#dnd tip for combat encounters: if designing for publication, you never know what PCs are playing the adventure. Rather than over-designing, try to create fun/interesting challenges solvable in a variety of ways. If DMs understands the intent, they can handle it at the table.

— Shawn Merwin (or a poor clone) (@shawnmerwin) February 21, 2019

In D&D, being invisible is not as great as it used to be. For starters, it’s basically negated by anything that gives your opponent advantage. Same with darkness. Right? You can also take the Hide action at any time. Since your opponent needs to have an idea of where you are to target you, you can Hide, flee, and then attack again from an advantageous position.

— James 🌺 Haeck (@jamesjhaeck) March 22, 2019

There are also just a ton of spells and abilities that require you to see the target. Invisibility foils all of them.

The biggest one for me is counterspell. Invisible spellcaster can't be counterspelled.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 22, 2019

To be fair though, most things that make you Invisible also say that you stop being Invisible when you attack or when you cast a spell, so MOST of the time, it’s a non-issue. Darkness was also brought up as "not good" in this context, and my warlock with Devil's Sight would like a word.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 23, 2019

I think in that case the invisibility wears off only *after* the spell is cast, making it impossible to counterspell it. Depends on the source of the invisibility. The timing is tricky. If it's a concentration spell, it breaks your concentration on invisibility (assuming the spell) as soon as you start casting.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 23, 2019

If it’s one that ends from casting, the process of starting is enough to end it. There’s a difference between “casting time” and “duration”. It’s also why holding a spell leads to expending a slot, even when you don’t actually use the spell after the trigger. Not quite, you lose a spell when you ready it because you cast it as part of readying, and you modify it just enough to delay the full release of the spell. either way, you still cast it on your turn.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 23, 2019

Yep, they gotta see targets.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 23, 2019

Eh, greater invisibility is a 4th level spell. You see that at 7th level play.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) March 23, 2019

*Spoilers CR Campaign 2, Ep 17*
A follow up on my promise, here is my notes on a more "Hub" session, where the players have MANY possible options without a very clear direction. These tend to require much more prep. I believe I've omitted any spoilers…? https://t.co/eghvOg3a9v

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) February 9, 2019

This is accompanied with a detailed breakdown of the city of Zadash, with the districts and major players/businesses/destinations outlined in a similar fashion. THAT I’m keeping to myself for now, hehe. It is certainly not the most organized (but its my style), and in no way indicative of the size/scope of a regular session (some elements are carried over from previous sessions where those threads, the ones not festival-related, were not followed but still possible).

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) February 9, 2019

The amount of variation, improvisation is impressive.
How did you determine who would win in the pit? A simple roll or is it because the party interacted with that group and can thus act as rivals of sorts should they have taken certain paths? If you look next to the groups, I rolled a basic combat encounter and marked which ones win/lose.

— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) February 10, 2019