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If you want them to fight, they need to be tougher. D&D is an action RPG. 80% of the rules are in support of combat. Of course there are RPGs with "weak" characters who can be easily killed like us mere mortals. But these are not D&D.

The players decide what their character is doing. The DM and the game mechanics decide what the rest is doing in reaction to Player Characters Actions. Having a mechanic that makes certain that a player can get always the same reaction from NPCs breaks that. I'm not saying that their couldn't...

So, because I hurt my shoulder and am in pain I read the whole thread as a distraction and it worked ... because greater pain can overshadow weaker pain. Boy, does this discussion goes in circles. First - Supernatural Fighters. So - are fighters in D&D supernatural? If you compare them to...

The problem is, by RAW characters make ability checks for everything and when the situation warrants it (by DM discretion) a Skill proficiency can be added as a bonus. But most of the times at the table it is played as Skill checks and ability checks are ignored (except maybe strength). I mean...

My last campaign that I run, that lasted for 4 years, had an impending war (at the beginning) and a hot war (in the later game) as a the backstory. The evil Guild lf Neymon wants to control (aka enslave everything magical) all magic (in order to stop the ascent of a great old one, an even bigger...

I think Lost Mines of Phandelvar is mostly looked at with rose colored glasses, because it was the first 5e adventure most people came in contact with. It was also my first D&D adventure ever. And that of my DM and actually 4 out of 6 players. But even while running it, we beginners could see...

So, If something in game came up where a player might know something about it, I would solve it this way: Is it lore I want the PCs to work for, like go to the dungeon of the library? Than the Character doesn't know it. Is it something I think the Character might know and I don't necessarily...

But the PC is not doing any activity when he asks for a History check to see if he remembers anything about Topic X. It is a non action. It is a game mechanic to recon knowledge into the character. "Oh yeah, you looked that up in a book some years ago".

Yeah, I know. That's what I do. But its hard to always have to untrain new players ^^ Like, that should be a roll for the duke to deceive against the pasosve insight of the character. If there is one. And then you tell the player "the duke is avoding eye contact when he speaks about his dead...

If you would use it like that, first of all it wouldn't work in an interrogation, because you be on your best "insight" from the beginning. In normal conversations it would be a retcon. Because the NPC does something and now, if we go with your explanation, the Player Character watched this...

That is my whole point. Making a history check to see if somebody knows something is kind of stupid. Remembering really hard is not an action.

But a hidden roll is for a PC Action is ... I think it would be harder to take away a rollt hat is supposed to be done by the Player than to change this skills to passive scores. But "I use skill" is not an action declaration. Like, "I use acrobatics to get over the chasm" is like - no. What...

So, there is one other true issue (TM) that I haven't seen discussed here. Active Insight and perception roles (Players are allowed to do active insight and perception checks) and the whole check declaration by players. Usually players have to declare an action, the DM decides if a roll is...

Days 187 - 188 - Skullhaven - Port Days 189 - 198 - Skullhaven - Pirate Base Above the harbour of Skullhaven lies the base of the pirates who have taken up residence here. While the subjugated slaves sleep in cages, the pirate captain, a Neogi, has set up cosy quarters. With the help of a...

In my new campaign I track time. So when the players ask I always know what day and what hour it is (+-1 or 2 hours). So I always know the light situation (day, night, dawn ...) and there are several things that are time sensitive. Their asteroid Hopper will be upgraded by the Gnome workers in...

While I agree, that would be nice to have different pacing and more incremental resource recovery - keeping track on it at the table would be harder. I think at the moment Short and Long Rest are at an Equilibrium between realistic and easy to play. The OneDnD changes pushing them more in the...

I was thinking equipment cards like similar in the Essentials kit or the magic item cards. You have the rules on the card and only read them when you need the equipment. You don't need to remember them. And it's something cool to handout to the players. So players now can have decks of...

You can get the 2e books quite cheap on DMsGuild, even as Reprint ;)