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How would you prefer taunting to work against your PC? After all, if a ruling is made, it applies to every character in the game.

Agreed, which is why Wisdom\Insight is about intentions, not truth. A WIS roll won't tell you if what the NPC says is the truth or not, but it might tell you if the NPC believes it is the truth. "With your Wisdom, you see that the NPC is sweating slightly, and his eyes keep darting off to the...

I spent some time preparing for Ravenloft by learning what exactly "gothic horror" is. During this, I learnt that D&D doesn't do gothic horror all that well, but that's a discussion for another thread. A few sites I bookmarked: Gothic Horror at TV Tropes (Warning! TV Tropes! Your productivity...

Really? I guess it depends on the demon. We fought Yenoghu and in the first round of combat it had, essentially, nine attacks (at some high number, +16 if I remember right). We counted up something like 176 points of damage. In that same round we did just under 100 points, almost of which was...

DEX\Acrobatics was used last night. The party were fleeing from a house they had just robbed of a ceremonial greatsword. The character carrying it had just been caught up by the guards and in his attempt to break free, he dropped the sword! Another character was waiting on a roof, using wings...

I think that's a gret description of what Investigation is for and I'm going to start using it when I talk about it in my games. WIS notices a thing, INT makes connections between multiple things. If you haven't noticed a thing then you can't make connections, but just because you noticed it...

I add value to INT by asking for more INT checks. For example, disarming a trap is an INT\Thief's Tools check. Camouflaging a shelter is an INT\Stealth check. Searching a room for a hidden object is an INT\Investigation check. I do like the seperation of perception and investigation. The trope...

I like declaration but my current players hate it. The thought of somehow losing an action is apparantly the most henious thing that can ever happen at the table, at least according to the reaction I got from them when we tried a couple of alternatives.

This assumes that science works in your world, which is not a given. For example, in the game I run, the scientific method is not reliable. In short, magic messes with the laws of physics. A 20th century scientist might be incredibly handicapped because their assumptions make them less abvle to...

I disagree. If someone or something is hidden from me, it simply means they are concealed, obscured or covert from me. That may or may not have involved an ability check, which may or may not have been DEX\Stealth.

True, but that's not going to happen in D&D 5E. You can only grapple or shove a foe if the foe is no more than one size larger than you.

I would phrase it the opposite way: if no-one knows where you are then you are hidden. A roll is simply one way (of many) to change from "someone knows where you are" to "no-one knows where you are". For example, an invisible, silenced, flying creature is hidden because no-one knows where they...

I try to enforce the second option, but players often follow the "talking is a free action" idea to an extreme, having big long conversations at any and every point in combat (and then complaining about how little XP they get per session after one combat takes 3 hours, but that's a rant for...

Three possibilities, including my vote: they are a different thing called natural weapons. An attack with a natural weapon is a melee weapon attack, but is not an attack with a melee weapon or an unarmed attack.

I would argue that studded leather doesn't contain significant amounts of metal because, by RAW, it only weighs 3lb more than leather armour.

I worry that allowing spellcasting to be disrupted in combat is going to take us back to the OD&D days, where casters used crossbows in combat, not spells, making the player wonder, "So why did I play a mage again?".

Wow, that gives me an idea for an interesting adventure hook. My players are the type that would cast stone to flesh and/or raise dead on a statue they encounter. What would they do with an unpetrified but still dead body?

What does "update Greyhawk to 5E" actually mean? What is stopping a GM from taking the Greyhawk supplements and just using them in a 5E game? After all, the edition of D&D doesn't affect the borders of Geoff or the ruler of The Scarlet Brotherhood or what year Furyondy was founded.

The second option would be phrased here as "While you take the Law course, you may take a room."

The second option would be phrased here as "While you take the Law course, you may take a room."