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I seriously am sorry you have players that would call you sketchy for that. But if you need exact positioning for a group 100’s of feet away, I don’t see why you can’t do as suggested above and just draw a line in the middle of the map which indicates there’s 200’ between the two halves. That...

Which is why I maintain the DM shouldn’t put encounters on large featureless plains unless they are intentionally doing so to create a puzzle situation that needs to be solved differently. To shake things up, which is always a good thing to do once in awhile. Even changing bows to a max of...

It’s been a long time, but didn’t 1e use different ranges for indoors an out? Like an inch of range was feet inside, and then yards out? Or was that just for spells.

Well, that’s hardly a battlefield where exact positioning at extreme range matters. Does it matter if a monster is 505’ away or 510? So I don’t see why the battle grid would need to cover every 5’ of that scene. Wait, this is the other discussion, isn’t it? The bow one instead of the grid...

If I recall correctly from other threads, @tetrasodium runs a lot of AL games for random groups of players (and I’m sorry if I’m misremembering that). If so, that might explain the massive trust issues between DM and players that they seem to be dealing with. Although now that I think about...

Nope, I realized that after. But I had to go look it up :). Still seems weird to me for it to be mental damage though.

Does that mean it doesn’t work on undead? Constructs? Mindless oozes? Edit: my bad, apparently mindless things aren’t necessarily immune to psychic damage. But I bet the question would come up anyway…heh

@tetrasodium, what are you asking exactly? That the rules arbitrarily limit character vision to something that will fit on a reasonable sized battlemap? I can hear the players screaming from here: “what do you mean I can only see 200’? It’s a featureless plain!” I don’t see why you can’t...

Because sometimes those ranges make sense. Maybe not for every fight. (See my comments on large scale combat earlier). Maybe not because of fights in general. Maybe it’s so your Sharpshooter has a chance to be awesome and snipe the guard on top of the cliff. Just as an example. It’s like...

I certainly don’t expect them to stand there as they die one by one accomplishing nothing. And again, the DM created this scenario. They know the capabilities of the party. They knowingly set up an ultra long range encounter they knew most of the party can’t help with. Nothing forced their...

There is no set of rules out there that will stop a DM from making boring encounters. Seriously, there is no reason the DM had to set it up that way. Why are the cultists not coming up with a better plan? “Ok, the sharpshooter fires a few arrows, killing one cultist, and they pull back and...

I guess my question is why do you need to map out thousands of yards? Is the exact positioning of miniatures at that distance even important? And if you did start a fight at the extreme end of longbow range, why wouldn’t you just say: “Yeah, okay, it’ll take 4 rounds for them to dash on their...

No one is suggesting any sort of teleport or shenanigans. There are a lot of people saying that combat wouldn’t normally happen at those ranges. No intelligent creature is going to charge at bow using players at those ranges. And no player can force engagement at those ranges without the...

Obviously it’s your call. But to me that seems like adding extra complications to solve a problem that I’ve never run into. Or at least, I’ve already unknowingly solved by just having opponents act rationally. Edited to add: what I mean, is that if you are making rules changes, and then...

I haven’t tried them, but I might if there was an option in between Epic and Default: EpiDefault: Short Rests are 5 minutes, Long rests are 8 hours.

Why not nerf the range if most combats don’t happen that far? Because then you have people complaining that it’s not realistic. And you also remove the option to have fights that do need those ranges…for example Mass skirmishes. Say for whatever reason you do have a scenario with two larger...

I don’t know…I guess I figure if a group is dumb enough to charge a bunch of players from 600 feet away, they deserve to eat five or six rounds worth of arrows. Most predatory creatures wouldn’t. They’d attempt to stealth around and attack undetected. Bandits and the like wouldn’t (unless...

How angry he would be would very much depend on the person. Maybe he’s pissed, maybe he’s relieved. Did he want the power, or was he dreading it?

Simplified!

I picked Cleave, because the thought of an extra Great Axe attack sounds just lovely. But it was a really hard choice. I could easily picture using a lot of them depending on the type of fighter I was using. My rapier-wielding Dex fighter would have loved Vex. Nick would be awesome on a Dual...