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I think I would let players make rolls for roleplaying, but I wouldn't require other players to abide by them. I'm playing with some rather young players who don't know much about how to roleplay. Getting them to say, "I try to convince the party it's a good idea" is an accomplishment. In...

How long before all your players create female characters? Or does that rule only apply to the players? :)

Anyone have experience with this Ranger ability? I'm having a hard time figuring out what it would be useful for, but since it's a 10th level ability, I assume I must be missing something. But being unable to move seems to really limit its usefulness. The only thing I can imagine it being...

Yes, you can easily use one without the other. Interesting idea. I was already toying with the idea of saying that players are incapacitated at 0, but aren't necessarily unconscious. I could imagine a system that allowed the players to stay active upon reaching 0 HP (but with the penalties...

Yes, nothing draws the eye like movement. As far as I know this isn't reflected in the rules anywhere (except for the Ranger's camouflage ability). Any DMs actually house-rule this? Would you give a character advantage on their stealth check if they stayed perfectly still? Or is the idea...

Some good stuff here.... What is the thinking behind letting Rangers switch their favoured enemy after a short rest? Doesn't that work against the "significant experience studying" part of the description?

So if a player isn't actually moving, would you give them an advantage on their stealth check? They've already cut out one of the major things that might give away their position.

I'm a bit confused with the Heavily Obscured condition. It basically says if you're heavily obscured, you are essentially blind. So why do you have to make a Dex check to become hidden if your opponent is blind? I can see it if you're making a lot of noise, but if you're hiding at the end of...

I have never seen this happen. I'm in favour of adults doing whatever they enjoy in their games, but actually roleplaying rape or sex scenes would not be to my taste, and should never be done without the approval of everyone involved.

I can see his point, but I would tend to agree more with you on that issue. Anti-harassment policies (that define what is and isn't acceptable at that venue) are good ideas at any conventions where you have thousands of strangers crammed into tight spaces.

Well, they are at 100% in that all their abilities work at 100% effectiveness. HP just indicate how quickly they can be dropped to 0 again. Heal a nearly dead comrade a few HP and they can run, jump and do cartwheels as if nothing was wrong. That's what this system is meant to address. I...

I posted an article that included several examples. Where are the people who "don't particularly care"? I think there was one such post in the last 65 pages.

If that's the case, maybe someone should rename the thread from "Harasment in Gaming" to something that specifies only female harasment should be discussed.

Since this is a public thread of over 50+ pages, it's a little difficult to argue what should or shouldn't be the main focus of conversation. There are at least half a dozen different topics running throughout, all of which are directly related to the article in the OP, not to mention the...

It may not be an issue to you, but it certainly appears to be an issue to the author of the original article (which constantly refers to "white male terrorism" not "male terrorism"), and with a number of people posting in this thread. That might explain some of the defensiveness. I wonder how...

In the RAW, a character that is taken down to 0 HP and then given a healing potion instantly goes from "unconscious and near death" to "totally functional with no penalties or consequences". That's what I meant by "100% fine until you're dead". Under this system, said character would not be...

I don't presume I can predict exactly how someone might react in that situation. Can you? If I'm someone who is expected to enforce the rules of the convention, then yes, of course I need to find out more information, for exactly the reasons that have already been discussed ad nauseum. If...

It's possible we're crossing our wires then. Though I'm not sure what the difference is between "offense" and "terror" in this context. Doesn't your statement work equally well with either one? " if a person feels they were being "offended" then they were, in fact, being offended, which is...

Unless you're just making a tautology, you seem to be implying that some form of terrorism actually happened. Do you want to address the specific example I referenced? The women heard "menstrual", but the other person actually said "minstrel". Is using the word minstrel to be considered...

So a grappled character can't stand up because that would require movement? Is there anything else a grapple would keep you from doing? Could you keep someone from picking up a weapon, for example?