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In my experience, parties take a portfolio approach to skill coverage, since they typically will only need one person to be good enough at a skill in a given moment. This is different from combat, where everyone needs to be contributing something during the encounter. Players only have 4-7...

For an average person..this is not a bad result.

The funny thing is that 5e already has a tool to emulate this, to a certain degree anyway.. Jack of all trades. It's not like there's anything uniquely Bardic here. The ability entry doesn't even try to justify it. So, instead of tying this exclusively to the Bard class, a full casting class...

Enhh. It depends on what level of learning you're talking about. A person who knows nothing about golfing can pretty quickly learn things like what the different clubs are meant to do, things to look out for on a hole , some basic swing mechanics, etc. Same way with most things. You might not...

Is it though? By high level, ol' Petey has been wearing this armor forever, they know it like the back of their hand, treat it like a second skin. They know it's tics and foibles. They have moved in it, every way it is possible to move. They are, one might say, "proficient", in this armor's...

How often does he try, who knows? Is he in a party with one or more professional sneaks who could give him pointers (reasonably likely), who knows? The point is it doesn't matter how much effort he puts into it in-game. It doesn't matter who his party members are or what he does with them...

Yes and no. Mechanically it makes sense. Experientially, it suggests that, despite all his time adventuring, Peter Paladin has somehow learned nothing about stealth, like he has made a conscious effort to glean no insights from his life experience outside of a very narrow scope.

Could make it crunchier, yeah, if folks have the appetite for it. That said, even with the version I mentioned, the PC still has to hit, and lower combat power classes would have a harder time doing that.

Yeah, that's the idea anyway. There still would be some level of battlefield admin complication if there are lower-levelled allies participating in the battle, but it'd be limited to "PCs get to ignore HP for x, y, and z enemy types, while every other participant follows rules as normal" And...

If you make it monster-side, you can pick and choose monsters you want to have this trait and monsters you don't. It may make sense for an ogre to be a minion, where it might not make sense for, say, a gelatinous cube.

Could have a monster-side trait..say 'minion 17'. Characters level 17 or greater treat the creature as a minion, otherwise no change to the statblock. Retainers can gang up on an ogre to kill through hp depletion. PCs can one shot the creature. You run them like regular monsters at the table...

To LaNasa's credit, he is saving the D&D community quite a bit of angst by producing trash work. If it were work of any quality, there'd be a whole conversation about separating the art from the artist, the ethics of buying good products when it benefits bad people, and all that. It'd be like...

"Exzistz"

Let's hope not. I cannot imagine a more cursed child. This is a joke not a commentary on any game system.

In my experience, the value of played out travel time is in the opportunity to tell the players more about the world and reflect the passage of time. You can get your "here there be monsters" moments, your "your caravan is halted as a large force of heavily armed imperial soldiers marches...

It's a nice sentiment... ..from a nigh immortal dilettante who makes use of all of time and space, with near zero resource constraints or external responsibilities (This may not be the only way to view The Doctor 😉)

Most kinds of base management-style logistics. You start giving me a list of build costs and hireling costs, taxes, maintenance, docking fees, etc. I zone out pretty fast. It works similarly with equipment and encumbrance. If I need excel open to participate in a gameplay element, I'd just...

You left a Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum in your toilet?? Don't you know those things are worth millions of dollars?

It's nice that he's contributing dictionary art for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Probably best to use the guy in away games. I'd expect some pretty extreme home/road splits.