Your parents may have taught you that lying is wrong, but there are plenty of situations in D&D that call for a bit of fibbing.Deception 5erefers to your ability to hide the truth – both using your words and your body language. Outright lying is naturally covered, but you might also ...
For example: if a player moves and takes an Opportunity Attack, they can use their reaction to cast the Shield spell. However, they’re not allowed to do this if they’ve already cast a Bonus Action spell, because the rules for casting a spell using a bonus action state that “you can...
Communication is also key, or ratherDnD languages. The ex DnD boss points out designers shouldn’t rely on communication with creatures if they haven’t checked the monster manual to see that the beasties speak Common. No good expecting the lizardfolk to tell your players the shortcut through...
Jack of All Trades (JOAT) is an ability that all bards get at second level, which improves some of their ability check rolls. Specifically, the ability says: “Starting at 2nd level, you can add half your proficiency bonus, rounded down, to any ability check you make that doesn’t alr...
Under the restrained condition, a creature's speed drops immediately to zero, and any feature that would provide a bonus to their speed is nullified. Attack rolls against them have advantage, while their own attack rolls and Dexterity saving throws have disadvantage....
This is all pretty subjective of course, but I will point out that the College of Swords does nothing that synergizes with the Bard class, except for using weapons as a spellcasting focus, which eases up some of the need for War Caster. Take it from someone whose favorite ch...
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