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The trigger is "When you hit a creature", so yes, by default

5e Battlemaster - Menacing Attack. To a lesser extent Goading Attack

I'm not sure that follows, all it needs is for the railroading to be being done by an entity in the game world. A high level caster placing a compulsion on a character party (Geas is the typical example) is a fairly classic railroading technique and one that may align entirely with established...

If I'm designing a new game or indeed just a mod map for Oblivion, I'll want to consider the first case - control systems are important in ensuring the game in enjoyable. The limitations of staring at a screen compared to actually existing in a world will also inform how I need to present the...

Coming off watching a bunch of Poriot recently, in a Christie style mystery there often isn't a clear deductive through line to a single culprit, at least until the very end. There's often a lot of inference and circumstantial evidence that points towards multiple possible suspects and we often...

Not so much in D&D (outside of Paladin falling) but in White Wolf derived systems there's often a judgement - Virtue rolls to take a certain action in Exalted, Humanity damage in Vampire and so on. Implicit in this is the DM judging your character shouldn't do that based on backstory or stats...

I think the idea is that as written, the enemy needs to take the search action to find the character and beat their Dex (Stealth) score to find them. Looking behind a rock is a sensible narration of that check, though it might fail - failure might be narrated something like this scene from Two...

If I'm understanding @Charlaquin correctly here, the problem is basically that the abracadabra spell provides a list of conditions that end the Purple condition and the Purple condition has limitations on the benefits of the condition depending on whether the Purple creature can be "somehow...

7% increase from how much change in body mass? From the art you'd be expecting something like a gorilla in power for the half-orc compared to a child for the gnome, but the actual difference is pretty slim in any edition. Stats have pretty much always been pretty heavily abstracted

I think it was the conflict between the characterisation to date and the desire to win the encounter - was I projecting my (as a player) desire for "winning" over the personality of the character, or was I roleplaying the character's development of attachment to their comrades? Would I have made...

To give an example from a fairly recent game - it was a Ravnica based game and I was playing a law abiding Azorius functionary. As part of the characterisation, I decided to try and sure that the party didn't kill any citizens. I'd taken Spare the Dying as a cantrip and was delivering it by...

For what it's worth, I largely had this happen in a 4e game - I was playing the Warlord who was butting heads with another character. Depending on how the relationship was going we were using the definition of Ally to alter whether or not the rival character (and others, from time to time)...

After having a game fail fairly recently due to DM burnout, I've got a slightly different perspective on this. It was set in Ravnica, so a fairly open setting regarding character options, but even so everyone worked closely with the DM regarding their characters and ensured they were well...

I don't think I'd agree - you dispatch the orcs and need to climb a cliff before the goblins show up. When does the encounter end? Do you take a penalty to your climb rolls from fatigue? 3.5 has no answer. You rage once in the morning and spend a few hours in relaxation, you still can't rage...

Ironically enough, 3.5 Barbarian rage actually does have this ambiguity, as it references "the current encounter" to determine fatigue duration and when it can be activated, this is something that 4e actually cleared up and made less gamey