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Damage on a miss seems more palatable when there there is a resource other than hit points which was expended that made the attack miss. Most commonly, deflection (shield block or parry) or dodge. Say, if one could have an extra reaction at a cost of stamina points. If hit points include such...

Well, except that hp are rather a poor mechanism for anything like exhaustion, the accumulation of small wounds, morale, or divine favor. They strip away all of the flavor of that, so much that I wonder if that consideration was anything but a poor attempt to rationalize them, added after their...

The nature of hit points seems similar to the treatment given to electrons: in one view, they are a continuously variable flow, in another, they are individual particles. A character receiving a strike perhaps can receive a similar strike ten times, successfully dodging or deflecting the...

I’m still dissatisfied by the lack of scaling to the amount of damage. Concentration DCs scale with damage. I’d be happier if the damage caused a new death save, not an automatic failure. Perhaps adding the damage to the DC. TomB

Well, at this layer of rules, a hit is a probabilistic grouping of damage, from potentially one or multiple sources. Then, the effect should be equally probabilistic. A more consistent rule would be that each “hit“ causes a new death save, adding the damage to the DC. To me, the problem is...

Which addresses the second point, but not the first: Even as actual damage, is there one strike, or potentially several? TomB

So … a problem with the base rule is that it is inconsistent with the meaning of attacks in general. A successful weapon attack is not necessarily a single successful strike. (A single successful attack may not even be physical damage.) If individual strikes from weapons are not counted, why...

Eh, anyone else just think the three failed saves rule is itself the problem? Or, that the saves caused by damage don’t care about the amount of damage? Three one point hits have the same effect as three d8 hits. I know this gets us out of rules interpretations. Also, it gets away from the...

My sense of it is that the Loom is a fail-safe for he who remains, not for the TVA. The understanding of what the Loom was for was wrong, until Loki goes back to He Who Remains. Loki decides to not try to preserve the timelines. He breaks the Loom, almost killing both the Sacred Timeline as...

In 5E, with bounded accuracy, that is largely the case. But bounded accuracy is a relatively new idea. Another principle is that the environment should scale with the player. A "locked door" is expected to be a "more well locked door" at 10'th level than at 5'th level. This was more...

Sure. But it still feels like an an odd encounter which was added into a crypt crawl, without doing much to integrate the encounter with the dungeon. A dungeon to which a hydra encounter was added, vs, a dungeon which has a hydra which may be encountered. What is the story reason (or dungeon...

Well, you might have a chat with the water weird (or maybe not). Or drag a cow down into the dungeon. Or try to sneak by. Or wait for the hydra to sleep, or for it to be away. The golden idol was protected by a gauntlet, which is usually linear. Sometimes, linear makes sense. Proving a...

Exactly this. I think I expressed my self poorly: “Looking like a spiral” was meant to express that the design looks interesting and possibly multiple connected, but it isn’t. It really just a line which has been bent twice. I consider this to be a problem because it is un-interesting, and...

Reading over the adventure, and reading the criticism, I'm finding that Alexander is not wrong, but he gives a poor review nevertheless. The adventure does have a lot of problems, but Alexander doesn't focus on the important ones. In the case of the dungeon with the Hydra, the problems are...

Yeah. What’s wrong with the word “linear”? As in, don’t make your dungeon too linear? Or, do put in multiple options for how a dungeon may be traversed? Related: Disguising a dungeon by bending it or making it a spiral or any other distortion still leaves a linear dungeon. Inventing a term...

I like the far realms intrusion idea, but having it create more mind flayers is stupid. The last thing that mind flayers need is a lot more mind flayers. A single mind flayer, if they eat one brain every two weeks, needs a population of about five hundred to a thousand sentients. More or fewer...

The scene towards the end, which has Miss Minutes and Renslayer, seems to show that Miss Minutes might not have been truthful. She seems to have a deeper intent. At least to control He Who Remains. TomB

I kindof figure the branches to be limited in extent, with each branch being a distinct bubble which expands at the speed of light. (FTL breaks this, but perhaps most places don't have access to FTL.) Perhaps less than FTL. That would allow pruning to be still dramatic, but also, to be more...

I'm thinking the trance sequence was Ahsoka confronting aspects of herself, and deciding that she wanted to be more than a soldier. Her non-soldier aspect was choosing to live on. TomB

Haha, RAW nothing happens. Lactose isn't a poison if you are lactose intolerant. The bad stuff is a side effect of the lactose fermenting in your gut. And Vegan doesn't make milk "not food", just "not food that I will eat". (Or, if it's not food to you, still, nothing happens, since it is...