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Can you have a race who's only class option is bard?

The thing about injuries is that they're quite often simply random. There's the story of the guy who had the iron spike driven through their head and survived while roosters apparently kill people on a somewhat regular basis. A lot of people sadly die from a single gunshot wound while in 2018...

Then it's a good thing that if you want more realistic combat rules you have options. Doesn't mean I, or most people I play with or have played with, have ever expressed a desire for more complicated combat rules. Combat rules will never be able to come particularly close to real world combat...

I think it goes without stating that many monsters in D&D could not exist in the real world and are supernatural beings that don't follow real world physiology. It's a fantasy game, not a medieval warfare simulate. While the game is simplified for the sake of making it approachable and to work...

C'mon guys you aren't any good at starting conspiracy theories, I'm kind of disappointed. Obviously this whole thing is a plot, create a dark and dreary game to show how unfun D&D is so they can push people into playing some other game! Since CR is almost singularly responsible for the success...

Not being able to attack someone close to you was also unrealistic as far as I know from demoes of fights using them in competition. Admittedly you're not going to do as much damage against an adjacent enemy. On the other hand I am assuming you aren't talking about the pole-arms that were 12...

They had rules way back in 1e about different weapons being more or less effective against different types of armor. We ignored them because it only made sense against humanoid targets that required armor. There were also rules that gave your weapon more damage against larger creatures which...

But that assumption is based on how you personally envision dragons. It's the same logic that is used by Jurassic Park that makes dinosaurs immune to small arms fire. A T-Rex may still eat you if you shoot it a bunch of times with a rifle, but it's not bulletproof and it will likely die from...

What I tend to do is the old 7 days of boredom interspersed with 15 minutes of terror. It depends a lot on where you're traveling, how well patrolled the road are and the level of the characters. Bandits that might hassle commoners for spare change aren't going to hassle with an obviously...

Apparently the argument is that there could only be one type of sword in use at a time? That and a quick internet search that brings up this article History of the Rapier that claims "...it was first introduced (in the 15th century)" is just wrong. Admittedly like many weapon categories we...

I was just responding to the theory that any human not armed with a howitzer would stand no chance against megafauna - whether that's a T-Rex or a dragon. Jurassic Park has given us the impression that the dinosaur could just ignore fully automatic assault rifle damage from close range and not...

Spoken like someone who never encountered a pissed off rooster. :)

A T-Rex is just a giant chicken. Unlike what Jurassic park would have you believe, they are just animals. Meanwhile our ancestors did hunt things like wooly mammoths which were about as massive. Obviously no human has ever fought a T-Rex, but we are quite efficient at killing pretty much every...

My point was not about historical accuracy of people encountering T-Rexes, it's that if you want a "dragon" that works according to real world physics you have to strip away a lot of what makes a dragon a dragon. First thing that goes is the breath weapon and flying. Then you ask if the...

People did hunt grizzly bears with stone tipped spears, there are stories of warriors that would hunt them with only a dagger as a challenge. Admittedly a bear is "only" going to weigh 600 pounds or so but people (and the MM IMHO) really underestimate their power. If movies like one million...

True, but a serious simulation of a dragon sans magic is never going to breath fire or fly. Try to design a realistic dragon and you'll end up with something that looks like a T-Rex. While a T-Rex would be terrifying our ancestors have been killing everything in their path with stone-age...

You're assuming there is a "right" way. I don't. If alignment is a useful descriptor for an individual it can be an aid. While I discuss alignment with my players if they ask, it doesn't matter if we're in 100% agreement. It's nice if we're in the same ballpark for discussion purposes but as...

I've run campaigns for decades in the same world, many of them up to the highest level. I don't know why you think I'd run out of stories to tell. I have an entire world and multiple planes of existence to work with. Almost every campaign leaves some threads dangling, things that were only...

Evil is just one aspect of a person's personality and worldview. They may be LE but really love puppies or, even if they are a complete sociopath that can't feel emotions like love they could still value and treat them well. Outwardly it may look like kindness and empathy but really it's just...