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Personally I think the idea that leaving it up to the DM to adjudicate whether it's possible or not is the right approach. There's just to many edge/corner cases for the rules to handle well. The big failing is that the DMG should have spent a few pages going over if not how to make those...

Survival makes the most sense, but honestly I'd suggest just asking the players to justify whatever skill they want to use. For example, both Survival and Nature can be used to find a spot where fishing checks will be done at advantage or have a lower DC. Let the players decide the approach and...

But then how do you define LoS? There will be situations where you have LoS to someone but still not see them because they've camouflaged themselves well, or because only a small portion is visible, etc...

Maybe tailing someone was a bad example because there's two components, you seeing where they are so that you can follow them and not lose them, and remaining unnoticed yourself. I was talking more the second part. But the broader point is that not all stealth tasks are the same difficulty...

To clarify, the rules as they are means yes it's opposed Stealth vs Perception, my preference in how the rules should have been is that the DM takes the situation and comes up with a DC same as other skill checks. Look at the situation and make a call on how easy/hard the task is which gives you...

Not at all, it's almost always opposed by perception, either with an opposed roll or using the passive score. So the DC of stealth is 100% dependent upon the creature you are trying to hide from and 0% on the "task" at hand. And although a creature's perceptiveness certainly should have an...

My feeling is that the default mode should be the same as any other skill check, the DM considers what is being attempted and comes up with a DC.

Which is ironic because I think they intentionally made the stealth rules vague and reliant DM discretion to try and avoid exactly that kind of rules lawyering. Big fail on their part.

Why not just go with spell points and adjust the total number of spell points to fit the power curve you want? Having and then losing a bunch of spell slots doesn't seem like it would ever be popular, at least with SP it's a choice.

Seems fairly normal to me that not everything is going to be geared towards people who are brand new. When making something like a DMG you will naturally want stuff in it that is useful for every DM experience level.

I don't believe they were intended to be run by a new brand new GM, that's what the starter set type stuff is for. My understanding is these are meant to show off the procedure that was presented early in the chapter about how to turn an idea into an adventure. So they serve as examples of what...

Can't give you much info on the lore, but as a topic it reminds me of something an author's talked about, they were writing a book series set during a war and initially thought that enemy army would provide plenty of enemies for the hero to face off against. But as they were writing the books...

Worth noting that for spread out enemies CO is probably going to be able to get more targets then fireball will. Being able to jump 30ft after every target could mean that the 1st and 4th target are 90ft away from each other as an example. We would probably have to see how often those...

I haven't started running games with the '24 ruleset yet so can't say much about how it's doing in actual play. In theory crafting Fireball will probably always outperform in a generic white room, but ironically there seems to be a lot more optimization potential for CO and so I do expect it to...

I think it's a successor in how players are expected to approach playing the game moreso then the mechanics being very similar. With 3e things often felt constrained where if you wanted to do something you could only do it if you had the specific feat/ability that allowed you to do it, or had...

For me Limbo is chaos for chaos sake, whereas the Far Realms isn't chaotic, it's just so foreign/alien that it appears like chaos. For example, say you are organizing a bookshelf, in our world we would organize it alphabetically by author's last name. Limbo would just be completely random and...