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The DM calls for checks in the 2014 ruleset. Ability checks are a tool for the DM.

Having the players actively choosing to make an Ability Check doesn't make any sense. This isn't how the gameplay loop should work.

Unfortunately, this boat has sailed. The addition of clearly defined actions like "Study" and "Influence" clearly communicates that they're trying to strip away all the need for DM adjudication and turning the skills system into some kind of predefined buttons for the players to push.

Which is why I'm extremely disappointed they made feats baseline with no option to play without that bs.

It also say nothing about becoming inaudible. All it does is making you "invisible while nobody is looking at you".

It is the DM's game though. Sure, the players are also there, but that doesn't mean players and DMs are equal. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion, but the idea of running a game on democracy sounds utterly ludicrous to me.

Owning your game and enforcing your rulings is not the same as being a tyrant. People sometimes forget that the Dungeon Master isn't jut a storyteller, he's also a referee and has the final say in every matter related to rulings at the table. It's your game. Own it.

Don't argue with players. Your word is final. It says so in the rulebooks.

I love how every single one of those "D&D killers" are just D20 based hacks or straight up clones with only minor tweaks and a few added subsystems.

I fail to see why an adventuring day should necessarily align perfectly within a gaming session.

Crafting wands was a simple as having the feat and spending a few XP.

Leaving those aspects behind makes your number crushing not particularly useful in the end.

Nothing new here.

Beautifully written. Reasonable too.

I have watched Perkins running Storm King's Thunder and it was really good. Instead of slavishly sticking to the rules as written, he instead relied on DM fiat and strong adjudication based on the current fiction. That's how the game is supposed to actually work. People just forget or pretend...

On the other hand, if we're going for the more sane interpretation, people are only Invisible while out of everyone's sight. If that's the case, what's the point of being invisible in the first place?

Used to be explicitly an optional feature in 2014.

We are not going to agree here. The very fact that feats and multiclassing are not option anymore is a huge downside for me.

Yes, in this specific example. I stand to everything I said though.

No.