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I believe that's called Andorwear?

And everything you've described still sounds to me Iike a social issue rather than a game failure. Because what has to happen is that people (both GM and players) have to be deciding that the game is more important than the participants. I'm sure that's a thing that happens. And I wouldn't say...

Not the person you are replying to, but it's hard for me to see a gaming group breakup as anything other than a social thing, especially for long term groups. For the game to even be a considering factor, people's experience must be so bad that it outweighs how much they enjoy each other, and...

Sure just like every other reliable 6 second thing in D&D.

Like 80% of professional wrestling promos.

And if, for some reason, you couldn't reach them or didn't have an attack to spare on your turn, having an option to grapple on a reaction is good and will sometimes be competitive with deflect. Really just depends.

Is there something about giving monsters appropriate athletics or acrobatics proficiency that you feel is somehow impossible to achieve? Like, I'm legitimately struggling to think of a reason for why this would take more than 30 seconds per monster.

Ennhh..is it too much? We're talking 2 relevant and directly PC-symmetric skills, and a checked box for either of them does the trick. Like this is not heavy duty, iterative design work. I'd just about wager you could have an intern go through all the existing monsters in 5e and have...

I'd argue that it's less an issue of the defense not existing and more a matter of designers failure to apply them. It's not like giving 5e monsters the appropriate skills to defend against grappling would have unbalanced their performance in other areas.

I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with a martial bypassing either or both of HP and AC so long as there is a relevant alternative defense that has been appropriately designed for the creature. With that in mind, I'm not inclined to care overmuch whether it is a contested skill...

Ennhh. I think that's a matter of taste. For my money, the fiction of it all is primarliy the province of the DM and the players. Deciding the fiction is fun and easy. Game balance..less so in both cases.

The archer would be "throwing themselves" from a height not much taller than a single story building (with an opportunity to catch themselves btw) But the point is that this is not a "castle wall" except in the loosest definition of the word castle. It is a significant overexaggeration of the...

Didn't play 4e, so googling things..the distance appears to be "burst 3", which appears to correlate to within 3 five-foot squares of the fighter. I haven't seen a lot of castles, but I can buy a 15 ft ladder at Home Depot, and I feel like they don't scale the equipment at Home Depot for...

It's that way with a lot of things in D&D if you apply a 'real world' lens to it. Worse, it's not like people will apply the same lens to everything, or that two people will look through that lens and reach the same conclusions. Can centaurs climb, how do giants get around square/cube laws, how...

I'm not sure this is a worse approach than banking on knowing and incorporating a whole bunch of individual eccentric interpretations of what can and cannot happen in explicity supernatural fantasy settings. E.g. What is the bodily experience and composition of a fire elemental? What is...

Yep. Never said that it would. Just that "Combat is the only thing that matters" is a bad argument. Instead it does a tiny bit to solidify niches between combat and noncombat. And again. It would not prevent all casting in combat. It would make casting in combat riskier, but only in very...

"Quite often" is a far cry from "100% of the time". And balance outside of combat is one of the most significant complaints that has been raised about the balance between martials and casters. That for many martials, they basically turn off their class features until initiative is rolled...

Accept as what? That they have them? That there is some basis for them? That they are correct to have those feelings? Something else about them? And about the whole system? Or particular aspects of it? Because, it seems to me, that, at least in the recent discourse, the thrust was "I...

I sometimes wonder if the way we envision AoE spells makes sense. Like, why presume that the spell impacts an area uniformly. From a rules perspective, I certainly get it, but these are workings of magic, not science or geometry. It could just be that a successful saving throw means that you...

You say we must include as one of our parameters to judge 4e the history of D&D. I'm asking what is the question you think we are trying to answer with this judgement? There should be some agreement on what the question is before trying to stake out the relevant evidence for one conclusion or...