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I don't have a problem with mental attributes and using mental attribute terms - as long as they are used for execution of actions when checks are made and not as gatekeepers for playing a certain way.

Misty steps and teleports definitely come to mind as viable options - though ones I could see negotiating away because they're not technically movement even though they do move the target.

I'm not sure I would be happy with that either because it's the GM deciding whether or not a particular idea/tactic is subject to an Intelligence check (not to mention setting the DC) which is tantamount to policing the role play of the character.

The challenge with so many of these ideas is that they encroach on other spells, feats, actions, or abilities that do something similar and therefore devalues them - all because, as a PC, your attack/spell targeting the enemy missed its mark. I understand that people get frustrated when the dice...

Since the target is spending their turn moving away by fastest available means, I'd say that Dash is may very well be expected. After all, it IS an available means (including bonus action dash for appropriate classes) and will contribute to a means that's fastest. The crux of an interpretation...

And that's appropriate. Choices choices choices... and their consequences.

For the game groups I've been in the most lately, there's been a long-standing tradition of playing at the home with the youngest kids - based on the idea that they will need supervision and support (like diapering supplies) the most. But if the game is after bed time, while that may affect the...

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I don't think so - that's far too restrictive. I think you just have to use good judgment about when to do solo or other split party activities and be quick and efficient with them.

By my standards, heck no. However, there are worldviews active in the world today that define that differently. And even in D&D, it's not like alignment is a straight-jacket for behavior that would prevent you from divine cataclysms.

It’s very Old Testamenty, which isn’t really surprising considering the other real-life religious parallels invoked in Dragonlance.

It's a pretty easy step from being a powerful wizard turned lich to assuming he had to encounter a lot of pretty obscure, probably even forbidden or secret, lore in order to amass the power he did and achieve his transformation. How would he NOT have anything to do with secrets is probably a...

Skeletor has a personality because we've all seen him acted out with a personality on a TV show. Vecna has a different personality every time he appears under a different Dungeon Master.

The way I see it, there are 2 ways to handle difficulty 1. you set the DC to a static target based on how hard it is This works well if the PCs have assets proportional to their skill/proficiency to apply when making checks. PCs that are particularly skilled will naturally do better at higher...

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...

Because tiramisu is better than just coffee-soaked ladyfingers.

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.