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A lot of good info being shared in this thread. Just want to add a few observations of my own. This is a cool interaction, but it creates an odd tension at most game tables. In RPGs, you can imagine the text of the adventure as 'what's really going on', or as a sort of Platonic reality...

Necessarily for the worse, though? I mean, the good guys can use this rule to race up and tackle an opponent before they can finish their leap over the chasm and escape. Not to mention that's a pretty heroic thing to do, and by making this ruling, you don't have to 'house rule' the question for...

This is a great point. The rules do say that you can "cover a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump." (BR, p.64, emphasis mine) Otherwise, you're presumed to be making a standing long jump and can only get half that distance...

Agreed! -- Pauper

I am quoting you verbatim. You said: "I also don't think it is nearly as relevant as some people think it is, as I don't think whether or not the only differences between the genders are cosmetic matters much." The follow-on phrase makes it clear that the 'it' you are referring to is the...

Fair enough. I've actually ruled this way myself, so I can't say this is an unintuitive ruling. I don't rule this way anymore, though, for reasons that have been largely, but not entirely, covered elsewhere in this thread. For example, do you also account for changes in momentum based on the...

This is a curious paragraph in the middle of an essay, led by an assertion that gender and sexuality presentation aren't "nearly as relevant as some people think", and concluded with an assertion that "it doesn't matter much". I find it curious because it's an excuse -- a rationalization that's...

I find your way to be significantly more nonsensical, as allowing the PC to make a full jump after expending all movement creates an exception in the movement rules that can be horribly exploited. ("Hey, I was able to jump 30 feet after moving to clear that chasm. Why can't I do it here to get...

There were three finalists (including Eberron), and each of the creators was paid $10K for reaching the finals. That's the main reason WotC retains the rights to those settings. I've seen speculation that WotC likely won't publish the other two finalist settings because they've basically...

Doesn't even have to be the Jump spell -- Adventurer's League has given out a Ring of Jumping as a magic item in a couple of Tier 1 adventures, and any DM that does the same in her own campaign will find high STR characters with the Jump effect without needing to be a spellcaster. With that...

Not sure if you're aware of the Flanaess Map project produced by Anna B Meyer; she's already done a first round of maps of the Flanaess which are very good -- we're using them to play a new Age of Worms campaign in Greyhawk proper (rather than the generic 'Greyhawk with serial numbers filed off'...

Everyone's going to have their own opinions, but my $0.02US... If you're looking for a season with the best adventures, my pick would be Season 1, Tyranny of Dragons. The party has an obvious home base in Phlan, a number of the adventures weave throughlines from previous adventures or drop...

Except the entire point of the original post in this thread is that the DM has asked his players to describe their material components, and it's not boring (for them). Your game is your game, but your game isn't necessarily the best way for everyone to play. -- Pauper

A focus can only replace material components that don't have a cost (BR, p.79), so some spells cannot be cast with a focus. Examples include Augury, Divination, Find the Path, Identify, Restoration/Greater Restoration, Revivify/Raise Dead/Resurrection/True Resurrection, True Seeing, and...

Flaws are explained in the PH/Player's Basic Rules (BR, p.35); a flaw gained from a magical item or curse is, mechanically, no different from the flaw the player assigned the character at character creation. Characters aren't bound by their flaws, but playing in accordance with the flaw provides...

I don't think you did a bad job of explaining -- I just think that the existence of a very vocal population of 'baseline' fans reacting badly to the changes in a property argues against the idea that "don't piss off your base" isn't a lesson to be learned. It might not be *the* lesson, in that...

Sounds like you'd be better off just running Hackmaster. -- Pauper

The Fall of Delta Green contains two pages of Conversion Notes allowing a Handler to convert the Delta Green RPG to the Gumshoe variant used in FoDG -- I doubt it would be that hard to just take them in reverse. Likely, though, you probably wouldn't need to -- the actual game mechanics...

While your observation is interesting, I wonder where the 'Internet wants to remake The Last Jedi to prevent it from destroying Star Wars' fits into the observation. See, I think this has exactly happened in Star Wars fandom, if you look at the right population of fans. There are definitely...

It's a complicated issue, so taking any one source and treating it as authoritative is probably putting more weight on that data than it can really support, even if there are few other sources for the data. It's kind of like saying, because we only have Aristotle's word for all this 'science'...