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As far as feats go it's probably best to just lean into whatever weapon or weapon setup you are mostly using by time you get to level 4...

I can at least point to a blog post by Sam Sorenson New Simulationism - Sam Sorensen where someone other than me explains what...

I was playing in my wife's game recently and my paladin rushed to the defense of an innocent. The enemies then proceeded to focus fire...

He won initiative and so was the first to act in the encounter, before the enemies. He had no way of knowing how dangerous the...

At the time Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, the amber thing was sort-of possible according to the then-current theory. It wasn't until...

Why do people always feel compelled to tell people that don't like some aspect of the game that they like such as player authoring world...

I have been very specific in what I'm talking about. I never said a character should be able to Leroy Jenkins and survive every...

What am I avoiding? I just made what I think is an obvious statement. If no one can survive being in the front line, no one will want...

One of the reasons I run the games the way I do is so that the players don't feel like they're being railroaded. I resolve each action...

Again ... if no one is in the front line everyone is in the front line. If you want a game where some characters can put themselves in...

But how about people that want absolute power over a fiction? What about people that want someone else to have absolute power over a...

Fair enough. I have explained more than once in this eternal thread that I don't desire player collaboration in worldbuilding in games...

You were the one who responded that "There are other ways to resolve conflict than hitting it over the head repeatedly." In D&D, that...

There are times, especially at higher levels with a life domain cleric, that the healing mid-combat can make sense. But sometimes...

This has been my experience with 5e. Healing mid combat is at best a neutral type of action because of the likelihood that the creature...