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This is one of the hard ones to convert. If you want to ride a tiger by the Official Rules, there's some hoops you might have to jump through. DM Involvement. Let your DM know about your character concept and see if you can't just...have a tiger NPC that you can mount. Personally, I'd consider...

This is Good.

My preferred solution to the nonsense of damaging zones is generally to limit the damage to once per round. So if you ping pong an enemy in and out of a zone or run a character up and down a line, damage happens once.

Hypothetically, share holders are "the public." In reality, the major shareholders of HAS are private finance industry corporations like Vanguard Group, Capital Research Investors, BlackRock, State Street, Citadel, etc., etc.. Maybe not a great idea for someone who works in investor relations...

In fact, if it's a bridge that you don't think anyone else should cross, either, burning it is doing active good. "Virtue signalling?" That's for when people are dishonest about their beliefs in public for some benefit. What leads you to believe that Tito's being dishonest, or that he's...

Do you think the guy who worked for the company whose periodic layoffs are infamous didn't think about that? Some bridges are worth burning. Some rude tweets are worth sending. I trust Greg knows more about the situation than any of us. Maybe the major shareholders should've been less...

He's a grownup, he can call whoever he wants any name he wants, it's fine, nobody involved here is a child. The concern trolling and the tone policing is a little infuriating. Maybe an alternative is to try and NOT be one of those things.

To the Lore! The main distinctions between mountain dwarves and other dwarves in the common lore sources are: Mountain dwarves live in the mountains (duh) Mountain dwarves are ruddier and paler and taller (pure fluff) Mountain dwarves are more standoffish and skeptical of outsiders, even...

Be a fighter/warlock. Nikki Vexx and the Nasty Hex.

The examples that are part of the rules of command do a pretty good job in expectation-setting, and, I'd argue, it could be better and clearer and more explicit (it takes some system knowledge to grok that the spell's main utility is combat action denial, after all). Examples and guidance and...

Emphasis is mine, because I think that's part of where these trains diverge in the station. I'm not scared at all of a DM judgement call giving players more power. What's there to lose? D&D is a cooperative game. Fly the eagles to Mordor, throw the BBEG off the cliff, poison the enemy camp...

I'd actually been thinking I needed a thing like this for a while. Good! Yay!

I hope whoever gets the job starts to unionize is all.

See, part of the fun of that for me as a player would be seeing what would happen. That's why I'm casting the spell - I want to do something that's more interesting than just deal damage and cause an effect. I want to play in this space with the DM, where I am using the divine magic of the gods...

When a PC says something unexpected to an NPC ("I tell the king he's an idiot."), and you need to come up with a response, that's open-ended gameplay. The PC could say something extremely disruptive or use some element to thwart your plans easily. Or if a PC finds a way through a locked door...

This is just why the DMG (and maybe the PHB) needs to discuss things like bottlenecking and collaboration in terms DMs (and players) can quickly grok and apply, not a reason to ban all open-ended game mechanics. If I'm worried about "cheesemonkey weaseling," I'm worried about a player behavior...

Dissonant Whispers has always been a pretty straightforward spell with direct, uncomplicated effects. The discussion is about taking a game mechanic that once had a possibility for nuanced, creative, spontaneous play experiences, and turning it into something straightforward, direct, and...

When I think "experimental," I think, "new and with a high risk of failure" which includes things like selling a classic version of an ongoing MMORPG. The things Hight did with WoW were novel and innovative and risky and could've flopped in a big way. There wasn't an obvious market demand...

In the case of Command, its utility in combat in 5e is pretty clearly action denial. You make your enemy do something on its turn other than hurt you or your friends. Cast it on the big damage-dealer or someone who applies an annoying condition and spend the round free to do pay attention to...

I actually see it as quite the opposite. The majority of D&D players don't buy all the stuff. They buy the core rules and maybe some big supplements that clearly fit (maybe they support popular archetypes that aren't common enough to be core, for instance). Experimentation doesn't produce new...