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OMG, just shoot me in the knee.

Sure, but modern combatants aren't looking for secret passages, trying to haul treasure, or following magical motes. They are watching for traps (mines) hopefully, and a torchbearer can do this too, but only the torchbearer chooses from the dilemma: do I follow the sparse lighting already in...

It's a difference, but I'm thinking more "remove them from combat" than "PC gets disadvantage, 4 point penalty, must guess where opponent is, etc." It's the former case of "everyone gets low light treatment" that treats everyone exactly the same.

There's a third choice. - Let everybody have the information and treat them the same, with exceptions for scouts. If there's a melee in poor lighting (i.e. by firelight), even the darksighted characters are going to have to deal with moving shadows and light sources. Being able to see...

Meh. DMs have it bad enough. PCs can help a little. The DM describes everything in normal vision range. On her turn (?) a PC can ask, "I use my darkvision. What do I see?" Or the DM says which enemies are in dim light, and the darkvision PC can go, "I don't have disadvantage due to darkvision."

That would be nice, wouldn't it? If DDB is like most things corporate, actually getting a person on the phone who understands your problem, and is enabled to fix it, will be an ordeal of its own. Blockhead, I sent you an XP in the hopes that gaining a level speeds up the process.

It's the D&D dungeon crawling motto: Doors & Darkvision.

Oh, come on. Playing slot machines involves a lot of important choices. Do I ask the gal next to me to put out her cigarette, or move to another machine? How much longer can I hold out before my bladder bursts? Someone on the other side just hit a big payout, so should I move to another set...

The poll needs a 5RD-only option. I'm not paying for that stuff.

Huh. The cyclops always struck me as a singular-not-dual type of guy.

The only reason to do the same thing each round is if it's working. If the PCs can't recognize this, then Darwin wins again.

This seems to throw a good chunk of the armor rules out with the bathwater. How are you accounting for a solid AC 20?

I didn't catch the "common misconceptions" part of that blog. Nor: This isn't backed up, but seems to be the underlying prejudice of most of the blog post. So, traps can't be spotted within 20 feet, but they can within 40? I mean, some traps might "come" at the PCs, but I expect those to be...

Leading off with hatred. Interesting . . . That's pretty cool. Let the PCs choose the takedown. Death by spear. Power source shattered. Forced to wear a big, red, "F." What about an Ancient Gold Dragon? I've been thinking about those for some reason lately. Yeah, I was going to say...

New ability: Remove-Stick-From-Butt. @AlViking 's Retreat option is good. It's not, by the way, too late to look to Santa for paladin-like inspiration. I'm guessing Summon Sleigh is out, but temporary darkvision might be cool. I just can't picture a D&D character who's not into mounts...

But are you going to shelve it next to your copies of Level Up A5e or Tales of the Valiant?

I'm going on three editions that I haven't bought. It's like leaving behind Velveeta and cheddar after discovering that there are different kinds of cheese - all better than what you used to eat. Yeah they have. They did us the favor of not releasing a "new edition." Oh, and they're giving...

Huh. Scouting without darkvision really makes one experience the dungeon in a new, non-visual way. If one must scout in the dark, one must use ears to listen carefully, hands to feel around, a nose to decide which way smells less foul . . . If you have a map of the dungeon, you can "memorize"...

Jump-scares can happen anytime, anyplace. But without darkvision 120, it's more likely that an explorer's first warning of trouble arises at only 10-20 feet away, which is really bad if that trouble is something you don't want to tangle with. That's not media training. That's evolutionary...

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