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It means nothing. Labels are for chumps. I won't be pigeon holed in your straitjacket terminology, man.

Since it's not a variant rule, or one to be used at the DMs discretion, the question really should be "Do you disallow use of the custom backgrounds?" That's probably splitting hairs though, especially since there are plenty of people who will take the stance that everything is at the DMs...

Where does it say that? It says dropping to zero hit points does not make them fall unconscious, it says nothing about being immune to the unconscious condition. Unless I'm missing something somewhere?

A Zealot operating at zero hit points and three failed death saves can be instantly killed with a level one sleep spell with no save allowed, so no, it's not an especially overpowered feature. It's cool, thematic, and useful, but not overpowered.

Maybe I missed it... that opening post was beastly afterall, I wholeheartedly recommend paragraphs moving forward... but did someone steal your Third Edition books? Were you sitting down to a nice game of Third and the Wizards of the Coast Sekret Polize broke down the door and gave you a...

Yes. Always. Unless the enemy caster is a sorcerer using subtle spell. I don't need my players pissing away their resources while I try to play "gotcha". Well, that's how I run it.

Depends on the style of the game, so this is a session zero thing for me. If the players are cool with their character potentially dropping the ball no matter how skilled they might be at a given task or have a chance to luck into a glorious success no matter how otherwise inept, then we'll use...

Saw a thread like this some time ago, something about the Bladesinger being overpowered because of the high armor class on a full caster. I felt it was nonsense then, my opinion hasn't changed. High armor class isn't an issue, do something other than target their AC, problem solved. And they're...

It's not your players responsibility to be invested in your world as much as you are. Expecting them to be is probably one of worst mistakes a DM can make. Crafting detailed worlds and letting our imaginations run amok is one of the greatest parts of being a DM. You get to breathe life into...

1) Don't dump your strength or dexterity. 2) Play a Rogue. 3) Take expertise in Athletics and Acrobatics. 4) Take the Thief archetype at 3rd level. 5) This one is optional, take the Entertainer background and call yourself an Acrobat. Now your a Thief-Acrobat? Or are you an Acrobat-Thief...

What player behavior annoys me the most? That's a tough one. If I had to pick, gun to my head... When they forget the beer. My players are people I've known for a long time, some of them a very long time. I don't have to put up with nonsense anymore. It's a great thing. Anyway, I just kind of...

I feel like this is going to promote level-dipping, particularly in Fighter and Barbarian, and create dead levels where the character gets no benefits. But that's just with a cursory examination. Unlike some others, I feel that multiclassing as it currently stands has it's pros and cons and is...

I still feel this is a matter of format and not of content. I've been playing video games a lot longer than I've been playing D&D and it's a hobby that has been seeing the same games released across multiple platforms for a long time now. If I buy a game for my console, I don't expect to get it...

If I were inclined to make any changes, these are what come to mind at the moment: 1) Stop beating around the bush and just make Eldritch Blast a class feature while allowing Warlocks to select the same number of cantrips from a larger pool. This helps add more at-will magic to the class and...

They won't have to respond to your post... I will. Who exactly appointed you thread police? Why is it you've taken so much interest in a couple of people asking the OP for some more information? The thread seemed to be cruising right along until you decided badger a couple of posters who had the...

I'd be more willing to take the question seriously if two things were true: Firstly, that it actually be asked as a simple question, like the OP was implying it was meant to be, rather than the needlessly antagonistic "why is this so bad?" If it was supposed to be a simple question, no need to...

It's almost like you only get access to Basic Rules content for free, but have to pay for access to the rest of the system. If only they'd been saying that for months in these discussions you've supposedly been following. Oh... wait... ... Anyway, say what you will about the pricing. Some...

Extremist view points full of vitriol are just as ugly coming from one camp as they are from another. Perhaps next time maybe just live and let live if you can't make a point without deriding others in the process. These kinds of comments do just as much harm to diversity in the game as the...

Infinite possibilities. Never how I thought of it before, but I like it. It's the infinite possibilities that make this game so great. And no, I'm not talking strictly about races and classes as the OP is, though I'll get to that, I mean the infinite possibilities and diversity just in one...

So I like the Mystic. I even like the way they've tried to make the class modular so that is more "build your own" class rather than something as linear as another class. That said, I get why people either don't like that design or more importantly don't like psionics in their game at all...