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Well, the problem is that it gets added to so much. Why does an artificer's construct deal force damage with a bite? Well, mechanically that's so it bypasses any damage resistance. But, it makes zero sense. And, really, what is "force" damage? A mace deals force damage but we call it...

This is kind of the point I was trying to make. The reason that this has all these bizarre interpretations (does it have a floor, how do you breathe, what happens if you use it under water? etc.) is because they insist on using these "force" rules. Just make it a cottage and all of a sudden...

If the atmosphere is "comfortable and dry", being filled with fire, smoke or poisonous gas is not what I would call comfortable and dry. Well, I suppose fire breath might make you really, really dry. :D If it keeps rain and snow out, why wouldn't it keep out things like fire and smoke? Up to...

I mean, yeah, that would be fine at 3rd level or maybe even 2nd level really. It's a small house. Perfect. It does what it's supposed to do - be a place to shelter from the elements while you rest. It's defensible, but, not invulnerable. I would have no problems with this spell at all...

Heh. Troglodytes. Or, better yet, Kuo-Toa so that they can actually bring about a god. :D But, the point is well made. LTH is a 5th level spell. It comes into the game pretty early. It's not hard to have 5th and 6th level parties with this. And, the enemies that 5th and 6th level parties...

Yes, that would be correct - one group for 3 campaigns - a homebrew Spelljammer campaign, a Candlekeep Mysteries campaign and ... I'm actually blanking on the third one. Might have been 2 campaigns. ;) My point being, it was VERY player dependent. I've since rotated out a bunch of different...

Well, you weren't talking about me either, so, I guess that's fair. On the idea of a hemisphere doesn't have a straight line. A hemisphere without a "bottom" isn't a hemisphere. It's an arc. If we want to get all technical and all. Considering every other version of LTH that is a hemisphere...

Sorry, where did I say "every group"? I said the last group I had. My current group doesn't. But, thanks for the assumption that it was my own incompetence that was the issue. Of course it could never possibly be that 5e has made casters so much better than non-casters and, frankly, made...

No, they can't. It's a hemisphere and it has a floor. That's been clarified in 2024 because now it's an emanation which means it extends as a sphere. Granted, it's blocked by the ground, which makes it a hemi-sphere. So, no, they cannot come through the floor. Again, nope. the atmosphere...

See, kind of caster is going to matter too. Druid can't cast Hut. Warlock probably won't have it unless he's a tomelok. Now, Bard and Wizard can have it, so, it might come up. Again, like I said, if you've never had a player who started abusing it, it's hard to see how it would be a problem...

Honestly, I think it's like a lot of things in the game. If you've never seen it used, you don't really realize just how disruptive it can be. But, once you've been on the receiving end of players abusing Hut to the most they possible can, it gets really easy to fall into the trap of thinking...

That must be nice. I had a group recently that insisted on using it as an impenetrable fortress ALL THE TIME. They had various means of scouting forward - invisible familiars, various other things - which meant they would move up, drop the Hut and then use it as a fire base. It was being used...

Yeah, I have to admit, I'm getting a lot more trigger happy with my ignore list. It's just not worth the effort anymore, if it ever was. It's certainly a lot less fun that it used to be.

heh. Funnily enough, years ago when running a Primeval Thule campaign, so, we're talking right in the early days of 5e, one of my players played a drunken master monk and skinned it as more of a drug dealer than alcoholic. Seems like that's a theme that's gotten some traction.

So let me understand this. You understood my point. You largely agreed with my point. You have no problem comprehending what I'm trying to say, but, you're going to argue with me endlessly because of my phrasing? Seriously? I'd get it if my phrasing was confusing and you were not...

While you are 100% correct, let's be honest here and 99% of the people who look at Drunken Master monks (or whatever you wish to call them) are thinking Jackie Chan movies and not history. And the Jackie Chan movies very much reinforced the idea of the character being fueled by alcohol...

I agree. I never made any sort of value judgement at all. Other than anyone who expects WotC to make big changes to the game is going to be disappointed. WotC knows what they are doing, for the most part. The fandom has spoken very clearly that they are not interested in WotC making big...

Silly me. You are right. Of course @mamba, you are right.

No. That was your question maybe, but, that was never the actual point of discussion. But, seriously, do you honestly believe that D&D is innovative? Really? This is a system that took nearly 30 years to answer the question, "How far can my character jump?" Do you really look to D&D for...

Ok, let's say you're right. Fair enough. 4e is a big change. Totally accepted by the fandom wasn't it? Oh, wait, no it wasn't. The fandom to this day have noped so hard on it that we still cannot talk about 4e without edition warriors coming out of the woodwork. And, let's not forget, 4e...