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That a 3.xism: combatants were flat footed until their initiative came up.

That is the rule in revised 5e: you regain all your HP and HD on a long rest.

Don't worry, Larian made the same mistake...

And D&D has had push factors since 1st edition (since the original creator was a classic jerk DM). A lot of the changes in 5e have been...

Which is a good reason to limit viking hat GMs IMHO...

Look at the Stanford Prison Experiment or the Milgram Experiment. No amount of rules restrictions will make a jerk into a non-jerk, but...

Not quite. The intent was to provide small ongoing support. Two books or so per year. Out of the Abyss and Princes of the Apocalypse...

A lot more threads about 6e and the state of WotC. Like, a lot a lot.

The think about most jerk DMs is they believe they are not jerk DMs.

But it can not enable them. If the DM wants to set up the paladin in the Kobayashi Maru to strip him of his paladinhood, he can do so...

Eh... I think it was better at giving cover to the impulses a DM may already have rather than implant the desire in the first place...

In my experience the biggest problem with the classic Paladin rules was that they told uncertain and new DMs to do bad things. Not to...

Before I tell you how I do it, I'm going to tell you why. I hate imbalance between character options. Some characters having...

In my experience, DMs like to hide behind passive aggressive rules like losing your abilities if you roleplay wrong so they can shift...

The thing about BG3 is it has examples of both ways of doing it. If you want the story to involve conflict with a patron you can play as...