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It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Someone's gonna have a problem, cuz you can't please everyone. Either you design for you, the designer(s), as you think it should be, or you listen/bend to player opinions on how they think the game should work. Personally, I like more...

They hated the idea of changing it. They want to keep things as they are. Their individual d20+dex rolls. As the GM I just see all the flaws in the system, and look at how it could be done better :'D

It's funny how many GMs, including myself, have always chased after better methods of initiative as a big factor in improving combats... and yet it's one of the few things that almost all of my tables have hated the idea of altering.

Unless you have Spider Climb, the spell or a similar effect, all a climb speed does is eliminate the half-speed move penalty. That's what spider climb is for, or, perhaps more easily attainable, a potion of climbing: Potion of climbing gives you a climb speed- as well as advantage on checks...

Same. I had to accept that I really can't have a good time as a player in an online game... For me it's not even restricted to combat, I'll get distracted/uninterested during exploration etc. I definitely get a lot of juice from doing this stuff in-person.

Considering it's flat-out extra damage, yeah I think it does need to have some sort of additional cost attached to it. Though it does have the additional action cost of requiring a bonus action to light, but I think the gp-cost is appropriate enough.

You could add these to your 5e24 games, Flaming Arrows from A5E: https://a5e.tools/rules/weapons

This is the way. But really, I think that's the whole shelfware/collector thing that lots of TTRPG enthusiasts with impulse control problems end up doing... you see a TTRPG product, think it could serve you well in whatever games you run, or tell yourself "hey maybe one day I'll run this!"...

Is this about HP bloat? General numbers bloat? I have often wondered if 5e would be better served with ""lower numbers" by getting rid of stuff like +CON to hp and such, but since I run on A5E FoundryVTT it'd be impossible for me to cut out HP like that.

I don't think any of my players would choose that Permanent Injury option if it meant it was ... permanent. They'd most likely chance their character dying, than having guaranteed survival but living with disadvantage on some ability checks. I guess in part this is because if your character...

Agreed, and it makes me sad.

The way I'm hearing it here, folk just weren't using potions if they weren't a bonus action? Even out of combat? My players always use potions as prep for a fight, or to recover from one. They go through a lot of potions 😆 I even use potion miscibility tables! They don't each drink multiple buff...

I guess it'd make sense to say perception can spot that there are tracks, but can't make any sense of them.

Oh crud, that's some news :cry:

That's interesting about rope and manacles in 5e24. Yes, it appears to be more difficult to manacle someone than to tie them up. I also note that now 5e24 specifies that it's a strength-athletics check to burst bonds, not just a strength check. I was always sort of confused whether you...