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You're not figuring offensive CR the way the DMG says to figure it. The relevant information is on page 278 under the "Overall Damage Output" bold-started paragraph. When you have a creature that has varying damage per round, like a dragon, you have to figure out the average of 3 rounds of...

I've spent around $2,000 on minis... so long as you only count the ones I currently have (2 kickstarters worth of Bones, a ton of paints, fancy brushes and a light for my workspace, plus the first set of Pathfinder minis, and the old WotC gargantuan and colossal dragons), and not the few hundred...

You can cast the spell as many times as you have the appropriate spell level to do so, taking the listed casting time each time, and you can choose the same or different creatures with each casting, so long as they are within range and you can see them at the time of casting the spell. If you...

Even though one of my group's longest-running in-jokes came into being because of a trap being in a place it didn't make much sense to trap, and the characters failing to notice it even though they searched (I recall the DC being, as most were in 3.5, unreasonably high) - we completely agree...

My group are cool with player character death so long as it isn't too likely to happen as random occurrence of dice. So the by-the-book rules for death in 5th edition are acceptable to us, and we use them unaltered. Though we do slightly alter the 5th edition rules on returning to life, as we...

Same here. Even if I count money I've spent on non-essentials like miniatures and paint, its less than I've spent on video games over the same period of time, and provides me even more hours of fun (since video games end, and I can always make up another campaign to run).

It's not a game. You phrased your statements as facts when they weren't facts. That makes them false statements. You've literally just said something I already said as if it were a counter-point to the point I was making... I said even though they happen less often they deal equal damage to a...

But the circumstances in which the cloak is in effect are not just "taking attack rolls" - it is only those times when taking attack rolls and the cloak hasn't been temporarily turned off by some means, such as taking damage whether it was from a lucky attack roll (I've already crit against my...

That's not necessarily true. The concept of bounded accuracy doesn't inherently include a specific value of accuracy that is the maximum boundary, nor does it inherently include a mandate that all forms of accuracy (attack vs. AC, saving throw vs. DC, and ability check vs. DC) be set to the same...

My experience suggests no measurable difference in level of "fun" between games where unnecessary rolls are constantly made and in games where every roll is known to the players as being made for a reason (though not always a known or fully understood reason, since "roll stealth" just tells you...

Yes, we clearly are. You've misunderstood what appears to have been all but a single sentence of my post. I think we're just going to have to call it a day on this one - maybe someone else will share similar thoughts to mine in a way you understand. If so, I'll let you know that's what I was...

There is a difference of degrees. Or in the case of your intentionally-ridiculous example, magnitudes. I item does not need to be an "I win" button in every circumstance to be game breaking. It just has to be an "I win" button in enough circumstances - which a cloak of displacement is not...

You are very clearly arguing against something other than what I said.

False. False. That's not actually as true as it might seem. Effects that don't rely on attack rolls, like the breath weapons of dragons, often do enough damage that they are the equivalent of being hit by numerous attacks, and thus can provide equal effect upon HP despite being used less often...

I am always striving to be more clear and to improve my ability to communicate. So maybe don't base whether or not you try something similar on the fact that you don't find me to be clear? You didn't address the content of my post; you addressed your assumptions of why my post had the content it...

Perhaps in the future you might aim to be more clear? Because I genuinely had not considered that a post telling me how unhelpful I was and accusing me of saying something inappropriate (because it is entirely inappropriate for one poster to tell another "get good" or the equivalent), that also...

Because the conclusion drawn from including an item that has no effect upon other forms of attack was a sweeping and general "game breaking", rather than a specific and accurate assessment along the lines of "Was circumstantially potent."

When your "challenge" is that I was posting inappropriately, yes you do have to be a moderator to do that. Us normal users are meant to use the report button if a post seems out of line, not try to take matters into our own hands. I apologize for my error. I forgot that the post in which I did...

Whether or not a player wants to role-play something or gloss over it comes down to player priorities - which may be exposed by, but are not actually changed by, whether you only call for a roll when it matters or call for a roll repeatedly. I can say it. In fact, I have said it. You can...

Then all I can say is this: Step off. You're not a moderator. I already explained to you that I didn't re-state the suggestions in my post because they were already present in the thread by the time I made it, and I thought it would seem rude and unnecessary to just pile-on what had already...