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Yeah, I'm gonna just say "Nah, that's wrong Max." and here is why: You have just established that I'm not allowed to say "I've played guitar for 25 years" because I've had breaks that are long enough - according to you, not to me - to count as stopping and then starting up again some time...

Except that I literally can't, because me saying "I've played guitar for 25 years" leaves out enough important details about how much time and effort I have dedicated to the activity that it might actually be synonymous with your "I have attempted now and then to play the guitar." I haven't...

Some unknown quantity of other people having played in your games at some unknown interval, for some unknown length, and with some unknown opinion about how enjoyable it was seems pretty equal, to me, to some unknown quantity of people having listened to me play my guitar which I have spent some...

It's okay to trust someone's advice if they have 30+ years of D&D experience. The problem is trusting anyone that thinks telling you how many years of experience they have is of any use outside of the conversation being specifically about how long people have been playing - because not only...

Yeah, I'm not understanding how it is upsetting that it is a Twitch account that is being made... I mean, I didn't have one, but all I had to do was click "sign up" on the D&D beyond page and punch in minimal information. Sure, I also needed to click a verification link in my email so that...

Correct. Claws, teeth, tails, and other body parts are not categorized as spell attacks, so they must be categorized as weapon attacks, since those two categories are the only ones the game rules cover how to make. Correct. So when a spell like magic weapon says "You touch a nonmagical weapon."...

Yes. Just like with unarmed strikes (after errata), which natural weapons also are not. However, I should add that not all natural weapons are for melee use; A manticore, for example, has a natural weapon that is used for ranged weapon attacks in the form of its tail spikes. But it's tail...

It is definitely possible, though I am not sure if it's plausible (hard to say if WotC has seen the success of Paizo's condition and/or buff decks and decided they want to try their own). I know I wouldn't mind picking up a set - that'd free up an entire panel of my home-made DM screen for some...

Not quite accurate on this one. Fully accurate would be: -natural attacks counting/not counting as weapons is irrelevant to a paladin/druid being able to smite with them, because Divine Smite requires "hit a creature with a melee weapon attack" not "hit a creature with a melee weapon"

Can you illustrate why you feel access to 9-point powers and higher is necessary? And while doing so, could you elaborate upon what a 9-point or higher power should look like in your opinion? I ask because a number of the features of psionic disciplines seem more potent to me than their...

So true. Though, deviation from that target can also be fun for all if it is agreed upon and intentionally enacted, rather than an "accident" of how the game progressed or how the characters were built. I think that wildly unbalanced expectations is a strong contender. I can imagine spot-fixing...

No, assuming your opinion of something based on you not giving any comment about it at all is not a "good idea'. You are putting people in a position where you are expecting them to behave in a way that is particularly common as a way to seriously upset someone when you ask them to assume your...

I think I remember hearing something about folks trying to talk Frog God Games into a 5e version of Rappan Athuk. Didn't pay much attention to that, though, since I'm already in the middle of running it with on-the-fly conversion from the Swords & Wizardry version.

There are two, now... but that doesn't stop your point from being made.

Only if the guard is thinking "A squirrel? I'd better find it."

Chat with your players before next session. Tell them you want them to not ask you for rolls, just describe what their character does. Give them the same example you just used, emphasizing you want the part where they are saying what actions their character is taking to gain information, not...

This typo is rather hilarious to me.

What was cited was a conditional automatic failure, not the unconditional automatic failure that your phrasing that I quoted earlier stated. And, again, my earlier point was meant to be one about the results of a particular sort of approach to game rules (trying to apply them like the laws of...

Being unseen because magic made you invisible is predictable, yes... but magical camouflage having X effect, so invisibility will have X effect and/or better? Not quite - because, unlike real-world phenomena of something blending in well (camouflage) and blending in so well as to be unseen, not...

Thanks for showing me I'm not the only one that can have a laugh at what the rules say. As for the other bits of conversation regarding the point I was making, I seem to have failed to clearly communicate it. I was not trying to say that everyone should be running their game as some abstruse...