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So? This fits in with what I said. You don't have time to play it? Same here! I own scores of games I don't have time to play, but you don't see me talking about spending hundreds of posts talking about Kids On Bikes or In Nomine or Star Trek Adventures or Dragonbane. I'd love to play them, no...

No, they're not. Because--as has been pointed out to you--lower-level characters (like NPC commoners) still wouldn't be able to hit the ogres in the first place. The higher-level PCs would be hitting them anyway, even if they had full hit points.

And you can keep doing that. Their recon shows 50 pirates on the ship but when they get there to attack there's 100 carousing on the deck? Those other pirates were on shore leave and now they're back. Their recon shows 50 pirates on the ship but when they get there to attack there's 100...

If you don't like something, it's the things fault? So everything you like is good and everything you don't like deserves to be disliked? And why would you assume that something is changed purely for the sake of change? See, this is exactly what I meant. You're not assuming that things were...

I addressed that: "I've found it fairly uncommon that people have other reasons than those." I don't see people showing data as to why they don't like a thing. And a lot of the time, when they do show data, they are objectively misunderstanding it, or are doing things like ignoring the fact that...

If someone only engaged in a certain activity and refused to try new ones, or continually pooh-poohed new activities, I'd certainly raise an eyebrow or two at them. And I say that as someone who is autistic and very much only engages with certain types of things and has little interest in...

And another reason is that depending on the game and edition and the number of opponents on each side, combat can take a long time, and be very boring when it's not your turn. Using minions so you don't have to slog your way through multiple hours or even sessions just on the faceless hordes is...

As others have pointed out, once you get to the level where ogres are actually minions (in the normal sense of the word), they're not only not actually a real threat, but you're doing enough damage regularly that you're going to be wiping them out in one or two rounds anyway. Like, I just did...

I'm seeing an example, which is very different from a hard rule. Is there anything in there that says that you must have six successes before three failures; that you can't change it to five successes before four failures, or best out of three? Or that failure must mean becoming helplessly lost...

People don't like changes because: (1) they're new, and new is scary (2) because change implies that the way you've been playing is old-fashioned or out-of-date or even just plain wrong and how dare you say that (3) because many changes are designed to make things simpler, which makes some...

I'm pretty sure there's something similar in 3e, but I can't find my copy and I can't find the 3e books online to check. I did, however, manage to find the 4e DMG and that also had a section on house rules. But it would still be D&D. Just not his personal vision of D&D, and why should anyone be...

But in comparison, another group of pirates appearing from below decks out out of the jungle is not an inconsistency that causes more than the mildest of whispers. And IME, most people are in the middle. They do as good as recon as they can, but not so good that they are 100% correct. How very...

I'd love to know where you got that take, because I've never seen anyone actually say that. No they don't. the 3.5 DMG even had a whole section on how to make house rules. I can't imagine that the 4e books were any different. I don't know where you got the idea that WotC wanted their rules to...

Why not? Many people view it as cool to be able to mow down tons of baddies on their way to the major battle. It could be a badly done adventure. It could also be that the commoners were bolstered by having high-level adventurers at their back and thus were able to stand up to the monsters that...

D&D worlds are inherently inconsistent. Every part of D&D is and has always been inconsistent with some other part of it. That there's suddenly another half-dozen pirates is no more inconsistent than any other part of the game, and will only be a problem if the players somehow obtain 100% proof...

That's not how it works. If the ogres are minions, then there should be someone commanding them. This being is the actual villain you're facing. Say it's a dragon with ogre minions. Do you really want to waste in-game minutes (meaning potentially hours out-of-game) dealing with ogres when...

You're misunderstanding what "trying to tell a story" means. The game isn't giving you stories to tell (outside of published adventures, of course). It's helping you and your table create the story.

This would depend on what class you take and where you put your stats. Stephen Hawkings clearly rolled some low stats at chargen and them in his Str and Dex, and then put his ASIs into his mental skills. He also obviously used some 3pp "expert" class. Maybe Level Up's Savant. And, of course...

More importantly, the cat likely isn't a 20th-level PC. (I mean, it could be, but it probably isn't.)