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Fair enough, sounds like you play DnD entirely differently than any table I've ever been at or would ever want to play at. Not much more to say there I guess

Maybe they did investigate the room but just never found anything noteworthy, so the camera never bothered to point at them, which forced others to take the spotlight. It's not like having a slightly higher Int than the rest of the party somehow makes them 100% successful

Pretty sure most DMs would allow that with just the Help action and no Charisma required. Helping someone else investigate an empty room sounds totally reasonable as something that succeeds automatically

You know how sometimes in TV shows there are characters who are there but they just didn't do anything important enough to be shown on the screen? That's the Rogue. They are right there but for whatever reason just not doing anything noteworthy in this particular episode Do you cancel the...

I've always seen it play out this way in practice. Players say what they attempt to do, then the DM either says it works with no skillcheck or decides what skillcheck to roll (often giving multiple options for the player to pick between). Players can always make suggestions but that's all it...

Again, 8 intelligence is slightly below average, not mentally handicapped barely able to string sentences together or something. People here seem to think Grog is a good example of dumping int, but he was 6 Int which is not typically a legal Int score in standard Point Buy. I don't see how...

Hehe yeah too true, you could argue that elaborately complex schemes that don't stand a chance of working are both the norm for most DnD parties, and would be spot on for accurately roleplaying PCs with 8 Intelligence

Standard "dump stat" means 8, and the OP specifically did say they all had -1 Int modifier so 8 or 9 as their Int stat. That's just a below average intelligence person, not some moron who can't make decisions. At an 8-9 intelligence you shouldn't be roleplaying your PC as coming up with...

I wouldn't go that far. The difference between dumping INT and bumping it to something above average like 12 is a difference of TWO on the skillcheck, where the Die roll randomness swings from 1 to 20. No matter what the roll is mostly based on random luck. Dumping Int to put more points that...

Everyone dumping Int to 8 is pretty standard in my experience if you don't have an Artificer or Wizard. It's just such a completely useless stat for everyone else

Wisdom (Perception) seems like the most obvious workaround here but sticking to the actual question: I can't think of any rationalization for charisma that I would accept as a DM, unless there are sentient denizens of the dungeon that you could capture and interrogate. Charisma would actually...

I've been saying over and over, Animal Handling is an S-tier skillcheck in Modern 5e DnD at every table I've played or DM'd at.

My advice is to let go of insisting on "what makes sense" whenever it gets in the way of the logistics of playing a fun game. Always strive for verisimilitude but don't be a slave to it. I always imagine it like in a TV show where sometimes a character just doesn't appear on the screen for...

Most of my 5e DnD experience has been this type of "open table" FLGS environment, with single DMs running long (multiple year) campaigns with rotating players. I have seen great success with this model. My advice on what I think works well / doesn't work well is below We've always used...

Yeah I was wondering what that was as well, I'll vote for it to find out

Ah this makes sense you were referring to the restrictions against using two spell slots per turn, rather than the Action Surge restriction against using a Magic Action. The OP's situation still works RAW since it was a magic item and no spell slots were used, but this would prevent most cases...

There's no change to the Ready Action itself, what changed was Action Surge specifically excluding taking the Magic Action but not being worded broadly enough to prevent using the Ready Action to cast a spell with your Reaction.

Yeah I was definitely thinking the same thing, but who knows sometimes you just want to award someone for teaching you something new so I could maybe see myself doing the same if I was in a generous mood

According to the rules they are different. Action Surge allows any action except the Magic Action. Casting the spell on your turn uses the Magic Action, thus is prevented. Taking the Ready Action to concentrate on a spell, then using your Reaction to cast the spell does not the Magic Action...

Depends what you think of when you envision the world of Tolkien. Modern DnD heroic fantasy has every character being Legolas, Gandalf, Galadriel, etc. Ridiculously powerful characters are certainly part of Tolkien's world, although the story mostly focuses on the less powerful characters, so...