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I'm not disagreeing with you, I do like the overt signalling/communication advice you gave and do use it. Honestly I probably should use it a lot more, but if you will engage with some pushback on this. This happened yesterday in my session. EXAMPLE 1 Our paladin was being tested by a Deva in...

How this got approved as is, I will never understand. Surely they have a measurement/valuation system when building subclass features? I mean dropping a TwC in a dungeon, likely with high wisdom - they could see everything and notice everything from miles away. Same darkvision distance as a dragon.

@pemerton In my recent game something happened which very much I think speaks to the issue in your OP re DM fiat with the Alarm spell. 2 NPCs charged with tailing and bringing a PC to a named NPC of Sigil (Estavan) went terribly wrong. PC killed one of his tailers, the other managed to...

Sorry, I definitely wasn't - I was just asking why it would matter to you (if it did). I mean we all have opinions about what we like and what we do not - some of are more vocal than others on certain things. And I kind of find it common place to say I think this is rubbish or I think that is...

Why does it affect you so much?

I just want to say @Manbearcat you do an excellent analysis on the type of game I most enjoy running, highlighting possible pitfalls, some of which I have experienced myself over the years. I have in the last few years being concerned with illusionism, and you have guided me towards embracing...

You've just described me ;) I played a +10-hour duet last Saturday (2:30pm-1am including) whereby the PC was wrapping up their mini-campaign stint in Sigil and was attempting to return home to Toril to join the rest of the party by doing a leap of faith through one of the portals that appeared...

In the same way I expect how certain people in our RL may be significant to us without us actually having met them - an author, a celebrity, a politician, a sportstar, a musician...etc

I was fortunate to once meet a comic writer who wrote a fair amount for a comic line or two I had followed. I had a 15-20 minute sit down with him which was great. I got to ask him questions I had about this or that storyline, why they took a certain direction, left out that character, which...

How do you all feel about a character who has a bolted on shield onto their arm via interlocking plates, leaving a free hand? Is that too much munchkinism? If ok, how long would you say it takes to remove the shield? What other effects would be the downside? i.e. perhaps cannot climb with that...

I haven't followed the full thread... was the safe game not in relation to the in-game fiction? I totally misread that!

10-hour plane hopping marathon

Just finished with a duet-series of sessions with a player whose character ended up in Sigil and was trying to find a way back to his prime to the rest of the party. Tongues was the most important spell of the series and a constant source of attrition. What would have happened, had the...

People interact with their hobbies in different ways - imagine telling a long time Manchester United fan (if there are any left 😋) that they should engage/support another football team. The Maldini family have been AC Milan loyalists for 5 generations! (EDIT - I see Paolo Maldini was sacked as...

That is how I run things in D&D, no matter the edition. 5e does not have a very good system for encounter budget, particularly at higher levels, so I do not rely on it. I do for my own amusement calculate the budget anyways to see perhaps if I can identify a pattern that would help me fix the...

Yes (if it can be helped) but in practise it doesn't work out so cleanly to have all your homebrew rules sorted out from low/mid/high level. I think it depends on your table. I have a long standing group of friends with no trust issues thankfully. And I do not take it for granted! We are...

Let me give you some examples of what I mean: For instance I like to rotate the type of attacks done by a beholder and use his whole gamut of eye stalks in the encounter - so if the die roll roll reflects sequential eye stalks from round to round, I may change this (DM fiat). I may roll on the...

I see, so the argument you're making is your typically run AP by your average DM is likely to see stronger DM fiat that often circumvents the PC's actions in order to stay-on-course and encourage specific participation. Have I got that right?

Pemerton are you saying that at no time do you think that following the dice is not always the best idea or not best for the table?