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I have never understood the aversion to roll low.

That wasn't my pint. My point was if the main source document was the 5.1 SRD, it might have gotten missed that it was missing from there, too.

That's a lot of "avoid feel bad" tweaks for a game intended to be tough.

Emphasis mine. I think that is the better way to go in a situation and system like this. Fine, the target goes out for copy and the party grabs him. But when they are halfway to the delivery point, he starts to go into cardiac and his DocWagon Platinum activates. Now the PCs have to deal with a...

Grab the SRD. It is very complete.

Can you give an example of something you have houseruled before even playing because you knew your group would not like the rule as designed?

I actually made this poll because i see people saying stuff like that all the time. It baffles me, but you do you.

I wonder if it is also missing from the 5.1 SRD and that is why.

This is a non scientific poll.

In my opinion and experience, that just isn't true. Even Mercer acknowledges he sometimes has to fight the system to tell a story.

And BG was still the bigger IP.

I don't think anyone is disputing that the D&D stuff gets more viewers. We are disputing the idea that D&D makes better "story" than other games.

I definitely feel like the inspiration section is there in part to get people to try all these games.

No, not "clearly." It was a combination of a much anticipated IP (Baldur's Gate, not D&D) and Larians absolute dedication to the quality of the game and responsiveness during early access. People that are absolutely certain that D&D is what put it over the top have a deep misunderstanding of the...

What I am curious about is why you think this is true.

I don't think there is any evidence for that. I think this is failing to understand that Larian's success with their recent D:OS games gave them the money and space to really go all in with BG3. If D&D was what made that game successful, Solasta would have been a bigger hit. It wasn't, because...

People often mention that the non-D&D CR videos don't do as well as "evidence" that D&D is a better storytelling engine. That seems totally backwards to me. People are afraid to learn other games -- and evidence suggests it extends to simply watching people play. That seems crazy to me -- but I...

It explicitly mentions Genysis.

I decided to go all in and both sub to Demiplane and get the DH core rules on Demiplane so i can run it remotely (with the help of Discord). I wish it had launched with Fantasy Grounds support, but alas.

You have a damage threshold for each of those 1-3 HP hits. If you take the highest threshold in damage, you mark off 3 HP and so on. You can use armor and some other special abilities to reduce that final damage, usually at some sort of cost (armor usage, hope, stress).