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Then there was that whole "see invisible spell doesn't actually let you see invisible things" debacle from 5e. (See invisible doesn't remove the invisibility condition; ergo, the person you want to see is still invisible, and you can't see them. Or something inane to that effect.)

Your reading of his post doesn't make any sense. Clearstream doesn't seem to be saying that minions were immune to any other effects or conditions.

Yeah, but who cares? Reinterpret it. It doesn't change the way you play it if you decide that defeated only means killed if the players say they intend to kill.

See, you read that as gamist, I read as simulationist. The importance of opponents simulates that to me. It just goes to show how unclear and useless these designations are.

There's no setting logic needed. Hit points represent how long it takes for a creature to be out of play. A minion is out of play really quickly. The end. This isn't even a narrative interpretation. It's sim, designed to represent the difference between unimportant opponents and opponents that...

In one game. Other games act differently. In Daggerheart, the word "defeated" is always used, with one exception that I can find: a sample of play where skeleton minions were destroyed. Why not just use a different word than destroyed or killed? It's not like gamers have never reworded or...

If it is a bad idea now, then perhaps it's because it's possible for people to learn from others' mistakes. Or perhaps what people wanted then (something not like 4e) is no longer what people want now (5e but more). And thus a committee idea now would simply cause 6e to have too much of what's...

Adjusting to the game generally means adjusting to the game's genre and tone. It doesn't mean ignoring 3/4 of the spells because of reasons.

OK. Look. You haven't played in any of my games. You don't know how I run either my games or my fey. Also, it's Ravenloft, in domains that have an Arthurian feel, not an actual Arthurian legend or a game like Pendragon. In a Ravenloft game, the fey maiden wouldn't kill others if Gawaine...

...why would someone demand to see the playtest rules they themselves wrote?

SOTH LIVES! They really screwed up on Inza. As soon as I can find my stylus I'll try to create a map of some sort.

But by dismissing it as a whim, you're assuming that their idea is automatically worse than yours.

Always? No. But can you think of a reason why you shouldn't, besides "it's my world and I don't want to"?

Well, I wrote up a doc for my friends. Here's the link. If you have thoughts, feel free to share them! Edit: Some notes. In RAW Ravenloft, Banemaw is fiction. Elana will go destroy a village because of a perceived evil and then blame it on the nonexistent dragon. In this version, Banemaw is...

So basically one of my horror go-tos. (Like I said, I can make anything horror. And I love fey.)

The word whims here rather implies that the players are just coming up with things for the lulz. Which I don't think is a very fair interpretation. Obviously, you'd know through experience if you have players who do come up with these things for the lulz. Or as an attempt to get some sort of...

You can also tailor the story to the character. At the request of my friends, I'm going to be starting Yet Another Ravenloft game at some point in the near future. We didn't have a game Friday because some players were unavailable, so one of the players who was there, upon learning we were...

Well, that depends. In Spelljammer, it was clear to me that the artwork was super-large to make up for the pathetically small amount of text--but that was also clear by putting it in three books (hardcovers to make it look more substantial) and using a slightly larger font size than normal. But...

Why not? The 5.14 PHB is just shy of 300 pages. You can print a book as big as 400 or so pages before the paper starts being a bit warped. And that assumes that the hypothetical publishers don't skip print altogether and go straight to DBB only. Also, it depends on how much info you give to...

The primary benefit was so the people who did the Complete Book of... series for 2e didn't have to come up with completely different histories, mythologies, kits, etc., all on their own. Neither race has a lot of mythology that could be easily plundered. For halflings, you get hobbits and, if...