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Dance. Dance like nobody is watching.

If the 'Oriental' in the title refers to a person or people, I'd agree that it could be taken as offensive. And we can and do refer to items, objects, history, language, literature and other cultural elements as oriental, both within and outside of academia. Oriental Adventures can be read...

I wonder if the debate around the word 'oriental' is an 'American thing'? I know it is a no-no according to federal law now. My co-worker's PHD is in the area of Oriental Studies - I've always wondered how that figures in to the debate. I'm originally from the UK but have lived in Japan and...

I welcome all scholars of the arcane and thank them for letting me copy their research. And they can get stuffed if they thinking I'm letting them copy my research. The power to incinerate crowds, bend minds and open gates to hell is the kind of power I trust only my self to have. I can...

Gnomes = Elf Halflings? :confused:

Would have preferred some classes - always nice to see what they come up with. For me, not as good as the others, but very pretty. And a lot of + Charisma races it seems.

1) To be clear - are you aware that the spell Find Familiar summons: Normally a caster can re-cast Find Familiar to change their familiar spirit's form. Is this still the case with these feats? If so, Find Familiar stands to become a 1st level spell/low cost resource that can potentially grant...

DOWNVOTES ARE BACK TO TWO. PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THIS. Dragon Fear 17 Dwarven Fortitude 11 Fey Teleportation 22 Prodigy 10 Wood Elf Magic 17

This is what I wanted to address with regards to mechanical or DM arbitration, in the context of 'smart play' attempting to circumvent challenges/gain auto successes. Specifically, I'm all for supporting a player's character concept and if they suddenly ignore or go against their own...

Ok :) All good - different strokes and all that.

I believe my examples make it clear that its not happening arbitrarily - and every effort is made to be fair. However, some folks will insist on making decisions based on player-perceived advantage, regardless if it is appropriate for their character, such as the classic low-charisma, no socials...

To build on this, there are many (movie) characters that are/can be quite horrible within their (movie) universe - but are still loved by the audience. For example, Gollum from the LOTR movies or K-2SO from Rogue One. Its arguable that for us as an audience to like or even love characters, they...

To repeat/clarify - a 'Wisdom check.. ..as needed. Ideally though...'. In other words, within the context of what I typed - we shouldn't need to resort to checks to support (enforce? Eugh..) roleplaying. However, they are an option, a tool on the tool belt. I would prefer our table not needing...

Isn't this because the designers wanted to lump a sturdy, metal-shod/bound 'Western-stye' quarterstaff and an 'Eastern-style' Bo staff under the same stat block? Saying this, I can totally get behind a club also sharing the stat block with a Hanbō, being a 1d4 Light weapon - and obviously much...

Ah ha! A classic case presenting as 'Character Performance Anxiety'. Friend, as @Hawk Diesel suggests, go with whatever sounds the most fun. Forget the numbers, comparing your character to others and trying to be the best. Simply make something as stylistically awesome as possible and try your...

You've answered the question! :) A player could make the effort to develop a long checklist of sensible things their character does before going drinking/delving/dancing etc. Now, ideally they'd do this because such a strategy is something their character would do - such behaviour might suggest...

While we assume characters complete tasks they're well skilled in without rolls/checks, with regards to how they operate within an environment/respond to an encounter, each player needs to make the DM aware of any action/strategy their character has adopted. For example, tracing their hands...

Awesome & good luck!

To clarify, I'm assuming it's designed around the standard array - or at least a base line in that ball park because.. well, practicalities. And also, just for the gurners at the back of the bus, rolling for stats is totally aok. Having characters with big stat lines is also totally aok...