Search results

Please quote where I've advocated for this. I'll be eagerly awaiting your response...

Actually, I didn't ask that. I asked, specifically in response to epithet, why martial hit point restoration doesn't fit with the logic of the game; and neither he nor you have answered that. What you've said is martial hit point restoration doesn't fit the logic of the game when you choose to...

It's only "ineffective, tragic, and falling upon deaf ears" if one chooses to ignore certain conceits of the game. It's only "shouting wounds closed" if one chooses to ignore an official aspect of 5E's rules. That's certainly any D&D fans prerogative, but definitely not the system's problem...

Whoa. Faulty logic alert. Yes, the system is designed for flexibility, but nowhere are the rules in the Basic Game or in the PHB designed with the DMG options in mind. In fact, incorporating a DMG option requires either modifying the system or living with the problems such options create...

Nooooooooooooo! Don't give up!!! I'm on your side now! :lol:

That's not entirely true. They are suffering from a life threatening condition - not necessarily a wound - or they may simply be knocked unconscious (if the DM decided an enemy did so with the hit that took the character to zero, or the DM just arbitrarily decides this is how they want it -...

Well how about that. 15 years of 3E and I learn something new about it. I thought Evenglare was just being sarcastic; but in hindsight, maybe not. I even went back and checked my original 3.0 books, and yup, it says it there too (meaning it's not just a 3.5 thing). So, I was wrong. Whether...

That's not true. The fact that some interpreted it this way in 3E also does not establish that this was an option. The assumption that 3E allowed this is just as much in contention as whether 5E allows this. My interpretation and opinion is that they do not - for the reasons I gave.

First, before I get into the meat of my post, I just want to say I'm still working on putting together all the ideas that have been expressed so far, and coming up with an initial concept. Unfortunately, my ability to concentrate on it has been significantly impacted for the last couple of...

Exactly. If the rules were meant to allow what Celtavian proposes, then what's the point of ever prepping spells? I think the answer is obvious: The rules were never meant to work the way Celtavian is interpreting them. It's a slippery slope interpretation. Not that it's necessarily...

Or an access node for the NSA...:eek::uhoh:

Yeah. I remember when I was still on tankers in USAFE (around '95 also). The first GPS we had on 135's was a handheld/automobile unit with the antenna stuck up through the sextant port on the cockpit ceiling. Swear to god, I think we bought it from radio shack! Of course. A crew chief...

I know you're just giving me a hard time. Sorry if my post came across defensive. And I hear you about the hair. I'd been in for 16 years when I first went to Afghanistan, and my hair was already in full retreat. That pic must have been a while ago. Your bird still has FM antennas on her...

For most of the Air Force, most of the time, you'd probably be right. However, I was assigned to AFSOC/CSAR helicopters for 10 years (Pave Low's and Pave Hawk's). As often as not, we were deployed to austere locations. We're even forward deployed to fire bases occasionally for significant...

This is completely inaccurate. One, not all shockwaves are created equal. (Shockwaves and fragmentation have too many variables to make a blanket statement that one is greater than the other.) Two, not all grenades have the same amount of explosives or explosive force. Third, environmental...

Actually, you're both wrong - and both right. It depends entirely upon the type of grenade being used. A fragmentation grenade carries less explosives (therefore less overpressure - smaller shockwave) but its case is designed to come apart (fragment) and create a projectile hazard of...

Let them hate cake...?

Except this explanation has nothing to do with how or why it works the way it does; nor is this understanding of polearms (or reach weapons in general) correct. An enemy moving out of that first five foot area into one ten feet away simply means that they haven't left the area a polearm wielder...

All too true. I doubt it will be much of a topic for the election. Or if it is, it will take a form similar to Senator Graham calling for spending less money on veterans. The problem is that the percentage of Americans with military service is getting lower and lower each year. Right now...

For the most part, it's not the military itself that doesn't treat its people right, it's the politicians that fund and run the military that do this. You may have a fundamental misunderstanding about this. Nobody gets free healthcare for life after just a few years. If one does not serve a...