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unfortunately i really doubt that was their reason, ASI are so overwhelmingly essential over anything else the option it's tied to provides which they already saw with species fixed ASI, people picked species for their ASI for their class, it's why they brought in floating to begin with to...

a bit late off the mark for this topic mainstream news...

no, it's simply that we recognise the difference between ethnicity and species, even if the latter has shared the inaccurate title of 'race' that belongs to the former.

every time i see this argument i want to ask the community 'is it biological essentialism that a tiger is more agile than an ox and the ox tougher?' the species of DnD are not comparible to the various races of humanity, because the human races are fundamentally still all humans and the fantasy...

In 5e GMs may have more power than they have had before (as much as they can have more power when the most fundamental rule of the game is ‘the GM has the final say on things, the rules obey them and are theirs to do with as they desire’), however, i feel that there is also a greater expectation...

floating ASI should've just remained floating, tying them down again but this time to background was a step backwards just stick them directly into stat generation if every species or background is going to provide the same +2/+1, the background features i don't think were a bad idea but i think...

Well if my character can’t be The Absolute Strongest Mechanically Possible from the word GO then they can’t be classified as strong at all, Relativity doesn’t exist.

as well as "the GM thought it was beatable and it was but the dice lined everything up exactly wrong"

i would disagree, because while they're all participants in the same game this does not mean their roles in that game are the same, a GM has a specifically different role from the players, a GM ideally does not fudge to achieve desirable outcomes but to prevent undesirable ones, and the subtle...

what makes LotR not that in your opinion? they might have a destination but they still explore and interact with the setting, and wanting to destroy the very evil one ring is a motivation that makes sense in the setting.

no, i don't think GMs should roll out in the open, in fact, i think there are even some kinds of player rolls that the player/group should not be aware of. it's nothing about illusionism, it's just that the world doesn't deign to tell people when they're attempting something impossible.

this is not intended to insult so apologies if it comes off that way but i feel like most people don't tend to percieve their own views as aberrant.

i think that was the more the philosophical-conceptual 'what really defines one?' question of 'what is an adventure hook' than 'i haven't heard of the term before'

Given performance is such a niche low-voted skill i wonder if you could integrate it into deception, as a more general capacity to act, be that for deceit or entertainment.

as well as your already mentioned roles as NPC allies and evil PC opposition i'd say they have a position as the guard forces of sacred relics, locations and such, to keep out neer-do-wells and as a test for 'heroes' who wish to access those things.

wanting to combine the various lore skills into one, it just makes me think of someone going: "oh, you're a particle physicist right? that means you obviously also know about 17th century french politics, flora and fauna diversity in the indian jungles and the four stages of enlightenment in...

good and evil are subjective concepts...in our world, in DnD world they are very real tangible forces, as real as gravity or magnetism, there are planes made of and afterlives for good/evil, that you can actually go to(at least i assume it's still so in 5e, you could in previous editions).

i don't think so, at least not in 5e, as has already been mentioned there's very few things a ranger does that magic doesn't already have a better answer for, plus i'm of the opinion that while rangers are primarily martial their survivalist archetype inclines them to never leaving a tool that's...

Of course, the OTHER problem with Intimidation is that it’s a social skill where the GM can decide that other guy in your group who mechanically is nonproficient and has a -1 CHA bonus gets to succeed without making a check because they RP’d good at being threatening.

why aren't the other people at the table and myself enough of an audience for the session to count as a story, if a band plays to themselves are they not still performing music? so why are the events of the session not 'a story' til it's recounted to a third party? what's the difference?