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Yeah. I'm a bit reminded of one of the famous parody cases, 2 Live Crew's case over Pretty Woman, where the court eventually said "you did not make your case at all, but it happens that you're right, here's why". I think he's failed to make his case coherently, but there's an actual credible...

That is roughly how I assumed it would work, but the rulling in Allen v. Academic Games went significantly further than that. It's not exactly precedent in most circuits, and I don't know whether it would hold up today, but they did pretty directly conclude that you can in fact simply reproduce...

To be fair, there's a ton of copyright cases that basically say that game rules aren't copyrightable, and some of them might be moderately on-point. The argument would then be that the OGL is a trick -- it's offering you special terms under which you're permitted to do something you could have...

Okay, yeah, Constitution is "passive"... but I still like the idea of being able to distinguish between people who are really tough and people who aren't. I don't think the idea that every ability has to not only be useful, but to be used in the exact same ways, makes sense.

I didn't seee this labelling. The substantive points remain; not all humans can be unambiguously described as "male" or "female" reproductively, even among people who successfully reproduce. Biology has a lot of messy edge cases. You can talk about two distinct sexes, but it's a simplification...

Those are sexes, not genders. So, you can define gender that way, but it's just plain objectively wrong as a matter of historical fact. This is not some weird modern invention. When we talk about how nouns in German are biologically gendered, we aren't saying that "der" words have outies and...

The ability score isn't the "source". The class ability is the source. When people tend to have +2/+3 in a few stats, letting them take a +2 and a +3 is not significantly stronger than letting them take two +3s. (This relates to a pet peeve involving the ruling bad enough that I stopped paying...

I had one of those as a lowish-level enemy once. Just used Augury before attacking any merchant caravans. No certain answer => don't attack.

This isn't how humans work. Most people exihibit some "signs that they are lying" if they're nervous, even when being 100% truthful. Also, people misread body language all the time. It's absolutely possible to mistakenly think someone is lying.

I had a kenku in a Dungeons: The Dragoning game. No "can only speak in mimicry" rule, but definitely tended to do that. Also, if she saw herself in a mirror, she'd stop and say "ooh, who's a pretty bird? I'm a pretty bird. I'ma have a cracker." And then loudly and noisily eat a cracker. The...

Some of my players fought a Slaad once. 1. If grappled, it pees on them. Why? Because I know people who have pet toads and I am reliably assured that if you hold them, they will pee on you. 2. It would shout things. Angry things. Incoherent things. Bits and pieces of political discourse...

When was Eberron ever "the default setting"? Not 3E, which predates it. I don't think the core 4e books started out with Warforged either, so it can't have been the default there. When was it the "default setting"? If it wasn't, how could it "remain" the default setting?

Reduction of options may not have been strictly logically necessary, but I think it was essential to actually getting the thing done, in practice. And they could have added more options since, but I also suspect that doing that would endanger things that are more important to them; either they'd...

not with THAT attitude we told the kid about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants (not the recent TV character, the historical general), and a day or two later, someone said "and knowing is half the battle!" and he said "the other half is getting the elephants across the mountain". i'm so...

In general: If you describe how you do a thing, I might give advantage or disadvantage. If you had a character be obviously nervous when lying, then yeah, I'd probably give disadvantage. Until you learned to do it on purpose to make people think you were lying when you weren't, and then I'd...

That's usually a mental health thing. I have some friends who have that, to varying extents. It can get better, and I'll put up with it because they can be really awesome people, and I just sorta write off the occasional explosions. But it's also reasonable to just nope out of dealing.

estimating 50/50, but i'm honestly not sure, some of us are ambiguous, and the group varies a bit over time.

I used a demilich with lair effects, but also with a really easily-exploited weakness. Party level: 5. They actually killed it by exploiting the weakness in an unexpected way.

I think Unseen Servant becomes a lot more concerning when you realize that no one has mentioned a spell called Unsmelled Servant.

Since the reaction has to happen before the other person is damaged (otherwise they would be taking damage and getting healed), I think the paladin takes the 25 points from the fighter, drops to 0, then takes 25 points, which is probably a death save failure.