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The FR divinity situation feels like a satire on bad management, where AO is the VP, the gods are middle-management, etc. Including the ToT firing gods and having to train up some new employees.

Yes. Yes. Monster ammunition is arbitrary; they have as much as the DM wants. Howso? (Honest question)

189 has this "A typical combat encounter is a clash between two sides, a flurry of weapon swings, feints, parries, footwork, and spellcasting." I suppose they could be describing one attack per character as a flurry, and the help action as a feint, missing an attack roll as a parry, etc... but I...

Whatever makes for the best story, honestly. Even if that means being utterly inconsistent in how I handle it. Maybe I want to tell a story about a forest full of talking animals braving the big wide world for the first time. A druid wove their magic into the very fiber of a creature's existence...

I started with red book, then did 2E for the bulk of my young gaming. I can definitely say I was less emotionally attached to my characters back then. But that could be from many things: less narrative games in my local group, a mindset that valued different things, or the ease of death/level...

Oh! Well then, yes, I was talking about permanent death. Though I suppose temporary death that takes the character out of the game for RL months or years would also qualify, at least until the group (and player) decides to bring the dead character back.

Do you sincerely believe I'm talking about temporary death?

This is 100% true, but even despite the potential difficulty, I advocate strongly for non-death consequences. Not because I fear the players having to deal with death, but because there are so many other rich, exciting, and plot-hook filled options besides death. Everything from a setback to...

I see them anytime I'm east/west of a big city, during the corresponding dusk/dawn.

There's even precedent. Homunculus is 1d4+PB at 30' on a bonus action for a 2nd level Artificer. That's obviously a half-caster with a notable GP component, of course.

I reskinned Unseen Servant. The 'skeleton/zombie' is too jerky and fragile to be effective in combat at those early levels, but it can carry out all the basic tasks that any other Unseen Servant can. The only real change I made is that the skeleton/zombie doesn't disappear after an hour (as long...

Out of curiosity: Is your DM attacking your spellcasters because of something they did (in his mind) to justify that aggression? Or is this a manifestation of the nearly ubiquitous "Geek The Mage" combat policy?

Dropbears. You just snuck Dropbears into your campaign. :ROFLMAO:

This is glorious. Someone make the Noise Domain immediately!

You have to burn a random card on a short rest, but you can pick the card to burn on a long rest. Either way, you get all your discarded abilities back. A cookie for whoever gets this reference.

No. Imagine Jane and Evil Bob. Jane is 30' away and doesn't want to get nuked by Evil Bob's spells. She casts Darkness on Evil Bob! Now, Jane has every reasonable expectation that the Darkness will prevent Evil Bob from casting spells that require line of sight on her. But Evil Bob can see her...

It does equate to making things easier on your players, having other people understand you, and how much they trust you to run a table if they don't understand you. As for your other posts, we've reached the Agree to Disagree point. I see your interpretation as technically possible but...

That's true. We would need to create a Strawpoll and place it in multiple locations.

Resurrection not returning your soul is "collateral damage" of so literal an interpretation. Revivify bringing parts of a body instead of a goodly chunk of the body is "collateral damage". Players arguing about the radius of Fireball flame is "collateral damage". Players making the wrong choice...

To me, preventing nonmagical illumination is unambiguously blocking you from seeing through it, barring modifiers such as blindsight. While I believe your interpretation is possible, it seems to be a ruling so unlikely as to make the question almost entirely theoretical. And theoretical...