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does anyone have any examples they could bring to the discussion of how social mechanics are implemented in some games other than DnD? i'm seems they manage to not make it mind control in other systems, or at least i never hear complaints of it being so...

in the interest of not making the martial alternative to a cantrip vastly inferior yes you can wear them on your belt, however things like the lantern of revealing would actively need to be held because...otherwise they don't properly shed their light on things to reveal them say, you can wear...

maybe if TBIF were actually used it would be able to mitigate DMs 'forcing' PCs to act out of character, you establish something in your TBIF and if some social check or supernatural effect is trying to make a character act contrary to their nature the player gets to point to their relevant...

we're not talking about morale rolls here, we're talking about failing attack rolls and enemy's making saving throws and thus being forced to miss or not effect them with a spell. ;)

what about when 'it's not in character for my character to do that' is actually saying something closer to 'it's not what i want my character to do'? i may not want my character to miss attacks against their opponent but that doesn't mean i don't have to make attack rolls, hey! they've been...

while they did use the phrase 'perfectly rational' i think you've fixated too much on the dictionary meaning of perfect (flawless) rather than the conversational use (very well), i believe you've seemed to of done similar in this thread a few times where you've taken things to the extreme end of...

you're extrapolating 'logical and reasoned decisions' far too far down the chain of consequence.

the quoted sentence continues beyond the part you bolded you know: it's not asking for pure logical constructs of rationality, it's asking for characters who make smart well-reasoned decisions that make sense for the circumstances they find themselves in, the information available to them and...

my character having red hair is not something that is ever going to have any notable tangible effect on how things are likely to resolve and thus i don't feel needs to be codified into the mechanics, their species however, a factor on which my choice of is placed a non-insignificant amount of...

i wasn't referring to the act of roleplaying being a lie, i was referring to the truth of the nature of the character, claiming your character is something that the truth of the mechanics don't align with. for some people, that extra proficiency does matter and does make it less of a lie...

for a non-insignificant amount of people having those specialized mechanics is what allows them to play a mixed ancestry character without it feeling like a barefaced lie.

and they could've even done the half-elf story with 3 dwarf mechanics or no mechanics at all, doesn't mean they should've.

even if you aren't going to die for failure it can still carry consequences, as well as the fact that for some failing just isn't fun,

maybe, but i wasn't claiming it was THE most iconic catchphrase, just one of them. also, in hindsight i don't think 'catchphrase' exactly the right terminology but i can't think of what the right word is.

which is honestly such a shame IMO, since nearly day 1 one of the most iconic catchphrases of DnD was always 'pick your class and race species' but they're not even in the same league anymore. tangential general question not just to defcon, do you consider species abilities that are weaker but...

if presented with this issue my solution as hypothetical GM would be to try cobble together a new half-elf based off the mechanics of '24 humans and elves something like HALF-ELF '24 Size - Medium Speed - 30ft Resourceful - you gain heroic inspiration after a long rest Fey Ancestry - you have...

i agree with this but not so much the rest of your post, HM can burn in a fire for all i care but that's besides the point. pick dragons as your favoured enemy and you get advantage on saves against breath weapons and similar AoE monster attacks, you get a special anti-flying knockdown effect...

this is why i think they ought to be putting more heft into species and background options, to mitigate those sparse first few levels with features from other parts of the character without worrying about creating powerful multiclass dips from frontloaded classes.

look at it this way, cancelling the date as a result of failing your test isn't a consequence of failing your test because you didn't get the date in the first place as a result of you taking the test. your date didn't say 'if you pass your driving test i'll go on a date with you'

because attacking the orc is actually dependent to the character's skill and is a non-fixed outcome, whereas deciphering what the runes say is different because the runes shouldn't change depending on who reads them, what they want them to say, or how skilled they are at reading them. if i hand...