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Here I meant mostly because it got weaker as the dragon did. It's entirely possible my math was off, since I did it in my head and not with a calculator. I'm guessing the rationale was old movies. I've seen a couple of movies from the 50s and 60s where the hero hacks away at the dragon and...

Must've missed that. Another reason I'm glad I didn't buy that. What an odd decision. I wonder why WotC decided that.

So how do you tell the difference between "thought up yesterday," "thought up ten minutes ago," and "thought up right here on the spot"?

Using 5.14 rules, on its turn, the dragon can use its three physical attacks (all of which do enough damage to automatically kill a 4 hp peasant or 11 hp guard) and then use its Frightful Presence (Wis save 16). With a 120-foot radius range, how many of those peasants or guards, neither of which...

Or, y'know, you could just ignore those parts of the thread and talk about something else. Or start a thread talking about the things you like.

I think @EzekialRaiden blocked me (I can still see his posts, though, so I dunno; maybe he's just ignoring me), so he likely won't see this. If @AlViking or someone else wants to use this math, y'all can go ahead. You have to wait for the peasant to roll a nat 20, right? And no matter the...

So? This fits in with what I said. You don't have time to play it? Same here! I own scores of games I don't have time to play, but you don't see me talking about spending hundreds of posts talking about Kids On Bikes or In Nomine or Star Trek Adventures or Dragonbane. I'd love to play them, no...

No, they're not. Because--as has been pointed out to you--lower-level characters (like NPC commoners) still wouldn't be able to hit the ogres in the first place. The higher-level PCs would be hitting them anyway, even if they had full hit points.

And you can keep doing that. Their recon shows 50 pirates on the ship but when they get there to attack there's 100 carousing on the deck? Those other pirates were on shore leave and now they're back. Their recon shows 50 pirates on the ship but when they get there to attack there's 100...

If you don't like something, it's the things fault? So everything you like is good and everything you don't like deserves to be disliked? And why would you assume that something is changed purely for the sake of change? See, this is exactly what I meant. You're not assuming that things were...

I addressed that: "I've found it fairly uncommon that people have other reasons than those." I don't see people showing data as to why they don't like a thing. And a lot of the time, when they do show data, they are objectively misunderstanding it, or are doing things like ignoring the fact that...

If someone only engaged in a certain activity and refused to try new ones, or continually pooh-poohed new activities, I'd certainly raise an eyebrow or two at them. And I say that as someone who is autistic and very much only engages with certain types of things and has little interest in...

And another reason is that depending on the game and edition and the number of opponents on each side, combat can take a long time, and be very boring when it's not your turn. Using minions so you don't have to slog your way through multiple hours or even sessions just on the faceless hordes is...

As others have pointed out, once you get to the level where ogres are actually minions (in the normal sense of the word), they're not only not actually a real threat, but you're doing enough damage regularly that you're going to be wiping them out in one or two rounds anyway. Like, I just did...

I'm seeing an example, which is very different from a hard rule. Is there anything in there that says that you must have six successes before three failures; that you can't change it to five successes before four failures, or best out of three? Or that failure must mean becoming helplessly lost...

People don't like changes because: (1) they're new, and new is scary (2) because change implies that the way you've been playing is old-fashioned or out-of-date or even just plain wrong and how dare you say that (3) because many changes are designed to make things simpler, which makes some...

I'm pretty sure there's something similar in 3e, but I can't find my copy and I can't find the 3e books online to check. I did, however, manage to find the 4e DMG and that also had a section on house rules. But it would still be D&D. Just not his personal vision of D&D, and why should anyone be...

But in comparison, another group of pirates appearing from below decks out out of the jungle is not an inconsistency that causes more than the mildest of whispers. And IME, most people are in the middle. They do as good as recon as they can, but not so good that they are 100% correct. How very...

I'd love to know where you got that take, because I've never seen anyone actually say that. No they don't. the 3.5 DMG even had a whole section on how to make house rules. I can't imagine that the 4e books were any different. I don't know where you got the idea that WotC wanted their rules to...