Recent content by DracoSuave

You're really underestimating that feat. Being able to start with one is huge--that feat is usually comparable to an entire suite of racial powers, and most of them come with an additional attribute which means the variant human can start with +2 on the stat of their choice, +1 on another good...

like being in westeros

not always four different people

My argument wasn't whether it was boring [tho I found it such]. My argument was due to the lack of agency. With your cleric example, there IS meaningful choice in casting those healing spells. Any time a slot is used to heal it's a slot that is not used to cast auguries, purge poisons, bless...

Actually what they're doing is maintaining the hype on the core products so that the core products remain strong. PHBs are supposed to be the big seller, with DMG and MM behind it. Those sales are the healthiest for the game. So the game is set up so that as a player, you can just buy the PHB...

I challenge that assertion, actually. Agency requires meaningful decisions, and if a tactic is always optimal in every situation, such that you'd be a fool not to, you're not making a choice by doing that tactic. Back in 1st edition, I found thieves to be the most dull class, because you...

If their passive perception is equal to the DC, then you have a skill that has more than a 50% chance to succeed, so unless there are other circumstances such as kobolds shooting them in the kidneys or their cleric-statue being moved on from by a satisfied looking medusa. there's not really a...

Passive perception is for when the party isn't taking action. They're simply setting a bar for some other agent to take an action against. "Depriving players of a roll" isn't a bad thing. So what? Player's shouldn't get to or HAVE to roll everything. The basic assumption with skills is...

I know right? I just don't grok the kinds of people that are told 'This is how we're doing things now', see evidence that things are being done that way, and conclude that it wasn't planned and that there's something nefarious or unexpected in the background. Then they contrive all sorts of...

They said they didn't want to glut the market with splatbooks for the health of the system. They haven't announced a large number of splatbooks. I'm left wondering what the big mystery is here, cause most of us should have expected it to be this way. I for one will choose not to panic...

Your reason for untying magic from Intelligence isn't sound--it's only a spellcasting stat for Wizards, EKs, and ATs. Everyone else uses something different. Your solution is to make all magic one stat--which causes the problem you state. That means that Thaumaturgy would be the primary stat...

1--I don't think there was as much resistance to interrupts as you think. I don't know of many people that were opposed to it at all. A loud minority doth not a hue and cry make. 2--I don't think they tried very hard to avoid it at all. Shield is the version from 4e that interrupts and...

It doesn't bother me, because I don't assume that attack hit. Here's how -I- justify it in fiction. "The kobold attacks you, you barely catch it out of the corner of your eye. Does a 16 hit?" Notice: The success or failure has yet to be determined at this point. We know it will PROBABLY...

1-- Unarmed Strike IS considered a weapon under the rules. 2-- Monks do not get some other attack that isn't unarmed strike. 3-- What monks get is the ability to replace the damage of unarmed strike with a different die of damage. It's still an unarmed strike. Therefore, monks' punching is a...

The part you bolded doesn't actually address what I said. This is a tautology--because Bardic Inspiration and abilities like it exist, it is not possible to say that by announcing a total you've determined success or failure of a roll--other abilities can kick in and change that. So...