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The issue with the peasant railgun is that it mixed game rules and the real-life concept of kinetic energy to produce a degenerate outcome. By contrast, for damaging emanations, the game rules own their own are enough to produce the degenerate outcome. Furthermore, with the peasant railgun...

2x2x4 is 16 cubic feet, but the bag explictly holds 64 cubic feet. Whether it's an incorrect "clarification" or an exception, either way you can stuff 64 cubic feet into the bag, despite its interior dimensions being too small to hold that much volume.

Even though the bag's interior dimensions are limited to 2x2x4 in the 2024 text, the bag can still explictly hold up to 64 cubic feet of material. So it can magically hold four 2x2x4 objects, or 256 of your 3"x3"x4' longsword blades.

Alas, I think "the larger context of this discussion" is not amenable to any one discrete interpretation. It seems evident to me that even many of the posters directly responding to each other aren't actually having the same discussion, at least in part due to using language differently and...

If "the PCs do everything right" still allows for the PCs to have incomplete information, then I think it is entirely possible for the PCs to be able to successfully impact the setting, but for that impact to fail to advance their goals the way they intended. For instance, the PCs' chosen goals...

I think the objection is based on the fact that the word "tourist" can have a pejorative connotation. Even when not used pejoratively, "tourist" carries an implication that the exploring being done is passive in nature--indeed, a respectful tourist strives to be low-impact. This may conflict...

Understood. My response assumes that the existence of the door and its locked state is being generated on the fly. In the specific paragraph you quoted I was describing a hypothetical combination of context and DM intent in which I wouldn't find your example to be railroading, namely one where...

From my perspective, whether or not this qualifies as railroading depends on both the larger context and the GM's intent. At one extreme, if the GM deliberately lured the PCs into the alley by falsely giving them reason to believe the door was unlocked because the GM wanted to run a preplanned...

That's a reductive mischaracterization of my argument. I was explicit that I see the specific rules on moving grappled creatures as in conflict with the movement limitations imposed on dragging by the general encumbrance rules, as I explained in detail in this post. My argument is emphatically...

I stand by my opinion that the rules are in conflict, even though I agree that there is no mathematical obstacle to applying them both simultaneously. Instead, the conflict I see is in the purpose of the rules. Specifically, I read the grappling rules as designed to enable one creature to drag...

I disagree that it's possible to apply both, as that would make the specific rules for dragging characters effectively superfluous-- many characters wouldn't be able to drag a similarly sized creature even one square as their speed would be less than the 5' required. Accordingly, I see the rules...

Wouldn't the specific rules on movement speed when dragging a grappled creature (reduced by half without a feat, unless creature is at least two sizes smaller) override the general rules about movement speed (reduced to 5') when dragging in excess of your carry weight?

This early in the introduction of the 2024 rules, I think some (unknown) portion of the discussion of edge cases is motivated not by players trying to achieve a specific result, but is instead motivated by a desire to evaluate/review the 2024 rules. That can either be to inform a practical...

Smart PCs will create escape options on the way in. Doors they've set up to be jammable with with an Object Interaction, mounts waiting nearby, contingency plans for a PC with Misty Step to cover the retreat--the options are endless. But if you do need to run, the best way to escape from an...

At one level, I agree with you that the DM is ultimately responsible for everything they put into the game world. On another level, however, so long as the degree of danger of a particular encounter has been appropriately telegraphed, and the choice to engage with it was made freely by the PCs...

I suspect that many posters who say something along the lines of "the story determines when you get rests" are running sandbox games where finding (or making!) time to rest is explicitly the players' responsibility. In such games (which are very traditional indeed) the content isn't tailored to...

I think we may be approaching the concept of balance from different directions, and talking past each other as a result. Based on your proposed analogy and your description of what I would need to show to continue the conversation, it looks like you're focusing on (and perhaps defining?)...

A bunch of dragons aren't proficient in either Arcana or Insight. There are many reasons a dragon would want you to cast Fabricate for it, and if you roll well on deception it may have no way of knowing what you're actually trying to fabricate. ;)

I was a little surprised too. :) I thought the most likely outcome would either be a PC dies and the others escape, or the PCs would succeed in finishing off the cambion and escape only to then find themselves becoming the hunted. If it had been a short-range slugfest, I agree the party would...

My original claim was that: "I think campaign style is a confounding variable that heavily impacts whether unusually low or unusually high numbers of encounters actually lead to balance issues at a particular table." To wit, I'm explicitly focusing on balance issues at the table, rather than...