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And mental dexterity can mean "cunning" A creature that is neither wise, nor terribly intelligent CAN be very cunning... and it is that cunning that allows one to spot traps.

How's about we do the sane thing and make Dexterity the stat for perception? Because, believe it or not... dexterous is synonymous with being extremely perceptive. According to thesaurus.com. Third word in for dexterous: Acute.. Main Entry: acute  [uh-kyoot] Show IPA Part of Speech: adjective...

This is about the "hp as abstract" discussion. The people who keep harping about how abstract HP is see to forget that short of some very special rules the ONLY modifier ever added to HP is Con, which represents your physical durability and hardiness. Your Fortitude. The HP = Abstract folks...

What would you suppose Data from Star Treks statistics would be if he, for whatever reason, found himself in a D&D campaign? What would his statistics block look like?

Sitting at the table hearing that you missed but you did 4 damage anyway is just plain old dumb. It's like Affirmative Action for fighters. Can't compete? Here's some free damage. Mod Note: Please see my post below. ~Umbran At some a fighter will swing at the BBEG, or even a mook, the DM will...

This got me thinking... if you're a low level NPC.. why EVER be anything other than a reaper? If you have a positive STR score... a small horde of kobolds with 14 str (not entirely unheard of for fighting)could tear down just about anything of equal and low level, if they're all reapers. If I...

But what you don't seem to be getting is that you'll be saying that EVERY SINGLE MISS... every single miss against the Ancient Chromatic Dragon the 1st lvl reaper manages to wreck the Ancient Red Dragon for 3 points of damage. And since some guy threw a &$#% fit when I assumed we'd have DR and...

Well the silliness of all of this is that even though it all kinds of wrecks disbelief... people are intent on keeping it in...

Well... I could also assume they're all from the planet Borgulos... because nothing been's said to the contrary... but since the planet Borgulos has never been brought up in any games previously I'll go ahead and assume they're not on the planet Borgulos. There IS however a tradition of DR/-...

Really? So being able to perceive and dodge bullets in real time... guy with an 8 dex could do that? Alright.

MM vs. Reaper... Why am I alright with MM doing unmissable damage everyday all day but take issue with the reaper ability? Easy... MM is... MAGIC. If it was "Whenever the reaper swings at a foe that foes AC is reduced by two" or is "forced to save against fear", or is "drained of his will to...

Really? We adding our dex mod to HP now? I guess my books are wildly out of date...

Really? Does DR/- now protect against untyped damage? Because that's the kind of damage the Reaper benefit does. Go ahead, re-read it. It doesn't say you do weapon damage. It just says you do damage. So yes, you can murder superman with this ability.

So... I'm a human commoner who has lightning fast reflexes, and by lightning fast... I mean I'm literally "The Flash". I can move faster than the speed of sound. But I JUST got my powers, so I still have the hitpoints of a level 1 commoner. We'll say 3 because of my sickly con because I did a...

They need to reintroduce reserve feats. Magical effects that are at will but based on your spell selection and character choices. The problem with spellcasters isn't that they can do mindbending amazing things... it's that they can do them all the damn time. Consider "Miracle". Miracle can bend...

I get where the "hitpoints as abstraction" folks are coming from and why they don't see much wrong with the +str damage even on a miss. To them there are a great many variables that can occur during combat and these variables shape how hitpoints can be reduced. Think of it like a flowing dance...

Sigh. He didn't MISS YOU with a giant Fireball. The reflex save isn't about dodging the fireball. It's about reducing the damage. Your Disintegrate is worse. Disintegrate is a Ray that: Requires a Ranged Touch Attack, Has a Save, and can be negated by spell resistance. This, incidentally, it...

Then why have an attack roll at all? Why not just have a damage roll and be done with it? This is effectively a hit, just without the weapon damage. A better mechanic would be: The Reaper's soul cries out for blood: If the Reaper misses he gains advantage on his next attack against that same...

Except... this happens... EVERY... SINGLE... TIME... and only with this guy. Sometimes a whiff might mean a nick, sure, whatever. But not every flogging time.

Hitpoints are an abstraction? And? Are they meant to be nonsensical? That's what is being argued here.Because if this guy can injure you using a method that no other being in existence can... i.e. hit you, even when he misses you, with a melee weapon... something is gravely wrong.