They are home to restless spirits, strange oozes, desperate cultists and arcane experiments. Aside from avoiding all the sources of Exhaustion listed in the previous section, there are a few things you can do to avoid taking Exhaustion levels when you otherwise would. So what I did, as a resource for myself at least, is I went through the various areas of effect I could find in the PHB and ran them through the formulas on page 249. Ruins might be a haunted mansion, an abandoned village or a crumbling tomb, among broken masonry, fallen pillars and piles of debris. A wizard spell on a spell scroll can be copied just as spells in spellbooks can be copied. 128) and then copy it into your spellbook from there. Who gets hit? Can you avoid hitting allies? Etc. With all that said, you should be able to craft a spell scroll of Comprehend Languages as a Bard (Crafting a Magic Item, DMG pg. When using “theater of the mind” to run crunchy systems like D&D, though, the big problem is areas of effect. 128 More Downtime Activities Chapter 8, Adventuring, of the Player’s Handbook describes a few downtime 0110activities to fill the void between adventures.
Sometimes it’s just a fight and there aren’t a lot of interesting tactical options available, but people still spend more time counting squares and so on. I’ve found that in both of my current campaigns, bringing out the battle grid usually slows things down significantly, and doesn’t always add to the interest of the combat. Posted on JanuJDnD 5E, Hacks D&D 5E: Area of Effect On page 249 of the DMG, under Adjudicating Areas of Effect, it has this table with conversions for estimating how many targets are hit with an area of effect spell when using a battle grid. A minor point of incompatibility is that 3rd edition uses damage reduction, whereas 5th uses damage thresholds. On page 249 of the DMG, under Adjudicating Areas of Effect, it has this table with conversions for estimating how many targets are hit with an area of effect spell when using a battle grid. It can easily be adapted for 5th edition, since the prices of buildings in those two editions are comparable (3e DMG p.