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I mean, there’s always a fix. RAW and/or homebrew RAW will make this situation be weird, so we do something else that makes sense.

Is not player intimidating vs npc decided by dice rolls to allow player agency and cause npc not real? And is not npc vs player intimidation determined by the fiction presented to them…because real person who can respond.

It reduces the number of entities that needs to approve such a thing from 4 to 3, that’s about it.

Generally, I think this is more a player approach situation. There’s a large contingent of TTRPG tables that think of every game as rules optional. Whether the game says, “these are the rules, period” or “these are the rules, but…” they aren’t hearing either and absent of a square board with...

If I might try to reconcile the gameplay differences here, @Artamo is positing that much modern DnD consists of people moving from encounter to encounter (social, environmental, or combat) and behaving strategically within those encounters. As opposed to a style where the players are poking...

This has been done in DnD. The oft forgot Aquisitions Incorporated book gives you a party/franchise role with mechanical benefits.

I like the thinking for sure. But why needle around the edges, bards should not have any spell per class (some from subclass maybe) they should have songs, some instant, some that take two rounds to manifest, and they should be bonus actions.

I dnno the answer, just came here to announce we’ve decided Raging Ooze Barbarian Elementals is our new band name. #Robeband

Feels like a text adventure, like, for lack of a better example, Zork. You’re deepening it with a character who will have various characteristics, switches on or off, that will make the zork experience more dynamic, if a and b on, but c off, you get a different room experience than if a off...

I don’t think any movie stays perfect. But I do feel like a movie can be “perfect” if you catch it at the very right time in your life. Goonies, Explorers, Aliens, Fight Club, Gummo, The Conversation, Platoon, Evil Dead II, They Live, Das Boot, Natural Born Killers, The Road Warrior, Paralax...

If you’re eating out at a restaurant where this question matters, the answer is “medium rare or however the chef recommends”. You should respect the people preparing your food and the meat itself. Otherwise, just boil it. The people preparing your steak can only control the very outer layer...

You certainly find a lot of shows where you can say “those two streets in Indianapolis* don’t connect…because they’re both in Vancouver (and they don’t connect there either)’.” *insert most any city in North America here

Yeah. I think if you watched the entirety of the show one step back, it actually agrees with you in its themes. Also, pretty much none of his diagnoses are arrive at by doing actually medicine, that merely confirms the rest of the story. Pretty sure if anyone managed to make a successful...

@jian Totally get you’re always gonna hate House, which is fine. But it sure seems like you’re stuck on, this is a totally nonsensical way for a medical professional to behave. It is, there’s a whole normal hospital going on in the background, and then this guy. Yeah, but is it that laughable...

I DM almost 5e exclusively, but would like to get my table into an OSR game because I think it would be more fun at the table. Not necessarily overall, my players love getting deep into character creation, and involved stories. But when I think about the most fun we’ve had in the moment, it’s...

Defending House certainly wasn’t on my EnWorld bingo card for today, but here goes anyway. First, yes, it was part of middle aged white guy is a jerk but right trope, but that was never part of the appeal to me, and it’s more than that. This guy is a jerk, but charmingly amusing at it was the...

I believe general investor sentiment is that however many “fans” D&D has, Wizards is absolutely pants at extracting meaningful revenue from them. Doesn’t means the fans don’t exist though; there are people on this forum who probably last spent money on an official D&D product in the 80’s but...

So, if I understand correctly, unless you are actively shoveling money at WotC, you are not a fan of D&D?

I think if you want to do race as class, in today’s environment, you just dispense with class and do lineage as everything, sub racing instead of subclassing. Every race has three lineage options. One martial, one social/dex, one magic. And everything flow from the subrace you pick. Unique...

I also think they will use the expansive Thay baddies campaign to start doing mini setting “books” on D&D beyond for more FR territories. Like imagine all the Calimshan stuff in the FR books, but for Amn or whoever.