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There is a very important difference that you are eliding. If a player believes something is nonsense and does it anyway, they are being a jerk. If a DM believes something is nonsense, and stops the player from doing it, even if the player doesn’t think it’s nonsense, they are being a jerk...

This tends to be my experience as well, across my 3 active groups.

Do you think it is a bit of a double standard that you seem very concerned by players exploiting the rules and not by DMs doing so? After all, Rule 0 pretty much gives DMs unlimited scope to modify anything.

That also true for the magic mechanics. The description of fireball says you cast fireball. It doesn’t say that you cast fireball unless you are in an anti-magic zone, or you are counterspelled. You are applying a different standard to spells than to background features.

Is it isekai? Because that is how you get isekai!

Not a fan of halflings. They seem extraneous as a race and their characterisation is pretty inconsistent. However, the halfling art in the 2024 PHB is good. I prefer the spelless ranger. That being said, I’m glad rangers got a 4th subclass and the Fey wanderer does a good job of delivering...

Which renders the OP’s point kind of meaningless: the mechanics have always restricted playstyle. This isn’t a 5e issue.

So you agree with me that the mechanics of earlier D&D editions restricted playstyles by limiting how players could roleplay their characters?

True, it my response I assumed no rule modifications, but there are quite a few fairly simple rules changes to make game more deadly. To be honest, I would have no issues if the 2024 DMG had a sidebar summarizing 5 rules to make the game deadlier.

Well if a meme says it, it must be true. Let’s start with Claim 1: hard to kill PCs. Monsters that are higher level than the PCs in large quantities. Monsters that chase after the PCs and deny them a long rest. A banshee backed up with 6 will o’ wisps (both in the 5e MM) against a 4 person...

But here’s the thing: while you may disagree that the two-line description I suggested coded “chaotic” to you, absolutely nothing in the description coded “lawful”. Although I suspect this isn’t your intent, the response comes off a bit “hey, you play that monk, as long as you still choose to...

No, I’m pretty sure you can play 5e on a grid, include a high risk of death and attrition in combat, and include unknowns lurking in the dark without greatly changing the ruleset. Besides, 1e and 2e supported grid combat less than 5e, and 3e and 4e supported theater of the mind combat less than...

Who said it does?

I disagree. I think 5e does a better job of supporting a variety of playstyles than earlier editions. When I started playing D&D, if you wanted to play an elf or dwarf, you couldn’t even choose your class. Your race was your class. Later, the designers chose to punish players who chose...

I tend to consider Spock as exhibit A as a character who often claims to be emotionless and rational but for whom it is pretty clearly a rationalization, as he almost exclusively comes to the same conclusion as a moderately empathetic human, and his “arguments” for why he is actually “being...

Congratulations to the thread for hitting 1,700 posts and not getting locked !

Did it involve wearing a fedora? Because if so, that sounds disturbingly familiar and human.

True, but at least in Bedazzled, he didn’t get the girl and his arc was understanding that being “nice” didn’t entitle him to the affections of anyone in particular. I also liked the film’s conception of the Devil more than in “Oh, God!” and the original “Bedazzled” as it makes clear that the...

In my experience, Vulcans very often claimed to be acting based on emotionless logic, but their actions tended to demonstrate that this was a rationalisation at best. I would further point out that claiming one’s actions are driven by logic as a rationalisation is very common behaviour among...

We know that a Forgotten Realms setting book is scheduled for 2025.