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Mostly action heroes: John Maclean, Rambo, and the like. But my point is precisely that yes, all those people feel fear but they all overcome it. The word "intimidated" implies FAILING to overcome your fears. When the average person hears the word "intimidated" they think of the person saying...

I think it really depends on your definition of "intimidated". And I think that's the major problem in this thread. Many people will say that being "intimidated" means you feel compelled to do what the person who intimidated you says. It implies you are scared of them and afraid to act out...

Either of these approaches is fine with me. But if I say "I fought in a war against Orcs for years. I've killed hundreds of them and I've faced at least 5 more just like this guy: Big, scary, skilled. But I killed all 5 of them and I'm certainly not letting this guy get the best of me. I...

Genasi aren't really any different than Tieflings. They are both races that likely were planetouched at some time in the past. Either due to interbreeding or magic rites. However, the conceit in D&D has pretty much been that humans are the most adaptable race. They easy bond with magic and...

I thought the premise was that he was like 1/16 Water Soul Genasi and had inherited just the ability to hold his breath for a long time because of it. That's what I thought the novel said.

The thing about this is that it pretty much skips the entire point of HAVING a chase scene. The rules on it are fairly clear. You need to get enough successes to get out of there. Things you do can get you a success, but none of them succeed at getting away automatically. Meanwhile, from a...

It's better in the situations it was designed for. If you are wielding a 1 handed weapon, like a long sword then at 5th level, you get 2 attacks each doing 1d8+4 damage. If you use this cantrip and there is someone nearby, then you do 2d8+4 damage to the first one and 1d8+3 damage to the...

This was one of my favorite at-will powers from 4e for swordmages. I wanted to remake my swordmage from 4e as a 5e character but this was his most used power and the character didn't feel right without it. So glad it is back.

You are not allowed to use those since those backgrounds are not allowed in your Story Origin. The idea is to keep characters tied to the storylines that go with them. If your character is a race from the EE Player's Handbook, your race has a reason to get involved in the story because those...

Good experiences with tablets? Yes. I use my Surface Pro 3 as a notepad to keep track of init and monster hitpoints. When playing, I use a PDF copy of my character and write hitpoints and treasure directly on the screen. I save to the cloud and I always have an updated version of my...

Which, if I remember correctly, is the new name they are giving to Vestiges.

It's only really overpowered when NPCs use it against PCs. Enemies normally die so quickly that it isn't broken and most of them don't wear armor. As for it being worse than those other spells, that's kind of debatable. Conjure Animals isn't as good as everything thinks it is. There's...

Yeah, but I always consider worst case scenario when I determine the power of spells. I assume the caster uses it on you then hides somewhere they won't be able to be attacked while their friends attack you. Even if it only lasts 2 or 3 rounds, however, it's still overpowered. I believe we...

Heat metal is overpowered. We decided that the first time people cast it. It was probably in this same adventure, as well. We realized it was way more useful for enemies than it was for PCs because over 50% of the time the enemies wouldn't have weapons or armor. The PCs ALWAYS have weapons...

When I ran it, I think it was fairly clear that he pushed him off the ship because he was a cultist who was spying on him. Both groups I played it with didn't really think twice about it. One of the two figured out quickly that he was reading people's minds at the beginning and when he found a...

Heh. Yeah, well, I've played too many years with a group that was 80% major powergamers with no desire to roleplay at all. It wore me out as a DM so badly that I didn't want to DM anymore for nearly a year afterward. I've decided that if I'm going to start running a long term game again, I'm...

I only said that she HAD to side with him regardless of how she felt. I knew she would never admit one way or the other to me. It is presumptuous, but, as I said, I saw solid evidence of her disagreeing with him about this sort of thing multiple times. But in the end, agreeing with him...

Well, I don't have to deal with him anymore. But I don't know what I could have done differently. Every time he's blown up it's been when I was saying something that I didn't, even for a second, think would cause any problems. One time I said "There's no more information you can find about...

The Drow opens a portal through the stone and doesn't follow them. He asks them to bring him back the book. But he doesn't want to risk his own life to do so. To him, it's a win/win situation. The party brings back the book, he wins. They die, then he's softened up the people who have the...

Yes. WOTC pretty much created the entire campaign to show to Brick and Mortar stores that they still support them. In the past at their retailer panels at GenCon, they've been criticized for not strongly enough supporting the B&M stores. Online stores like Amazon have large discounts, have...