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It's originally a wrestling thing, but entered pop culture vernacular via TV tropes at least a decade ago.

Is it the truth or is it more that adventure writers are mostly separate people with separate goals who, like most of us, have come up in the hobby just not trusting the DMG for that sort of design?

It's different people now. Different people with different expectations and values, or whose expectations and values have changed. I just straight never played any fall-mechanic characters at all because I didn't want the hassle or potential of being punished for acting outside of the DM's...

God, remember when the screaming argument of RPG infamy was whether you could roleplay if your character worthwhile stats mechanically instead of whether you should get your worthwhile mechanics taken from you for roleplaying? Get the piano, Archie; those were the days.

I'd say in-combat set direction per round, out of combat, it's just a better lantern as you can sweep it.

FKS is probably too short for google to use. Or Give >_>

Micah. I am begging you to stop telling me that my experience is my experience. I know. Everyone knows. We don't need to be told.

Let's put it this way: I'm hoping you're masking cursing.

Again, twenty years of hearing how much people absolutely hate it unless they're the ones getting to ruin people's characters using those rules.

Hurray!

Then maybe they don't need empirical existence in the world. Or at least they need some distance to make faith matter and... well... exist.

At least it's popular jargon as opposed to the chinchilla-facing, guru-stance combat-as-sandart kind of jargon we usually use to make sure we collectively need to have our lunch money taken.

It certainly woke me up to how much better a Fantasy RPG could be. Okay, but what? And you still aren't saying what the issue with it is. I've never seen anyone complain about Second Wind in particular, so I'm curious. 1) I've never seen Second Wind presented controversial before. 2) They...

I'd argue making players not want to play the game because they don't want to be left with a useless character is not good for the longevity of the game.

Yeah, I engage in this kind of kayfabe too.

How do you square that with people who didn't play D&D for the thirty-preceding years or who stopped playing in various editions? Or the simple fact that most of the playerbase has ONLY known 5e and now 5.5? As in there's really no data to support this hypothesis. Really? Second Wind was the...

I feel like exploring their character via roleplay isn't going rogue. While working with the DM on planning character arcs is a good idea, it shouldn't be mandatory or punished.

They're using thread f metaphysical force to keep the player from playing their character how they want. That's what I'm seeing.

Fall as in Paladin fall. I think it's more that they don't want to support that sort of play style anymore as it's not what the target audience wants. The window of target audience always moves on and we all eventually stop being in it. It was the opposite for me. This is something we can...

See, I view this is a huge violation of the player's agency on par with 'your character wouldn't do that'.