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I was directed to this and the Paladin's Quest by @Manbearcat , which I incorporated for 2 instances in my game. Very useful. This is interesting. I would imagine D&D players adopting such a mechanic would test its limits. For instance if one dares to run the Tyranny of Dragons AP with such a...

I like this rule, this seems to suit PbtA nicely given the way the system seems to handle Lore. It is a little trickier say to incorporate this idea within a D&D engine, not impossible though. I like that a success can (via GM prompts) necessitate a player to flesh out their character during...

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Thanks for that. I'm assuming the campaign still has unanswered questions for Fee-bella, so plenty of story to still work with. The unanswered questions being What was the Nightmare that awoke Fea-bella? Who sent it? And is it related to (i) these dark times, in which Elves will need her help...

Chakotay needed a full neck-beard.

How does one derive this crucible or create a world/setting as needed to present a premise to test? Is it via collaboration or is the GM shifting the story towards this crucible via the failures on the rolls? Are there specific techniques which are employed to create this question via the...

Karate Kid, Teenwolf, T2, Matrix

I tend to look at a possible silver-lining in all this where you say she ran successful games after that...perhaps having a table walk out on her was a teachable moment. I mean I imagine that is quite significant to experience as a DM. So we all have horror stories were we were the villains, in...

Springboks, Kiwis, All Blacks, Lions etc all nation rugby team names :)

Agree with the first sentence, quibble with the second sentence - athletics is not a minor skill. For all balancing feats - shaking boat, running on ice, tight-rope walking I use the acrobatics skill ONLY. I do not equate Athletics to Acrobatics. One can make that over-simplification for their...

I respect your reasoning and understand it completely (for both examples). Like I said you're being consistent in your ruling.

So, I can respect that, that is consistency! I play it the other way - The PC would know if the Shield would work or not so I give that data. The PC would know how difficult they would find the climb (personally) so I give the data. I use the word personally because someone's moderate may be...

I suggest you tell @Yaarel that. All and fluid are not the same. There is a difference between saying the game handles skills somewhat fluid and then homebrewing so the somewhat and fluid are no longer present.

5e favours the Tool Proficiency for some of these. Not a fan of your idea for tying Dexterity to Athletics. Seems like you're exacerbating the dominance of that ability with that houserule.

I love this idea. I recently allowed PCs in an epic combat to x prevent damage by either Sacrificing a magical item (as if it had been sundered in the attack) Take a level of exhaustion; or Roll on the Lingering Injury table provided in the DMG But this suffering a mental condition works just...

They're used for level progression which is based around character development & personal goals. At this point they are 15th level, they have two ways to increase level. Either a character must earns 16 XP (their current level +1) or achieve a party goal (defeating Tiamat + the Cult of the...

Max implied that providing the DC numbers for the climbing example may give away more information than he prefers. Maybe it is the meta of it maybe not, but providing the AC number the opponent successfully attained with their attack roll allows one to determine whether the Shield spell, which...

Do you also NOT tell them if the Shield spell will help prevent the opponent's attack?

I think it was a tongue-and-cheek comment, nothing serious meant by it. Besides dishwater should never be dull, if it is you need to replace it with some fresh piping soapy water. I just did two loads of dishes! My domestic is coming to a clean kitchen for a change.

I remember I was not a huge fan of it in 3e because if you were not selecting it you seemingly became quite bad at something you should automatically be good it. So it became a tax. Whereas in 5e because of the bounded accuracy, degrees of success, fail forward etc it doesn't seem so much of a...