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HHalifax Brent reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with
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Lmao why is it harder to restrain someone with manacles - tools designed specifically and exclusively to restrain people with? -
HHalifax Brent reacted to UngeheuerLich's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with Like.
Perception to spot tracks is totally ok. But following tracks is something totally different.
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with Like.
I do think it is significant that the official sheets have a dedicated spot for Passive Perception...no need to quickly access Passive...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with Like.
Tracking is highly DM dependent. I recall there being a (semi-facetious) saying that tracking never works except when the DM wants you...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Rank 5e skills from most useful (1) to least useful (18) with Like.
Sometimes I allow either but its DC10 survival vs 15 perception.
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Bae'zel's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with Like.
Great post. I’m in the category of DMs who say things like “any PCs here who has proficiency in skill x immediately know or notice y”...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Maxperson's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with Like.
Yeah. I gate by proficiency quite often.
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with Like.
Very good thoughts and advice overall, but zooming in on this...gating checks by Proficiency is a thing in 5E, a DM tool, that can allow...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Snarf Zagyg's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen: Snarf's Guide to Using (and adjudicating) Skills in 5e with Like.
I haven't posted an essay in a while (I've been writing a lot recently, but, you know ... stuff I have to do), but two recent threads...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Well, Training For Maximum Speed Takes Patience And Recovery suggests that three sixty-meter sprints (which take less than 10 seconds...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to The Sigil's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
Sounds like you are reading the list as follows: "Interrupted by a period of strenuous activity - at least 1 hour of walking fighting...
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HHalifax Brent reacted to Parmandur's post in the thread D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily with Like.
There is admittedly some contraversy about the usage of commas in regards to Long Rest rules in 2014...but the more clear reading is...
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HWell I went ahead and turned this into a full campaign frame (yes Daggerheart just has me doing this by default now). None of us are FR...
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HI think this is important also on a larger scale: The entire montage alongside all the complications presented should be clearly framed...
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HOne thing I think would help in montages is to not describe failed checks as hard failures. For example, one of the steps in a...