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I'm playing a college of swords bard right now. I generally like it, but have a few minor quibbles. It competes with itself for bonus actions. It also, because it strongly encourages two-weapon fighting, practically requires you take the warcaster feat at your earliest opportunity. But I'm...

But is this really a problem *at the table*? IMX, generally tables have some manner of niche protection to avoid toe-stepping. Just because a cleric and wizard might be able to make choices that give them spell overlap, doesn't mean you will necessarily see a campaign played where that is...

I'm just saying that every single one of the feats you just listed can impact combat. In meaningful ways, all. Might most consider some of those to typically be focused more on one of the other pillars of play? Sure. But they all can still have usefulness in combat situations. If I'm told...

I think I might like the idea of high elves (in particular) being the "Greeks" of D&D. The original civilized civilization. The rest of the peoples of the realms copied, adapted, and made what they took their own versions of their original, pure, society.

To heck with Sherlock. How would one hope to model someone like Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt from Rainman? That man could count like nobody's business!

...isn't a round metal shield really just a gong?

To be honest, I must have missed the part where you described that they told you they were not happy. My bad. I thought it was just something you saw as a problem. Regardless, as I've said repeatedly as well, this is generally something best resolved away from the table, IMO. A serious...

Couldn't? Are you sure? What if the three skills chosen were Athletics, Acrobatics and Intimidate? I see all three skills regularly used in combat scenes.

Absolutely. The same could be said of making sure a list of who has what gear for all to see would help alleviate the issue of a player forgetting he has a potion potentially changing a shared strategy of how to proceed in the battle... The point being, sometimes OOC discussion--or reference of...

My first question has to be, "What's a non-combat feat?"

I never said it was badwrongfun. Only that it can lead to odd situations. Probably because I see the line on "what you say your PC says" as being very, very fuzzy. Clearly your wizard PC isn't actually yelling, "I cast fire bolt at the orc boss. Natural 20! That's a crit! He takes 14 points of...

Cool. Me too. ;) Great! I think it's awesome when we all help each other. Fair enough. Yeah. I didn't get that so much. As I read it, the one (albeit enthusiastic and attentive) player was getting involved in the tactics of play and helping remind his friend that he wasn't in as dire a...

Yes. You just included an example of a group, redetermining what was happening in the narrative, after a revelation of something briefly forgotten. You disapproved of the group changing their tactics, due to the fact that the one PC with only 5 hit points forgot he could drink a potion instead...

A counter example based on what I take away from your last post: DM: Bill, your wizard takes 7 damage from the orc's arrow. Bill: Oh no! That'll drop me. McSpellhappy flops down like a ragdoll unconsicious in a pool of his own blood! Eric: Bill, did you forget to record the healing word I gave...

Pretty much the same as "...shoot the wizard!" to me. I'm not sure if you were fine with this part as well, or just the first part above. You weren't clear. Sometimes this stuff needs to be verbalized because visual representation of injuries is not possible. Physically being handed something...

Any movie adaptation that fails to spend hours of on-screen time faithfully bringing the Bombadil story arch to painstaking life is a travesty and deserves all our scorn! All hail Tolkien!

Played a human beastmaster ranger archer, with ubiquitous wolf companion, briefly awhile back (late playtest into early 5e release). Played a wisecracking halfling thief/battlemaster from 10th to 11th level in one of iserith's online games. He died in epic fashion at the story's conclusion...

AverageCitizen: Maybe that's a good reason why animate dead is considered such a vile, despicable spell in most cultures. More so than any other "necromancy" spell even. Because it doesn't just make automatons from once living bodies. It steals back the basest, primal essence of the deceased's...

Objection, your honor. Facts not in evidence.

Ok, well, thank you for that I guess. Your opinions are duly noted. Anyone else want to discuss the possible ideas I brought up in my query? I like to think of a high elven city as something decadently beautiful, yet timelessly regal. Perhaps a shining city of alabaster and gold, spires...