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I'd rule it sort of the way Oofta described except I'd let him attack with the femur at Disadvantage with Mage Hand which cancels out with the Advantage of the skeleton being prone only because it was creative and too cool to not let him do that. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

It's pretty clear from the PHB that these feat proficiency bonuses do not stack with the Expertise feature at all. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

If a player with Variant Human wants to get their Wis to 20, get Warcaster, and then spend their last two Feats to get a Passive Perception of 30 to auto avoid traps, more power to them. They deserve that auto-success because they built their char to be the ultimate trapfinder. They miss out on...

Rogues and Bards would get no benefit at all from the Expertise feature if they picked up the Skill Feat with the same skill aside from the ASI and ribbon. Per the PHB: "Occasionally, your proficiency bonus might be multiplied or divided (doubled or halved, for example) before you apply it. For...

Check out Kobold Press' Beyond Damage Dice. No new weapons added but weapon options added to each weapon in the PHB that differentiates each weapon for the other besides damage dice. I love the extra options but a few are quite powerful in the right situations. Sent from my iPhone using EN...

The koto players from Kung Fu Hustle. The Doof Warrior in Mad Max. There's also music magic mythology tied to instruments throughout many cultures in the world today. Bards aren't weird at all. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

I allow everything in my games. If you can explain to me how your character fits in, I'll work with it. It can be WotC published material, UAs, DMs Guild, Reddit or Pinterest homebrew...whatever, as long as it's balanced, makes sense and the player is earnestly excited about playing it. I can...

Myself, when I run my games, I love shared narrative and being able to improvise on the fly. I love when my PCs do something unexpected that allows us all to improvise affect the world sandbox style. To accommodate this, in addition to the standard reroll from the rules, I also allow them to use...

Very clean and nice. I feel like class and race should be easy to remember after a few sessions. What would be preferable for myself would be: Name, Passive Perception, Passive Insight, AC and Personality, Ideals, Bonds and Flaws. Those last four are the hardest for me to remember so I can...

Hehe, you've never had a friend of family member with a gambling problem? Or that person that's been on a losing streak and is just chasing hope that luck will turn around? People gamble, lose and start pawning things hoping to just double up and go home even. Eventually incur big debts to loan...

You could also check out Kobold Press' Beyond Damage Dice PDF. It gives additional properties to each weapon in the PHB to help differentiate all the weapons. A lot of the options are very cool and thematically correct for the weapons. Gives martial character types more tactical options rather...

You're right. Reading back over what I wrote I think the tone is not really conducive to meaningful discussion. It came off as a vent due to having to deal with it many times in the past. Love the game and love sharing the game with people which makes it tough when I have to either work to come...

That was actually the quote I was referring to other people made similar comments. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

I can't imagine how anyone can question the success of 5e right now. The greatest measure of success for 5e and the D&D brand is how much visibility they have brought to the hobby, how accessible they have made it for the general public, how they have somehow made the hobby cool to the point...

Sales figures with the D&D 5e team running so lean and mean, means efficiency. The metrics of staff employed and products produced could also be seen as, IMO just like the Pathfinder Game, bloat and inefficiency. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

Three 16s and three 8s is pretty blatant min-maxing. I try to be very accommodating to my players because at the end of the day, I want them to enjoy the game. So, 3pp products and homebrews they find on Reddit, Pinterest or DMs Guild are all fine as long as I get a chance to review them...

Check out Kobold Press' Beyond Damage Dice. It provides some properties for each weapon in the PHB which really differentiates all the weapons besides different damage die and damage type. Sent from my iPhone using EN World mobile app

I'll side with Plaguescarred on this one. I'm always one to rule in favor of PCs and to get dragged away in the midst of battle by a giant, I would let fate decide with the grapple die roll. Sure, it seems silly logically that the Unconscious condition would only provide Advantage on rolls but...

I won't say which system is the best but I will say that out of all the games I've played and ran, I've had the most fun (my players feel the same way) with Star Wars by Fantasy Flight Games.

Pretty new to the Star Wars FFG game (played in a one-shot) but love the system and narrative play. Looking for a group in the Bay Area that could take on a new player. I am pretty open to playing anywhere in the Bay Area. I'm from San Jose and I currently play in games in Pleasanton and in Palo...