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Please! It's Dee Z. Nuts or bust.

I very rarely do the internal monologue thing. When I do it, it's because what is going on inside my head is very different than what I am showing and saying outside of it. DM: The Nighthawk envoy says that you won't need to worry as you go through the hills. They've spoken to any bandits...

I've been saying that for years. Not necessarily that the rules were written intentionally badly, but in my opinion there are too many rules in the game that are incomplete and/or vague for it to be accidental. The designers who made 5e also were involved with 3e and 4e, so we know that they...

By the end of the episode we were seeing signs of change in his character. I think it's going to be a somewhat gradual shift into being a team player and caring about people.

This is what I figured was going on.

So today I used ChatGPT to look up a buddy and see if he has been in any recent D&D shows. ChatGPT came up empty on recent games, but did mention that he had been on "the popular D&D love show Critical Role." :ROFLMAO: I think I'll go back to not using AI.

But not in game play. It's only really meaningful to you because you've psyched yourself into feeling it has meaning. In game play it makes nearly no difference whatsoever. That's because you've put yourself into a mindset where 1 extra hit on a big bag of hit points every 3 or so combats...

It's a nearly meaningless difference. You won't even notice that extra failure. The feat itself is far better than any +1 to a stat bonus. And that 10-20% increase in failure is also meaningless. It sounds good until you realize that the difference is so small you won't be able to notice...

So what. All missing a +1 wis bonus means is that using that ability will on average fail 1 more time every 20 attempts.

It does make it fun to play. And it makes it not fun to play. That's a personal thing, not a general rule. Stats were important in 3e, because of the treadmill. In 5e stat bonuses don't mean a whole heck of a lot.

You've answered your own question there. Feats need to be diverse, not just wis, cha, or int.

You do realize that stat bonuses as part of the background = story, right. They tend to be chosen to match the background. Like elves having higher dex bonus before the changes. That was for story.

This is wrong. Nothing needs to be optimized. It's personal preference, which means story is equally valid with mechanics.

It usually isn't, though. If they kill a few of the bandits in a room and rest for 8 hours, odds are high that someone is going to wander in, find them, and then alert everyone else for a house search. If you kill those few and move on quietly, you could get through most of the house before an...