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I do remember some hilarious Pathfinder-related discussion on whether or not "Profession (murderhobo)" was valid for Organized Play.

It's still weird to me that you can't use your action to Take A Bonus Action. Because there exist things where you have two things you could do as a bonus action, and you'd rather do both of them than take any regular action and do one of them, and that's annoying. They're faster and easier to...

That's not actually an argument. They specifically state that the design process is not 100% system-bound and involves estimating or adjusting based on intuition or experience. "That would mean an opaque design process, which I dislike" isn't an argument against them doing it when they said...

Look at the monster design rules, and note the complete lack of "add proficiency bonus to stat bonus" to determine attack mods. Your assertion that these are "calculation errors" presupposes that monster stats are "calculated" in that way, when the rules pretty clearly state that this is not...

Thinks the gnome was a gullible fool who got tricked and is planning to save him.

Nah, it has a pretty well-established existing usage, but then people sometimes see it without that context, pick up or infer a new meaning, and run with that.

Not in my lexicon. Good roleplay is interesting and character-appropriate. If the character is a paranoid nutjob, very carefully not searching under the cardboard box because "it's obviously a trap" is good roleplaying but unlikely to achieve the stated goal...

The terminology seems to be shifting, I used to see it just used to refer to the general thing where PCs are typically homeless (in the sense of "no fixed residence") and do nothing much for a living but kill. Doesn't mean they kill random poor people for no reason.

Another component: Context. If we're doing online through roll20, I am much more inclined to be tolerant of people clicking roll buttons prematurely because after all, the round trip time for "I want to X -> roll Y -> here's my roll" is a lot longer.

also apparently posting only SOMETIMES moves you to the new page your post is on, and sometimes just leaves the draft up

telepathy is huge and way different from message, because it works even if you have no languages in common. I wouldn't consider it weak at all.

I agree that it's badly worded, but I think the bad wording is on the thing saying "feature". But consider: Is the "feature" for the aid spell "Spellcasting"? Because that's the *feature*. Sort of. So I think it's more "when an ability or feature or something specifies a duration for the...

The duration qualifier is on a specific thing -- advantage on next melee attack. The temporary hit points aren't in that sentence at all, so you just gain them.

I think the first question I'd ask is: Why telegraph these things? I leave things like that for things like "I'm pretty good at Arcana, do I have any clue how these animated objects might work?" or "can I use Insight to see what I might be able to do to persuade these guys?"

Yeah. For instance, if I had gotten the various adventures as PDFs, I could use the maps from them on roll20 without having to separately buy copies for roll20, or use a scanner.

Compared to hardcovers: Searchable. I can carry everything they've ever published in a jacket pocket, instantly navigating to desired pages (assuming they do a table of contents, which is pretty normal). So instead of having a twenty-pound stack of books, I have a less-than-one-pound object...

I cannot believe that you said this, and then dismissed something someone else said as "speculative". Have you ever ported a non-trivial app from non-Linux to Linux? When it was proprietary and no source code was available? You haven't. :P Anyway, right now, there's no Linux app. That you...

View it on any device I own that can display PDFs, which is most of them. Chromebook? Sure. Laptop? Yup. iPad? Yup. Android tablet? Yup. Make annotations which I can save into the file so they become part of the file? Yup. Rotate pages, remove pages I don't use? Yup. Read it forever on any...

There's a lot of people who'd buy a PDF from Wizards, but won't buy the various third-party things. (I won't, because I have no confidence that they will last and be accessible later.) So they're throwing away a large portion of the prospective market for digital copies, but in exchange, they're...

Oh, I play 5E. I just have a worse play experience than I would if they released PDFs, and I probably buy fewer books than I would if they released PDFs. I do think you're underestimating the significance of accessibility concerns. Physical books don't allow screen readers. Having only a small...