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Coming off watching a bunch of Poriot recently, in a Christie style mystery there often isn't a clear deductive through line to a single culprit, at least until the very end. There's often a lot of inference and circumstantial evidence that points towards multiple possible suspects and we often...

Not so much in D&D (outside of Paladin falling) but in White Wolf derived systems there's often a judgement - Virtue rolls to take a certain action in Exalted, Humanity damage in Vampire and so on. Implicit in this is the DM judging your character shouldn't do that based on backstory or stats...

I think the idea is that as written, the enemy needs to take the search action to find the character and beat their Dex (Stealth) score to find them. Looking behind a rock is a sensible narration of that check, though it might fail - failure might be narrated something like this scene from Two...

If I'm understanding @Charlaquin correctly here, the problem is basically that the abracadabra spell provides a list of conditions that end the Purple condition and the Purple condition has limitations on the benefits of the condition depending on whether the Purple creature can be "somehow...

7% increase from how much change in body mass? From the art you'd be expecting something like a gorilla in power for the half-orc compared to a child for the gnome, but the actual difference is pretty slim in any edition. Stats have pretty much always been pretty heavily abstracted

I think it was the conflict between the characterisation to date and the desire to win the encounter - was I projecting my (as a player) desire for "winning" over the personality of the character, or was I roleplaying the character's development of attachment to their comrades? Would I have made...

To give an example from a fairly recent game - it was a Ravnica based game and I was playing a law abiding Azorius functionary. As part of the characterisation, I decided to try and sure that the party didn't kill any citizens. I'd taken Spare the Dying as a cantrip and was delivering it by...

For what it's worth, I largely had this happen in a 4e game - I was playing the Warlord who was butting heads with another character. Depending on how the relationship was going we were using the definition of Ally to alter whether or not the rival character (and others, from time to time)...

After having a game fail fairly recently due to DM burnout, I've got a slightly different perspective on this. It was set in Ravnica, so a fairly open setting regarding character options, but even so everyone worked closely with the DM regarding their characters and ensured they were well...

I don't think I'd agree - you dispatch the orcs and need to climb a cliff before the goblins show up. When does the encounter end? Do you take a penalty to your climb rolls from fatigue? 3.5 has no answer. You rage once in the morning and spend a few hours in relaxation, you still can't rage...

Ironically enough, 3.5 Barbarian rage actually does have this ambiguity, as it references "the current encounter" to determine fatigue duration and when it can be activated, this is something that 4e actually cleared up and made less gamey

Quite so. But I do still find it funny how this was held up as the "video gamey" innovations of 4e while being a continuation of the way the game had been functioning for the best part of a decade.

Given how often the prone ooze thing comes up, I'll point out that you can make oozes prone in 3.5 - the ooze type does not provide prone immunity, gelatinous cubes (for example) don't have prone immunity and even causing the prone condition via a Trip attack only gave you a +4 bonus on the...

I think it's certainly possible, but requires a good amount of finesse. I was running Curse of Strahd in which the characters of the Kolyana siblings, Ismark and more importantly Ireena have potential significant arcs. The story of the module has the potential to revolve around Ireena and...

It doesn't even really need to be sat doing nothing - consider LOTR - the journey from Bag End to Mount Doom takes about six months. In that time how many fights do the fellowship get into? When they do it's often a flurry in short order (Helm's Deep, Siege of Gondor)

Let's see how one of the characters quoted as inspirational to D&D dies : " The first son of Calatan asked him for a spear, and threatened to satirize Cuchulain if he did not hand it over. Cuchulainn narrowed his eyes and said, “Never let it be said that I am not a generous person,” and he...

Would you say you should apply that to say, a rogue's Sneak Attack or Evasion abilities?

You are thinking of third ed there - the cube doesn't get prone immunity till 5th

Oh, you know, maybe some limit to the amount of healing someone can receive over time. Maybe a condition track for diseases and similar conditions. It's a real shame D&D has never explored this kind of thing ;)

A lion is about twice the weight of an adult man and vastly stronger (humans are unusually weak for their body weight compared to other primates, for various reasons).