Any involving fey?

I don’t see fey mentioned in any of them. Why do I always hear about this in the feywild?

Source? I’ve heard people say that, but I don’t know of any stories where that happens. I’ve seen something saying Rumpelstiltskin is an example, but as far as I can find the queen got to keep her baby because Rumpelstiltskin agreed to let her if she guesses his name. It doesn’t look like knowing his name itself had any effect.

Also, if that is true, then this fey taking things literally would have the opposite effect. If you just tell the fey your name, or they find out through any other method, then they’d have power over you. But if they literally take your name, then it’s their name, and now you know their name and you can control them.

The classic “can I have your name?” being a Fey asking to steal your identity.

Which always annoys me. I’m just giving them my name, not my identity. And definitely not any sort of power over me.

And fall damage is instantaneous unless you use that optional rule where falling far enough takes time.

If Detect Evil and Good detects creature type then sure, maybe Detect Magic detects chowder.

Yeah. A gallon of water might not sound like much, but it adds up. If you generate two images a day for a year, it’s as bad as eating a whole cheeseburger. Assuming the gallon is accurate and not an exaggeration.

No. They’d need a pretty impressive jump height to slow down enough to leave orbit.

It even works with people. They can carry up to 150 pounds if you have them move 30 feet before passing it to the next guy or 300 pounds if they’re moving 5 feet. I call it the peasant railway.

You posted the same link twice.

Oh have the other group of heroes succeed. Showing the world doesn’t revolve around the PCs makes it feel more alive, and it lets them focus on running a tavern or whatever else they wanted to do.

Or maybe the other group of heroes meets at the tavern the players opened, and their skill in running a tavern somehow ends up being vital for that group of heroes’ success. Maybe they just overhear the heroes talk about nearly being defeated, before succeeding because of something the players did. “We were nearly defeated at the last fortress. If the Dark General had been there, we’d have been toast.”

Or maybe the baddies take over a country, which has some effects on the players’ clientele and the drinks they serve.

Here’s a biblical scholar talking about it. The bible specifies small boys, so definitely not in their 20s. Not that having bears eat adults for making fun of your bald head is any better.

You’d generally want blind rolls whenever a player is trying to find something out, like check for traps or see if someone’s lying.

with both triggers explicitly on a failed roll and refunds if the extra dice if it doesnt make it succeed so you cant even include mystery if the reroll made it a success.

It works fine as long as they don’t try to use the extra die until after the actual result is clear. So it’s fine if they’re trying to reroll checking for traps, but not if they’re trying to reroll whether or not some creature successfully laid eggs inside them.

Relevant xkcd

A pureblood elf that looks like a human is raised by dwarves, learns to fight, befriends goblins, and gets super rich.

Kenkus can only use words they’ve heard before. This implies that other races aren’t limited like that, and automatically know all the words in their language. So you can’t just make up words.

So I’ve heard. There probably are other languages that could work. ChatGPT says polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut, Mohawk, and Chukchi do. I don’t have time to double check, but I’m sure if ChatGPT’s wrong there are other examples where it’s true.

Unfortunately, in 2025 they closed the loophole. You only can use the listed commands. And I notice the loophole didn’t work for sending in either version of 5e (or in 3.5). It specifies a “short” message of 25 words or less, so while you could compress an arbitrarily long message into a single word (though possibly having to use some Morse code-type deal) it wouldn’t help because it wouldn’t be a “short” message.

One could argue that it’s only indirectly harmful. It’s not jumping out of the window that hurts you. It’s the sudden stop before you reach the ground. Or more realistically, you could argue that even taking a little falling damage, you’re in a way better position than fighting for your life, so on the net it’s not harmful.

Or you could just use it on a Monk.

The really long words are nouns, and commands are verbs: calm.