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IMO it's too strong. I admit my bias, as our first 5E game was with an oath of the ancients paladin with a rolled 17 Str and 18 Cha. So not only was it +5 to saves, but also half damage from magic. Saves are roughly analagous to AC, but for whatever reason it is deemed OK to buff them beyond...

I'd give them high fives and declare they won D&D. Good job! They beat the king, which was probably a tough battle given it didnt take place in their bastion. RAW, from what we have seen, the bastion wouldnt give them control of the princess, who was previously established outside of the...

I am almost always a DM. I have yet to play 5E as a player. It's why I feel pretty qualified to laugh in the face of your constant fearmongering and hysterics at the thought of sharing a sliver of narrative control. AI DM's! Muh authoritah! Woe unto the DM for all is lost!

You're never going to trick yourself that the game you are running isn't a game.

What's up slippery slope? How ya been? Remember kids, if you cant have the bastion NPC's betray the party/get killed by DM fiat, the world is garbage and no one cares.

Games are games. It's only an issue if you demand to murder their granny in the inn or whatever then get fussy when the rules say you shouldnt because its a designated player safe space. So once again, like all GNS obsession, its a self inflicted wound.

Giving players control of the Bastion also helps introduce them to some basics of DM'ing. They create a place, populate it, ascribe personalities, motivations and goals. Its a safe space to test the waters. I like that. I say this as a near perma GM. DM's treating everything as a knife is why...

There is no "world". It's ALL a storytelling game that uses mechanics for action resolution! GNS is some navelgazing nonsense that has ruined far too many people's fun so now they can't ignore the man behind the curtain. Unless you're JMISBEST or whatever that dude's name is and you roll...

Probably because they haven't played with actual decent DM's who value collaboration and treat them as adults. It takes a while to learn that bad D&D < No D&D.

It's nice to see them get away from the petty little tyrants who can't stand anyone questioning them.

Every time I see an old school DM bristle at any slight eroding of their god emperor of the lunch room table authority, I do have to ask.... If you aren't going to do it, why does it matter that it's forbidden? You control 99.9% of the world. If you can't share a sliver, that's a you problem...

Yeah, letting you buff as essentially a free action (seriously, what is a cleric using their reacton for anyways) is too much for a feat. Given WOTC's haphazard at best approach to writing rules, assuming any actual intent behind any wording change is grasping at best. The rules are whatever a...

You guys do realize that people might extend their finger before getting their hand to the exact spot they should be pointing within the nanometer? Or that maybe they point in a general direction? Its clear she's gesturing at the dragonborn. I know we nerds love to engage in pedantry but this...

Clearly the god of DM favoritism.

Deep Pockets got ya covered. https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Deeppockets_(Wizard_Spell)

Which are reflected in the rules. The rules say 1st level heroes aren't one cat scratch away from death. TRy imagining a world where that is the case and go from there. It's not their fault you're locked into imagining the game world the same way as it was 50 years and 5 editions ago.

People keep using simulation and v-tude as to gussy up preferences with an appearance of authority. It's no more simulationist to have 1st level characters be "superheroes" than it is to have them be 1HP weenies who are easily killed by a house cat's claw/claw/bite/rake. Possibly even less...

You can certainly earn more, you just cant carry that much coins. Moneychangers, vaults, etc exist. My games tend to have some kind of home base, and frankly, I'm stingy with huge amounts of raw coins. Though I did give them a million copper pieces once when they found a mad gnome pirate's lost...

We do play with encumbrance, but the weight limit is so absurdly high it doesn't matter. Like, they even state in the rule "Carrying Capacity. Your carrying capacity is your Strength score multiplied by 15. This is the weight (in pounds) that you can carry, which is high enough that most...

There were already weak saves under Fort/Reflex/Will. Basically ALL saves for monsters are weak. Like seriously, they're trained in nothing and their stats are garbage. At best they have one respectable save, which is usually glaringly obvious.