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To answer that you would have to follow all the extra revenue that came in the door and see where it ended up. If in the pockets of suppliers....an unavoidable increase to be sure. If in payroll to keep up with inflation, kudos for doing the bare minimum. If in the pockets of the employees to...

I'm a "only die if you do something blatantly stupid OR it is dramatically appropriate" GM. I do track HP, death saves, etc ... but a character "dying" doesn't have to mean they never play their character again. 1. Lots of NPC clerics can raise dead. 2. Lots of interested gods can raise dead...

Also a good suggestion. My feel for 5e is that non damage spells remain relevant through the levels ive seen in play (14th lvl) but low level damage spells are usually not worth the slot once the cantrips scale to do similar damage.

Nevermind.

Thanks for the shot. It's handy to have a map, a two page spread of a book, and my GM notebook all spread out on a table for instant cross referencing. Much easier (for me) than navigating the same three items on the 13" screen of my laptop. I know how to work "the interwebs", thanks.

The players turned the situation into one where there would be a consequence for failure, thus switching to combat would then be appropriate in that case.

On that we disagee to an extreme.

Who reads a setting book cover to cover? It's not a novel, it's a reference. If a party heads east from Baldurs Gate I look at the map and read about the next few items of interest in their path.

There was an exit in the road around a sign that said "Learning new things is hard, so your psion is a sorcerer" where my car left the highway.

The 3e FRCS was perfectly cromulent for starting a person off getting their head wrapped around the Forgotten Realms. The 5e FRCS is not.

So you agree with the OP that 5e is not the Golden Age of lore generation?

I agree with what you say here, and have already said I wouldn't use this idea unless the system were built around it...but...the value of scaling spells is not the same as getting that extra jump of slot power as if it were an extra spell. Two fireballs is a much greater output of damage than...

I love the idea of all spells scaling like cantrips using your system, however I don't think I'd implement it because the system wasn't designed around it. I'd be all for a system designed from the ground up using that as a base rule....maybe it would give the sorcerer an interesting niche if...

The real world time difference it takes for 1 player to make 1 roll versus X players and the GM having to make potentially multiple rolls to get to the same end result of a grieving a meaningless goal. If a 20th level rogue wanted to kill a random songbird I would say "It's dead now what?"...

I'm not sure why we are having such a hard time communicating. In my songbird exame there is no consequence for failure, thus you are 100% correct it COULD be resolved without die rolls. If, as a GM, I forced the party to roll initiative and step through the order until it was the rogues turn...

You could, for sure. But an attack roll in lieu of a skill check isn't a combat.

You just defined a pointless combat. One in which there is no meaningful penalty for failure, no drain of resources, and no need to resort to round by round play when a skill check would be better suited. I used a songbird as my example but you can scale up the target quite a bit before it...

You are, like many others in the thread, are conflating combat and encounter. They are different. Combat in 5e is a subset of the rules where time slows to a crawl and all in it begin acting in sequential order using discrete options based on their character build. Just asking someone to make...

Yes, this. You can reskin anything into anything as long as it uses the same mechanical bits. As you go up in HD and can become bigger bears you can also become bigger owlbears, or weasel-apes, or gar-madillos, or ....

Let's go go a massive extreme. You are the GM. You have 5 PCs in your game, all 20th level. They are walking through the forest. You narrate that they see a standard in-no-way-extraordinary robin off in the distance (maybe you want to drop a hint it's a peaceful and non dangerous area, but...