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The new video seems to indicate that the ranger is outdamaged by a rogue when archery is involved.

See, I think there is a value to having... thresholds of power. Tiers, if you will. And this mechanism could be great at enforcing those tiers. But you are 100% right that there is a danger of it being overused. I would like it more as a "porous" threshold, where only a portion of the...

It makes sense that if I'm going to fight a being that is much larger than I, say an ogre or giant, I would want a big weapon that hits hard. A spadroon isn't going to to cut it - literally.

as noted, not a damage reduction, but a threshold. beat the threshold, you do all the damage.

Ah, but in 3e, the damage was reduced. Here it's a threshold. Say you attack a monster with DR 10, and you do 2 attacks, doing 9 and 13 damage. First attack does nothing, second does 3. But with a threshold of 10, the first attack still does nothing, but the second one does full damage, ie...

I am very intrigued - the "creature or object" verbiage. It's also possible this mechanic is unique to certain creature types - constructs, perhaps elementals or undead?

A "concrete" example. In my first Yoon Suin campaign, the party was rewarded with a large jar of quicksilver? How much is that worth? A "lot"? But using a yardstick and info from Pliny the Elder, I was able to find it was about 3X silver :)

Thank you for the response. And I think arguing about what the yardstick should be is a totally valid line of inquiry. But I can tell you that, for me at least, using income as the yardstick has proven to be very useful for world building. Hopefully my idea (use a yard stick, decide what it...

Hello A big change in 5.0 was how some large magical monsters were suddenly more vulnerable to massed attack than before. This was particularly notable when combined with bound accuracy. Imagine a dragon, 200 HP 19 AC, swooping down to attack a town with her breath weapon. Unknown to her, a...

All these discussions on the "value of a gold piece" are... not going to be productive if people can't agree on an "economic yardstick". Price lists in RPGs, unless modern setting ones with up to date info, are usually wrong in one way or the other. Usually within a same "kind" of goods the...

My thoughts is that I would refuse to play such a campaign. On top of the "this is fanfiction" aspect, ever since the author had decided to become a fountain of transphobia I want nothing to do with this IP.

I disagree with you... I think. are you saying that because batman "doesn't have super powers" the super hero genre's power level is lower than we are thinking it is? Because it's arguable that the #1 super hero representative is not batman, it's superman... I do think you're touching on an...

Anyone who has GMed for a while has made several mistakes - we're all human! And again, depending on your GMing style, your players expectations, not following the rules could be "better", ultimately only you know the answer. What was not a mistake though was asking other GMs here for help...

This means essentially that disease can be used as a "plot device" where the "solution" is to find the macguffin which will be used to create the cure. So in a way this will increase backward combability to a few older adventures... but also sort of ruins it for others.

OH Ok my reading on this situation has completely changed, because there are clear rules that will tell us what happen. the closest they can be to the camp is one mile. Statistically, the average distance on a 1d10*1d10 % of a 100 miles is 32.5 miles (if the distance intended was 100 miles)...

If you want a "bad but not TPK" option, how about this: They appear on a road/path, right in front of a giant patrol. And the giant camp is not that far behind, and giants from the camp will soon come to the patrol's aid... but not immediately - there is a small delay due to giants needing a...

as noted above, you are correct

I'm surprised no one has recommended Dungeons of Drakkenheim yet. It's the best 5e "campaign sized" adventure I've seen so far, by a significant margin. You can see they really gave a lot of thought on the adventure/setting to make it not only fun, but easier to use by the GM. It's even...

smoking a pipe, in 1066 :D

as the DMG hasn't bee published, those are 5.0 rules, and we are talking about the new true strike.