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I guess if I found myself in this situation: Why do I think there was cheating - was it illegal or just not run well? Can I find out more info on what was supposed to happen to verify? But at the end of the day, what makes an AL game an AL game is that they (players and DM) follow the AL rules -...

Keep in mind too this requires a space where there actually IS that much room to move. Most big-ish fights tend to be in some sort of constrained space. Alternatively, if the setting is forest or hills, at some point I would say "total cover" from natural obstructions. ...I don't know, maybe I...

They can be applicable to the same end result, but that doesn't make them the same thing. In addition to what I mentioned already. Passive covers "everything", while active only covers traps or gold or whatever they specifically search for. So passive can pick up traps as well. Just because both...

Again, they are two separate activities. One is consciously put forth by the player, and one is subconscious. They are different. I see what you're trying to say, but I don't agree that it's the correct way to read the rules. You're trying to pull these things together as one, which I don't...

Again, passive and active are two different activities, even though they aim for the same goal. You're right, the PBB isn't implying re-rolls, but this isn't a re-roll.

There's a difference between something passively catching your eye and actively trying to find something. Both can cause you to notice something, but that doesn't make them repetitions of the same thing. One makes sense to use your action to do, the other does not.

Also the damage type versatility is not to be undervalued. Resistance to piecing damage sucks for a rogue otherwise.

GFB is situationally useful if you know that a target only has a few hp left. A rogue can let the splash damage finish it off and the remainder start on another target, rather than wasting the extra damage.

I guess so :). But I think this is a much smaller domain space than all the facets of the theory of "hidden".

Well there is no passive stealth check, which is the main beneficiary of reliable talent.

Really liked the podcast. Really cleared up a lot of the ad nauseum debates on hiding rules as intended.

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but one point of fact regarding power balance with GWM is that you are melee without a shield to use it. Haven't seen this point acknowledged, and is not insignificant.

Complications arise if you have players with constrained schedules who don't have much of a choice on which module/sessions they get to play. I'm guessing in most instances this is worked out without much drama - most people (players and DMs) are pretty reasonable and are willing to bend a...

Still waiting on the re-balance of existing feats...

I have to appreciate the attempt to try to fit initiative to "somehow" realistically count for why it can disrupt assassinate, because it is in the rules. However, in the end it's a silly way to do surprise, and no explanation based on realism for why it should be this way comes with any...

Once I was in this position. I was bound and gagged (kidnapped). The party found me and cut me loose, and I joined them.

Or you could start to allow finding and using armor from fallen enemies (which would also increase realism).

Maybe a bonus to attack to when in close range to more than one enemy? Or bonus action attack to a target that wasn't targeted by your first attack(s). I'm thinking Tom Cruise Last Samurai fight scene here.

I think the bell curve of adventurers would look a lot different than the bell curve of the population in general. You would imagine some natural selection going on for those who tried to make a career of adventuring and weren't physically suited for it in some form. I mean, you don't find a lot...

Yeah this is one of the few places where the 5e rules falls down, and there is no logical remedy apart from changing the rules. Beating initiative is a free weapon of warning randomly popping into existence? Um, no.