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Anyone who watched Carpenter's Vampires (motel scene), specially as a kid, looks at the ceiling. I know i started after watching that movie when i was like 11ish. Tracking stuff is choice. It boils down - does your group have more or less fun if they need to do inventory management. Mine has...

Just reminder, Efficient Quiver is uncommon magic item. Endless quiver is rare (but it produces +1 ammunition). And in some campaign settings (i'm looking at you Forgotten Realms and Eberron), magic items, specially uncommon ones, are pretty easy to get.

Entirely dependent on what your BBEG is, power wise. With bounded accuracy and how armor and attack scales ( one of the reasons why even low CR monsters can still hit high level PC and chip them away over long enough period if you throw enough of them, this is just reversed scenario), PC with...

140 rounds is single lv 1 fighter vs CR 23 dragon. In actual play situation, it would be 4-5 PCs, which drops it down to 35 ish rounds (or about 3.5 minutes of fight). If you bump them to lv5, it gets worse for the dragon. Point is, 1000 HP is a lot and monsters don't dish out that much damage...

It was rough ball park with just basic attacks from both sides and dragon never missing single attack, but PCs hitting only 25% of attacks. But sure, you can add breath (recharge on 5-6) and one extra legendary action (wing or tail attack).

I would guess not any more often than without plot armor pool. Players do it because causing regime change is fun sometimes. If they aren't in the mood for good old coup, they won't do it.

Ancient dragon Cr23 does 73 damage per turn with 3 attacks. It has 385 hp and AC 21. Your lv 1 fighter has at best +6 to attack and does 2d6+4. So average 11 damage per round. It also hits 25% so every 4 rounds. It would take him 140 rounds to solo a dragon. Now, with little help of friends, say...

Didn't play many campaigns with evil or morally very dark grey PCs i guess. Seen it happen few times, as low as level 10-11.

Why? It's not that uncommon concept. It like people who sell their company very young, get 8 digit payday and just retire to enjoy life. Same situation. Adventurers get to skip part of grinding trough low level threats and go straight to big bad one, kill it, become legends of the kingdom and...

You can always use rope, tie spear on both ends with some slack and carry it diagonal on your back. It's like improvise rifle sling. Ammo counting has it's place. Mainly in survival type of games where resource management is part of the fun.

Since most games end around levels 8-10, 1000 HP is more than enough to make combat meaningless. You know you can brute force it, even against vastly more powerful opponents. Level 5 party can take out Adult Red Dragon no problem. It does only 56 average damage per round with some 260HP and AC...

Yea, this isn't about druid wildshape being bad or useless. It's about wild shape being useless in this particular scenario which obviously has only one solution and DM that shuts down all creative workarounds. And to be honest, i get your frustration.

Golarion and Faerun respectivley. But in general, in 5e, adamantine armor or weapon is uncommon item (weapons are 500gp) and i treati it as such in my homebrew. Also, between having adamantine sword and crowbar, crowbar is no brainer. Sword is weapon. Crowbar is tool and a weapon (essentially a...

Any self respecting blacksmith can make one. You just need ore or extra adamantium weapon no one wants. We used to haul adamantium greataxe. Called it - universal door opener. One time, we used it to chop doors made of pure mithral into smaller chunks. When you have money as incentive, group i...

When it comes to game economy, oWoD has most sense. You have your Resource background. Each dot represents mix of lifestyle and income. It also gives solid estimate of what things you can just buy, what you probably can buy if you save and get creative and what you outright can't buy. Then there...

Man at arms to be more precise (all knights were man at arms, not all man at arms were knights). In essence, highly trained and well equipped professional soldiers, used in specialized role of shock troops, mostly as heavy cavalry, but sometimes on foot (like Agincourt). Lance as primary...

There is just one small problem. People build fighters with specific fighting style in mind. Sure, having all feats help. But, if you built nimble duelist (pumped dex, dumped str, took dueling fighting style), switching to two weapon fighting or ranged might be cool and you don't loose on...

Simplicity comes from that basic loop - hit them with the pointy end. Wizards complexity comes from choices. But those choices gives them options to do cool stuff at high levels. If you want fighters to do cool stuff, well, you need to make it bit more complex. But, you can play complex...

At least since 2ed, big part of fighter class identity is ability to specialize in one weapon. Weapon specialization was domain of fighters. Jack of all weapons, but master of one. In 2ed, specialization was available only to single class fighter and gave them +1 to hit, +2 damage. Which was big...

Like Bruce Lee said: Fear not man who practiced 1000 punches once. Fear man who practiced one punch 1000 times. Same with fighters and specialization. You pick weapon you like and invest resources into getting good with it. Be it old weapon proficiency slots in 2ed, or feat chains in 3e or...