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Since crawling is not "basically climbing across the floor," no.

I'm not really sure what you're looking for. You say EK isn't a good fit, which makes it sound like "armored spellcaster" is out of the question. Your warlock build is just a somewhat standard EB build, so there's no reason to worry about getting in the thick of things (you can, it's just not...

Same reason a bear will stop chasing you if it can't catch up with you for some reason. It's a savage beast, not Hodor. Odds are it has all kinds of things to smash and destroy in its bestial rage, and one floating wizard (or wizard riding around on a magical horse, etc) isn't likely going to...

In order for it to work, you'd have to be cheesing it. Or fighting in a vacuum. Otherwise the thing will just ignore you while it rampages on until you eventually kill it. By then, everyone else in the region is dead from collapsed buildings or whatever. These aren't like dragons where you...

Interesting responses. One thing that stands out is how many people consider it weaker than it's presented because of "cheese" rules that can be used to kill it. In a vacuum, I'd agree. But in the context of the thing rampaging through a city, is it really a "win" if the city is leveled and...

5th edition, specifically, but I'm also curious about how encounters went in other editions. Bonus question: how do you pronounce it? I've always said "tah-ras-kee."

I wonder how many people who voted are actually GM's, and not just players who like the skill...

Not a fan of the fluff, but that's not a problem you should care about. What I will say is that the Dodge action in 5e is not a very good one to have a class improve. The problem is that Dodge is kind of something that is best only here or there, otherwise it does nothing but slow the fight...

My method for dealing with this is to allow armor to absorb a fatal crit by breaking. It basically works well enough for the rest of combat, but then needs to be repaired or replaced. The purpose is to give the players a way of surviving bad luck (or I guess good luck on my part), and a chance...

This is not true, unless we're talking about being knocked out or asleep or something, because everyone is actively staying alert. Example: guards on duty have their passive perception used as the DC for sneaking past them. That doesn't mean they are actively looking out for thieves, either...

Yes there is. Several, actually.

I'm not very hardcore with death, although sometimes I would like to be. If a character dies, I usually ask the player if they want to roll a new one or keep that one; sometime players are just bored with them, so it's good to give a way out. If they want to keep it, I just basically resurrect...

None of these are practical, in my experience. Anyway, I totally sympathize with the topic though. As a gm, it's always frustrating to spent time preparing for adventures, coming up with ideas, balancing things, developing npcs, and all the other stuff that goes with it, only to have players...

I tried getting this point across as well, but gave up.

You're the GM, but it sounds to me like his character would be more fun by just dealing with the dex penalties, but boosting the stat as he levels up. That would be a real sense of progression. Or, as I'd probably have recommended the player do in the first place, don't dump your worst score...

If he wanted to be a dwarven archer, why didn't he put his high stat in dex and be done with it? It sounds like he's asking you to help fix a character weakness he willingly took.

I think you're handling perception wrong. In 5th edition, passive perception is sort of the default based on normal "awareness." So like, walking through the market to buy some apples, the pickpocket would have to roll against your passive perception to steal from you without being noticed...

Famous last words. Anyway, what exactly are they trying to accomplish with strength-based ranged attacks?

What you choose to believe has no bearing on reality, but anyway... If you want to make magic items more common, you can use the method I'm using: 1. weapon bonus to hit and damage are not magical; they are "masterwork." So a sword +1 is not a magical sword, but something that can be crafted...

One of the few weaknesses for strength-based characters is their general ineffectiveness at ranged combat. Get them in close, and they'll outdamage most other dex-based melee characters with a gap that only widens as they get more and more attacks each round. By giving these characters...