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Yeah, it was kind of disappointing when, after putting out three different setting books (Eberron, the Critical Role one, Theros) they announced another Forgotten Realms adventure. And sure, a lot of the published adventures can be moved to different settings with minimal difficulty. But that...

Assuming that we're talking about a theoretical D&D 6e that's less hostile to multi-classing... "Racial classes" that are about a person of a certain race learning to better use their racial abilities? So, for example, "dragon breath adept" for Dragonborn, that's all about mastering their...

Sort of like how 4th edition separated "utility" powers from others. Was a good idea, I thought.

Which just changes how long it takes for a PC to get to 20. A 20 str half-orc is not, per RAW and RAI, any stronger then a 20 str halfling. Consider two power-lifters. They both end up at the top-tier of some championship, and can lift the same weights. Is the one who's younger...

I can imagine that climbing cleats would negate the danger of ball-bearings. But outside of suitable environments (snow, muddy-but-not-too-muddy ground, etc), they'd also give a movement penalty. But seeing as you can avoid the dex save of ball bearings by moving half-speed already, I'm not...

Re: Thread conversation My own table uses feats and allows multi-classing, but while we consistently see feats in all our campaigns, the only time we saw multi-classing the player ended up just re-working the character after a few levels because, mechanically, it just wasn't working out. That...

Response before reading all posts in thread: Yeah, it feels like they're trying to bring back 4e-style multi-class feats. Not quite there yet (especially with respect to deeper multi-classing), but it's clearly that sort of mind-set: get a few abilities from another class without sacrificing...

Seeing as halflings and half-orcs have the same cap on strength, it feels like this advice applies regardless of which race you plug-in to this sentence. And yes, I've said (repeatedly) that you should talk to your GM about your character's narrative. The RAW/RAI do a poor job of modeling most...

If he's a PC, he's "strange" by default, so obviously the answer is "yes, quite strange indeed." But to the spirit of the question... RAW, there is only a 5% difference in probability of success between similarly min-maxed elves and dwarves. And after a point, that difference goes away too...

But that's a spotlight issue, not a rules issue. Expecting the rules to police your spotlight boundary is always going to be messy. For that matter, you're also saying that your narrative ("my PC is the strongest!") should automatically trump another player's narrative ("my PC is the...

/headscratch So we're not talking about the strongest orc being stronger then the strongest halfling, but the mediocre orc being stronger then the mediocre halfling? Again, you can do that to NPCs without touching the PHB (in fact, the monster generation rules in the MM encourage you do to...

Hah. Puny half-orc. Doesn't even have a carrying capacity advantage over a halfling. Just goes to show the inherent superiority of large races. :) AKA: Shows me for shooting from the hip. I knew large (or at least, whatever-that-trait that goliaths and firbolgs have) mattered; I thought...

It looks like a lot of folks are overlooking the key detail that PCs don't play by the same rules as NPCs. Simply put, regardless of what rules PC character creation goes by, when designing NPCs it doesn't matter what the PHB chapter on race says regarding ability scores. You want that Orc to...

Think of it this way. Which is easier for you to grab hold of... a big dog? Or a small cat?

Are you planning on springing this plan on the GM? 'cause alignment issues, what about the rest of the party, whether that's a reasonable amount for the treasury to hold and all those other logistical and ethical concerns aside, if you try to pull a heist and the GM isn't prepared, one of two...

Maybe I'm just being generous here, but at 16th level I don't think I'm gonna sweat where the monk is "supposed" to land. They want to land right next to the wall? Sure. They want to land away from the wall in a more natural arc? Sure. They want to land on the enemy and ride it like a...

So, meta-game assumptions that makes Greater Restoration a "guaranteed" thing is a-ok, but meta-game assumptions that makes Raise Dead a "guaranteed" thing is double plus un-good. Yeah, that makes sense.

Wait, so the guy that says Raise Dead is unreliable because the GM can arbitrarily decide it is, thinks that it's guaranteed that they'll be able to get a Greater Restoration spell in a certain time period? Dude, not only is that pretty heavy-handed metagaming, both spells are 5th level. If...

This is a magical setting where you regularly have giant fire-breathing dinosaurs disguise themselves as normal pink and fleshy people to get their rocks off, and viable children are a result. In case that isn't clear, science has no place in this conversation. But if you do want to consider...

"The GM has final authority" isn't a valid argument that a plan is bad.