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Technically speaking, yes. DoaM doesn't take into account the opponent's defenses. Realistically, it would never happen, the fighter would just have the satisfaction of being able to scratch the enemy before dying a horrible death. And the reason is, for the enemy to have a defense so high that...

Unless you believe that Hit Point is only physical damage and nothing else, it's very easy to get behind the idea that while the enemy dodged or parry the attack, it was so perfect that it still exhausted him. But even if you think that Hit Point is only physical damage, it's easy to get behind...

Concerning Damage on a Miss, it’s basically the same thing as half damage if you succeed your saving throw. It’s just that instead of the defender rolling a saving throw to see if he gets full or half damage, it’s the attacker rolling against the defense to see if he do full damage or the damage...

Regarding HP and if it represents actual physical damage or not, my personal opinion is simply that it is not a Black or White matter. Thinking that there is no physical damage at all involved is absurd (to be fair, I don't think anyone is actually thinking that way), but so is thinking that it...

I have no memories that they ever said that 4e would be fully compatible with 3/3.5 and quite frankly, the systems are so different that I wonder what they would have meant by that. When they talk about compatibility between 5e and OneDnD, I expect the same kind of compatibility between 4e and...

I’m not sure I ever saw a 18/00, legit or not… it always been the dream though… but I have a friend that was the luckiest bastard when rolling stats, always had a 18, two or three 16-17 abd lowest score about 12-13… could always make a Paladin as if he didn’t have to put 17 in charisma…...

I played a lot of adnd2 in the 90s, that’s the edition with which I learned about roleplay. Years later, I got tired of medieval fantasy so I started playing other rpgs, then came college and when 3e came out, I tried it a little, but nothing hooked me, so I skipped it. Fast forward to 2008. A...

It is indeed often said that 4e was ahead of his time. But as much as I love 4e (it’s my personal favorite edition), there was more in play that created a backlash and made this edition so divisive.

Yep, probably a big misunderstanding because there is a lengthy part of the PHB that describe each skills and how to use it (and most of their use description is out of combat) and there is a lengthy part of both DMG that talk about skill challenge and most of the examples are out of combat...

I never said they were mutually exclusive, just that it doesn’t work for our group. I specified two times that your experience can be different. If it works for you, it’s all that matters.

What I mean by immersion is that we tend to act our scene. Like if we meet a guard at a gate and must pass through, we’ll start a conversation in character and then, if a roll is need for X reason, the DM will call it. The player never start by saying « alright, I’ll roll diplomacy to try to...

I guess it depends on how you play at your table. At our table, we tend to act the scenes or describe what we do and then the DM decide if a roll is needed or not to determine the outcome. It’s never the player that ask to do a particular roll in a situation, from our experience it brought some...

Not necessarily I think. For some skills like perception or heal, sure it can be simply the dm asking for the particular skill. But in some other situation, a call for an attribute is quite simple. Like if a player is trying to convince a NPC of something, you as a DM simply ask for a charisma...

For the DM, I would think so. The player tells you what he wants to do and you just assign an attribute roll based on the task: strength for physical, dex for agility, constitution for resilience, intelligence for knowledge, wisdom for awareness and charisma for social. Then, it’s up to the...

Yeah, I also use skills most of the time, but sometimes when I don’t see a skill that really fit I will ask for an attribute check, then if the player think that a skill would fit, we discuss it. So Iserith method is perfectly fine, I don’t see what’s wrong. It’s also a good way to clarify...

I can’t speak for Lanefan, but I don’t feel at odds with people that play the game for a different reason. As I said earlier, there is no right or wrong way of playing. I will be at odds with people who try to force their way of playing to others though… or people who think their way of playing...

It’s okay, there is no right or wrong way of playing, we all play for different reasons. For me and my friends, it is about telling or living a story. We tend to do short campaigns and then move on to the next, sometimes with the same characters, sometimes with new ones. And when worldbuilding...

Oh absolutly! I said earlier that they should keep this kind of information in the books. Like I said, I think I got painted in a corner of the argument… 😅

And as was said before, it could be just a minor scratch from a poisonous blade. Nothing serious, if it was not for the poison. Sometimes when I come back from a hike I find one or two scratch on myself and could not tell when or where I got them. I certainly don't feel like I'm closer to...

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that I never track time either, because I sometimes do, when I think it is gonna be relevant or when a player ask me to be more precise. I only got into this conversation because someone said something that reminded me of the speed of space travel in Star wars...