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How often are extended competitions asked for though for most checks? I would submit rarely. A portcullis is blocking a path... the DM asks for a Strength check. The "buff superman" with the 20 STR rolls a 4 for a total of 9... and the STR 5 "weakling" rolls the 19 and gets a 16, thereby...

I'm just referring to actual strength (or any of the six scores.) Magic items or bonuses for class features or whatnot aren't a part of that. People keep saying things like having a bad score like a 6 INT means their character is a moron and that PC should be roleplayed like they are a moron...

I would submit that attack skill and raw Strength are not the same thing. When a -1 modifier Strength character can defeat a +4 modifier Strength character 1 out of every 4 rolls (give or take), I would not say one's a strongman and the other's a weakling. They both have strength. The modifier...

Reducing modifiers by a point or two doesn't really mean much when you are still adding upwards of 20 points to it via the die roll. That's the thing... A PC's Strength isn't "+3". Their Strength is actually "4-23". That is the complete range of what your Strength could be at any moment in...

Exactly. One would pay $6 to get that month's value for it. No more, no less. And nothing in the future. If one didn't want to pay the $6 for that month's usage of DDI... they could unsubscribe. Subscribing and paying $6 gave you exactly what they said it would. That month's usage of the tools.

If (general) you think they are selling you the same thing twice, just don't buy it. No one is required to buy every product.

Yeah, like when the producers of Mythbusters brought in the Build Team of Tory, Kari, and Scottie to work on additional myths on top of what Jamie and Adam were doing so that they could produce more episodes faster. If Hasbro/WotC want more books of all types on DDB, having a person dedicated...

Fair point, and I would imagine it comes down to every DM's definition of terms. Can a lich be good? Depends on whether the DM's world defines what a "lich" is as strictly evil, or variable. I know for me, I wouldn't call a undead spellcaster that was created by positive energy or who has a...

That is a very good way to think about it! I would also add that there's another way one could look at it, which is that one's morality doesn't change as you get "better" at a thing, but rather that your morality has been set by just doing a thing at all in the first place. If you as a PC make...

If players want to snipe their enemies from long range... that tells me what kind of character stories they are interested in. Thus I will create scenarios and situations that lean towards what they are interested in, rather than force them to engage in melee combat just because that is what I...

Correction... I think getting into an argument about WHICH edition is most like 5E is silly... especially when it continues after each of you have already given your opinion the first time. Because after that, it becomes about "who is right"... which is unanswerable when it comes down to...

I respond because I enjoy discussion and argument about things I think are worth discussing and arguing about. And if it's not I usually do just let it go as you say. But when the argument seems especially egregious I occasionally will point it out to those people. Like when the "min-max...

I guess my query is more about why any of (general) you are actually arguing about it? All this 'Nuh uh!' 'Yeah uh!' '2 is like 5!' 'No, 3 is like 5!' 'You're wrong!' 'No, YOU'RE wrong!' silliness. It's all D&D.

Could it perhaps be that EVERY edition and version of D&D feels like every other edition and version of D&D... because they all have the same tropes, foci, jargon and essence that makes D&D D&D? So while each person may try and draw lines between them to suggest this one is closer to that one...

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