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Addendum 2025-04-29

WOTC released a new Sage Advice document that clarifies a few things about the rules. Some early takeaways:

Magical Darkness: they clarify that magical darkness by itself is not impenetrable by Darkvision. if a spell or magical effect specifies that it blocks Darkvision (as is the case with the spell Darkness); then it does, otherwise it does not.

Multiple Dash actions: I don’t think we’ve been confused about this, but they make it clear that if a character gets, for example, the ability to Dash as a bonus action such as Lucretia’s Cunning Action or Kog’s Adrenaline Rush, you can still use your Action to Dash as well; meaning that a character could Move (up to their Speed), Dash as an Action and Dash as a Bonus action to yield Speed X3 in distance covered. Again, I think we’ve always played this way.

Opportunity attacks with reach weapons; if you are holding a weapon with reach (e.g. glaive or halberd) and a foe attempts to move out of your reach, you can use your reaction to attack; note that if you are using a reach weapon this only triggers if they try to move beyond your reach; a 5 foot move would not trigger your OA (though it would trigger any others adjacent not using reach weapons); good news, bad news. There used to be (in the 4e days, maybe even 3e?) an ability/feat called Threatening Reach that allowed you to make OA with reach; now anyone gets it.

Opportunity attacks and grapple, shove: yes, you can use grapple or shove as your OA rather than make a standard attack

Weapon Masteries
You probably noticed that I gave W.M. to the bad guys in our last fight. As I’ve mentioned, I want to stick to monsters from the 2024 Monster Manual for this campaign rather than tweaking them/making my own.

However I am interested in the W.M. effects. I think they are a pretty cool addition. When it comes to NPCs, especially “named” NPCs, I’ve been using DNDBeyond to create a character sheet (for instance, for Vindurain, the sorceress/warlock/witch). I am actually using an existing Monster Manual entry for The Gauntlet, because it’s good enough, but I gave him W.M. for his two weapons (longsword and javelin).

I guess that’s where I’m at right now; NPCs (versus “monsters”) may get the full character creation treatment; and thus have a full set of abilities, or they may be “monster” entries plus weapon masteries.
I may still explore the possibility of introducing some “monsters,” especially recurring ones, who might get a single W.M. with their “standard” weapon from the Monster Manual.

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Addendum to session 14

We discussed Luck Points. Specifically, transferring them from one player to another. We agreed to try out a method for this as follows:

  • The PC must exhaust their current total of any Luck Points on the roll in question. They may then be supplemented by gifts from other players.
  • PCs may gift their own Luck Points to other players using their Reaction. Obviously, a PC who has already used their reaction this round may not thus gift.
  • The use of Luck Points,  including all gifts as well as those from the PC whose roll is pending, may not exceed 5 points.

We’ll try that out and see how it goes.

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Session 4 Addendum

Rules notes: we discussed “weapon juggling” and how the rules explicitly support stowing and drawing a weapon as part of the Attack action, plus stowing a weapon as a Free Action, meaning that a PC with 2 weapons drawn could stow both weapons and still draw another as long as they are taking the Attack action.

We also discussed that administering a potion, to oneself or another, is a bonus action.
To discuss: using DNDBeyond for initiative and HP tracking

Each week I’ll provide a “Session Notes” post from Buck Headstrong that will be a narrative recounting of what happened, and a separate “Addendum” such as this one with mechanical/meta-game stuff.

Loot: there is some loot to be gathered after the fight, no big surprise. This won’t come up often, but Arthur is going to take a significant “share” of the take, which leaves the following for the party:

  • 1 heavy ring similar to that taken previously from the catacombs; a Ring of Elemental Evil
  • Among the weapons salvaged and otherwise to be found:
  • 1 masterwork wolf shield ( a Royal Shield)
  • 2 masterwork pikes (Royal Pikes)
  • no money or other items of interest other than what Arthur has claimed

To discuss: Level Objectives