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my house rule (clearly label house rule not interpretation of a rule, not something from a book) is if you are prof in something you can't miss a DC 11 or less... Your first level with a 8 Cha prof in persuasion, if the DC would be 11 or less you just make it. yup even though by raw you have...

it is when you tell people they as the DM are playing the players character for them... look back at his posts he is very derogatory to my 'its okay as long as we all get the idea' style of play. and did so by insulting the other way... notice I have never accused him of taking away player...

yes you are unless your game is the most boring pedantic thing where every breath every meal every sharpening of weapons and cleaning of armor is explained in detail... but I bet it isn't, that you assume alot based on the scenes and the time. great... i don't 'get rid of it' I just allow my...

you say you don't care then throw out insults (vailed enough that mods wont hit you for it) about how other DMs play there characters for them and they gimp there players... if you really didn't care you would agree to disagree without trying to imply some superiority

short hand is an incomplete understood way of expressing something... if I write Example, or put Ex: then write out an example you can infer what Ex: meant in context... Ex could also be experience points and if I put Ex 2,400 you can infer that too... however it would be odd for you to ask why...

Use familiar / arcane eye / clairvoyance to scout. Pre-cast CME (8th). Ally wizard cast foresight + haste on me. Ally wizard readies dimension door for the start of my turn. We teleport in, Haste -> EB Quicken -> EB Action Surge -> attack + EB Action - attack + EB this (to me) looks like 1...

what I find so odd, is that my understanding that they can not stand how my table runs (sometimes) but no one at my table would care if someone did what they do... exactly, and when you play with friends for 20+ years (Kurt has been in my games since 1995) we all pretty much know what the...

I throw high level threats at my party on the regular.... but a CR24+ monster at a party of level 10 is a HUGE last boss, not 4 encounters in a row in a dungeon, try again with CR 11-14 monsters now

it isn't childish to have a short hand... it IS childish to have a break down cause 1 in 50 times someone doesn't get what you mean by the short hand.

no... just no, I refuse to go back to 'scry and die' tactics being the smartest way to play high level... this would make the new revised 5e into the worst parts of 3e...my least favorite edition

yeah any attack is different wording then attack action or attack roll... like so many things it is too open ended...

This is why powergamers breaking games isn't a good example... Just like my druid problem in 3.5, the problem is if you pick things for fun without knowing combos can it be a problem... and yes this can. a 10th level bard or wizard or druid (and I HAVE to include bard cause 2/3 of bards will...

that entire argument falls apart if both DM and player are long time friends who act like adults... "Whoa my character wouldn't do that" "Oh, sorry miss understood, what did you mean?" this HAS come up at my games... about 2-3 time per year, and it is handled just as easy as above and adds...

this is a major thought process... something that effects a few spells and conditions. "What counts as an attack?" If you have an item that casts magic missile without you casting a spell would it break invisibility? what about fireball? Is an attack, the attack action, the attack roll, or the...

had this discussion tuesday night... 3 options 1) make it once per round the damage (some conjurations already do) 2) scale it as 1d8 per level instead of 2d8 or my preferred 3) Both 1 and 2... "your first attack that hits per turn deals" and 1d8 on the scaling.

I am very sorry that in context with friends you don't know what they mean. right... how could you misinterpret "holds up d20 and asks 'history?" that's great... it was one of my examples of "If it works for you go ahead but don't tell everyone your way is the right way when you know plenty of...

okay I'm only doing this once to try to not get BACK into this circle... The players says what they want to try to do... the DM adjudicates it. The words used to do so only need to make sense in the context at the table.... This is not "D&D rules" this is just playing a game. If the player...

If you want to stretch out from D&D then look to games less based on D&D GURPS, Torg (hey look still using a d20) World of Darkness, Blades in the Dark, Savage Worlds, Heck I just ran Rifts for almost a year...

There is an old star trek episode that does this perfectly... the captain (Archer if it matters) is with a genetically manipulated super soldier... the Super Soldier says "I'm going to attack you" then does before the Captain or the guards can react... he stops immediately but has proved his...

my group has been together (most of us) since 2e... our newest player came in before before the switch from 3e to 3.5... everyone has DMed, in fact we rotate who DMs, so right now I am running two games and two others of the 7 of us (broken up over two days) 3 of us right now but in theory...