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Perhaps. Course, I have been a player for the last few months instead of a DM, so I don't have to think about it at the moment. :cool:

PHB page 175, variant rule: Skills with Different Abilities A Wizard wants to move a rock, I might give him an INT check and he figures out how to use a lever. He wants to open a sticky door, he could use INT to figure out to tie a rock to a rope and swing it like a wrecking ball. The Cleric...

Go take a physics course. If you write an answer of 5 on your test, you do not get full credit. You need to write 5 kilograms. Without units, data means nothing. The term "no true data or analysis" (nice cherry picking on what was written) meant "incomplete information" in that sentence. It...

Seriously dude. Do you ever read? I never once stated that the data was false. I asked what the data meant. I then drilled down a little and saw what looks like a discrepancy. That doesn't mean that the numbers are wrong in any way. I have no doubt that PHB sales are doing fine. Year to date is...

Nothing of the sort. I have no dog in this fight. The numbers just do not make sense. Call that conspiracy theory all you want (that's a little snarky on your part), but if you are going to talk about the subject, at least explain what you are talking about. Or is it possible that you don't...

So again, what does "recent sales" mean? The last 8 hours? The last 24 hours? It's curious that it is listed as #45 on the year to date list, but you state that it ranges ~#55 to #105 on any given day. Wouldn't it have to be higher than that to be #45 year to date? Shouldn't the pattern be...

What does "recent sales" mean? Is the PHB #86 out of all books sold in the last month? Is the PHB #86 out of all books sold in the last 3 months? Is the PHB #86 out of all books sold year to date? Is the PHB #86 out of all books sold since Amazon started? Without the time frame of what the...

What I don't understand is your contention that these are supposed to be limited use benefits. Where dose it state that? The game is designed such that it is up to the player to decide whether they are used in a limited fashion, or always available (shy of extremely unusual circumstances), or...

So are these all time rankings? Or ranking this month (or quarter or whatever)? What's the time frame?

Yes, but I used it to indicate that there are spells cast outside of adventuring that do not deserve XP. Not that there was anything wrong casting it every day. You mean like Mage Armor? Like Aid? I take the time and effort out to brush my teeth and shower every single day. It's time I could...

Sorry, I still don't understand the problem. The spell could just as easily been written that the spell caster does not gain the spell slot back until all of the undead are destroyed. I have no idea what Crawford wrote, but a third level slot sounds like a cost and has a ton less chance of...

Animate Dead bugs you as a spell? Seriously? You call that abuse? For undead that cannot be healed, and can almost never be brought into a town. Sure, if you have murder hobo PCs and the rest of the PCs are fine with undead pets in the party, you might be able to keep replenishing your stock...

Are we talking the same thing here? Animate Dead is designed to allow the caster to have 4 wimpy undead (CR 1/4 skeletons or zombies) active at the same time. It is designed for him to lose control after 24 hours, so if he wants to maintain control on up to 4 undead, he has to cast the Animate...

It's actually not an abuse. Animate Dead only lasts 24 hours, so it is a design feature for the Necromancer to cast the spell day after day after day. He isn't getting any additional undead, he's just keeping the ones he has. Hence, forum message boards. B-) I learn more here than I do...

Who said anything about a challenge outside of combat? I'm talking about stuff like an Aid spell at the beginning of the day, just because that is SOP every single day, even in town. Or Mage Armor every day. Or multiple Animate Deads by the Necromancer day after day after day with no adventure...

Yeah, but if you are 5MWD'ing your way through a dungeon, you are only wasting resources if you actually waste resource. If you cast your Fireball on a single Goblin, yeah, you will have issues. But if you use your resources responsibly, all that 5MWD'ing your way through a dungeon means is that...

He didn't appear to be stating that those were RAW in his first post, rather he called them fundamental balancing principles. He did use the term RAW in a later on post in response to your guideline post, but I'm not convinced he meant it the way that you are taking it. And yes, it appears that...

Hmmm. I must really be dense today. I don't understand at all how this addresses the 5MWD issue unless the Major Recoveries can be used in 10 minutes in the middle of a day to prevent the PCs from setting up camp for the day at 10 AM in the morning. If major and minor recoveries take virtually...

So, what does the difference between guidelines and rules have to do with the price of tea in China on a Tuesday afternoon? In other words, you were making some vague claim that his premise is wrong when obviously it is not wrong for HIS game. It doesn't matter if something is a guideline or a...

Actually, you just proved the opposite of what you wanted to prove. If the PHB is rules and resting is solely within the rules (with the exception of variant resting rules in the DMG), then it is obviously within the purview of the DM to change those resting rules. In fact, since the DMG does...