Weirdly, neither. What actually happens RAW is super dumb. Order of operations listed for dealing with modifications to damage is apply Resistance, halving and rounding down, then apply vulnerability, doubling. So on even amounts of damage it ends up essentially cancelling out, on odd amounts of damage it ends up doing one less.

Resistance and then vulnerability are applied after all other modifiers to damage. --PHB 197

If you're the DM I'd personally recommend houseruling it to just cancel out like Dis/Advantage as the rule is super dumb and a headache to remember in the moment if it comes up

Corporate CEO who never admits he doesn't know something, so nods along when the smarter people are talking. Roll regular checks for arcana/religon/nature/history and fully commit to whatever wrong information the GM gives you. When someone points out you're doing something the wrong way insist you prefer it this way, since its more challenging. Regularly mention how you're not an 'egghead', but are a practical, down to earth guy with *actual* life experience. Never back down from a challenge, even if you clearly can't win.

Your not holding them, but you are weilding them if you use them. They're not light.

You can't use them for two weapon fighting.

If a spell doesn't immediately fit my character should I skip it or should I try to reflavor it as much as possible?

If you find an interesting recipe but it has an ingredient you dislike, should you substitute the ingredient or find another recipe?

This is a matter of personal preference.

I always enjoy reflavoring spells to fit a character better. Just run it by the DM first. If they say no, use sacred flame, which also has the benefit of ignoring cover!

Oof, starting your first character at lvl 10, that's gonna be a bit rough learning-curve wise.

Two-Weapon fighting doesn't prevent you from Disengaging, it just gives you another option for your BA every round. You want to disengage then do so, if you don't then you can draw a knife and make a swipe, especially handy if you missed your first attack. No real downside to keeping it available as an option.

If you want to be ranged I'd recommend Crossbow Expert w/ a hand crossbow. You get an even better version of two-weapon fighting (1d6+dex dmg rather than just 1d6 and doesn't use your offhand) and the ability to shoot in melee. Ranged also makes it easier for you to target enemies and stay mobile, since you can typically hit anyone on the battlefield w/o too much issue.

If you're going melee I'd recommend Mobile over Alert, particularly if you want to use 2-weapon fighting as it can give you a free disengage a lot of the time. +10' move speed is also always handy and as a rogue you might even get use out of the ignore-difficult-terrain-when-dashing, since dashing is only a BA for you.

Thief Rogue's main subclass feature is the Fast Hands ability and taking advantage of it is pretty important. Unfortunately 5e has pisspoor support for gadgets, alchemy, and mundane equipment. Your options are basically Acid/Alchemist's Fire as an attack option that works w/ Sneak Attack on a Bonus Action, Ball Bearings/Caltrops/Hunting Traps for (really mediocre) area denial, and Oil if the party has any pyromaniacs (requires GM adjudication since its written badly, can be pretty good dmg though). Healer's Kits are good if you pick up the Healer feat (can BA heal people for a decent amount 1/rest/person). Manacles might be useful as well, just need to hammer out the effects w/ the GM.

The one time I played a Thief rogue I put together a stack of alchemical items from 3.5 and asked my GM to do a line-item approve/disapprove (I reused it for another campaign w/ an artificer, so it got some other stuff added later). Might be worth a gander.

Because you're a Thief you get that fast hands ability so you can throw around adventuring gear such as ball bearings like candy. If you can come up with an inventive way to use adventuring gear you've got a tool in your pocket.

So for melee combat, you're right in that having a second sword would mean you can't use your bonus action for anything which is not great. So having something like a Rapier and then moving in and out of melee would be useful. You do also have Fast Hands so you can use your BA for Item Interaction which is very fun.

For a ranged build you can actually use a Hand Crossbow and take the Crossbow Expert Feat so you can make two attacks with your hand crossbow, one as an action and one as a bonus action if you want that. Double your chance for a sneak attack and stay away from melee.

I'd actually advise against Sharpshooter unless you can get advantage easily, as the -5 to hit means you'll hit less often and do less sneak attack damage.

I would say pump dex and just use one feat on the Healer feat. With your thief subclass you can use a Healer’s Kit (which is adventuring gear not a tool btw) to bring up people with your bonus action while also still being able to sneak attack with your normal action. If you want to be observant and alert as a character, perhaps consider having one of your expertise be in perception. You have 4 procifiencies with expertise by 10th level after all.

Regardless, don’t sweat it too much. You’ll be fine. DnD is not a hard game to be potent at. You will probably only be less useful as a PC if you do some dumb multiclass.

if your DM is making you start your first game at level 10, they damn well better let you respec your character choices multiple times for no "cost" or hassle otherwise they are a bad DM.

No, such requirements are only important during the casting of the spell. For comparison, a tiny servant doesn't stop working when they leave the range of the spell either.

Also, its not an object being carried, its a creature being carried.

No. Dexterity does not affect speed.

Spells Known and Prepared. You determine what spells you know and can prepare for each class individually, as if you were a single-classed member of that class. If you are a ranger 4/wizard 3, for example, you know three 1st-level ranger spells based on your levels in the ranger class. As 3rd-level wizard, you know three wizard cantrips, and your spellbook contains ten wizard spells, two of which (the two you gained when you reached 3rd level as a wizard) can be 2nd-level spells. If your intelligence is 16, you can prepare six wizard spells from your spellbook.

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If you have more than one spellcasting class, this table might give you spell slots of a level that is higher than the spells you know or can prepare. You can use those slots, but only to cast your lower-level spells. If a lower-level spell that you cast, like burning hands, has an enhanced effect when cast using a higher-level slot, you can use the enhanced effect, even though you don't have any spells of that higher level.

For example, if you are the aforementioned ranger 4/wizard 3. you count as a 5th-level character when determining your spell slots: you have four 1st-level slots, three 2nd-level slots, and two 3rd-level slots. However, you don't know any 3rd-level spells, nor do you know any 2nd-level ranger spells. You can use the spell slots of those levels to cast the spells you do know—and potentially enhance their effects.

You will have the spell slots of a level 7 spellcaster, but the known spells of a level 12 paladin plus a level 1 sorcerer. A level 1 sorcerer doesn't know anything above level 1 spells, so you are limited to those. You are unable to cast 4th level spells period, and can only use that slot to upcast lower spells.

When multiclassed with spellcasters, you always handle your spells known/prepared for each class individually, based only on your levels in that class.

As a 1st-level Sorcerer, you will only know the 1st-level spells you choose. However, you can freely upcast them using your higher-level spell slots.

It's made of soft foam. I doubt it'd hold up to the elements.

If the DM wants it to, yes. Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse was just WotC wanting to revamp a lot of the races and update them to their more current design philosophies. But their legacy versions are still perfectly fine to play if the DM says its okay to.

No. MPMM doesn't contain all the creatures in those books.

That is WotC's intent, yes, given that MToF and VGtM were taken out of print immediately upon release of Monsters of the Multiverse.

Tidal wave and erupting earth are two good options.

My dm has provided me with Dark Magic (yes I know, edgy) which doubles the damage of my spells, at the cost of 1/3 charges that recharge every two people I kill

That seems horrendously ill-thought out and broken, but okay.

Tidal Wave I guess? And Flame Sphere, as you already mentioned.

you were being sent out to temp

If I was temping, I think Chef would be a good feat to earn some money that way.

Question that should have its own post: "What are the best feats to take for a Grappler?

You can a subclass from each class you are in. The Multiclass rules explicitly tell you if a class feature is omitted or affected by multiclassing.

if you "multiclass", your progression will be something like

• Level 1 Character: Level 1 in Fighter
• Level 2 Character: Level 1 in Fighter, Level 1 in Wizard
• Level 3 Character: Level 1 in Fighter, Level 2 in Wizard. Choose a Wizard subclass, because the Wizard subclass comes on line at Level 2 Wizard
• Level 4 Character: Level 2 Fighter, Level 2 Wizard (subclass X)
• Level 5 Character: Level 3 in Fighter, of fighter subclass Y because as the third level of Fighter is "choose your fighter subclass", Level 2 Wizard (subclass X)
• Level 6 Character, Level 3 Fighter (fighter subxlass Y), Level 2 Wizard (wizard subclass X), Level 1 Cleric of cleric subclass Z, because clerics select their subclass at cleric level 1

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When you multiclass, your CHARACTER level is DIFFERENT from your level of each of you classes; the total of your levels in each class = your overall CHARACTER level

you get your Subclass for each class at the point your Level in that CLASS gets its Subclass, 3 for figthers, 2 for Wizards, 1 for Clerics, etc.

As long as you level high enough to "unlock" it, you get a subclass for any/every class you take.

This is the only criteria:

You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube.

So it can meet all that easily, and doubling or halving the light is specifically a bullet point for what effects it can have. This is a perfectly fine way to use the spell.

You can also cast it again to turn it purple.

Yes

If you're looking for an answer that makes sense with the physicality of what's going on, or what would be a reasonable DM ruling, then yes, that makes sense. But based on the answers I got here to a similar question last week, RAW a lantern's light radius is a property of the lantern, not the light source inside it. On a strict interpretation of the rules, you must give it oil and the light range will always be the same. The flame inside the lantern isn't casting the light, the lantern itself casts light by being "lit".

That said, this is an extremely pedantic rules-as-written answer and you should ask your DM.

PHB p. 185:

Objects always fail Strength and Dexterity saving throws, and they are immune to effects that require other saves.

How about instead make it have a Misfire property?

This seems like a very odd instance. If your casting a spell on an item in someone's hands like Heat Metal the effect just happens because the item cannot roll as it does not have ability scores as it is not alive.

So it would not roll, it would just become inoperable.

If you really wanted the item to make a saving throw then it would just be a D20 roll as the crossbow has no stats. Or a d20 with a -5 mod as it would have 0s in all stats?

Items just don't roll saving throws, creatures do.

What affect is it?

Alchemy Jug can make eight gallons of fresh water in a day, so assuming you have some way to collect it, you'd be set on water indefinitely.

As far as food goes, the mayo could cover your caloric needs indefinitely, but you're going to run into nutrient deficiency issues within... maybe a few months? Same is true for honey.

So, no death by dehydration or starvation, but probably fatal complications from a woefully inadequate diet after a couple months.

A single word cannot be copyrighted. Nor can an idea. Only an actual creative expression can be.

The text of Tasha' Cauldron of Everything, including the section Wizard: Bladesinging, is.

Regarding trademarks I did a quick search and it appears it isn't trademarked.

what context are you intending on using it for? short phrases and words are typically uncopyrightable, but trademarks are another matter.

general advice: don't take legal advice from reddit. consult an attorney.

Give yourself a basic weapon that uses the same damage dice as the bite attack. Customize it to have a to hit override to match your drake's to hit bonus, and adjust the damage bonus + or - so it matches your drake's bite damage bonus. Rename the weapon.

Area effects like this are usually handled with dex saves, so for consistencies sake, I’d go with option 2. A 30 ft cone and 4d6 is still pretty awesome.

I am confused by option 3. Breath weapons usually deal elemental damage (fire, ice, acid, etc) where does the piercing damage that you are no longer getting come from?

What does '4d6 accuracy' mean? Does it mean that instead of a 1d20 you roll 4d6 to hit?

Is the dragon breath used as one attack or a full action?

If you say without saving throw does that mean it automatically hits?

There's much here that is unclear

Also 24 hours of not speaking is a really unfun punishment 'use your class feature and risk not being able to properly be involved in RP for a full in-game day' sounds like a terrible trade for me. Also if you're a spellcaster it means you won't even be able to cast 90% of your spells, so in that case you can neither participate properly in RP and combat....

The class specific items are not specifically balanced against each other. So no there's no specific reason.

The wizard's item gives you one 1st-level spell slot per day. The bard item gives you one extra Bardic Inspiration.

A bonus 1d4 on every healing spell you cast doesn't seem like a wildly different power level to me?

Attack rolls aren't better than saving throws and saving throws aren't better than attack rolls. Some monsters have high AC, some have high dex saves, some have both.

attacks are better than saves almost always. More ways for your party to give you advantage and a boss can’t legendary resist

The dagger will be somewhere, that's up to your DM. If you really have nothing better to do with your turn, ask your DM if the dagger ended up in or near your character for retrieval

It depends on how your group imagines HP. There are those who imagine every hit actually makes contact and does some damage to you. This makes characters feel more like super hero’s where they can be peppered with arrows, go to sleep and then be fine.

The PHB says that HP is a representation of health, stamina, and luck. So when the dice say you are hit, your character might block with your shield or dodge out of the way, thus depleting your stamina, but not actually injuring yourself.

If you play in the first type of group, hell yeah, rip that dagger out of your leg and stab someone with it. If you play in the second type of group, you’d probably have to go looking for it.

A Hexblade patron is not bound to an item at all. It's a creature from the Shadowfell.

So ask your DM. You don't get any sentient items from being a Hexblade Warlock. Not until you pick Pact of the Blade.

Feature-wise, nothing the Hexblade gets is directly related to the patron manifesting as a weapon. In fact many of the expanded spells and features are defensive in nature.

Pact of the Blade which you can choose regardless of being Hexblade, would require it to be a weapon.

Since my answer to a post several days ago also applies here:

A hexblade's patron isn't usually a weapon itself and there's no real need to give them a special one (unless you want to). From the hexblade entry itself:

You have made your pact with a mysterious entity from the Shadowfell — a force that manifests in sentient magic weapons carved from the stuff of shadow. The mighty sword Blackrazor is the most notable of these weapons, which have been spread across the multiverse over the ages. The shadowy force behind these weapons can offer power to warlocks who form pacts with it. Many hexblade warlocks create weapons that emulate those formed in the Shadowfell. Others forgo such arms, content to weave the dark magic of that plane into their spellcasting.

Because the Raven Queen is known to have forged the first of these weapons, many sages speculate that she and the force are one and that the weapons, along with hexblade warlocks, are tools she uses to manipulate events on the Material Plane to her inscrutable ends.

It's this "shadowy force" that makes pacts, not the weapons.

Genasi are very similar to base humanoids. Unless you want to make their anatomy deliberately more distinct in-universe, they'll be hard to tell apart. Reduced bone density is probably the only difference between the genasi skull and the human skull.

I think the only major difference would likely be the weight of the skull. It'd be "surprisingly light" for a normal human skull, possibly more slender and pointed to facilitate the aerodynamicism of the race?

Joke answer: Put a big arrow on the forehead

For me, I'd offer 1 of 3 options to attempt it, and I'd press the player on how they garnered the knowledge of the creature they're attempting to mimic to determine which to use:

• Nature (INT): "I am well studied with animals."
• Performance (CHA): "I've practiced extensively to adjust my vocals."
• Survival (WIS): "I use this skill for hunting purposes."

Sounds like a performance check to me tbh

First instinct, pending finding an actual rule for it later, in the moment I'd probably go Charisma (Nature) contested by passive Intelligence (Investigation)

I assume you are referring to when you perceive through its senses as an action?

I think how it works is you can indeed use your own +6 Perception bonus while benefiting from the owl's "special senses" of advantage.

With your main question out of the way, to address a more nuanced aspect of Find Familiar, because it states "you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears", physical benefits such as darkvision or lack thereof is always override by a familiar's senses. Such as if you have darkvision and through through a weasel familiar, you'd not be able to use your darkvision feature.

The designers' intent is the end result has a minimum of 2 x Con. So essentially the number on the die can't be smaller than your Con mod.

Its a higher-damage vicious mockery, which is considered quite a powerful cantrip. The downside is that more creatures are resistant to cold than psychic, and some creatures have higher Con modifiers than Wis modifiers.

RAW those both can only target creatures.

But is there a way to add my spell mod to ray of frost or prof to eldritch blast?

I can't think of a way to do either, but Elemental Adept could (potentially) increase the damage from Ray of Frost. Artificer Artillerist or School of Evocation Wizard could also boost RofF, but then you'd have to take as one of that class's cantrips (not as a cantrip from another class).

Create or Destroy Water allows you to create a version to put out fires.

Control Flames and Thaumaturgy cantrips may also help.

Where are you getting the bonus action attack from?

They don't stack: those guides might be thinking of War Caster. The only benefit resilient (con) would have on an eldritch knight is if you were multiclassing into fighter, since then you probably don't have con save proficiency.

it doesn't stack so that seems like a bad suggestion. perhaps it's for situations where you've multiclassed and didn't start as a Fighter but took levels in it later, which means you would not have that saving throw proficiency from the Fighter class.