearing those shades of yellow, and call them names, and threaten things. My right to dislike yellow applies to me; it doesn’t extend to others. Because somehow, through an incredible oversight on the part of the universe that still hasn’t been rectified, no one made me a god. (I’m still crushed.)
Folks, the Realms have ALWAYS had characters (mortals and deities) who crossdressed, changed gender (and not just to sneak past guards in an adventure, by way of shapeshifting magic or illusions), were actively bisexual, and openly gay. How underscored this was by TSR and later Wizards varied over time, and was always softpedaled, because D&D wasn’t a sex game, and we generally don’t rub the reader’s nose in sex unless there’s a good in-story reason for it.
But even deities have changed gender, sometimes for good, and the servants of deities (Elminster, in ELMINSTER: THE MAKING OF A MAGE) have sometimes been forced by the deity to “spend time as the other” to learn what life is like.
So it has always been there, and is an integral part of the Realms. With that said, I’ve never met a gamer yet who doesn’t tinker with every adventure to “make it their own” at their own gaming table, so if trans, LGBT, or sexual matters at all don’t suit your tastes and needs in your gaming sessions, leave it out or change it.
But D&D has half-orcs, and half-dragons, and half-elves, and has magic items that specifically change gender, right there in the rules. Surely, if you can handle the basic notion of cross-SPECIES sex, having a full variety of gender roles should be something that doesn’t blow your mind. If it’s not for you, that’s fine. I hate wearing certain shades of yellow. But I don’t scream and yell at someone I see wearing those shades of yellow, and call them names, and threaten things. My right to dislike yellow applies to me; it doesn’t extend to others. Because somehow, through an incredible oversight on the part of the universe that still hasn’t been rectified, no one made me a god. (I’m still crushed.)
And another thing: I have always felt HONOURED to have met, worked with, and enjoyed the work of so many talented women in all of my professional fields (library work has traditionally been dominated by females, gaming hasn’t, and fiction-writing was male-dominated when I was young, but has steadily shifted throughout my lifetime). Does Paul Jaquays becoming Jennell Jaquays rob his, now her, artwork or game design or prose of one iota of its richness and the enjoyment it gives me? NO! And how by the Nine flaming Hells does one human being made happier by being the gender they prefer to be lessen my own security, or happiness, or make my life the less?
Sheesh.
The world has REAL problems, people. Telling someone else how to behave in bed (or dress, or what jobs they can hold down) isn’t one of them. Or shouldn’t be.
Sheesh.
The world has REAL problems, people. Telling someone else how to behave in bed (or dress, or what jobs they can hold down) isn’t one of them. Or shouldn’t be.
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Drizzt is not a Ranger
@ChrisPerkinsDnD 2/2 Is there anything in the works to give game stats to icons of the D&D worlds such as Drizzt, Elminster, Raistlin, etc?
— Jim Glass (@jimglass76) November 4, 2015
@gasolinemoth @ChrisPerkinsDnD 2/2 interpreted under the 'canon' rules. Drizzt is not a typical Ranger. Raistlin is not an average wizard.
— Jim Glass (@jimglass76) March 11, 2016
Drizzt is really more of a fighter. https://t.co/u6zmQ1KZY8
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) March 11, 2016
@ChrisPerkinsDnD so he isn't a Ranger anymore, or was this artistic license to fit the story?
— Christopher Marshall (@Ssamalander) May 6, 2016
Although he's called a ranger in-world, he's not really a ranger in game terms. https://t.co/DDx4nrP6mZ
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) May 6, 2016
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Scimitar 1d6 dmg, rapier 1d8 seems reversed no?
@ChrisPerkinsDnD scimitar 1d6 dmg, rapier 1d8
seems reversed no?
— Zalbar (@ZalbarTheMad) March 3, 2016
No, but don't let that stop you from changing it in your games. https://t.co/nQMY7PM2Rc
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) March 3, 2016
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Does an ettin’s Two Heads grant it advantage against Sunbeam?
@JeremyECrawford Does an ettin's Two Heads grant it adv. on saves against Sunbeam?Or only effects that just grant the blinded cond (no dmg)?
— Yatagarasu (@eightspancrow) March 2, 2016
An ettin's Two Heads works with any save, including the save in sunbeam, vs. a condition listed in the trait. #DnD https://t.co/CEfaeIJSGD
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 2, 2016
