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I don't know about birth rates- it's mentioned from time to time that Dwarves and Elves have lower birth rates (though in the Forgotten Realms, at least, this was rectified with the Thunder Blessing when Moradin gave Dwarven mothers a large number of twin births). If a Chaotic culture is...

Any time someone told me that 3d6 was the "intended" way to generate characters, I'd just grab any 1e module with pre-generated characters. They pretty much always had at least one 16-18 in the array, though granted, sometimes they were in odd places (Bone Hill has a Cleric with a 17 Charisma...

Come on now, every gamer can quote Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And Spaceballs. And the Princess Bride.

I think I played at that guy's table once! He killed my Gnome Cleric for having the nerve to do nothing but cast healing spells so the party would survive an encounter with dire wolves and a Greater Wolfwere!

The only way I could see wearing two suits of armor is with Elven chain, which, based on Bilbo's mithril chain shirt, is so thin and lightweight you can wear it under your clothes. Which means I can't imagine why you couldn't wear it under a gambeson (and thus under more armor) for extra...

I think it basically came about because the matrices stop at -10, even though the rules tell you that you can extend them. Interestingly, the "AC 10" limit makes no sense, given that a low Dexterity could make your unarmored AC higher than that, and I remember a Dragon article about giant...

Gandalf doesn't seem to mind doing it.

I'm pretty sure the answer you're going to hear will be something like: "Well, nobody is forcing them to play". :rolleyes:

Sounds slippery.

Yeah pretty much. He actually wanted to trade in his +1 plate for adamantine armor, but couldn't find a way to get any.

So after a run through Storm King's Thunder when the DM was allowed to roll on random tables in AL at certain points, we ended up with an Eldritch Knight with magic plate, magic shield, a Staff of Power, and a cloak of protection with something like 26 AC plus shield (Warcaster to allow...

They're both really good, is all I'm saying.

Honestly, I think Paladins granting +5 to all saves is a bit more problematic. But the problem here is that "bounded accuracy" doesn't mean the system can't have large bonuses to things. Otherwise Bless would be a busted spell instead of being "ok". The game designers have gone on record...

I had a DM who wouldn't let people wear Robes and Cloaks at the same time, which made it worse. Who wants to choose between a Cloak of Displacement or a Robe of Scintillating Colors?

They should have made Indomitable like Legendary Resistance.

You're not wrong, sadly...

Well we can always go back to Zork rules for darkness!

He drives people crazy with his constant droning about his fickle girlfriend and his sickly aunt.

It depends, if I only have a 17 or less Str, I might as well put it in Dex for the 3 more points of AC. The 3 hp/level is probably better in the long run, but surviving the early levels is a lot easier with a low AC (just from my experience).