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For strength based characters, there is a bit of a cheat if you can plan for the long game - the Belts of Giant Str. They can raise your strength above 20, rendering any increases you made redundant. So if you want to risk it, you can take feats instead of increasing your str and hope/plan...

Don't hate the game. Hate the players. (and possibly the DM...)

<cynicism>Banhammer for the win. Silence all the dissenters and solutions will just write themselves. </cynicism> <condescending>Members of the "Men's Rights" crowd simply don't have the endurance for prolonged debate. They complain loudly, pat themselves on the back for a job well done, then...

Well, the list of questions may have made him feel uncomfortable. I know it made me feel uncomfortable, and I'm 90% certain my answer to all those questions is "No"...past the age of 18 at least. I'm less certain of my actions during the hormone induced haze that shrouds my teenage years...

Sadly, I cannot prevent jaded individuals from misinterpreting my words. How gracious of you. :) Ah, then I failed in my mission. I wasn't chastising you. I was questioning your motives. Hence the questions regarding your motives. I was legitimately unclear as to why you were asking...

Well, don't I feel suitably chastised now. :) Yes...my high horse... :) Your contribution to this discussion has been invaluable. Thank you for taking time out of your no doubt busy schedule to "call me out" as I so richly deserved.

Ah. Thank you for reading the OP's mind and answering on their behalf, since they are seemingly unable to speak for themselves... Oh wait, they already did answer my question. What was the point of this? To show off your powers of prescience... oh wait, they responded before you did, so it's...

Well, the limitation is intentional, and you've already pointed out the most likely reason for it. If two characters have the feat, it can guarantee one of them an extra attack every round. On melee characters, extra attacks can be very powerful force multipliers. So if you remove that...

Are you asking us to divine the reasoning of the game designers, or are you asking us to defend the feat as it is written? Or are you asking a message board of anonymous gamers permission to change the feat to make it more powerful? I'm not exactly sure what you want here.

Not entirely sure myself. But I think the gist of it is that those who prefer to have encounters, stat blocks, and game mechanics provided for them by WOTC are not having their particular indulgences catered to like those who prefer stories, world building, and setting lore are having their...

Nope. "Court quality" is ridiculous as well. You aren't really paying attention to what I'm saying, so I'm done with this. Your position is obviously flawed and doesn't apply to me (since I haven't believed 100% of the accusers or the accused in past incidents) and let's just leave it at...

Nope. "incontrovertible" is a ridiculous requirement for something outside a court of law. Especially things that will always be reported second and third hand, and learned about days, weeks, or months after the fact. And some things will always have a level of uncertainty about them, and...

Your position is sadly lacking in both personal judgement and common sense. "Always believe them or never believe them. That's it, nothing else!" Obviously bullcrap and you should be ashamed of yourself for posting it. Option 3: Use a little intelligence an look at the history of the...

Ah, the fallacy of the false dilemma. Presenting a few select options as if they are the only possible choices. Sad.

Sorry you feel that way about it. I don't think anything more can be said.

What about the people who want that "excess verbiage" and are forced to pay for unnecessary information about "encounter locations' that they don't need? I'm just saying, you aren't their entire audience. It's a lot of different people who prefer different things. It's a compromise - and...

How much of any hobby do you need? I mean, on a practical level, none of this is necessary - not the dice, not the rulebooks, not the minis, not the setting info. None of it. Go write a story or do an improv session with your friends. Go watch a movie. Play a sport, take up karate, go...

I have. Not incredibly often, but it has happened. Much more frequently I've used the bits of monster lore/ecology included in the Monster Manuel (or Dragon magazine when it existed) to decide how and when to include the monster in an encounter, or created an encounter based on the monster...

All of it. All the inspirations.

To be honest, isn't the entire hobby, pretty much by definition, self indulgent? Both for the players and DM's? I mean, we could be doing something productive instead of spending our time and money pretending to be people who never exist outside of our imaginations and the imaginations of...