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Absolutely, with a certain amount of DM input of course. Passing six skill challenges easily doesn't mean the player gets to declare themselves Ruler of the Known Universe and demand tithing from the other players. ;) Encouraging negotiation and collaboration is definitely a step forward, but...

Not necessarily. Part of crafting a puzzle is having the solution in mind. Crosswords can be solved by fitting in whatever words you want, but then you just have a grid with a few blacked out squares. Not much point in having clues. So, either we have a solution the DM is looking for (pixel...

But in the end, as the effort is roughly the same, what is the difference? 3.x and prior have quite clearcut reasons and rules why it wouldn't work in every single instance. Being codified in the ruleset isn't something new. It can even be a springboard or a red herring, if the DM wants. The...

In other words, even with dice involved, the DM will still be railroading the session? That really is what that reads like. It boils down to guessing what the DM wants them to do by throwing every skill they have at the wall until one of them sticks. In adventure video games, that is called a...

I am still having a problem seeing the difference between "NPCs are raised if the DM says so" and "NPCs can't be raised unless the DM says so". Was there a problem with NPCs running around behind your back getting raised from the dead when you weren't looking?

I thought implements were pretty important to Wizards. If you can swap out a weapon (or, ostensibly, anything else) for an implement, why not just do that from the start? Early articles had the implements categorized and everything. Picking an implement at first level (or whenever) seems...

This is like saying "that you can't start your car whenever you like. You can start your car, but you can't expect the benefit of turning the key in the ignition whenever you'd like'. I mean, what is the 'trip power'? The ability to knock someone off their feet, right? In the chaos of melee...

Except that it will catch them off guard the very next morning. Even the same opponent. Even another Warlord. After the refresh cycle (in point of fact, only after the refresh cycle), the exact same trick will work against another Warlord, who is ostensibly the one with the keen eye towards...

I find it interesting what people consider 'sub-optimal'. Isn't a shield the same thing as a "round-by-round buffer against death"? Depending on the numbers, the at-will temporary hit points are acting exactly as the shield would mechanically by providing damage protection. In fact, the...

Except that allotments of divine and arcane power have always been rationalized. The explanations have not always held up to scrutiny, but they were there. No previous edition has ever tried to explain how the fighter can only make 'five attacks per two rounds' once a day, because that would...

And from what I am reading, that is where most people have the disconnect. It's as though the first group of Orcs that day is able to transmit some kind of quantum entangled message to any other Orcs you run into the rest of the day not to drop their guard after a parry (for example), but the...

Except, the 'probability' is either 100%, or 0%. It is also entirely under the player's purview of when it occurs, meaning the character has a certain control over the opponent's actions (from a narrativist view; the creature doesn't expose its weakness until the player says it does). The...

Then you need less a DM, and more of a chart of monsters. Rather like a Choose-your-own-adventure book.

Seriously, as in 'a noticeable decrease in handle time'? Here, let me speed your game back up. Using the hand you normally move your mini with, move your mini. Say, two squares directly north. Now, you need to go around the Orc to get to the back lines, so you start moving diagonally to the...

My first Warlord character is going to be named Admiral Thrawn.

Doesn't that make the ability rather useless against anything larger than the goblin, then? Namely, the PCs?

I think that is at 10th level, when you get your Ring of Boating, then the other one at 20th level when you get your Ring of Bridge Crossing, or whenever you get to it after that. :)

So your view (I'm not being snarky) is a campaign world in quantum flux? I wouldn't necessarily expect the lone ogre out in the wilderness to be the same as any other ogre. In fact, I would expect that ogre to be rather tougher than average, or they would be part of a pack like other ogres...

Actually, some people jump out of airplanes, have a failure with the parachute, fall several thousand feet and survive. Some rare few walk away with nary a scratch. Most get splattered, of course. Many people survive falls from lower heights as well. So, it's not like every fall over 15' is...

What if the characters attack Castle Doomfist before Dirk sends Howdrowf out? Is the ogre still a solo?