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That may be true for most liches, but early references to Vecna and Kas suggest he ruled over some domain at the height of his power. So having this particular lich/demigod be out there a bit more would certainly be in character.

I've got 2 daughters - 27 and 21. My elder is a pharm tech and lives on her own with roommates. My younger still lives at home, never started college, works at our FLGS (Pegasus Games) part time, and is planning to get her education as a medical technician when the next term starts up at our...

Deliciously terrible. Oh, so deliciously terrible.

I think a good example of a nod to balance or at least avoiding imbalance and conflict in fantasy literature comes from the short story "The Face of Chaos" by Lynn Abbey in the first Thieves World volume. The Rankans are about to consecrate a new temple by sacrificing a virgin under the...

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Yeah, next one down the list from football is probably rugby. You generally aren't going to worry too much about covering up injuries like broken bones - but long-term, life-altering brain injuries - that's a big deal that leagues will cover up right and left.

I wouldn't consider play over 10th level particularly niche. His save DC didn't crest 20 for a while, but even before that, he was a menace running around the battlefield stunning things right and left with a DC of 15 or 16. The fact was, before the nerf, he got so many tries at it that lots of...

CTE turning up in high schoolers is also why I stopped watching football at all levels.

No, we shouldn't, but that kind of question comes with all sorts of caveats. Any decision of this sort, including Vonn's, should come in consultation with appropriate medical experts as well as respect for someone making personal, if potentially short-sighted with respect to bodily damage...

It did get hit with the nerf bat AND THIS IS A GOOD THING. I tell you, a high Con isn’t that much of a defense when the save DC is 20-ish and the monk is flurrying multiple shots a round. It rapidly peeled away legendary resistance as well.

Even with climbing or skiing, there may be some variation - for example, someone with an alpine adventuring background vs a bookworm from the city library. The alpine adventurer should be able to do things the bookworm can't and situations difficult for the bookworm would be routine for the...

I'm not really sure what you mean with "the numbers only go up". An RPG could model Vonn's injured ACL as a flat penalty on the die or some equivalent of disadvantage on the check. Various RPGs take things like injuries and deviations from fitness into account, but most don't because most don't...

Ultimately, this is 5e in a nutshell. This edition encourages the DM to make a determination of Yes/No based on what the PC brings to the table and the nature of the task, and then suggests rolling only when Yes/No is unknown/unclear. So yeah, don't make the priest of Osiris make a roll about...

Honestly, that's real life where events will follow as complex a set of factors as they must in order to resolve a question such as "who will win this skiing event". But for a game, we don't know all or even most of the factors so we replace it with a stochastic factor to account for all of...

Static. 3e is the best edition for laying out what a difficulty class was and why for specific tasks (which stands to reason since players having well-informed options was that edition's mantra). It was just a bit cumbersome to use efficiently. That's why I'm OK with the loosey-goosey difficulty...

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You could look at it as enabling a free grappling check... or as enabling a grappling attack to not have to forego the possibility of doing damage. From that perspective, I think it's a nice feat that will encourage players to grapple a lot more. So I definitely wouldn't touch that provision...

Yeah, broken leg.

Who ordered the heaping helping of Dunning-Kruger?

I think the fairly obvious is that nobody decided this explicitly. Rather, it was the byproduct of other decision that had unintended side effects. This is the big, granddaddy reason. Once you started working with skills, largely starting with adding the thief, someone was gonna be the skill...