If an NPC is telling the truth, what's the Insight DC to know they're telling the truth?

[iserith]

It's such a weird position to me. I don't need to know a thing about trolls to lob a fire bolt or acid splash at it. I don't need to know a thing about beholders to avoid the gaze of its central eye.

The action can be separate from the knowledge, so establishing the PC's knowledge isn't necessary.

 

[Oofta]

I grew to hate those classes. I feel like I let their very existence trick me into forgetting that D&D is a game about adventurers having adventures, and I spent far too much time and effort treating D&D as a world simulation instead of an adventure game.

I hate those classes with the passion of a thousand @lowkey13s

I didn't even know that was possible. Wouldn't that much hate rip a hole in the space-time-D&D-continuum?

I still use them once in a blue moon when I want to describe the abilities of ritual casters or other NPC just to give myself a general idea of how good they'd be at something. Of course I probably just have too much time on my hands and should just pull a number out of thin air.

 

[Bawylie]

I grew to hate those classes. I feel like I let their very existence trick me into forgetting that D&D is a game about adventurers having adventures, and I spent far too much time and effort treating D&D as a world simulation instead of an adventure game.

I hate those classes with the passion of a thousand @lowkey13s

I always laughed at the idea of a level 20 commoner. I called him “the Uncommoner.”

 

[Satyrn]

I didn't even know that was possible. Wouldn't that much hate rip a hole in the space-time-D&D-continuum?

It would totally rip a hole like that if I didn't find a way to channel the energy into something else . . . that's why all the jokes.

 

[Guest 6801328]

I heard that astronomers just recently successfully photographed his hate.

 

[Satyrn]

I still use them once in a blue moon when I want to describe the abilities of ritual casters or other NPC just to give myself a general idea of how good they'd be at something. Of course I probably just have too much time on my hands and should just pull a number out of thin air.

Aye. While I've stopped using levels (and classes!) for anyone but the PCs, I still wind up occasionally giving spellcasting monsters caster levels for simplicity.

 

[Satyrn]

I heard that astronomers just recently successfully photographed his hate.

The "corona" (or whatever they call the surrounding red stuff) were the jokes trying to escape.

 

[Oofta]

It would totally rip a hole like that if I didn't find a way to channel the energy into something else . . . that's why all the jokes.

When do the jokes start?

 

[Yardiff]

Aye. While I've stopped using levels (and classes!) for anyone but the PCs, I still wind up occasionally giving spellcasting monsters caster levels for simplicity.

Pretty much something like this. The 'levels' are not combat prowess their just a way to express experience in what they do. 'Levels' are pretty easy to understand for those who play level based RPGs. You could use words such as novice, journeyman, etc. that's pretty much the same thing.

 

[Guest 6801328]

Pretty much something like this. The 'levels' are not combat prowess their just a way to express experience in what they do. 'Levels' are pretty easy to understand for those who play level based RPGs. You could use words such as novice, journeyman, etc. that's pretty much the same thing.

So is a Grandmaster "National Living Treasure" glassblower a lot harder to kill than an apprentice glassblower? Why?

And, if not, aren't you using an entirely different meaning of "level" than what we've been talking about?