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Exactly. Balance is never perfect, and one should never strive for perfect balance--doing so produces something like tic tac toe, or at best checkers, something diverting but not very engaging. But one should never strive to actively create imbalance. Not because balance is somehow perfection...

It turns out, analyzing a complex, multifaceted thing by simplifying it down to a number 1-10 isn't really the best survey design. They've been using this survey design, or others extremely similar to it, since 2012. If you don't trust the methods they're using right now, and think those...

That would be a correct usage, if we presume a dropped "I" and perhaps an implied "shall/will". E.g. it's not uncommon for someone to say, "See you later/soon", where the "I will" is just dropped. "See thee later" would naturally lend itself to simplification: our English-speaking ancestors...

Well...no, actually it is more made up than that. For the same reason that "key" has masculine gender in German (Schlüssel) and feminine gender in Spanish (llave), even though keys cannot even in principle have any gender. Just as, for example, the boundaries on what counts as "its own color" vs...

Nah. I believe what they're saying is that D&D, of its nature, is an adventure with, to some degree, relatively "high stakes". "Cozy" fiction, romantic or otherwise, has intentionally low stakes. Like you could sort of put it on a two-axis grid; it'd be a bit reductive, but that's kind of...

Er...sauce on that "Yoda logic" thing? English has never been spoken that way. At best you can argue that Yoda's native language uses OSV order while Galactic Basic uses SVO order, but even that seems shaky when we have things like the Old Republic continuity, where nothing has meaningfully...

But ONLY if people actually use it appropriately. "Thou" is a subject word. It is the second-person equivalent of "I" and "he/she". "Thee" is an object word. It is the equivalent of "me" and "her/him". "Thy" is a possessive word, the equivalent of "my" and "hers/his". "Thine" is to be used only...

Because those are artificial things designed to put humans in boxes. I generally prefer to keep people out of boxes as much as possible. Racist terms for ethnocultural or ethnoreligious groups are also usually constructed. I won't use any examples because, y'know, offensive. So: Why do you find...

While Shakespeare is a particularly important example, given his influence on modern English, we can definitely say goes back even further. Chaucer used it in the Canterbury Tales, in the 14th century. It was also used by more recent famous authors, such as Dickinson and Wordsworth, even when...

Then let me speak clearly and succinctly. I think it's petty to the point of jerk to have your fun completely ruined by someone in your game playing a turtle-person.

Out of the last 8 years, 5 of them were years in which I was not a player. All of them have been years I was a GM. Out of the last 15 years, 10 of them were years in which I was not a player. I don't identify with either role here. I am a player. I am a GM. When GMing, I hold myself to the...

Quote me where I said that. Quote me where I said "give the player always what [they] want". You'll come up empty--I guarantee you this. Because I have said, repeatedly, that everyone is on the same playing field. Meanwhile, there are multiple people in this thread who have repeatedly said...

You're missing the forest for the trees. The person doing point buy cannot start with 18. It's not possible. The absolute best they can start with is 15. As a result, when you cut off the bottom low-roll results, there is no cost paid for this potential, and it's pretty damn high potential...

The problem you have encountered is, simply put, bad incentive design. Defending simply delays the inevitable--which means it gives the enemy two turns while you only take one. Defending has to advance your interests in some way, or it will never be a preferable pick outside of bespoke need...

Was it? Seriously. Was it? If I am the result of one mad wizard's cruel and insane experiments, does that mean "tortles" live in this world? Or does it just mean that there's a single sapient turtle-man who will always be in some way alone, simultaneously the foundling and the endling of his...

Er...that's...that's exactly what statistics is for? Are we using different meanings of "statistics"? The whole point of statistics is that it is used to analyze spread and variation. That's why it exists as a formal science. It would be like saying that arithmetic can't handle square roots. Of...

I literally said that. Repeatedly. In multiple posts. As I've said, again repeatedly: I'm not the one saying one person always gets what they want and everyone else just accepts it. I'm not the one saying the GM should always get what they want, and then players might get what they want if it...

This is accounting for the variance. When you roll six sets of 4d6k3, there will be a range for what "the highest stat of that set of six" is. That range will be narrower than the range for just any result of 4d6k3, because you're specifically selecting for the largest one. The peak will be...

I certainly agree that stats are smaller numbers than before--but that makes your sources that much more important, no? When you can only get at most, what, a +13 on any given roll, and that only with dramatic investment, every source of bonus matters. Especially since Advantage, while good...

By this logic, Champions are entirely built around a bonus that doesn't matter either, though. Increasing your crit range by 1 point is precisely the same amount of difference--yet we're supposed to see it as an impressive benefit for one thing and as a nothing to be overlooked in another?