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From the DWSRD (which I read and double checked) "The GM has rules to follow, too.", "From the get-go make sure to follow the rules...

The rules in D&D are a set of tools to run a game. They give you advice on how you can run the game but it's always up to the DM and...

I believe what they're saying is that hitting someone's armor and doing no damage is still a hit. That the only way to miss is to make...

Setting aside specific rules misapprehensions, there is a fundamental misapprehension that is easy to fall into with D&D that I think...

So an arbitrary rule you made up somehow makes it a simulation? Good grief.

Please use a more reasonable example. I can't tell you what I would do to address a situation that ridiculous.

It's a strawman to say that you believe that a game doesn't simulate falling off a cliff because it doesn't tell you why the character...

There is no peasant railgun in my game. For that matter, the 2024 DMG talks about that - the rules are meant to describe the laws of...

Do you think that situation is likely to occur in an actual game run by a GM?

Oops, typo. Add 1d6 every 20 feet, not double. I thought about doubling at first and then remember the parable of doubling that one...

I would never stat Superman's invulnerability as hit points. Damage reduction (and a lot of it) all the way.

According to XGtE you fall 500 feet in six seconds, which is close if you were falling at terminal velocity and round off. Using the...

You can use it as DR but I think it has other issues. Meanwhile we agree. Armor does not make you better at dodging. Well made plate...

I don't assume the character thinks they're in danger. They know what they are capable of.