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Aren't dragon claws counted as magical, meaning that the feat doesn't apply? I don't have my MM in front of me, so I could be mistaken.

That's good in a story, but I've never seen it happen in my own games, and I've never heard of it happening here on the site in any of the threads I've read over 15 years. Seems kind of a statistical outlier to me. I do see adventurers retire after a near-TPK, though, when one or two heroes...

This totally made me laugh. :)

Totally a bug.

Awesome! Thanks for the explanation. I get it. I'm not sure I'd do it, myself (I'd be more likely to tell the player "you can bring in a character of any level from 1st to X, your choice"), but I get it. I really agree with you about the organic sense of growth, and the importance of rank to...

It's a great feat, although its effectiveness tails off once foes have weapons that count as magical. One of the things I like most about it is that it's particularly good against swarms of less powerful monsters, and it always reminds you that it's working. I personally love situational feats...

Okay, I totally get how it could work (albeit with a lot of tender loving DM attention and care.) The question for me is "why do I want to do this?" Or heck, "why is this a good idea?" It seems unrealistic on a narrative level; when the high-level grifters on Leverage lost Sophie for a season...

Mine is cracked after minimal use. No pages out yet, but it's just a matter of time.

Nope nope nope n... huh. I... huh. Interesting. Maybe. EDIT: I wonder how much this disincentivizes death-defying heroics and noble sacrifices. If I'd have to bring a 1st lvl PC into the 15th lvl party, you can bet I'll think twice before heroically sacrificing myself, and that seems like a shame.

My group had three noble PCs, and two of those nobles had chosen "retainers" as their background benefit. They had the servants wait with the wagon.

Here's the superb grappling guide, incidentally, if that turns out to be the path your player has planned. http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4142801

If he's a power player and he wants to play a bard, I bet he wants to grapple. Bards make the best grapplers! It's a cool, effective tactic so I'm not sure I'd shut it down, but be aware that's a likely plan.

> Pinball doesn't like to lead because he wants to be subverting authority, not be the authority. Interesting. Have you assigned them to work for someone obnoxious and pretentious, who they can then make look bad?

Janx, I'd do the same. Choices have consequences, but you don't want to encourage analysis paralysis. You DO want to discourage non-action. I like the idea of consequences in that case. Stupid question, Gneech. Have you guys had a group meeting where you say, for the love of all that is holy...

Bluntly, sure! Feed regularly, reward great behavior, ignore bad behavior, set them up to win.

I rely heavily on positive conditioning, especially when gaming. Basically, you're clicker-training (see Karen Pryor's "Don't Shoot the Dog") your players. Have you considered this approach? For instance, we use hero points in our superhero games to reward the kind of behavior we want to see...

Henrix, I'm running something remarkably close to that right now. It's a great adventure hook.

Sagiro has been playing with his 9 and 6 year old daughters. I'll link him here!

Someone is jealous he didn't think of it first.

I once repackaged a beholder as nearly a dozen dead wizards necromantically sewn together into a single levitating arcane golem's body, heads and arms sprouting off the torso at weird angles, each with wands or a hand to cast with. Completely freaked them out.