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They are not controlling any kind of a space with that length, then, and they just do not have the push behind the blade for it to do any actual damage. Stepping into a thrust is very different when done by an 80kg person than a toddler, kind of a thing.

A low-Str max-20kg person effectively using a rapier in one hand breaks my verisimilitude just as much as them waving a twohander around.

I'll just point out that a Halfling having Str 18, 16, 14 or 12 is just as unbelievable as them having 20. This isn't something that a modifier would help with, when anything past Str 6 is crazy. I think such hard limits could be really interesting (yes, also when it comes to mental stats and...

It's a weird argument. Here you have professional actors (a lot more skill than the thespian attempts of the average DnD group), who are getting paid for their performance (a lot more motivation for everyone involved, especially on the DM prep side)... It'd be a surprise if the outcome didn't...

See, I thought about Shifter, but felt it muddied the waters too much. Oof, I forgot about Grung. Good suggestion.

Human Ardling Dragonborn Kenku Leonin Lizardfolk Owlin Tabaxi Thri-Keen Tortle Yuan-Ti There's more than enough animal types for 10, and I'm a sucker for a clear theme.

Dwarf, snowbanks. Cannot see. Snowplow.

You already quoted the relevant part. Same surface. In dwarves' case, that same surface has to be stone. They couldn't just give them tremorsense that just works, no. Instead, you need to make your GM specify whether any building you step into is made of stone, whether wood flooring would...

I'll just note that as I am running a game using the new Goliath, who happens to be a Barbarian, they can really cover ground. 35 base + 10 fast movement + 10 from getting Large, can basically jump + reach to pull themselves to the top of your average house... Meanwhile, none of the players...

If I was using a system that had different, situational outcome tables, it would be nice to have those all up at the same time... But DnD's not like that. Maybe if one of the panels on the screen was actually a screen, so I could change what image it's displaying over Bluetooth. So that's two...

Oh yeah, it's also 70% off on Roll20. I wish it was even available when I had to create my own assets out of nothing...

Would be nice if this was the one time crafting was relevant. Save half the gold on a full plate, actually makes a difference! However, it would also take 300 days, and many DnD games don't have downtime, and then you'd have to pay for the full party's lifestyle for a year... I'd probably have...

Because then it's a party effort and there is an element of choice. Even if their stats suck, there's hopefully someone who is like 'yeah, I can work with that'.

And someone can still roll all-12 while another rolls all-18. I'd rather observe how the players handle someone choosing to be the all-12 person.

Yes, there's a million ways to roll stats, because it's just DnD stats. This is the cleanest hack I can implement without it getting weird (while still having rolling, because array is no better than point-buy for providing some surprise results).

I like random rolling, but not the chance that someone is just better. We'll see how it goes when I have the players each roll a set of stats, in order, then they resolve between themselves who picks which set (and then, once a set's picked, they can swap the values around twice? something like...

On that note, I think there is lot you could do with 1-2 levels of Warlock being tempting to every class... If, you know, selling your soul / swearing allegiance to otherworldly powers actually mattered at all.

I think the beast companion is the only truly unique thing Ranger has going for it, and I love the concept... but I also don't think that's enough of a niche to build a class around. Maybe if the class was called the Summoner, and all of their things were dedicated towards that, then you knew to...

Good advice with more solid rules systems (say, Pathfinder2). This one, ennnnh. Not wanting everyone (except the designated face guy) to dump Charisma is not going to up-end the rest of the game.

Theorizing. We'll get into this next month.