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Umm. I'm going to have to start bringing my phb to work.

I only meant to quote that second pqrt

Versatile means str or dex bonus. It doesn't mean it can be used as a finesse weapon. Is there any difference? I don't know.

Contrast that with a dagger throw. You can do more damage by sticking it in deeper or sticking it in a better spot. That's why dagger can be versatile. Compared to hand axe which may be to clumsy for getting accurate placement. I don't have my books, so maybe I don't mean dagger. Javelin...

The hand axe penetration scales with strength. The arrow's penetration scales with the pull strength on the bow. If you want to house rules higher bow damage due to strength, then implement a great bow that does 2d6 with a minimum strength req to draw it or perhaps an exhaustion level. Like...

It's about scaling. Damage from a thrown axe scales with how hard you can throw it. Damage from an arrow scales with where on the body you hit. An arrow from Conan's bow is the same as an arrow from tasslehoff's bow, unless you use a different bow. So that's accounted for in short and long bow dice.

The strength analogy with the bow would be just the draw. So it would be a minimum strength requirement. It would be like a constitution check on a blow gun for the lung power.

In all this rules lawyering, I think there's something obvious that's missing: Throwing heavy things uses strength. Aiming something that just shoots uses dexterity. We don't have a separate roll to aim and another to hit with enough force to do damage. It also takes strength just to throw...

Does anti-magic field cause a beholder to lose its fly speed and go plop on the ground? Should we calculate whether a dragon's wings actually provide enough lift for it to fly without some magical element? Certainly a nalfeshne's wings wouldn't work. How about every other kind of undead? Do they...

It's a shame, as I like a printed book with a real binding. It looks like the risks that Necromancer Games and Kobold Press took by rushing to market before the WOTC put out their OGL has paid off for them.

Yes. I like your take on advancing monsters, and the epic options guy on dmsguild for player options. The dmsguild guy with the non- dmsguild art is awesome for the unique art and the well thought out class progression. The other guy has some interesting stuff, but lycanthropy and undead for...

There's an epic levels book project up on Kickstarter with a limited play test preview. Levels 20-30. New monsters. Spells and feats. Uses phased fights for the epic monsters. They have a high funding goal, being a paper book, and may be struggling a bit, but its still early.

My point wasn't to determine who was acting like an adult and who wasn't. None of them were. Most adults don't act like adults most of the time.

My intention was to give a warning. Too many DMs wonder why or just accept that their gaming groups are short lived when it's really because they apply irritating house rules and invoke dm authority over rules lawyering players. Or create some weird non-Tolkien or low magic setting. If you want...

Someone needs to be the adult here and stop rules lawyering and looking at this like it's a labor dispute or the group is going to fall apart. It's why most gaming groups only go a couple of sessions before suddenly people have more important things to do on gaming night.

That's a good point. So what was the connection between cell phone guy and the situation with the ring being sold? Was it because his character would have gotten the ring?

OP is textbook passive aggressive. Actually, the player is textbook passive aggressive too. Maybe that's been said. I didn't have time to read all the comments.

Awesome! One question. What's the Hebdomad? For the summoning ability.

I thought they were in Laos. Steel Dragon, I mean.

Because of the way humans evolved, we like and consider 'good' wide open spaces. For our stone age ancestors, being out in the open with broad vistas was safer from predators than closed in spaces like forests. It's why we aspire to having a good view. So, because we associate closed in with...