Recent content by Gammadoodler

I'm assuming this is a joke? Spellbooks, focuses/component pouches are in the Wizard's starting equipment in the PHB. Like, yeah wizards need them, but there's no reliance on the DM for these..

Sometimes the explanations matter; sometimes they don't, for me, personally. But the explanation (if it matters to me) exists because the fun different thing exists. And the fun different thing exists, because it's a fun different thing.

Then I think we're not as far apart as your impassable divide post would suggest. We also think having that fantasy stuff is fun. And I, personally, very much enjoy thinking through the logic for how such things might exist and what implications may follow. Which is exactly why I don't want the...

Ok. And is part of the 'fun' imagining and exploring differences that are fantastical in nature?

Dude.."any fantasy property".. seriously? The white walkers in Game of Thrones...only rule I can recall is vulnerability to dragon glass.. no discussion I recall of who they are, why they exist, how they work, or what they want. Similar deal with the R'hollor. And the faceless men. Why do the...

This is exactly the point I was making. The Fighter's worst case is misery because without the equipment support they are missing critical functionality. The Wizard's worst case is boredom with their equipment. Their critical functionality is covered by spellcasting..but the supplements are...

What I ultimately would like to see is parity in the level of control the player has in how they increase in overall power. If it's "trust the DM to manage it", then let's do that. If it's "let the rulebook lead the way", then let's do that. But whichever way we go, let's do it the same for...

That would be more persuasive if half of the existing rules content weren't made up of spells that do exactly that .

Agreed. Haven't argued for limitations on magic equipment, just that 5e doesn't have good support for when or how a PC should get it or what they should get. Thus magic items aren't bad, but class resources are better.

It's less "magic items are bad" and more "class resources are better".

The parts of fantasy that make it fantasy are the 'cool' parts. If you want "coherent" grounded worldbuilding, you don't need elves or dragons or magic swords or rings of power or undead gods or white walkers, skinchangers, demigods, enchanted woods, sorcerer kings, talking trees or any of the...

Maybe you can help me understand what benefit you are getting out of employing fantasy as your chosen genre to roleplay in then? Because near as I can tell..if "Rule of cool" were a genre, fantasy would be that genre.

And here we circle back again to perspective. I don't think we need to coach players to recognize that certain abilities are beyond what can occur in the real world. Those players live in the real world their entire lives and should be pretty familiar with its limitations by the time they get...

I can get behind labeling for mechanical clarity generally. For 5e, specifically, I don't think there are enough mechanical elements that would interact with the jargon you are asking for to make it worthwhile. I think it is fully limited to anti-magic. And I think we could just fix the...

Is this..back-handed reconciliation? Ok. No middle ground between One Piece as a touchstone..and Game of Thrones as a touchstone. Ok. I guess we just...throw out..all the fantasy, myths, legends, comics, anime, etc. that live between these two very different bits of fantasy literature. Wild.