So if you're a Cleric > Wizard, you do not benefit from Wizard ritual casting that allows them to cast without having the spell prepared?
— Forq (@aerotheurge_) April 13, 2018
The wizard's Ritual Casting feature has no relevance to any other class you might have, since that feature lets you cast wizard rituals that are in your spellbook. #DnD https://t.co/xvJg5MXyae
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 13, 2018
@JeremyECrawford can undead attune to magic items, being that they’ve “died”? https://t.co/lf5U0PYkde
— Axel Kipp (@AxelKipp) April 3, 2018
An undead creature is not dead. #DnD https://t.co/3ehgCFkNQy
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 3, 2018
Undead still have something inside them that they once were? That would make sense for attunement.
— Kevin Hitt (@Kevin_Hitt) April 3, 2018
The undead are creatures. Creatures can attune to magic items. A dead creature has no hit points and is an inanimate corpse. The dead can't attune to magic items. #DnD https://t.co/6ec277yCzv
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 3, 2018
How does this work with Lichs? Liches are creatures. Creatures can attune to magic items. A dead creature has no hit points and is an inanimate corpse. The dead can't attune to magic items.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 3, 2018
Visualizing one of @JeremyECrawford's reasons why Centaur and Minotaur should not be Large PCs: a 5' aura is 50% bigger and a 10' aura is 33% bigger. #DnD #UnearthedArcana pic.twitter.com/y6EcGCEaLJ
— ThinkDM (@ThinkingDM) May 15, 2018
That's exactly right. 🤓💖
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018
Is it safe to assume we shouldn’t expect Large PC races? 🤞 Yep.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018
@JeremyECrawford @mikemearls @ChrisPerkinsDnD #wotcstaff
Just so you know, the #DND hive mind has already decided that a medium centaur can ride a centaur riding a centaur … (repeat) … riding a centaur.
The puzzle is solved. It's centaurs all the way down.
— DM Dean Wants His Tome of Foes (@DeanMSimmons) May 15, 2018
If your DM decides that "a Medium creature" actually means "a tower of Medium creatures," that's an amazingly trippy, English-defying campaign you're playing. Live the dream! 🐎🌈 https://t.co/nYfxFeol5i
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018
Precedent exists in the Tomb of Annihilation stacks of up to 7 goblins.
Also, each centaur only has one medium creature riding them. 😉
I WANT MY MOBILE SIEGE TOWERS OF CENTAURS.
Don’t make me pout, Jeremy. It ain’t pretty. A serious reply to your amusing tweet: in our exceptions-based game, exceptions don't set precedents. Those stacking goblins are an exception.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 15, 2018
Given all the centaur excitement, here's some D&D history. Centaurs have had a variety of cultures and sizes in D&D. The generic Large version is in the "Monster Manual." Medium varieties appear in Dragonlance (pictured) and Forgotten Realms books as far back as 1990. #DnD pic.twitter.com/5Ktp4HpXFE
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
The game also has Medium horses in it.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
Doesn't that still mean that a centaur can ride another centaur?
— Sloane (@_Toagun) May 16, 2018
The rules on riding a mount specify that a mount must have a suitable size and anatomy for you to ride it (PH, 198). If the game makes an exception to part of that rule—about the creature's size, for instance—the other part of the rule still stands. #DnD https://t.co/9qoEczOnuc
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
D&D has both: Large and Medium centaurs. We get to have our centaur cake and eat it too. Also, here's another Medium centaur, this time from the Forgotten Realms—a desert centaur from Al-Qadim. pic.twitter.com/E0ivjvfqVa
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
That only sets rules for the ridden centaur, but speaks nothing of the compatibility of the riding centaur. Face it, you’ll have to either make a rule in the PC centaur description or errata the riding rules. If we do anything else with the centaur race, we'll clarify the text. This is what playtesting is all about.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
Want to see more Medium centaurs from D&D's history? I know you do!
Here's the desert centaur from the Forgotten Realms in the realm of Al-Qadim. The illustration is from 1992. #DnD pic.twitter.com/P16hG3TKgJ
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
is there a mechanical or balance reason for the odd size wording for the UA centaur instead of something like “you are size large but limited to medium scale weapons”? The centaur is Medium because that's the size of this sort of centaur. As a side matter, we avoid making Large races for many reasons, some of which I delved into today on Twitch.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
Ok, but imagine a pancake
with eyestalks
and then it floats
but it moves by farting
now let’s go back to picturing a goodly-sized pony and an average sized man
not so weird anymore, right? Precisely.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) May 16, 2018
@JeremyECrawford Save a life- How does Antimagic Field or a Beholder's Cone affect a draconic ancestry sorcerer's Dragon Wings? They're not described as a magical effect in the PHB text, so are they like a dragon's breath weapon and would persist? @kurainobara
— Alex Chace (@Daetur1) April 23, 2018
Curious whether something is magical in D&D? Consult the Sage Advice Compendium, searching for "How do I tell if something in the game is magical?" https://t.co/7uBLqNdn4G #DnD https://t.co/u5Lj7xYqOG
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 23, 2018
@JeremyECrawford if more than an hour has passed during any given rest period & the DM calls for initiative, can players choose to receive the benefits of the short rest they have earned, or does the call for initiative invalidate the 60+ minutes of rest that have occurred?
— calebrus44 (@calebrus44) April 2, 2018
A short rest and a long rest are separate things in the D&D rules. You decide which one you're taking when you start the rest. That said, a DM might allow a truncated long rest to confer the benefits of a short rest if it was at least 1 hour long. Doing so breaks nothing. #DnD https://t.co/53QvMHz5lp
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 10, 2018
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t jive. That may have been the RAI, but the rule simply says “an X rest is a period of downtime Y long.” You’re now saying that calling a long rest & resting 7 hours is not a short rest unless your DM is nice?
That’s dumb. Maybe RAI, but not RAW. I'm glad to answer rules questions, and I'm happy to provide further clarification. That said, I avoid answering questions that are tainted by open insult. If you'd like to have a constructive conversation about RAW vs. RAI, please compose a new tweet.— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 10, 2018
I'll take a stab at a constructive follow up: Could you please expand on separating the two explicitly? It seems like both are simply meeting time and activity requirements. Is there a situation where it's important that they're separate? I don't see a "You must choose" anywhere.
— Alex Harris (@Alex_Harris) April 10, 2018
Short and long rests have different places in the game's narrative, as described in sentence 3 of "Resting" (PH, 186).
Many features are refreshed by a short or long rest. If a long rest included a short rest (it doesn't), such features would refer only to a short rest. #DnD https://t.co/lYeaH7Ui5d
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 10, 2018
@JeremyECrawford @mikemearls quick question, does flames of phlegethos trigger on cantrips, like Fire Bolt?
— Dylan (@DTMN13) April 3, 2018
The second and third benefits of the Flames of Phlegethos feat work with spells that deal fire damage. Cantrips are spells, so a cantrip that deals fire damage benefits from the feat. #DnD https://t.co/6ycGxhW15N
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 3, 2018
Welcome back! @JeremyECrawford !
Double checking #dnd stuff: Boon of Quick casting and warlocks invocation shroud of shadow does NOT give bonus action invisibility? #spells #dnd5e #imissedyou
— Justin Ray Glosson (@ivstinus) April 2, 2018
The Boon of Quick Casting benefits one of your spells that's of level 1–3. The source of the spell isn't relevant to the boon, so the boon works, for example, with Shroud of Shadow. #DnD https://t.co/Glx73Z4z36
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 3, 2018
Would Adamantine Armor be detected by Detect Magic? It's listed in the magic item section, but it doesn't appear to be magical, just made of an exceptional material.
— Gabe D.R. (@gabedr888) April 4, 2018
The adamantine armor that is presented as a magic item is, indeed, a magic item. #DnD https://t.co/1PErUA5bo3
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 4, 2018
