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I always find your post interesting Immaculata, but you've got the wrong end of the wrong stick I on this one I feel and you have been uncharacteristically heavy handed about it - but to answer each point in turn; I haven't missed any points, valid or otherwise - stating that a bunch of them...

The best D&D experience is always round the table with your group face to face and live. Everything else is a concession made to distance and the timetabling of real lives. Critical Role would not be the success it is if it was a streamed Rolld20 game... Whatever digital support is brought in...

Metagamers... ... I'm glad I don't play with or GM for any these days. I don't have the patience to tolerate cheating or anyone tripping over Wheaton's Law over and over. There is a lot of verbage on here that sounds just like the kind of rhetoric indulged in by lawyers with guilty clients...

Sure, unless you have a player who wants to play a warlock and not get mobbed by angry peasants or live a super-secretive life all the time...

The first few times it happened in the campaign's history, sure, but unless set in a very early time, there would be well-established laws against it, and even pogroms against warlocks because their magic 'requires' them to hurt people.

Your GM is wrong - the ability doesn't require a saving throw, and as per RAW - specific trumps general - the eldritch blast with knockback is specific, and the rules on forces and STR saving throws is general.

The Warlock repeatedly assaulting people would be arrested and thrown in jail. Not only that, but the guards, having come across this behaviour before no doubt would toss a bag of rats into the Warlocks' cell just to rub it in...

"This comes across"? Please concentrate on what I actually said and stop reading other things into it - the last sentence is entirely clear - it even has a 'because' in it to leave no doubt what the unreasonable refers to. Unreasonable players argue with their GM when they GM rules on such...

I in no way claim to be insulted - I found it inevitable. Weary acknowledgement is about as close as I got to feeling insult, as I am not a thin-skinned diva of any variety. I also didn't insult anyone else - I characterised metagaming as cheating, and then explained why I think this is so...

Your GM has retroactively nerfed a core class ability after the game has started and after agreeing your character concept. That's not cool...

The rats need food, they will want to get out and can with time chew through just about anything, and in a confined space for long periods, most rodents start killing each other. These are all facts... I haven't had a rules bending player try this in one of my games, but should they do so, they...

Tell them the problem you are having with their multiple corner case choices and ask them to tone it down. If they don't, as the campaign hasn't started yet, restrict the numbers of Volo's choices to something acceptable and leave them to re-choose, based on the fact they thought their fun was...

Not surprised to see the inevitable 'badwrongfun' responses to anyone being strict about metagaming. Roleplaying is playing a role - not stepping out of it every time it makes the game less surprising, challenging or difficult. Metagamers who bring out-of-character knowledge to their...

I have my character openly question the validity of the in-character information by asking "Where did you read or hear that!?". When they make :):):):) up, and I know we haven't been there as a party (if it was like the library at Candle Keep) I ask when they did, and if it is "In my...

Set it in Greyhawk where at least it has a valid history and isn't shoehorned in by a marketing imperative. Then the factions and powerful individuals that would get involved will make more sense, and it will be self-evident who doesn't get involved and why...

GDW were great back in the day - sad to see him go so early...

I don't actually know what the 'haters' arguments were, and I don't care, which is clearly part of my point. However, if the ONE point (not 'plays' as you put it...) I am making was indeed one of the points they raised, it does at least prove that labelling someone a 'hater' or indeed a...

Yes - it's a less damaging spell. Think about Magic Missile and the way the ability is written now... EDIT now I have time to think about it see my revision in the original post...

I have experimented successfully with the following hybridisation in this area; Str+Dex Bonus/2 = Melee Attack Bonus Dex+Wis Bonus/2 = Ranged Attack Bonus

Don't forget the 4-25 force damage individually targetted Magic Missiles at first level... lol