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I don't see this as a good change as TWF style without feats has the highest ave. Damage per Round (aDPR). If you look at the different fighting styles {Archery, Dueling, GWF, TWF} they are in that order for aDPR. At level 1 assuming an AC of 13, accounting for criticals, and assuming a point...

So much failed reading comprehension here: I specifically stated that is was the most common adjudication I had seen (placed in italics to emphasize this aspect). I did not state that it is the most common adjudication in total - I literally have no way of knowing that. Yes you provided...

You are making a silly assumption. You are assuming that the starting weapons all can be equipped at the same time. That is neither supported nor implied by the rules. Owning does not mean they can all be equipped. It is also silly as many games just have the characters buy their starting...

As I DM I would challenge you to show me how you could carry all of those weapons and draw the weapon you needed and more importantly fight with all of the other weapons festooned on you. As a general rule, I do not allow a character to have more than three weapons on their person (include a...

Yes, but you should have reduced the damage die as well by one because he was using the sword inefficiently, thus creating the trade off.

If you look at the various examples in published modules, you will often see that the DC for active is 5 lower than the DC for passive. Also, some things cannot be discovered by passive perception alone.

That you are asking these two questions show you don't understand the points being made by others. Go back and read either my post or the one you just posted where you take apart the rule. The point you have been trying to make is that allowing a shield to use a d6 is a house rule and not a GM...

There are two parts to the rule that are under discussion: can a shield benefit from proficiency and what damage does it do. Both of these fall under the GM's interpretation and are not house rules per se, since the rule above clearly puts it on the GM to determine this. This was the heart of...

No it is not. You are being imprecise with your terminology. The rhetorical technique he is using is called reductio ad absurdum.

I would like to add that giving a shield a d6 damage as an improvised weapon is entirely reasonable. In the SCA, hitting someone with a shield is not allowed as the energy from a hit (with shields that have been nerfed, btw) can knock out or kill someone wearing armor -- especially a blow to...

I agree it isn't necessarily a bad thing, but for an investigation it comes across as the DM leading the players by the nose instead of the players cleverly putting together the clues. I think they could have done a much better job on this part. Plus the end of Chapter 3 has too much based on...

I hate to break it to you, but if you don't know your creatures capabilities, then don't get upset when the encounter doesn't play out as you hoped. There is literally NO way the creature in question with his pet do not know about the party when they enter the lair. The creature in question is...

Before you claim someone is wrong, you should at least be right. Oaths existed before monotheism and in most polytheistic cultures, they did not see their gods as all seeing cosmic policemen. This is just flat out wrong.

What is rare, uncommon, and common are decided on by the manufacture and not by demand per se. If they priced the miniatures based on production costs they would not have this issue.

What is rare, uncommon, and common are decided on by the manufacture and not by demand per se. If they priced the miniatures based on production costs they would not have this issue.

A statue can be grappled, it just loses the contest. Logically, it is no different than grappling a person. I would have to see an example of a single person grappling a brown bear and "diverting its momentum into the direction you want". It also is contradicted by your assertion that...

No one said or implied that rules have precedence because they occur earlier in the book. However, what you do imply is the following scenario: You come across a statue that weights 10 tons. Clearly by the encumbrance rules you cannot move it (it is medium-sized and made of solid gold)...

Classically, the werewolf immunity isn't that the weapons cannot hurt them, it is just they regenerate damage so quickly that they don't have much effect. Only aggravated damage that they cannot heal quickly makes any difference. I would also rule (and do so in my game) that were creatures...

Uh, no. Exceptions Supersede General Rules. When an exception and a general rule disagree, the exception wins. There isn't an exception in the grapple rules on how much a character can drag or lift.

What I can tell you is that I have been running with the optional flanking rule from the DMG for quite a while now. It hasn't been a negative in the game I am playing. I have been using it in a Curse of Strahd campaign. However, as a DM I normally run encounters in which the number are...