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Usually level 1 just to give the players a session or two to figure out their characters, but also because sometimes depending on the size of the group I will start the PCs in smaller groups in different sessions to give them more time to have personal playtime at the start, before them all...

Yeah, well interacting with the public over social media is probably like pregnancy... you forgot how much pain you were in before when you find yourself going through it again after swearing you never would. ;)

In addition... with a 4 PC group, an attack that begins with going after the healer full force will be a much harder and probably deadlier fight than one where the monster and tank square off (and the healer can remain upright to cast healing spells as needed.)

The new staff probably haven't been burned yet by the general public's insatiable need to be jerks to them on social media when they don't get their way, like the previous staff regime had been. ;) Give it time. They will go radio-silent on all things D&D soon enough, LOL!

'Compatible' is not a synonym of 'balanced'.

Yeah, the issues being some people not getting WotC to do things the way they want them to be. ;) That's the most important thing for most of the player base, LOL.

Nope, it's just the same old same old we've seen here for decades. Just pointing it out doesn't make one "excited"... it makes them "observant".

Some folks kept calling the game 5.5, even though the publishers at the time said it was just 5E. But they didn't care if it was "wrong" and did it anyway. Now that they aren't "wrong" anymore... I do hope they are fully prepared for a bunch of people to STILL continue to call it 5E or 5E 2024...

Only thing worse is when all the constrictor Wizard familiars organize to form the Union Of The Snake, as Duran Duran warned us about.

Wouldn't be surprised if he's taking on more of the responsibilities that James Introcaso had been in charge of before moving off of Draw Steel! and over to Crows.

The big thing to remember though is when you see your Mount using their short rest to read... you know something bad is probably going down. ;)

It takes a play perspective, which applies to both the DM and the players. If the DM has an alternate rule they are wondering about, the players are going to be the ones who will be engaging with it. So my post was to give a potential player perspective of how that rule would be engaged with...

:rolleyes: I have an idea... rather than argue the semantics, why not argue the actual point?

I would imagine how useful the ability is would be dependent on the type of DM they have and whether those DMs tend to attack downed PCs? If you have a DM who usually doesn't attack downed PCs, then having those death saves available allows the PC to have a longer survival time lying...

It at least makes a little more sense why the DDB folks would call it 5.5, even though the book developers never did... because decimal advancement is standard for computer programs with new builds. So for the computer folks programming DDB... the .5 is typical nomenclature for them and thus...