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A pike is 16 feet long, good luck in a dungeon with one of those.

There was I time when I could tell you where the word rapier came from and now I cannot, at least not without looking it up. The bastard sword was as far as I know a D&D name for the longsword with the regular knightly sidearm being what is nowadays referred to as an arming sword.

A lot of weapons in D&D have the stats they have because of the history of D&D more than any serious consideration of the weapons. Bows for instance do damage based on the draw weight of the bow and the weight of the arrow. If D&D was real then the weapons the adventures would use would vary...

Are you advocating that an extended back and forth on a dualistic metaphysics vs a materialist approach in a thread on how to disarm traps is a worthwhile use of your time. I guess, it takes all sorts.

Hmmm.... I dunno! man, is this the DungeonMaster screening future victims?

Do we really need to have this discussion for the next 20 pages? What good is going to come of it? What makes you think the other party is going to change their mind?

In particular no can make a DM use a rule they do not like, unless they are willing to step on up and DM and I would be fine with that. I mean if I really, really do not like I can choose to not play.

Lot of good suggestions but I would go with shorter adventures and modules. The big APs covering 10 or more levels are a lot of commitment and hard to back out of if it is not to the groups taste.

My first thought on reading this was: What is an Oxygen bar? then I looked it up, man if you need concentrated oxygen then you need medical attention and that, concentrated enough that stuff is dangerous.

A world tree Barbarian would be fun and that party could do with another frontliner or a skilled character.

I could see myself using it more than the 2014 version. I have to give it another more in depth read but there is always the magic items section, and the encounter creation advice seems to be better and I will try it in action. I like the Bastion rules, no idea if my players will. I am running...

Then I really doubt that players will use such an unreliable system. Given a choice between very unreliable and hit it with a stick, the stick wins.

How about allowing the spell to be reliably cast the first time but an Arcana check or the like to continue to be able to use it?

My apologies, I think I mistook what you meant about magic, I have no care about what magic as presented by you in the real world might mean metaphysically. Nor any particular interest in discussing it. I was referring to what the rules of the game define as magic and how I saw it, and you...

There is a lot to unpack here but I see magic somewhat differently to you. At least, in the context of worlds like D&D. One can have magical technology in D&D like world. Technology is just the construction of engines that manipulate forces in the natural order to do something. I see D&D magic...

Again real world thinking, magic in D&D is utterly reliable, say the correct words, dance the correct dance, have the correct symbols in hand and you can have a fireball every time. The only restriction is the endurance and practice to hold enough "whatever" that powers a third level slot. For...

You do not think there would be a body of folklore about the working of magic in a world of magic? Especially in a place like the Forgotten Realms where everywhere is littered with the flotsam of ancient magical empires? This bit is not directly addressing you @pukunui but one problem I often...

The way I visualised this up to me was that thieves had a folklore regarding the simpler magical traps and way they could be disabled using the standard toolset that they use (thieves tools).

I suspect backward compatibility, a lot of 2014 D&D allowed the used of thieves tools to disarm magical traps, as all traps are called out as being disarmable with theives tools by default. The example of the fire emitting statue in the new DMG, specifically calls out Arcana to id the glyph as...

They are defacing the glyph that anchors the spell. At least that is how I read it. For the record the way I intend to proceed the DCs referenced in the Rules Glossary, I consider reference only. They set an expectation of the average. The specific may be different. As for locks, if proficient...