D&D 5E Is Tasha's Broken?

[Vaalingrade]

Just rename it for 'Farfldrung' so people don't keep hanging the game on semantics.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Did I miss a National Geographic episode where they revealed the D&D stats of animals?

I can't remember now the system... but when me and the guys were trying a whole bunch of new ones I ran an adventure and it had a Rino in it with a bite attack... it made us all laugh. So I went to the main rule book and it listed all animals as having claw and bite attacks but some had OTHER natureal weapons...

so of course for the rest of that test campaign we all used our claws and bites since humans are animals...

 

[Oofta]

Because they still forced a single playstyle by omission.

That's why Tasha's happend

Nobody was ever forced to play a high elf wizard. No one was ever prohibited from playing a half orc cleric. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

 

[Vaalingrade]

I can't remember now the system... but when me and the guys were trying a whole bunch of new ones I ran an adventure and it had a Rino in it with a bite attack... it made us all laugh. So I went to the main rule book and it listed all animals as having claw and bite attacks but some had OTHER natureal weapons...

so of course for the rest of that test campaign we all used our claws and bites since humans are animals...

Adding Clawed Snake to World of Ere...

 

[Vaalingrade]

Nobody was ever forced to play a high elf wizard. No one was ever prohibited from playing a half orc cleric. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

As opposed to the actual mountain that is people not knowing that the species portrayed by art of nothing but rippling slabs of muscle, and who the books describe as big and strong, AND who have a specific species ability to lets them lift and carry more weight... aren't strong because the special outliers among their people who are avatars of the players aren't forced to have a specific, minor bonus to the game statistic called Strength.

But hey, you do you.

And WotC will do better.

 

[DND_Reborn]

again well in general true it is in no way true to every set...

Now I am out of shape (when I was younger I would have argued round WAS a perfectly valid shape but age has made that less true) and 3/4 of the women I know are athletic in one way or another... BUT i would be hard pressed to name a woman that COULDN'T carry/lift/push more then me.

My Fiancé was working in garden center at walmart when we met...she would by herself move huge heavy boxes without a thought that me and my best friend would have trouble moving together... now she works in an office now (as I always have) but she still puts the ACs in and out of the windows at my house while I cat call her... cause she can no big deal while I struggle to do so.

This is why females can certainly have a higher Strength score, and thus lift/carry more than a male, in many cases.

Age, lack of exercise, or whatever the cause might have caused your Strength to decrease, or perhaps you don't know how to use the strength you have effectively, which is what the Strength score represents. Your fiancé (congrats btw!) might certainly have a higher Strength score than you, and thus knows how to effectively lift/carry more. The fact she could move huge heavy boxes implies (to me) that she has a better score because she knows how to utilize leverage, balance, and other factors that involve using your muscular power effectively.

nothing against you but in a game with magic, dragons, and the ability to get 8 hours rest and feel refreshed most of us have LONG lost the real/simulation feel.

LOL no offense taken, I assure you!

Look, I know for many people the style of game I (and my group) prefers is--shall we say--against the grain (?) nowadays.

But a lot of people want that feeling back, which is why some use the gritty rest variants, and other rules. It is also why I am looking for another RPG more to my liking that does fantasy genre. I can continue to mod the crap out of 5E, but it is a good game on its own merits and would prefer something where professional game designers have done more of the work than I have to.

I am begging you not to go here.

Sorry, too late. I think...

To clarify, is it the male/female discrepancy you don't like, or the use of "species" since you bolded that part? Or both??

@DND_Reborn

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Thanks, if I had a newletter I would tell you!

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[Micah Sweet]

again you could remove the stat intirely... str- give them +7 might bonus to hit and damage, and say they can carry extra weight... done. We just use Str as a short hand for those things.

Well, clearly we need a new short hand!

 

[Vaalingrade]

Sorry, too late. I think...

To clarify, is it the male/female discrepancy you don't like, or the use of "species" since you bolded that part? Or both??

Just the whole awful thing.

Also referring to women as 'females' like they're test subjects makes my skin crawl, but that's neither here nor there.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Just the whole awful thing.

Also referring to women as 'females' like they're test subjects makes my skin crawl, but that's neither here nor there.

Well, I am sorry you feel that way, but it will not change my personal views on how the world (and this my fantasy world in many respects) works.

As for the term "female", it is sex term and has nothing to do with gender. So, I was not referring to women (humans) in game terms. I try to be sensitive to that (at least) and I'll review my posts. If I mistakenly ever wrote women/men instead of female/male, I will change the post.

 

[Maxperson]

I swear, simulationism is the result of someone telling a Greek god that the concept of Fun had a prettier bread knife than them or something.

Realism(not simulationism) exists in D&D and has from the very beginning. It doesn't try to simulate reality, but realism is everywhere you look.