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Yep. Thaumaturge.

I think Minigiant agrees with you. I do, too, though I'm the one taking the "I'm not reading every spell" position. Thaumaturge.

I wouldn't say I rely upon it, either. My current group just happens to be comprised of people who are nice. :) My whole table is, I think, tired of having to worry about every "-2 to precise tasks" that crops up. We work together to make sure no one's wrecking the table. Oh goodness. Now I...

Took mine to GenCon and back, and I use it regularly. It's fine. Happy New Year! Thaumaturge!

And my, ultimately minor, tweak would be "I tend to at least be familiar with the spells and feats a character actually uses". See my previous comments about my tiredness and poor D&D play. And, fair or not, Dragon death would probably get used at my table first. Then I'd take a look at it and...

Welcome! That's an interesting idea, for sure. Giving the fighter three automatic "outs" a day is probably a pretty good tweak. When this discussion was happening, we didn't know about Legendary Resistance, I don't believe. (I now understand the horror of thread necromancy--I had no idea what...

Now, don't get whiplash or anything, but I agree with a lot of this. :) My best guess is I view knowing what spells a PC has prepped as different from being familiar with how stealth or TWF work. In all of the tables I'm running right now, there are no Druids, so I've only vaguely familiarized...

Regrettably, no, I never did. I remember it being popular at the time. The link still works, I should check it out. Though, I just read the last page. :.-( But, to clarify, that's from your sig on your post in this thread. It's still active. You just can't see it. Thaumaturge.

Yep. Thaumaturge.

If you click "D&D Archives" at the top of that, you get this page: http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/arch/dnd It's everything from 2000-9. Thaumaturge.

Just whenever I post is good. Thaumaturge.

I fundamentally disagree. Thaumaturge.

I'd say it's just straight "combat as war". There's a dragon. If characters make mistakes in engaging it, they die. My wife's character ran to the parapits as the dragon was making his second run. If there hadn't been a lucky critical, which made the dragon decide it just wasn't worth it, she...

"Combat as sport" vs "Combat as war" is a concept I first read about here on enworld a couple of years ago. Generally speaking, "combat as war" type adventures are adventures where there are high levels of risk and there is no sense of fairness. There can be asymmetric combats (4 PCs vs 2...

I have definitely come to see people's thoughts on the adventure as falling into the "Combat as War" or the "Combat as Sport" camps. Hoard of the Dragon Queen (at least the first episode of it) is very much combat as war. Thaumaturge.

I believe Hoard of the Dragon Queen ends with the PCs reaching 8th and that Rise of Tiamat picks up there and ends around 15th. Thaumaturge.

And now this is happening. I don't own an Android device, so I'm on the sidelines this time around. Hope Talath is happy. Thaumaturge.

My implication, or at least what I might intend to imply, is much closer to: I'm probably pretty bad at D&D. I've spent time trying to be the "always get the rules right" guy. I'm tired. I'm turning into a "shoot from the hip and do my best" DM. I read the rules, I do my best to understand them...

You must have a background in statistics. :) Thaumaturge.