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While being in just as much danger as the person you're healing, if not more? Knowing that nobody has any ability to protect you from...

For our convenience, of course.

Don't forget the mutant white dragon...

Because we actually want people to play medics?

Man I hope the average 0-level character doesn't have more hit points than a 1st-level Wizard. That's just embarrassing.

Huh... I could have sworn it was just a standard d8 HD for normal 2E humans. Maybe there were different stat blocks for different...

I'm a heretic. I'd rather have AC be a function of your class and not even have armor rules. I mean, how many fictional heroes (the...

Yeah, but then every support class that heals has to be highly mobile to get close enough to heal and tanky enough to survive inevitably...

Honestly, the idea that someone with 10 Str and 20 Dex is an ideal archer bugs me. I know why the concept has been streamlined. I...

I have no idea how many bad DM's there are out there. I might be a statistical outlier because I've met far more bad to mediocre DM's...

Well yeah, but the analogy breaks down- we don't even have public phones anymore!

I wouldn't mind that either. But that's not how the game is really built. Most of the classes that get good "I don't take damage at...

When people bring up Tolkien as an example of what fantasy they feel D&D should emulate, don't forget that at some point, even the...

This was actually a big problem starting in at least 3E. "Back to the Dungeon" is what 3E was billed on. If you look not too closely at...

@Pamphylian I think you’ve put your finger on a real throughline in D&D design, not just a quirk of 5e. From the very beginning, the...