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The problem here is that what constitutes ‘good lore’ is highly subjective. I’ve long since come to the conclusion that most of what constitutes elf and dwarf lore is just dead weight holding the game down and if held to limiting the creativity of what groups and designers can do. I’d point at...

If the players ask if anyone from the fight is still alive I roll some kind of die to see how many are still bleeding out rather than dead.

Only if they're Barbarians.

Well yes, obviously they have. I've been saying since Xanathar's that 5e has demonstrated that the edition war talking points from the release of 4e are no longer relevant. Even WotC seem to have realised that, as they have been making less and less effort to present things so that they would...

No it's magical in that instance because you decide it's magical in order to explain fictional inconsistencies. But if you are saying it's magical becauase it has to be magical, then that's you adding your own particular world building take onto the rules for the sake of consistency. One could...

As I pointed out earlier, Battlemaster Fighters can grant fear with Menacing Attack which is clearly not intended to be magical in any fictional sense. And it interacts with effects that are specifically magical like the Paladin of Conquest's Aura. The game is simply not interested in a hard...

I think it's more that if you make an argument and it doesn't convince people, endlessly repeating that same argument over and over leads to endless failures over and over again to convince people. At a certain point, you need to see accept you've made your point as clearly as you can and move on.

Oh for god's sake! Is this magical? There is no consistency about these things within the game. Why not? Because the game does not care.

The kind of questions being discussed, eg: whether fear effects are magical or not, halflings place in worldbuilding etc are fundamentally unanswerable in 5e. It's clear that WotC simply does not care about worldbuilding. It's not a priority of 5th edition at all. What they obviously do care...

What they're really saying is it's not a problem because I'm such a good DM. An awful lot of forum posts are really just people finding ways to boast about their supposedly amazing DMing skills. I found once I realised that it became a lot easier to skim right over them and focus on the signal...

I'll just ban it. It's not like there's a shortage of Cleric subclass options.

Trickster clerics have always suffered from the fact that the kinds of things we associate with tricksters and the types of things we associate with clerics are worlds apart. Edit: Really this would make a good rogue subclass

Really? It's an awful long time since I've seen that.

Why don't Halflings get much development or overall integration with published fantasy worlds and their history? It's obvious. It's the same reason for almost every common element of fantasy before 2000. Why do Dwarves use Axes? Why do elves live in forests and shoot bows? Because Tolkien...

It sounds overpowered. How much though is because a lot of equivalent type abilities are also underpowered. I've found damage mitigation and healing abilities in 5e to be generally not that worrthwhile.

Maybe someone else can start a thread to re-litigate the argument from 2003 or whenever about whether balance is actually desirable? Maybe this thread can stick to the topic of whether it exists in this case?

Yes. It all counts.

We'ren't nunchuks devised from farming implements? The road to halfling ninjustu becomes clearer.

Yes. You have written tens of thousands of words on this issue over at least two threads. It beggars belief that this is not a major issue for you for some reason. Edit: One may write hundreds of letters to a politician about addressing poverty or climate change. One may also write hundreds...

Why do Dwarves use Axes? Dwarves have short legs which limits their reach, yet they use weapons that by and large have short reach compared to other weapons like swords. This makes absolutely no sense. Yet Dwarves are supposed to be extremely effective martial warriors. How can they have...