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I am against using skill-enhanced ability checks for combat accuracy, whether for flat DCs, or opposed checks. Ability checks can reach the DC 30s and 40s, which is wildly outside the scope of bounded accuracy for combat accuracy.

I think they are differently complicated, and they could be a boon to certain types of players that learn, or visualize, or math differently. My relative who is more into board games is now more interested in playing D&D for the first time. The single character sheet with only writing and math...

Isn't this a little much? A Role-Playing Game does not need to look like D&D to be a RPG. Whether you use minis and a grid, theater of the mind, or a screen, or use dice, or cards, or digital RNGs or other resolution mechanics, if you are playing a character where you get to role-play their...

Are you thinking of an actual rapier, or of a fencing foil? I used to think that foils were rapiers. Thinking further, even just thinking of size/scope, most weapons sized for Medium creatures, seem unsuitable to harm a Gargantuan dragon. Can a dagger even get through the subcutaneous layer of...

The DMG has the optional rule (Variant: Training to Gain Levels), where the PCs have to spend time and money to level up. I am using that rule in my current campaign. I am also using downtime and bastions to slow things down. The PCs started at level 3, and it has been 7 months of in-game time...

I already have a narrative challenge with players reaching high levels in short periods of game time. "Listen here, fledgling 'heroes'! I am a mighty dragon who has spent decades building my power and influence, and putting my plans into motion. You will never stop me! Leave me, and don't come...

The right people online at the right time, to engage in an online debate with passion and verve. I mean, your words caught my eye more than anyone else's. Now you have some attention on a forum. It's a double-edged sword.

I'm not calling you out, just taking a guess why you are getting the reactions you're getting. You've made some extreme statements about what should be allowed in a game where the primary conflict resolution is unaliving things. Are your words being construed as accusing others as engaging in...

First, Dark Sun is a mature setting. It's sword and sorcery and it breeds anti-heroes who have to kill to survive. If a Templar becomes an ex-Templar, they did so for a reason. They broke ties with their tyrant, and got to keep the powers. If they are intimately familiar with the nature of the...

I mentioned in another thread that I really want a good houndfolk species to use, but I'm posting here to not derail that thread. Anyone have any 3rd party suggestions that I can actually review before buying? As for what I don't want, I'm not looking for a species that is tied to wolves...

I want a real effort toward a quality houndfolk species that does not have inherent magic like the Humblefolk species, has some variants, and isn't a shapeshifter (Reskinning a shifter doesn't work for me as the shifting mechanics take up too much design space.) Shifter is close to what I want...

I've seen a fan create a Faerun globe map that planted the Radiant citadel locations in the unexplored continents like Osse and Katashaka and the many islands in those regions. I liked that. If Wizards designs mini-settings I find interesting, like many of the Radiant Citadel locations, I like...

And Carlos the Dwarf.

I have a fondness for the old Keep on the Borderlands. One of my earliest D&D experiences in the early 80s was being a 4th grader watching 5th graders play this in the school library, and it was fascinating. The stirges were deadly, and the Mound of the Lizard Men was like a beaver dam with an...

This is all speculation... They never said they were going to stop playing D&D, or that they didn't like D&D. They did say they wanted to play more games, and that is not the same thing as leaving D&D. Playing other games won't hurt Daggerheart, as they already have other actual plays of that...