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:) badum tshh I feel I may be missing something here as Kit is a real name ? Anyway I have not read all this. I do not really like silly names though I have partaken in the past. My naming tips are to make sure a name shortens to something unobjectionable (to you the player). If it is an...

I'm very pro DM entitlement. I would offer what I am prepared to run & if noone want to play that after a bit of haggling then so be it. See if anyone else wants to offer something.

It really doesn't unless you consider "choosing a particular feat" to be help from the players. Any game that uses armour as damage reduction tends to fall into imbalance as soon as one character tries to be a bit tanky. They usually become so resistant nothing even threatens them that is not...

The OP idea sounds interesting, fortune at the beginning sort of thing. My "solution" is generally only to roll if there is a mismatch between what the player does & what their characters skills are. So a skilled character making a good case or funny/convincing/scary would not need to roll...

I think you are making the point. DM needed to provide magic weapons & mounts for the warriors. Wizards just use a spell.

I think you are misunderstanding the issue with "bag of hit point" creatures. It is not that they are easy to take down it is that they are all interchangeable. 4e monsters would largely feel different to fight usually having some feature that differentiates them. 5e humanoids do this pretty...

Do what you like it's your character, but please keep me informed. Also pure powergaming as "eg ed" in the previous post would be frowned on. I am more concerned about story changes than mechanical ones myself, so maybe a change into or out of cleric. It's something I would adjust to rather...

Dunno if it is in the PHB explicitly but it was twittered or Sage adviced Presumably a die is a die. It works favourably for the great weapon fighting style - you can re-roll either die separately. 2d6 is still >> d12 in the long run & deserves the help

Which does not really deal with gunpowder less settings. Fireball certainly scuppered my seafaring campaign as I could not see any good defence against it. I invented an expensive ritual that warships had cast on them to give resistance to the crew & ship. Maybe it should have been Immunity to...

Yeah I have a feeling there is one too many stats in D&D

Both of these I was not thinking about this at the time specifically. Ad_hoc has mostly covered the principle. My view on flaws is that they are simply another opportunity to min max. People who want to roleplay a deficiency can do so without this system. People who want to make a wizard...

Do you not think the method actors find it easier to stay in character if the people around them treat them as their character rather than as an actor? I'm pretty sure that's the sort of distinction Maxperson is making. The factors that break immersion are those that speak to him as a player...

I do have to think constantly about what my character would think or do in a given situation based on his personality let alone his knowledge (like did was he there for that exposition or did he only over hear it at the table, should I be able to use maths or a lever to try to solve a problem...

I tend to zone out & glaze over with this sort of detail. It's like being forced to watch QI, which everyone else seems to find hilarious but always features Stephen Fry lecturing me. That said I do enjoy it when classic features are respected so I'm happier if there are no warforged in the...

2. by a mile. The first involves painful mental contortions trying not to accidentally make use of something I'm supposed not to know. 1. Is bearable & could even be fun if you are playing eg a doomed hero like Hamlet but not for long periods as a default.

I had this playing Pendragon too & I did not like it, though it was one of many things I did not like & I quit. I'm not sure it would have been enough alone though but it's something I would avoid for a protracted game.

Metagaming is broadly the playing "the game outside of the game". In RPGs specifically it is usually used to refer to making decisions or taking actions based on player knowledge as opposed to character knowledge. Without clarification this is what I would assume someone meant when they talked...

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My F not so LGS gets 60 player every week for AL but I am sure that is several times any other in the UK. I expect this means they could run a con & get an Interactive. I have no idea about overall numbers though I expect the US will have a huge majority of AL players as it is set up for...

This is why I find it very hard to enjoy typical COC games, when i am not supposed to be a seasoned investigator. My metagame Mythos knowledge is there front & centre & its hard & often tiresome to have to try to pretend you weren't expecting gribblies, people who don't believe you anyway or a...