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You basically just proved my point. Based on your post, either your DM isn't very good, or just isn't very good at fudging, so your opinion is based solely on bad experiences. Maybe the reason you claim you have never experienced a good DM fudging is because they were so good at it . . . you...

^^^^^^ Very good discussion there and I think everyone should give it a read. Could probably just bump that thread since this one has so many tangents taking up valuable posts. I find myself in the camp of "it depends on the spell." Enchantment type spells, if they require my character to...

Thanks to everyone for the replies, it has been interesting to see the different points of view. So then my question would be, what if the DM could pull of the fudging in such a way that the PCs wouldn't ever know about it? Because for me at least, the DM retconning an entire encounter seems...

So essentially all you are as a DM is a dice roller and the voice of the NPCs? This is the problem with so many of the responses in this thread. You make it seem like it is the DM vs PCs and in order to make it 'fair' you roll in the open, so regardless of the outcome you can just throw your...

And how would we know that from reading your post? How is surrendering or fleeing a 'trick in a hat' anyway? What trick is there in throwing your hands up in the air or just turning and running? Or maybe they were just asking a simple question? Here, I will ask it again, maybe you can give a...

I completely agree. And while we are at it, I just bought all the pharmacies in your town said they wont provide medications for kids. You don't have any kids do you? Oh you do? I know it is late at night, your kid is super sick and needs this antibiotic really bad, but sorry, we don't serve...

This. I am truly baffled at the people who make it sound like cheating or that it is against the 'rules' in a sandbox world. Tabletop RPGs aren't videogames or movies or books. Unexpected things happen. Being the DM gives you both the power and responsibility to adapt to those things in order...

I think you need to focus your character more. A Lore Bard is not designed to be a front line fighter. James Bond is not a Avenging Paladin wielding a spear. Do you want to be James Bond or do you want to be Balsa? James Bond is not an unarmored fighting machine, he is a make believe...

College student posting about how drunk they got at a party last night? No. Companies making an announcement? Uh, yeah? Sony, Microsoft, CNN, ESPN, Google, Home Depot, Sears, The White House. Check em, many of their posts have links to their parent homepage for more detailed info. They just...

This. Instead of seeing the other mage as competition, see them as a kick-ass ally that together you can come up with ridiculous spell combos. All of the magic using characters in a party should be spending their downtime coming up with combos to use in different situations. Hmmm, that might...

Here's my 2 coppers... Races: Elves (all) as blue. The +2 to dex plus the elven racial abilities tie in well to the lore bard and its many skills that will be dex based. They essentially get a +1 skill with Keen Senses, cause really, most bards are going to take Perception anyway. Half-elf as...

Agreed. Still don't understand why DMs and Players don't understand or use Rule 0, then complain a game is broken. Rule 0, problem solved. Either players can't make them, increase the cost, require rare ingredients, put limits on the item, etc. 5E hasn't fixed anything, because there was no...

I have no idea what the point of this character is. Cha of 15 means your spells are less effective, not to mention you never get an 8th or 9th level spell slot, and lots of useful bard skills are Cha based, which again, is sub-par. You're dumping a bunch of points into wisdom, taking a second...

Has anyone found this wolf you keep crying about? Cause all I keep hearing from you amounts to "If A + B + C + D + E + F ... happens, then OMG!!!!1!!! broken game!" Any group of players and DM can break any game if they so chose. That proves nothing. In typical play, everything still works as...

I kind of want to play in your campaign now. I think I will be a vegan, sober, pacifist dwarven fighter who instead of fighting simply engages all of his enemies in discourse trying to get them to surrender. Never mind his wis/int/cha are all 8's and he only speaks in dwarven limericks. Sucks...

I find using feats out of the PHB works well. Someone earlier mentioned converting a fire giant into something else. Remove the fire resistance and give it a feat or two from the PHB, change appearance, bam, done. Charger, grappler, martial adept, magic initiate, mobile, savage attacker...

I want to be able to Google Maps my continent. Zoom in, zoom out, directions, find nearby, markers, etc.

Oh, nice catch and could definitely make an interesting plot hook. And even if it isn't a race to find the now mortal lich, maybe a representative of Orcus could approach the PCs with info on where the traitor might be hiding out. Although this: Might make some sort of divine intervention...

Based on reading the 5E PHB spell Clone and the MM listing for the Lich, it would seem possible for a Lich to have a clone. Key wording: "At any time after the clone matures, if the original creatures dies, its soul transfers to the clone, provided that the soul is free and willing." The...

Or wait until the Epic Level handbook comes out next year . . .