“And now the horses thunder hard across the field “

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And now the horses thunder hard across the field
And now the trumpeters blow martial tune
And now amid unhorsings is shattered many a shield
And now the dead lie still, awaiting the pitiless moon

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

See, now, in the depths of my seeing-glass
They ride grim and silent in a shadowed land
And through its many-tombed heart of malice pass
Yet never escape the reach of my sorcerous hand

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 3, 2019

A rising count of lands have lost their lord
With jaws and talons I have them slain
Then breathed fire, to leave but ashes and a sword
For them to cherish in fear and grief and pain

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2019

Mind Sliver Cantrip explained – Unearthed Arcana

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THIS IS A AN AUTOMATIC CAPTION TEXT from YouTube, so it’s not “perfect”. My advice is to use it just to help people like me that are not english speaking, to understand the Video/Podcast so you made a new ccantrip yes this is something even when I think about the archivist that appears in UA I realized there is no psionic energy you know damage causing contra and now we have one so there is but it’s vicious mockery oh that’s right and very yeah very tied to specific class yes and and so we for a while have been wanting to add to the game a versatile psionic themed cantrip precisely because the only other one we really have in the game is vicious mockery and that is so specific in its flavor yeah you don’t necessarily imagine the you know the person touched by some great old ones yeah to be mocking everybody perfect for bards and so we wanted to create this cantrip which you could easily see someone like the archivist and many of our other classes using and for now in the unearthed Arcana the cantrip is on the sorcerer warlock and wizard spell lists so those three classes at least in play tests have access to it and I’m looking forward to seeing what people think of it we also are exploring something different with this can drip in that it it has a a little sort of self interaction yeah where we made it so that given the theme we’re imagining you’re almost like driving a psychic spike into your targets head very visceral yes no than that and that was how I described it as when when we were working on it and I I said I would like us to go in this direction with it that was the visceral image that I gave that this should be a canned trip where you feel good using it round after round because there are some spellcasters who like to do that right it also is a nice setup for some other spells where you know you could use it one round and then benefit from deduction you just gave to your target saving throw on the next round if you’re a sorcerer you might be able to benefit from it on the same round right because of quicken spell that’s something we’re gonna have to look at in playtesting and also in final game development if people like this cantrip enough for it to move along in our process it might be a little too good it might be just right we’ll find out yeah it feels dangerous so as I’m reading it right now you hit some with this and then their next intelligent saving throw is reduced by 1/2 for their next saving throw of any kind is reduced by one day for right yeah mean stuff for a canter so yeah one d6 and then yeah you’re hurting you’re not a disadvantage not a disadvantage yeah but it’s like evil guidance 1.d4 now if they don’t have a saving throw to make after that it doesn’t matter but again we made the duration of the can trips effect so that the spell caster could then basically harvest that benefit on the next round or in the same round if they’re a sorcerer it is the creepiest can’t trip sense eldritch blast in my opinion because yeah like really smart good this has such built-in utility yeah right and but you are you know you’re not dealing a tremendous amount of damage but you are thinking tactically yeah and that’s why I enjoy about that spell oh yeah yeah just be glad in its initial draft it did 1 d-10 which of course is way too much depth knocking it down right we’ll see it might need to go down to a d4 oh but it will still be juicy if it’s a dpp-4 still be all do is drive that psychic spike into your targets skull you

Introduce new PCs and NPCs in clever ways! Special guest Jason Carl – Storyteller’s Guide Ep 6

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Storyteller's Guide Ep 6 : Introducing New Characters
Making a first impression with a new character can be hard, and the best storytellers introduce new PCs and NPCs in clever ways.
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— GildingLight (@GildingLight) August 11, 2019

Can you make a Medicine check to stabilize someone when you have one free hand and a shield strapped to your arm?

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Can you make a Medicine check to stabilize someone when you have one free hand and a shield strapped to your arm? #5e #dnd

— adam koebel (@skinnyghost) July 25, 2019

Actually, RAW says you can do it as an action WITHOUT the WIS (Med) check, so you're still in the clear.

— Jesse 'Die in your sleep, everybody!' Jordan (@JesseNeon) July 25, 2019

Don’t you need a medicine kit for that? Yep, expend a use from a healer’s kit to skip the check.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 25, 2019

and how many hands? No hard rule on that, I’d probably allow it with one free hand, definitely of the kit is kept somewhere relatively accessible that you can reach.

If you have to dig it out, probably two.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 25, 2019

For a regular Wisdom (Medicine) check to stabilize, one free hand is all that’s necessary for me.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 25, 2019

Which is insane! Why is this only in the DMG? Why doesn’t the PH explicitly include a “Use a Magic Item” action alongside “Use an Object” if magic items aren’t too be considered “objects” for the purposes of the action? Because the rules for magic items are in the DMG.

— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 25, 2019

Other than D&D, what are the best systems to run an Eberron setting game in?

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Other than D&D, what are the best systems to run an Eberron setting game in? I’ve primarily played it in D&D (3/4/5), though I’ve also run it using an abstracted storytelling system. As others have said, I know there’s a good Savage Worlds conversion.

— Keith Baker🔜DragonCon (@HellcowKeith) August 19, 2019

What if a person has been to Candlekeep before, but most of their memory has been erased?

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Follow up question, if I may. What if a person has been to Candlekeep before, but most of their memory has been erased? Would the monks still be able to recognize or otherwise confirm that the the seeker has been there in the past, but something is wrong/missing from the person? Oh, yes. The doorguards are VERY good at "I think I've seen this person before," and would then delve deeper…and discover in that delving. They can be fooled, of course, especially by individuals who come back as a different species.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 17, 2019

“And the dragon flew on, leaving in its wake dying fires”

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And the dragon flew on, leaving in its wake dying fires
And fallen towers, wherein just one magic gauntlet glowed
As the baleful dead stirred in the graveyard gyres
Whispering dragon-doom to the wind that blew down the road

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 6, 2019

With firm claws the smiling monster quietly closed the gates of polished brass
For it was closing time; there’d be another day sufficient foolish humans to amass

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

For it was long ago, and under stranger suns
That I last saw so much unguarded gold
Is it curséd? Pray cast the proper orisons
And let all traps be revealed, and dangers told

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 7, 2019

Why am I mad?
I’ll tell, for the tale’s not sad
Sometimes, in the far distant deeps
Of the darkest tangles of this vast old wood
I see the Lady’s glowing eidolon as she creeps
To the Horned Hunter, and draws back his hood

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2019

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“And now the horses thunder hard across the field “

Mind Sliver Cantrip explained – Unearthed Arcana

Introduce new PCs and NPCs in clever ways! Special guest Jason Carl – Storyteller’s Guide Ep 6

Can you make a Medicine check to stabilize someone when you have one free hand and a shield strapped to your arm?

Other than D&D, what are the best systems to run an Eberron setting game in?

What if a person has been to Candlekeep before, but most of their memory has been erased?

“And the dragon flew on, leaving in its wake dying fires”

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