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I’d think it does what it says on the tin. The examples above are not duplicating a spell, ergo it incurs the penalties noted.
Yes. As stated in the spell description (and as you include in your answer): The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. Emphasis...
Did Gary Gygax and Frank Mentzer play together in one more sessions of D&D (or some other roleplaying game)? They worked at TSR and co-authored D&D products. One would expect one of them t...
In the DMG (p. 128) it is stated that to craft a magical item during downtime, a character must have a formula that describes the construction of the item. However, it does not give any more ...
As you use skills in Call of Cthulhu 7e, any successes get marked on your character sheet, and can be used to make skill advancement checks when requested by the Keeper. Any extreme successes are a...
Wish is the most powerful spell in D&D, being able to alter the very foundations of reality with one spell. The description for use of the Wish spell in the Player's Handbook is this: The b...
The most relevant question is, why would you not let everyone know. The best way to answer is to consider what are the creative priorities for this group playing this campaign here and now, and wha...
In my current 5e campaign that I'm a player in, I'm playing as a Wild Magic Sorcerer. The main attraction of the Wild Magic subclass is the Wild Magic Table, which is a list of 50 random magical ef...
In 5e, every wizard can copy any wizard-class spell into a new spellbook at a minimal cost in time, but preparing a spell is a much more involved activity, described in Xanathar's Guide to Everythi...
If the GM won't tell you, either the GM does not know or the GM does not want to tell you. Inexperienced GMs might not know. Experienced GMs should know. Check into their background. All the rest...
In this question, a "story game" means a game where all or most players have great degree of power to set scenes and generally add to the fiction. The ones I have played are Follow, Huldran, Fiasco...
Contrary to my understanding at first, it looks like this should actually be possible. On a closer investigation of the Quick Start Rules, one of the examples brought has a player adjusting the Do...
I played a convention game of the Dallas roleplaying game, which is quite an interesting beast. After the session it was unclear to me whether the game has rules for ordering of actions. There are...
Schools and Universities Because "Codidact" has a strong educational connotation. And here are surely many who could help on those kind of questions (well, not as a free homework service ofc). A...
I almost never use computerized tools for gaming, instead favouring a variety of note-taking that is nowadays called "bullet journalling" (though the technique long predates the popularization of t...
From interviews of the era, as well as his AMA, I'm pretty sure that Mark Rein·Hagen didn't deliberately make the rules broken because he didn't want people to use them, but rather did so out of a ...
This depends heavily on how you are running the game. For a sandbox I just had each location in its own folder on my computer, with a map or the original adventure I used for that location there, ...
I recommend Joplin Joplin is a note-taking program that allows you to sort notes into notebooks (which you can nest), individual notes, and to-do lists, letting you can organize your notes like th...
The peak is about 55 It looks like, based on this Anydice calculation that peak skill increase is about 55. I haven't done an analytical calculation of the probabilities, but my guess is that the...
In the above picture according to history it says that Mark Giraffe had added definition tag. Then, Mithical had added support tag (But, somehow two definition tag had arisen in left diff). Later...
Brancalonia, built on top of D&D 5E, adds rules for non-lethal brawls. The rules say that you can't use class abilities like extra attacks, but passive class abilities like Unarmored Defense d...
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Ignoring the extreme success case for now, and supposing the skill gives a probability p of success, then the probabilities of succeeding on the skill roll and then failing the learning roll (that ...
Not sure how to answer this beyond saying I ran a V:tM campaign for six years after it came out, and the rules worked out fine for me. I wasn't super strict, perhaps, but the basic dice mechanic w...
Contingency requires that the spell being triggered has you as the target. Vampiric touch does not seem to have your self as a valid target, but if it did, then you would take 3d6 necrotic damage a...
