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If you regularly interrupt a nights rest with random encounters or have important social gatherings ending in combat, I can't say as I blame them. Especially when for some reason light and medium armor is perfectly okay but chainmail? Off it goes! If heavy armor were as good as it likely...

I used to do a lot of backpacking and we did do 20 miles in Philmont in one day. We didn't have an adult with us, so we were all young and in relatively good shape. It depends a lot on terrain and how well kept the trails are, we were on relatively flat trails (relative being the operative word...

That's Mr. Ed to you, good sir!

So small groups like, oh, 4-6 individuals fighting a similar number of enemies? Sounds about right for D&D. If you're playing a primarily urban campaign like I've run a few times over the years it would be appropriate. On the other hand I've never run a game where the characters were primarily...

It seems to me the most likely answer for why they have chosen a theme for their next campaign is that these people are playing the game they want to play with the hopes that other people will continue to watch. This is not scripted TV that has been run by an analytics department (and we've...

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...