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Grappler allows one to not have a larger creature auto escape. I personally prefer doing an advantaged melee weapon attack on round one instead of grapple and prone. That is a personal preference that normal grappling does not give. I don't know the hit points of a foe and if I bloody it (we...

I buy into this except for delving. From my perspective, the PCs are all being alert while delving. Once a room is basically secure, then they go about searching for secret doors, drawing maps, etc. Up to that point in time, everyone was effectively "on watch". Once they start doing other...

I don't check for surprise a lot either. This is just the set of rules I use when I do. The foes have to be actively hiding because they are aware that the PCs are approaching. This does happen quite a bit in circumstances where some PCs do not have darkvision and are using lights in a dark...

I think if one is only considering Advantage on attack rolls, there is some truth to what you say (bonus action vs. attack to knock a foe prone). And the saving throw stuff is very sweet in many builds. But for some builds, Grappler is better than Shield Master. For example, a raging Barbarian...

I actually hate the very concept of passive perception (and passive insight) with a passion. The PCs walk into the room. There is a hidden pit trap in the floor. With passive perception, whether they notice it or not is dependent on the DC of the trap and whether the PCs with good passive...

Nope, it doesn't. I make a lot of mistakes posting because even when I look at a page in the book, my dyslexic brain still screws stuff up. :lol:

Our main houserules are: 1) 3 Concentration spells available at a time. This brings the game closer to 3E without really allowing the spell casters to overwhelm (although NPC Greater Invisibility and Fly do cause some PCs to prep See Invisibility and Dispel Magic). 2) + half proficiency round...

I don't think that optimizing is a sign of immaturity though. My current PC is Barbarian 5 / Wizard 5. I suspect that you won't find that on many optimization boards. I play the game to have fun (which btw is not necessarily inclusive to optimized or non-optimized PCs). As a player, I used to...

I don't see how this helps much except maybe for the wizard (and even then it interferes with mage armor). Hide is worse than studded leather except for cost (and 1 pound of weight) and only one AC better than leather. Ring mail requires 13 Str and for 20 GP less, it's the same as Scale mail...

Weird. We have 4 players (used to be 5) in our group that never check the Internet and nearly every one of them took Perception for nearly every PC. Out of about 25 PCs since the game came out, I would guess that about 21 or 22 of them took Perception.

My group doesn't have this problem since I immediately bought 7 players out of 8 their own PHBs when the game came out (myself included, the 8th player was my wife who wouldn't read a PHB if it bit her, so she borrowed my PHB or my daughter's once in a blue moon if necessary). My problem is...

I don't see an issue. By the time the Dex based character gets AC 17 at level 8 (and has zero feats btw unless he is a variant human), the Valor Bard has had an entire level of Greater Invisibility once a day where his AC doesn't matter much. Or the Barbarian has advantage on init, the ability...

My issue with perception (like other skills) is that I don't want every single player at the table rolling for it. If that is done, I have to up the DC a lot to have some chance of nobody making the roll. Granted, this is perception not used for surprise. For surprise, everyone gets to roll and...

It can. Easily. We have 6 PCs which means that the DM has to throw either tough foes with a lot of abilities or a bunch of foes to challenge us. Say he throws 6 foes at us. If the monsters ambush the PCs and only half of the PCs make the perception check and a given player misses the check and...

Yup. ONLY at third level (until level 8). I skimmed through that. My bad. And? It doesn't change much. Sure, he can get 80 feet away in a given round as long as he can keep ER up and is not knocked prone or grabbed or TKed (120 if he risks OA attacks). If he gets too far away, the NPCs just...

A 5th level Eldritch Knight cannot learn Expeditious Retreat. Your entire premise is faulty to begin with (or are you going to give the Eldritch Knight a scroll of Expeditious Retreat? :lol:). Let's say that you do give him a scroll. I still find these "super perfect scenarios" amusing. Assuming...

While true, we should also take into account PC and DM actions to avoid this. Our PC Monk rarely fights against 4 attackers simultaneously. He rarely fights against 2 because with his mobility, he puts himself in situations to fight on the fringes of combat. But his +2 short sword is used twice...

Best example? Come on. You say that every fourth time you and I have a discussion. :lol: If you say so. Personally, I think that making a claim with not so plausible numbers tends to be less persuasive. You and I do agree however. Offense is sometimes best. Defense is sometimes best. I just...

Our last 3 fights with Frost Giants were: Day one: 5 Frost Giants plus 1 Adult White Dragon vs. 7 9th level PCs Day three: 8 Frost Giants plus 2 Adult White Dragons vs. 6 10th level PCs plus Harshnag (the Monk PC convinced the Dragons to stay out of the fight in return to helping them...

Err, Frost Giants have 60 foot range with their rocks (the same range as Cutting Words) and do 28 average points of damage. DC 14 Con save for Concentration if hit (40 points, DC 20 on a critical). A single giant can also double move and get within melee range of a Cutting Words bard in a single...