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Lot's of ifs, or maybes in your post here. Anyone can play the if game. If the wizard goes before the bugbear, he disengages and the bugbear either fights the fighter, or eats an OA, or eats its action doing a disengage. The point is that the goblin only gets a disadvantaged OA against the...

I have the opposite complaint. I think advantage and disadvantage is handed out like candy way too often. They are basically the equivalent of +5 or -5 to the roll. I don't have a problem adding or subtracting 2 from a number and wish that a lot more game features used +2 or -2 as a slight...

Actually, it is supported by the text of the feat and by the rules for actions and bonus actions. It's not bizarre at all. The bonus action is not possible at all unless the attack action is taken. No attack action without an attack (as per the rule). No attack without a melee or ranged attack...

Of course not. I didn't feel that I had to explain that my sentence was a semantic example. Say you had a magic item that stated: "Feather Token: This token has 3 Charges, and it regains 1d3 expended daily at dawn. When you fall any distance greater than 5 feet while wearing it on your turn...

I definitely understand your interpretation. Coming from the programming world, If … then … indicates that if something is true now, then something else happens. Not if something is true in the future, then something else happens. I think most people don't parse sentences to the level that you...

I often want a melee PC to move somewhere else. The DM had a Gobliln attack the Fighter and a Bugbear attack the Wizard. You bet I want the Fighter to move over to the Bugbear without most likely taking damage from the Goblin. As for your ranged point, that point is the same regardless of...

Pointless? Advantage with an ability check round after round after round is very potent. It's like an unlimited number of more powerful than a cantrip spells. And it's not like most PCs wouldn't get the feat at level 4 or higher where it doesn't take long for a melee PC to get two attacks per...

At low levels?

You probably shouldn't jump to conclusions. There are a lot of factors in games.

I hadn't thought of it that way. Personally, I just want good quality overall.

Part of my post was illustrating how the DM did not appear to make it difficult for the players. The spider was never spotted, there was 3 or 4 opponents in most of the 3 area effect spells, even one spell which was readied and could have done virtually nothing if the NPCs had performed...

Well, a given DM can rule however he wants. But my issue with it is that the attack action might never be used at all in a round, but the bonus shove might be. For example, the PC bonus action shoves his current foe away. He then moves towards a different foe, but gets Held with a Readied Hold...

The feat seems totally clear to me. I think you are confusing a disagreement on the rule with a misunderstanding of the rule. Even Jeremy flip flopped on it. As for the attack roll vs. the ability check, it's basically irrelevant to the rule question. Attack actions require attacks. Both a...

Sure. You make a special melee attack that replaces one of the attacks of the attack action. But, in order to do that special melee attack, you have to replace the attack roll with the Strength check. This doesn't change the fact that the attack action requires an attack which requires a roll...

Probably not. I don't quite understand why people are so wrapped around the axle about thread necromancy. If someone doesn't want to read old threads, just don't do it (and especially don't post about it).

So, in order to do an attack action, you have to make one melee or ranged attack, correct? Otherwise, it is not an attack action. To make a melee or ranged attack, you have to make an attack roll, correct? Otherwise, it is not an attack. The problem for your interpretation is that the shove...

Wow! You are really lucky. If I was as lucky as you are when I posted this thread, I would have never posted this thread. Encounter 1: Bugbears are stealthy creatures, but you get surprise on them instead of them getting surprise on you. What a nice DM you have. The NPCs do not notice the...

Online gaming is probably the biggest boost.

Yes. What did not make sense at first is that he stated that it stayed in the 55 to 105 range most of the time and it was 45 YTD. That seemed strange. But, after thinking about it some more, you are correct. Staying power is the problem. Other books come in for 6 months and then fizzle out...

Disingenuous? I posted and you replied WTH? You immediately responded by getting all snarky on me. Who p__d in your cornflakes today? If "What algorithm does Amazon use?" is not a genuine question, then what is? I also asked "What does "recent sales" mean?". Like I said before, #45 YTD...