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Well, this is where success and failure without a roll comes into play. DM discretion is baked into the mechanics, so the mechanics...

Exactly!

Sure. That what the dice are for, right? Those times that neither success nor failure are a foregone conclusion.

I prefer to run warlock patrons as working like actual patronage does. A patron gives money to an artist to enable them to keep making...

Well, that’s the “DM acts” part of the equation, in my view. It is part of the DM’s role to make sense of the results the game rules...

Yeah, TSR D&D did have a lot of bespoke resolution mechanics for very specific tasks, in which ability scores played no role. I mean...

I expect there will be stuff to steal for my voracious houserule doc in any event.

I think the most important thing for a GM to do with regards to NPCs -- no matter whether they prefer the roleplay approach or the...

Im an "NPCs should work like PCs" weirdo, but I get what you are saying. My issue is folks thinking they can stack the deck and just...

The 1e bard feels like a prototype for 3.Xe’s prestige classes, though obviously it wasn’t. Maybe the 3e designers took some inspiration...

Interesting! A 5e clone made by the guy who lead the design on original 5e has a lot of potential, especially considering that D&D Next...

problem is that Reach weapons were "simplified" from 3rd Ed. Why? because WotC thinks we are dumb, obviously. Hehe. When you had 10ft...

Fundamentally, I think that it should be possible to succeed and fail in social challenges without a roll, just as it’s possible to do...

this is what bothers me so much when people try to eliminate using social skills/checks in the game and just determine success/failure...

Yeah, that’s a perspective I have come across, but I think it’s rather different than “character statistics shouldn’t play any role in...