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I can't speak to Beowulf, but if you take the Pen Fight from Bourne Identity, the following actions occur which have no D&D equivalent: Grapples a weapon / limb to prevent the use of that weapon Damages the opponent while disarming them Puts the opponent into a chokehold, depriving them of...

A Lich or Sphynx isn't casting more than one spell per turn. Certainly if that's the BBEG then it's better to keep Counterspell in the pocket (which also requires being within 60 feet) in most circumstances. However, that calculation changes if someone else has counterspell, or they've already...

I don't think the same house rules would be appropriate or welcome for all tables, and would actively detract in many instances. I played in a naval based campaign set inside an archipelago where the DM had Pages of rules for the management and operation of ships and ship fleets, allowing us to...

IMHO it's because Skills are a means to solve problems. The more skills, and the better you are at them, the more well equipped you are to handle a variety of problems. Now, certainly it's possible to be skilled in things and have them literally never come up. Or, like 3.5, you could have...

Tier I they are. I think that's a fair assessment and objectively true. Not enough resources to handle both out of combat and in-combat situations with full efficacy and combat is "swingy" enough for them to go down pretty quick. Mind you, they're MILES better than in 2e, AD&D, or 3/3.5 in...

Yeah I doubt it is. After all, you're ascribing negative intent to folks describing situations and instead inferring that they are describing people. So yeah, it does not seem that a good faith discussion can be had here. The fundamental idea that it is describing a style of play, rather than...

Just want to point out a few things: Focusing on damage dealt ignores that most spells are "Save or Suck" in nature, and that successfully landing a Polymorph on the Big Bad is fundamentally transformative to the combat in a way which is not replicable otherwise. Regardless of relative success...

Right, I freely acknowledge it conveys a negative connotation. FWIW I personally would not get the presented connotation from "Mindless Button Pushing", though I recognize what you're getting at. To me that would moreso imply spamming the same action repeatedly, and absent other context I...

Only really addressing the point in bold, but I just want to point out - as someone with Zero familiarity with the term, from the term "Mother May I" I could instantly tell: - It dealt with needing 'permission' to do things. - Within the context of a D&D forum, it almost certainly referred to...

Right, but as outlined in the very next paragraph, a small chance of it coming up in an individual circumstance rapidly becomes a large chance of it coming up during a large encounter. The more difficult the encounter, the longer it is likely to take, and the more saves you'll likely be forcing...

Reducing the chance of a negative outcome from 20% to 4% may only be a "16% chance it actually made a difference", but it's also an 80% reduction in the rate of undesirable outcomes, and of the total 84% of situations in which it "didn't make a difference", you were not using it, and expended no...

In what way? If cast when an enemy has a 80% chance of failing a save, but made the save in question, it has a 80% chance of success. You only choose to use it once you're already in the situation where they made the save. What specific misunderstanding do you feel people have regarding the...

ECM I'm not quoting your post, it's too long, but you have multiple logical fallacies contained therein. First, you assume spending more spell slots on it is desirable. Spending fewer spell slots on it is more spell slots available for other things. It's like "Counterspell", you don't -want-...

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Garthanos and FireLance, I encourage you to playtest those proposed systems with a group. I can virtually guarantee that by the 3rd combat in which it is playtested, no one will do any of the maneuvers without prompting. Tripping someone, disarming them, shoving them around, all of those are...

This is a perfect representation of the problem with the system as it stands. Here's how that goes all too often, unfortunately: The Giant is slowed, so he doesn't get a reaction until his turn, folks have advantage on melee attacks since he's prone, and his AC is -2, but that only impacts...

Fearne in Critical Role's current campaign is effectively a Kender which isn't annoying. The player manages it by only stealing "tchotchkes"(sp?) from other players, meaning items of low value and significance. She regularly takes stuff from NPCs, but often gets away with it, plays it off well...

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Not long ago at all during a session I was playing in, we were staking out somewhere and were hiding in an alley. A NPC who was with us rolled a 1 on their stealth, and the DM indicated they were 'relieving themselves' on the wall of the building as some guards came by. With few options...

Entirely agreed, in that it being in the DMG is the same as the option not existing, I can't begin to tell you how many times I've seen disarm attempts auto-fail unless being performed by a battlemaster. I also agree they should be in the PHB as 'Combat Maneuvers', and there should be a section...