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I don't have to be able, as a person in real life, to describe an action I don't know how to do in real life in an imaginary game where you set the rules out come and I have no feel in the minutia to care about the out come. If you ask ME to describe how I disarm a trap or ME to persuade someone...

If your happy with that go for it. I actually despise the words "how do you search?" from a GM and much prefer a roll meaningful nor not. If I have an idea of how I want describe something I will do it. If I am not describing it its because I have nothing creative to add and if I describe it and...

That's a very solid point. I think players wanting to call for checks largely comes from GMs who auto fail based on description. Example: Player: My character searches the room. GM: How do you search it? Player: Uh, I don't know, I look behind things open drawers...mover anything reasonable to...

I got to you tangent about methodology and play style and posted in reply to it, but I would be remise if I didn't recognize the dragonborn lore here. Its interesting I have been reading some on Io after getting this. Thank you. I am mostly looking at Forgotten Realms because it is my current...

I used species, but metahuman might be a better term. though in Shadow run all but dragons became humans in the absence of magic and some became other metahuman types when magic returned. With the exception of Dragons. So in that setting they are all humans technically and everyone know it...

Sure, and I in hind sight perhaps overstepped and regret my first two sentences. They were made out of frustration and I should have proof read myself with a moment of stepping away before posting. I apologize for airing that. It was less intended as directed at you but more of an exclamation of...

If you leave it at that... then you are on the same page.

That's awesome! Thank you!. Ordered.

So no one has ever played a hybrid race at your character or fought a NPC that was? No half-elves, Half-orces, asimar, or tieflings? Because if you have then you have already been using cross-breading rules you just were not thinking of it in that context. Thanks for a little understand, I...

I regretted posting the first line as soon as I hit "post reply", It undermines my otherwise reasonable post with and emotional context. That said, A post in direct opposition to a thread with no constructive substance an dismissive to the premise is never appropriate. I am judging the post on...

I can't say you are wrong, however I would say having set rules can be just as freeing or even more so than having none. Which is why we play with rule books to begin with. It prevents argument, sets standards, and means not having to come up with a rule judgement on the spot which might not the...

A friend of mine and a GM I play under chimed in on this conversation and sent me this link. Which is a good Forgotten Realms Lore layout of the Races of DnD.

Oh, Great another person who thinks only they understand this is a fantasy game and thinks the rules of the world don't matter.... Let me guess your a story GM how hand waves inventory management? Look, I am not saying your wrong but forget genetics (Not once did I mention genetics, so your the...

first let me say I am not trying to get political here. I am really just interested in world building and understanding the backgrounds of the "races" and lore the authors created. While this is true, as a work of fiction with authors who created it, there can be set rules per setting that are...

Very interesting. Particularly, the gift of Luthic to the Orcs and Elves being creations of Corellon Larethion. The gift of Luthic is perfectly reasonable explanation, WHICH IS AWSOME! ... Elves as creations explains why they are often depicted as slightly more advanced than humans because they...

So the concept of half-elfs and half-orcs seems to imply that Orcs and Elves are actually human off shoots but I am not aware of any lore as to why or how this happened. Tyflyings are straite himan demon hybryds which if the first like is true At the same time the Moradin created Dwarves from...

Play a Paladin / Bard multi-class and you will receive little to no comments about Drizzt. ...You will likely get crap for being a paladin and crap for being a bard non-stop, but you will likely not hear much about Drizzt. In my experience your friends giving and getting crap about character...

That is some great information!!! Then as someone who is mainly a player and when I GM I generally do homebrew worlds, The new book is the one I REALLY need. Since I will make my fluff but cannon monsters and adventuring material always help. Thanks!

That maybe true, but if all the player options are in both then most people will be fine with one or the other. That makes them indistinguishable from a player perspective unless your keen or lore. From the GM perspective of world building more is better and redundancy is wasting pages you have...

I don't think its broken but all my GMs ruled if I used it as a weapon it stops acting as a shield and so your AC bonus drops until next round. So you have to chose if you want to attack and Grapple or if you want the AC bonus. It makes for an "interesting choice" but the end result is you would...