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If I could have, I would have killed this thread 12 pages back ;)

That is going to lead to way more Drow encountes than originally intended. The pursuit rules allow the PCs to stay out of the Drow's reach, as long as they keep moving, especially if they are moving fast. Your system would have them harrassed by drow regularly. There are plenty of other...

I prefer the additional feat and profs. They add a little without getting out of hand. It's also more likely to get used. DM's are already familar with feats and skills and can easily decide if PC's having an additional 1, or 2, is right for their campaign. Having a whole list of new...

You are correct. Mountain Dwarf +2 STR & +2 CON. We were rolling 4d6, discard the lowest. One guy "rolled" 3 18's while the DM was half paying attention, and insisted it was legit. I rolled mine in front of the DM, but left the 4th dice on a 6 for every roll. The DM and the players other than...

I think you meant AWESOME !! It wouldn't work on every gaming table, but it works in ours. He's actually a Barbarian 1 Ranger 1 FIghter 1 Cleric 1 Rogue 1 Sorcerer 1, and his AC is only 21 (13+3+5)

Optional rules are something the D&D designers put in the game that may or may not be needed, based on playstytle. House Rules are when individual DMs come up with a rule to cover something not included in the rules, or when an individual DM thinks it should be handled differently than in the...

RAW they don't stack in 5E. They would have stacked in 3E, and I think that is where a lot of confusion about this comes from. As usual for D&D though, it's up to the dungeon master to decide what is right for his campaign. I's up to you to decide how you want it to work. Don't let the player...

Even if you are using the flanking rule , the DM still has the final say if it does, or does not apply. Just this weekend, at our gaming table, a dwarf tried to flank a HUGE hydra, and the DM said he was too insignificant a threat to distract the Hydra enough to grant a flanking bonus. We used...

My game design theory is that it is better to have a rule to follow, that the DM can ignore, than no guideline at all.

At some point it's just going to be easier to play 3E with whatever 5E rules added in. ;)

It's not an irrefutable fact. Your defining "standard" as not to include "optional" while I'm defining "standard" to inlcude all rules from core rulebooks. You chided me when I mentioned using the very rule this thread is about. How do you not see the irony ?

Are you familiar with the phrase "the pot calling the kettle black" You asked a question, I answered, and you told me what the "standard" was, and then scolded me about about delcaring what my standard was.

If you are discounting the optional rules an average gnome can carry THREE other gnomes and make a 10ft jump with them on his shoulders, with a running start. Flanking is in the DMG, it's not a house rule, it's not a DMsguild supplement, it's in a core rulebook. If it's in a core rulebook...

The math depends on how good both creatures are at doing the task. If they are equally good at the task, the help action is generally inferior, since the reduced damage potential. Where it becomes useful is if one creature is inferrior to the other. A goblin can Help a bugbear, who has a much...

You mentioned Evil PCs and it made me smile. One of our most successful campaigns ever was an ALL Evil campaign. We had pretty much established at the get go that since everyone was evil that if any one character got too far out of line that he would be quickly, and harshly, dealt with by the...

My dirty secret is that, in the campaign I'm currently playing in, my character is more attached the to NPCs travelling with us than any of the player characters.

You may want to put a cap of gaining only a single feat in this method. My first thought was to roll up a meat head human variant Fighter taking 2+ major flaws and having 3-4 starting feats. Like the whole concept BTW. Reminds me of Vampire the Masquerade

The flanking rule works as is. If you disagree with it, it is your prerogative as a DM not to use it. Declaring, that since you disagree with it, there is no need for it, is short sited, and a bit of a douche move.

BOTH flankers are trying to kill the enemy, that's why they are so distracting. In a meta-gaming way I understand what you are suggesting, but no one is going to ignore someone stabbing them in the back to concentrate on someone in front of them, and if they did, it would be terribly...

Ooh, Ooh, I forgot one. Players who don't break character when dealing with other players. Barbarian get's knocked out and he has the only magical weapon in the party, while we are fighting a creature that requires magical weapons to harm. Another character picks up the enchanted axe, defeats...