Recent content by Maxperson

Yesterday I learned that being right across from a burning semi when the gas tank explodes is a bad idea. A semi carrying Teslas caught fire and as I was passing directly buy it(two lanes over), the gas tank exploded sending a 15-20 foot diameter jet of fire about 30-40 feet up into the air at...

How would such a culture even come about, and why would the PCs be an exception to a cultural practice that widespread? It might be fun for you, but that doesn't sound like my idea of fun. :)

Oh, right. People were fighting tooth and nail for it not to be narrative and instead gamist. I didn't see @Umbran in that group, though.

There have been a lot of posts so you probably missed the scenario when it first came up. The scenario was minions attacking a town and fighting the PCs, but with a ten your old kid on a roof throwing down rocks, which is something that could easily happen in that situation. The ogre minion...

Hey! Maybe it's ten year old Thanos. :p Okay. I forgot you had altered minions that way. Others have said that the 4e ogre minion and 4e ogre are different mechanical expressions and so that's what I was thinking with my response.

Your position makes absolutely no sense. You've just claimed that if there are 10 million people in the world, over 5 million of them are PCs, because that's the only way most people could be proficient with simple weapons and only be talking about PCs. Thankfully, you're wrong with your...

If they're different mechanical representations of the same creature, then it's broken. A ten year old with a rock will kill the minion in 1 round 5% of the time, but has no chance against the ogre with 111 hit points. 5% of the time the ten year old dies to an ogre with 110 hit points. That's...

Because you aren't understanding. The PHB is NOT talking about PCs. It's talking about the entire game, which is why the DMG says the PHB contains the rules to play the ENTIRE GAME. You keep trying to make this about PCs and nowhere does it limit the PHB to PCs. If you option the 5.5e rules...

It would take me very little time to become proficient with a crossbow. A farmer who was handed a crossbow for the militia would have received the minimal training necessary to be proficient.

Meaningless. A stat block is not RAW. It's a stat block. RAW is the part at the beginning of the MM that lets them have any proficiency I want, and the PHB which explicitly says commoners use simple weapons. Your tunnel vision is pretty amazing given that I've shown you the rule in the PHB...

I could load a crossbow and I haven't been trained. I could see a commoner not knowing a quarterstaff perhaps, but in a dangerous world, even farmers are going to train to defend themselves.

I don't. The dragon is the quintessential D&D monster and I want it to be a terrifying experience for PCs, who will dwarf every farmer out there but the very rare 14th level fighter(or whatever class) who retired to be a farmer. An upset is okay with me, but it needs to be an upset of PCs/NPCs...