Recent content by ECMO3

I agree with this generally, but I usually find other ways to mitigate comparatively low hit points. First, I don't play with really bad hit points, I am not dumping CON below 10 unless I am also getting tough or tough+Dwarf. If I am running a 10 usually I am either using tactics to keep from...

Exactly, This is really the perfect analogy! I ride buses and I cross the street with buses, I drive on roads with busses and when I was deployed overseas I actually drove a bus myself. We live in a world with busses, those busses sometimes are in accidents, but most peoples lives are not...

I'll take your word for it. I don't think I have ever seen a PC start with a 20 Constitution in 5E. I've seen them start with an 18 using non-RAW methods of rolling that don't allow you to move abilities, but usually they are putting bonuses elsewhere and putting their best score elsewhere...

I agree and I feel that is exactly what is happening with respect to my experiences and the opinions I stated regarding them on this thread. They are being dismissed because it is not the "overwhelming tendency" and "insanely widespread evidence" shows something else while offering no actual...

Adctually I don't often read evidence of it on ENWorld. I read some people theorycrafting about it happening and a few like you saying they experienced it. But I don't often read any actual play reports (i.e. evidence) of it happening. Can you link some of these threads that appear over and...

Yeah I don't generally do that in the middle of a campaign. We decide on homebrew we are using beforehand except when extreme issues make it necessary to flex. I find this varies by group, but in some groups if you allow changes in-campaign it can go down a very bad path where they are just...

Yeah that is an option, the issue is boosting your attack stat cuts into your save DC although it is an option, Truestrike enables you to concentrate on Intelligence. It also affords both ranged and melee attacks with Warmagic. To circle back to the original start of this thread, my chagrin...

Sorry I edited it ... he is the one who chose to make it that way. The issue with "players choice" is I like to set the deviations from RAW in session 0 and don't deviate in that game unless it is really, really necessary. What would be unfair IMO is if I let this player deviate from RAW when...

As a point of fact that is NOT happening in the game I started this thread about. The PC who started with a 20 who has "overwhelmingly" high Charisma and they are not garnering all the spotlight. Further the 2nd highest rolling character isn't garnering the spotlight either (a Bard who started...

We are just going to have to disagree and the player chose to take a 20 instead of a 19 (or even lower) at 1st level. So the player chose not to be able to take a Charisma boost at level 4 when he chose to put his 18 in Charisma and put the +2 there. Also the table decided to roll ability...

I guess we just have different play experiences. I've been playing D&D since 1981 and I am currently in 4 regular weekly 5E/2024 games with 3 different groups in addition to other pick up games I play or DM occasionally and I have not experienced that. TBH I have never seen ability scores play...

I don't really see it as punishing the player, especially since he is 3 points above average already. He doesn't have to choose a Charisma boosting feat. If they rolled a 17 instead of an 18 they would have been worse off from level 1 to 3 and still been the same from level 4 to 20.

I stand corrected. I guess we saw the table and though "why would anyone ever use that".

To be clear I don't use this often any more. I only have one game I am DMing that uses this but that same group used to use it all the time in 1E (and that group went right from 1E to 5E in 2016). I've never seen a character that is weak in their proimary stats using this method. It generates...

I think I am just going to go with RAW. He can take the feat but does not get any +1.