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Oh yes. There are SO MANY instances of "DC 15" (usually) that make little or zero sense, and would make all the sense if that DC was "typical" or "default" or something. Identify any ongoing spell: Arcana DC 15 Climb any tricky surface (slippery or with few handholds): Athletics DC 15 Avoid...

Good question! I'll start with a Doylist explanation (never mind in-universe for a minute, let's see what the story is for). Spells don't exist. A magic trap looks like whatever the worldbuilder – in this case the game designer – chooses. And the game designer had BETTER choose what makes for a...

I am SERIOUSLY considering it.

I haven't played any of it, and I can't comment on the mechanics, but the flavour is SPECTACULAR. The industrial advancement, the union politics, the hulls breaking free, I love all of this.

I only meant I did not agree that advantage does not apply WHEN you roll sleight of hand with thieves' tools, and have proficiency in both. I think that by the rules it does apply. Of course, the bigger question is: if you're not a Thief using Fast Hands, DO you roll sleight of hand? Or just...

Thank you for this very detailed response. I must say I do not agree with that interpretation of the rules. At least this bit is clear: "If you have proficiency with a tool, add your Proficiency Bonus to any ability check you make that uses the tool. If you have proficiency in a skill that's...

You know, I'm beginning to suspect that they used to have a nice Skills section in the PHB, at least as detailed as in the 2014 PHB, which neatly clarified all of this (and stealth, and picking pockets, and all sorts of things), and then they scratched it, replaced it with that half-baked half...

To clarify, when you say "I'm going with this", you mean "I'm making this up", right? It's not your interpretation of the rules in the books, it's your own rule. Because (not that I would ever disapprove of pro-Rogue bias - points at username) the flat DC 15 is decidedly not Rogue-specific...

My thanks, but to be perfectly honest, it doesn't help much? That just picks one of the two books to go with, and doesn't comment on the discrepancy. If that's what they meant, why doesn't the DMG mention Thieves' Tools at all? And what about the narrative solutions? Do you mean I MUST roll...

In the Tools section, the PHB says that you can disarm a trap using Thieves' Tools with a DC 15 Dexterity check. Contradicting (?) itself, the PHB also says that a Thief Rogue can, as a bonus action, disarm a trap with a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check using Thieves' Tools. * Contradicting...

Fairness is a construct. All sports, exams, and games profess to be fair, but that would only be the case if everyone had access to the same opportunities, training, support, encouragement, etc. They clearly don't. We just arbitrarily choose a starting point (typically when the competition...

The rules glossary in the PHB? It was my understanding that the DMG only has a lore glossary. And unless I crit-failed Perception, the PHB rules glossary says nothing about picking pockets or sleight of hand. Some sleight of hand DCs are in the Adventuring Gear section (ropes and manacles etc)...

Sorry to come back at this, I saw a video of someone flipping through the DMG and it appears that the Ability Checks section is not the equivalent of the 2014 PHB section: it's very threadbare, and gives practically zero information on skills. @FitzTheRuke, mow that you have the PDF, would I...

There's an Ability Checks section (page 27), how do skill descriptions compare to the 2014 PHB? (The 2024 PHB hardly has any.) Are they more detailed, or less? Does it list DCs?

One of the reasons it's so hard to estimate the population of pre-modern big cities is that the population was churning, people were coming and going all the time. They came in droves to find work and resources, to join kin and kith and compatriots (a big city is by default multiethnic), to be...

First, magic. Second, don't get hung up on western/northern European cities, their urban growth was very delayed compared to other places. In the thousand-year span of the Middle Ages, no European city north of Rome came remotely close to the populations of Ctesiphon, Baghdad, Cairo...

Our disagreement is that I take the "Melee Weapons" section of the table to mean Melee weapons, as it says, and therefore not Ranged. Though if they have the Thrown property they can have a range, measured in feet, and they can be used for either melee or ranged attacks, wielder's choice. But...

[referring to reach weapons] I am fascinated. So you think that the definition of a Range(d) Weapon is a weapon used to attack at a greater distance than 5ft (p.213) AND a weapon with a range in parentheses after the Ammunition or Thrown property (p.214) REGARDLESS OF whether it's listed...