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Since the tentacle attacks the nearest living creature, have the party witness a foolish giant suffer that fate! I feel that the 'insta-death' effect should be telegraphed. If it comes out of the blue it feels like a 'gotcha!', but if they witness it and stray too close anyway then it's their...

I think the current wording is enough:- "When you score a critical hit, you get to roll extra dice for the attack’s damage against the target. Roll all of the attack’s damage dice twice and add them together. Then add any relevant modifiers as normal. To speed up play, you can roll all the...

Exactly! The game mechanics of the class are not a role-playing straitjacket forcing you to be a loincloth-wearing savage Conan clone! Be a super-civilised, highly trained warrior with anger management issues. Take the Acolyte background and fluff the barbarian mechanics as a secret fighting...

My current PC is a Bar 1/War 3 (fiendish bladelock). The idea is that I use spells before raging (a pre-asskicking shatter/fireball later) and armour of agathys to get the most out of that spell because I take half damage while raging. When I level up I will take War 4, which gets me one more...

Vision, as a sense, is the detection of light. If there is no light to see, you cannot see. If there is less light than you would need to see things clearly but enough light to see a bit, then there are penalties to your vision. But Devil's Sight lets you 'see' even without any light...

Just like any decision about what to choose when levelling up, it isn't a democracy where other people vote what class features you must choose for your PC. Each person makes their own decision for their own PC. Player: Cool, I've just hit 2nd level as a ranger, and I can choose a fighting...

You missed it. They are saying that "the players took a vote and decided that no-one can take feats", and the DM banned feats on that basis. The other players' stated reason was that "feats make characters less unique" (I kid you not!), reasoning that me taking +2 Cha makes my bard 'more...

For the first 299xp yes, but they chose to play a blind PC. They made that choice because they know that at level 2 they can solve that problem, and that it is a great role-playing hook as to why this person would make a deal with a devil.

The '40s DC comics superhero Dr. Mid-Nite was blind, but could see in perfect darkness. He invented special lenses to make it 'dark' for his eyes even during the day, and used 'blackout bombs' to create darkness in an area rendering everyone except him unable to see. I would require the...

All that makes sense. Putting thought into stuff and coming to a reasoned conclusion is good. It's the sight-unseen blanket ban that is bad. First, the desired aesthetic I'm going for is I want to make my PC my way, and let other people make their PCs their way. If I think that the Actor feat...

I only quoted the points to which I was responding. As to "the rules clearly state feats/MCing are optional", I know! My point was that the reason that are called out as 'optional' is all about the sellers of the game want to make as much money as they can and so want to avoid putting off...

My point was that the stated reason that some players don't want feats to be allowed in their game (for anyone not just those players who'd rather have the ASI) is because the very existence of feats means that those who didn't choose that feat are not allowed to do the things that feat lets you...

No, what IS assumed is that NPCs are not made using the rules for making Player Characters! NPCs in the published adventures do not have 'feats' as such, but the don't have 'class' or 'level' either! If your logic were sound then the logic that "published NPCs don't have feats, therefore feats...

I'll illustrate how flawed this logic is by copy/pasting this paragraph and replacing 'feat' with 'class', and the consequences thereof, bolding the bits I changed:- "If playing in a group that uses classes, then a series of things a PC might try is disallowed during the game because those...

Excellent questions, but the answers are simple. :D You argue that feats/MCing are equally as 'optional' as things like the optional rules for facing or rest length. I argue that unlike the optional rules in the DMG, feats/MCing are really part of the core game, only made 'optional' to make the...

I'm not on Twitter, and I'm not going to be. Hence my posting a suggestion for a question which should generate an answer that will be logically inescapable, so that someone who is on Twitter can ask it, for the benefit of us all. :D

Feats are part of D&D. Using one doesn't mean you are playing a Sci-Fi themed game instead of a fantasy themed game. Nothing about feats alters the genre or flavour of the game. Multiclassing has been part of the game since 1e, feats since 3e. Neither rule was any more optional than any other...

Interesting, but what has this got to do with standard humans verses variant humans? How is a PC with 16/16/16/8/8/8, an extra skill and a half feat any more vulnerable than its standard human equivalent of 16/16/16/9/9/9? Where is the 'giant hole in the competency' of the variant human that...

Why is it a group decision about whether or not my PC can choose a feat? Does the group decide what spells I'm allowed to choose? What weapons? What background? What business is it of 'the group' to decide things about my PC? Each player gets to decide these things for their own PC. "Sorry...

If you are worried that JC would answer a tweet which asked, "Does dragon breath pop invisibility" with simply quoting the rules definition of 'attack' again, and would still be unconvinced because the rules don't say what is not an 'attack' (because the book says what the rules are, and are...