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An utter triviality. It binds no one and I suspect most people ignore it. Earlier in the thread people were at least arguing about whether they should be in the PHB or not. Are we now supposed to care about how they're classified?

No the answer is to fold bonus actions into regular actions. You're missing the whole point of removing them. It's not to allow people to do more things. Bonus actions slow the game down by having people do too many things on their turn. It pushes people to look for things to do with their...

That doesn't make any sense. How are they favoured instead of gnomes instead if they are both in the PHB and don't get any attention? You could argue that halflings are favoured because they are in the beginners' box I guess, but since I seem to have been the first person to even mention that...

I'm confused. How is there favouritism towards halflings? I thought the whole issue here was that they don't get enough attention?

Isn't this whole design approach supposedly redundant now anyway?

I don’t recall anyone mentioning the beginner’s box before I brought it up. So I have a hard time seeing how that is the crux of the discussion. In any case I would think the reason to put halflings in the beginner’s box is recognisability of concept - or in other words the assumption that...

One we get to the point that we’re talking about what subheading ( which is largely ignored by all) to put halfling under in the phb we are entering the realm of the truly trivial.

Who cares? The only point at which this matters is in regards to what goes in a beginner’s box. How much lore would you expect to see there?

The problem here is that what constitutes ‘good lore’ is highly subjective. I’ve long since come to the conclusion that most of what constitutes elf and dwarf lore is just dead weight holding the game down and if held to limiting the creativity of what groups and designers can do. I’d point at...

If the players ask if anyone from the fight is still alive I roll some kind of die to see how many are still bleeding out rather than dead.

Only if they're Barbarians.

Well yes, obviously they have. I've been saying since Xanathar's that 5e has demonstrated that the edition war talking points from the release of 4e are no longer relevant. Even WotC seem to have realised that, as they have been making less and less effort to present things so that they would...

No it's magical in that instance because you decide it's magical in order to explain fictional inconsistencies. But if you are saying it's magical becauase it has to be magical, then that's you adding your own particular world building take onto the rules for the sake of consistency. One could...

As I pointed out earlier, Battlemaster Fighters can grant fear with Menacing Attack which is clearly not intended to be magical in any fictional sense. And it interacts with effects that are specifically magical like the Paladin of Conquest's Aura. The game is simply not interested in a hard...

I think it's more that if you make an argument and it doesn't convince people, endlessly repeating that same argument over and over leads to endless failures over and over again to convince people. At a certain point, you need to see accept you've made your point as clearly as you can and move on.

Oh for god's sake! Is this magical? There is no consistency about these things within the game. Why not? Because the game does not care.

The kind of questions being discussed, eg: whether fear effects are magical or not, halflings place in worldbuilding etc are fundamentally unanswerable in 5e. It's clear that WotC simply does not care about worldbuilding. It's not a priority of 5th edition at all. What they obviously do care...

What they're really saying is it's not a problem because I'm such a good DM. An awful lot of forum posts are really just people finding ways to boast about their supposedly amazing DMing skills. I found once I realised that it became a lot easier to skim right over them and focus on the signal...

I'll just ban it. It's not like there's a shortage of Cleric subclass options.

Trickster clerics have always suffered from the fact that the kinds of things we associate with tricksters and the types of things we associate with clerics are worlds apart. Edit: Really this would make a good rogue subclass