Recent content by Charlaquin

It shouldn’t, but yet it still does happen every time 4e comes up, despite how long it has been.

Care to place your bets on how long before this thread devolves into edition warring?

I wouldn’t say it’s a stretch, due to “specific beats general.” There’s a general rule about how much weight you can lift and how much you can push, pull, or drag. Then there’s a more specific rule about moving grappled creatures, which doesn’t care about their weight. Again, I think applying...

You do normally have to, yes. The Grappled Condition states “The grappler can drag or carry you when it moves, but every foot of movement costs it 1 extra foot unless you are Tiny or two or more sizes smaller than it.” The grappler feat would make it so every foot costs the normal amount of...

Huh. Somehow I completely missed this interaction and the apparent discourse around it. I think it’s very obvious that the designers did not intend for the lift/pull/drag rules to apply to grappling creatures, I have to admit it does make logical sense from a “simulationist” perspective, and...

Hey, welcome to the forum! It might be relevant for you to know that the post you’re replying to was made 10 years ago.

So? If it takes 20 surveys it takes 20 surveys. If it takes 100, it takes 100. It’s not like there’s anything stopping them from giving g it as many passes as they need. Except, you know, the guy who said “stop doing that and use Unearthed Arcana to advertise our next big book of subclasses...

No, but they do tell the designers, “stop using Unearthed Arcana to test meaningful new rules changes. From now on, it’s just a way to build hype for the next ‘of everything’ book.” The thing is, all of that could be incorporated into subclasses of a psion class and/or psionic subclasses of...

Nah, the real issue is that Hazbro suits are so out of touch they think asking the players for feedback on the direction of the game is a bad look.

I agree with your post overall, but we do have some additional context about this now. According to @mearls, the original intent for Unearthed Arcana had been to use it to live-playtest updates to the core package and patch 5e over time, so that a hypothetical future edition change would feel...

Correct; that is what “in ascending order” means. That makes it so weapons can use their damage die for their initiative die, and bigger weapons will be slower on average. The 1-12 scale also allows for some neat tricks like spells rolling 1d4 per required component, or items using 1d6 if...

With my system, each player keeps track of their own initiative. Since action “speeds” determine the die you roll and there are no modifiers to the die roll, a player can simply leave the number they rolled face-up to remind themselves of their initiative count on the next round. Then at the...

You could make it a “turns until I get to act” count instead of a “turn count I act on next round”. I don’t think it would necessarily be broken, it would just be a lot more complex, because everyone has to update their counter every single turn.

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I miss interactive metagames…

Is it? I haven’t read Daggerheart, but it works well for Dungeon World.