Search results

This is exactly the kind of things higher-level D&D should entail. They make sense when you're looking into the demon king's army or the angelic militia or the united elemental forces, which should be the odds you're up against. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong or disruptive...

So, D&D isn't a true wargame where you're supposed to emulate real-world warfare. Generally, if a war is happening and it doesn't directly influence the main focus that the party is going through, it gets handwaved in a sentence or two. "The Ilustian army is in war with the Crote army." At...

To use the vase as an example, usually I'd doubt they'd break the vase for the sake of breaking the vase. Like, I know that the immediate goal is to break the vase, but what I want to preserve is the surprise of the results. So, they say they want to break the vase and I say "sure." They might...

But we're choosing the list of characters based on popularity in all fantasy, not just LoTR, and the number of characters in the fellowship doesn't directly correlate to the likelihood of them being more popular. So, while LoTR might have a higher percentage of fighters, Harry Potter is almost...

These are incredibly broad-stroke assumptions and they even have numbers attached. Is there any official way to get that information? Because I just asked my sister to name the first fantasy character off the top of her head and she said Gandalf. I asked her for the next one and she said Frodo...

I don't think you're wrong. My style is pretty much adjusted for my main group. They think its pretty fun to "mess with my plans" so having me know what they're up to can reduce that fun for them. In reality, I don't mind them going off "the railroad" since I only really sell the illusion that...

Some players really like to have the element of surprise for the big "wow" factor or don't want the DM to let them do something out of pride. Some players want their plans to surprise even the DM. I respect that, so I at least let them think through the situation with informed choices before I...

Well, that's what I do. Part of that is transparency through communication. Give them the information they need and let them figure out how they want to acheive their goals. Obviously, I can't give the statblock for every object the players come across but giving that information when its...

I think players, especially newer players, will assume their intentions are clear when they declare their action but don't realize that they've added something extra that the DM might interpret too literally. Like if a player is trying to attack the castle gate, the DM probably has good reason...

The circumstances I want to avoid are when the player isn't trying to be cool but their actual goal doesn't have to specifically be what they initially say. For the "punch a warship" example, maybe the player imagines that scenario being the coolest, but they really just want to destroy the...

At the very least, only the warcleric can actually use Martial ranged weapons with proficiency.

I was avoiding specificity so that you can generalize your idea of item breaking. For instance, I personally allow breaking anything, but I let the player decide how they want to try and I inform them whether it will work. Like, I don't have a problem with a player saying "I want to break a...

I guess I'm asking what details make you outright say "no." So rather than indescript information, you can add what your limit is.

Imagine this: A player looks at an object of indescript material, location, and size. The player decides they want to break the object. Do you let them do so? And how do you do it? What is the limit? Does it depend on context or as long as the object doesn't say its unbreakable, they can...

Personally, I don't care at all if the fighter actually does cross into magic. If it was up to me, every character in D&D would be inherently magical and at high-levels, its the martial's internal magic from their body's capacity to handle it that would fuel their extraordinary abilities. And...

This is generally what I meant, yeah. When I play, I often assume no houserules at all unless explicitly stated. Though, I do understand if a DM or player is so used to a houserule they just assume its active. I haven't played online D&D with strangers since 5e came out, so I was wondering if...

I find it interesting that these discussions pretty much never even have a passing mention of the Monk. Despite that the monk can run almost 200ft up a wall, almost always nullify terminal fall damage, wade through a poison lake or run over it if they want to, survive indefinitely without food...

Yeah, Chatgpt is very convenient especially for scenarios where it's best to fill a void in a setting or area, but you don't feel like writing the particulars.

I would also like to ask: How would you, as a DM, feel if a player was upset that you weren't using a certain common houserule? And how would you feel as a player if a DM doesn't use a houserule that you were used to?

There are some popular houserules, like handwaving Ammo and carrying capacity, that the D&D community kinda assumes is common enough that if you were to walk into a random table, you could expect not to run the rules RAW. What are those houserules and what do you think about the idea of...