D&D 5E (2024) A fix for advantage/disadvantage stacking

[Umbran]

Oh, that’s cool! I assume custom dice with more faces numbered with higher and lower values instead of a straight 1-20? Could be fun.

Wyrmwood made a version numbered thus: 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6,15,16,17,18,18,19,19,20,20,20.

Another pattern I have seen has 1,1,1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20,20,20.

One can imagine others. A bit of a web search can probably find you makers.

 

[Scott Christian]

Case in point!

Thank you for the clarification.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

As I mentioned a few times, I think I poisoned my own well by framing this conversation around fixing a “problem” with advantage and disadvantage. What I should have said was, “I’ve recently discovered this ‘emphasis’ thing and I think it sounds cool, but I don’t just want to use it arbitrarily. I thought in place of a flat roll when you have both advantage and disadvantage would be a good place for it, what do y’all think?”

In my line of work (software design/architecture), there are a lot of 'white room' or 'theory crafting' discussions, so to speak. I imagine that @bedir than (from what I gather he does for a living according to this thread) has the same types of conversations in his line of work.

In my industry, we don't use that terminology, but that's effectively what we are doing. Except we don't eyeroll at these conversations as sometimes happens on these boards; these talks follow the wisdom of 'measure twice, cut once'. Think out the scenarios on paper, ahead of time, so you don't have to deal with an unintended consequence when you're in the middle of a real-world/live/in real time situation.

At least in my business, these conversations can and do go down rabbit holes. Par for the course. That's all that's happened here to your question. A gentle nudge, and the focus gets pointed back to where it belongs. Which is what you subtly did with your post

But my main point is that it's okay to have a sidebar about the execution of advantage/disadvantage. Sometimes great ideas come from these diversions. If it's going nowhere though, get that train back on the tracks.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Thank you for the clarification.

I wasn't trying to give you a hard time! Your post was immediately after @Charlaquin's post. It was like you floated that one right over the plate... couldn't resist putting it into the bleachers

Thanks for being a good sport about it...