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OK - assuming that these issues are indeed issues (I'm not convinced), you've made 2 decisions I personally don't think hold water..... 1) The Gal who says I want to be X/Y also has a GM at the table - collaboratively, the GM can allow a minor class rejig if the player feels they have made a...

I'm really struggling to assess whether your solution(s) so far have game damaging drawbacks or not, because I'm somewhat confused as to the problem you're trying to solve. It appears your complaint falls into 2 broad categories... 1) You might have to buy levels you don't care about (as there...

As with all design systems, the ideal thing to do, I'd say, is to find an ideal or common end point with which everyone can work towards. In this instance: What do you want ability scores to do. There are a number of factors at play: Mechanical, realism, player choice, description via numbers...

I think the issue is there's a schism between 2 ideals of what a D&D game should be. Some people want to play a D&D video game. Other people want to play D&D in a video game. That sounds like splitting hairs, but the two mindsets are miles apart. Group 1 want the feel and lore of D&D in their...

Well actually, if any character is going to start with high str (athletics), and high dex (stealth, acrobatics), it's going to be a melee Ranger. If you focus on skills before attributes, medium armor for a Ranger makes lots of sense......

I can't suggest using Kobald fight club to adjust the encounter difficulty enough. A prime example is the Collapsed Cavern fight. It appears to have 5 bugbears and 1 Doppleganger. When pitted against the party it's intended for (5 x level 4) it's ranked as Deadly! Change that to 6 level 5...

True - I went for a mid point. Interstingly, using the numbers you have below and using non-extreme to hit ranges (4-17 for the GWF = 2-15 for the crossbowman), you get a damage output increase of between 3% and 30%. An even chance to hit gives a 10% difference Which is fair - also worth...

Sure - if that's the way you play the game, then cool. I mean honestly, it's totally valid - no snark, no sarcasm, no judgement, no nothing. Really. It doesn't put barriers through excessive role-play, people roll dice and get involved in stuff, and the more dice rolled = more nat 20s which...

Just as an aside, I did that maths on this in a previous post and its under about 1d6 difference on top of 40 points of damage per turn.

I’ve always been arguing that stats are significant – I’ve just been saying though that they are not only mechanically significant. There are many ways of playing the game (from a GM and Player PoV). In some games, focusing on CON has No drawbacks. In some games, focusing on Con has significant...

That's totally fair - at the end of the day D&D design choices are exactly that: Choices. And unless you're being asshat unreasonable, most positions on those choices are valid. I disagree with them, but they are an equally valid way of playing the game... Soooooooooooo...... From that...

The reason I ask is because when you plug the numbers into kobald fight Club, the difficulty drops massively when: A) you hit level 5 (two attacks) and B) you have more than five players (in 5e because of bounded accuracy it's actually attack rolls being made more than hp that starts to affect...

Ok - I'll look it up...... How many players int he party and what's their Level???.....am I right in thinking you've got 6 at level 5??

Just a quick one - can you list the monsters in the last major fight they breezed, and the number and level of the party at that time? Might be worth checking if it's simply about a minor encounter tweak....

Yes, this is basically the real argument - it's not that Medium armour doesn't do what it should (it does), it's that should you be choosing between a STR or Dex for a Melee character that doesn't have access to Heavy armour, but does have access to Medium armour. Again, looking at the only 3...

Or characters who don't focus on/have either.......I mean the frail wizened Druid, or fat old Knowledge Cleric is unlikely to have more than 12 Dex according to their character.

That's a bit of a false argument. You don't need Dex 14 for medium armour to be effective. You only need it to compare to a 18+ Dex Light armour character. As all classes with Medium armour have light armour, if you're Dex is 18+, you can just not wear Medium armour. No damage done. However...

Generally speaking, the only main issue is you've nerfed Barbarian Unarmoured Defence until Con gets up to 20 - most every Barbarian now is going to default to Medium Armour and Low Dex (they might add Dex back on for saves tho). Conan is no more. But generally speaking, meh, not too much of an...

Note I didn't say anything about other ways of dying, only "Not dying" being your only measure (And therefore, Not Dying being your primary or sole concern). Now that may be Your opinion and preference, and that's totally fine, but for a large % of other players of the game, having a few HP less...

Well yes, that's what Backgrounds are for, they're there to round out character. However, the point here isn't something specific, but something more nebulous about what stats can (I won't go as far to say supposed to because that's badwrongfunning - Everyone is entirely entitled to play the...