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It sounds risky to me. If the first PC gets captured easily then the party fights tooth & nail to prevent the next one getting a KIA then they become super cautious - well the player has been out of it for an age. Capture scenarios are always awkward. If they are presented as overwhelming force...

I think you are more 2e AD&D era school than "old" school. Old 1e & before was (often - massive table variation) about overcoming challenges set by the DM & was anything but immersive. See Tomb of Horrors for the classic metagame dungeon. It was very much about player skill rather than their...

My apologies - I was empathising to start with, then could not resist the cheap shot. I appreciate your frustration, I seem to remember it happening to me though I cannot remember in what context. I do think you are letting your dislike for this style of game & love for the setting overcome...

It must be disappointing to have a setting you love implemented by a set of mechanics you desperately do not like I feel your pain, well we all do as you will not stop going on about it ;) However that does not make the mechanisms in question bad or not role-playing merely not to your taste. In...

Out of interest what about a 3rd party doing it? It seems like packs of counterspelling characters could really change the game dynamics. Also do they have to decide to counter a spell before they see the results of other counterspell attempts on the same spell? Probably best to avoid multiple...

Talents were a unit of weight measurement not of currency. There is hardly any gold - per google it would all fit into a 20m cube (or maybe a 50m cube) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21969100 It's only valuable because it is rare - there is not much difference between a precious metal...

Just change it, it's his character if he will be happier with a different build let him change. If for some reason you need an in game justification Assassins are fluffed as masters of disguise.

I used to do the wobbly fireball targeting when I started 3e. I also at one point would ask players to pick the target point & only then would we get out our AOE template to see what it hit. I can't remember why I stopped other than it just doesn't seem relevant any more & it's slow. I have no...

Do you let characters move outside the squares too? Commons sense says they can. It's a slippery slope to just measuring everything - also a valid playstyle, if archaic, that does not even seem to be mentioned by the books. (I can't remember what we used to do in the 80s - I know we played on...

It's in the DMG p254 Area of Effect & also my personal experience & observation of comments other people made in some other thread (! quality referencing) though I may be confirming my bias. The point of playing on a grid is to avoid having to deal with all the finicky geometry & precise...

Playing on a grid costs you area anyway assuming you snap to the grid which everyone seems to, it is stated as such in the RB. If 2 figures are standing with one square between them then they cannot both be hit by moonbeam with its 10 diameter if that has to cover squares. If they are in TOTM...

It's the difference between 4 and Pi Square AoEs are a sensible house rule for massively speeding play if you use grids but the rule in the book is circles, including eyeballing whether at least half of a grid square is covered. You know when I want combat faster I want things like square...

Necromancers cast fireball the same as everyone else, nothing unfair about it. It does not stop this being a horrid spell though.

Doesn't that just mean you are bad at theorycrafting? ;) I am trying to think if anything I have seen was surprisingly good (I may have adjusted my world view to thinking they were as I expected :O) I guess the Invoker ability to avoid friends made Fireball etc super effective. It was...

To agree with your intent if not the form. The below seems to be using one sentence to cover both classes that know spells & also classes that prepare spells. "You determine which spells you know and can prepare for each class individually as if you were a single-classed member of that class...

The fact that you are here asking about how to deal with him should provide something of a clue.

It would be like Guardians of the Galaxy. (I've not looked at the rest of the thread so may be repeating)

A closer analogy would be if the knight moved two spaces & took a piece then moved another square orthogonally. Which it can't do. (1) Much as I dislike the rulings excuse sloppy rule writing dogma that is trotted out I don't thin this is a situation where it's going to make a whole lot of...

Don't be ridiculous it's the 5e way, rulings not rules! ;)

For rogues there is nothing to reflavour. My 4e one had dazing strike with his rolling pin, blinding barrage with hot chilli oil from his wok, his minor action attack was yet another knife, he loaned out sneak attack to his sous chefs etc Rogues are grand in 5e but not in this way. This...