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Sure, tight writing is how you get the current dual wielding rules, which allow dual wielding with a shield. Or how a guy carrying a torch isn't visible through darkness because darkness obscures vision. Or all the other instances, like this very thread, where we're left to divining tea leaves...

It's really not a mystery. WOTC doesnt value consistency and tight writing. The gist of 5E is "Look, you're going to run it how you want to run it, so why bother?" Their gravitation towards "naturalistic" writing lets people do what they want and point to vague text justifying it. Which is...

On that's neat! I just had the PF2 PDF of the PF2 starter (which is quite good). I've taught a fair amount of kids/new players, I give each of them a set of these. https://critgames.com/shop/dice/color-coded-polyhedral-dice-five-sets/ They have to get their own crown royal bag though.

For the life of me, I don't understand why starter sets don't come with dice with a different color for each die. D8's and D10's look a lot alike for new players. Its much easier to go "roll the D8, the blue one".

D&D fans who have played for decades probably already know how to play D&D, or at least learn from a rulebook, given there weren't really starter sets previously. They aren't the target audience. This is a starter set for kids, primarily. My experience with younger players indicates they like...

That is a goofy looking red dragon. Then again, tracks to the 1e illustration hah. Looks good from the little bit we've seen. Phandelver is hard to beat though!

I like traps that are set pieces. Any simple attrition trap resolved in a single attack/save is a bad trap. Honestly, any unsprung trap is a boring trap. I don't want to see Indiana Jones fart around in a tunnel for 30 minutes poking floor tiles with long sticks. I wanna see him race the boulder.

I've taken to giving half proficiency on saves. It's not perfect, but it's something. If I ever did my 5E Fantasy Heartbreaker, there's so much I would steal from PF2E, but the Trained/Expert/Master/Legendary level of proficiency bonus of +2/4/6/8 is at the top. It allows a more granular...

The valor bard does basically all that on a 9 level caster chassis and hands out bardic inspiration.

Artificer is still such a weird design. The martial ones work as hybrid casters, though Bladesinger and Blade/Valor Bards overshadow the gish, being full casters. The non-martial ones just seem weak. A few extra magic items do not make up for losing full casting. And that's all this class is...

Out of curiosity, what is the impact of this? Terminology or actual mechanical impact in a way I'm missing?

This really feels like a change for change sake kind of proposal. It messes with monster DC's as well, and makes everything too stat dependent with no skill component. I'd be all in favor of going back to Fortitude/Reflex/Will saves though.

Weird that Brute is listed but has no mechanics. If its just a descriptive trait for encounter building it seems like that would go elsewhere in the layout.

To paraphrase Don Draper... that's what the experience points are for! You're learning in the field. It's not like fighters need to pay for a license to hit some guy twice in a round. As for worldbuilding, I guarantee that the DM 's who like this wouldn't let a PC take a week off and rake in...

Its a thread on what players can spend rewards on. Burning it to get what they should otherwise get for free isn't exactly my idea of a reward. Rewards should be rewarding.

I loathe training cost rules and can all but guarantee few people other than 60+ year old DM's find it fun to throw your gold into a pit to get your next level you already earned with experience points. And I say this as a near perma DM. There's a reason they haven't been part of D&D in like 45...

Because spell slots aren't unlimited? Also it's 2 attacks, one of which is better than a regular attack. Why should the guy without fireball attack for less damage?

Why should a 9 level caster get multiattack and better than tank AC? If the AC bonus was 10+Dex+Int, MAYBE. But it stacks with Mage armor. And it's on in every real encounter of the day. Sorry monks, should have been a caster. Why do we even have noncasters at this point? Legacy reasons? They...

Everyone is a magi in Ars Magica/Mage. I'm against such things in D&D because it puts even more spotlight on casters who already have more levers to drive the narrative than non-casters and makes them more of the focus than the other players.

Why should you get to be a full time gish on the will time 9 level caster chassis? Like why even have non hybrid martials if everyone just gets to use one stat for attack attack/damage, with multiattack AND getting to sub an attack for a superior blade cantrip? Getting a massive AC boost and a...