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Again, there is no FUNCTIONAL difference between those two things.

Gleemax would have been the move, for sure

Regardless of how rocky the process of getting there was, my point is that they did eventually land on pretty much perfect stealth rules. They could have just kept those for 5e, but decided something that more explicitly centered the conversation of play was more fitting for 5e’s design goals...

That’s not meaningfully different from being transparent until they search or you reveal yourself. Hence why I’ve been saying functionally transparent.

No, the 2014 version also worked in exactly this way, where if your AC was less than 16 it became 16 and if your AC was 16 or higher it didn’t do anything, and the old sage advice confirmed as much. The new wording just removes the ambiguity, but that was always how it was supposed to work.

Yes, if you read something the text doesn’t say and the developer clarifications counter-indicate, it works just fine!

Not really. 4e did it just fine.

It doesn’t make you literally transparent in the narrative, but it does seem to make you functionally transparent, mechanically speaking. You can’t be seen without special senses, unless they succeed a Perception check, which uses an action.

If I’m hidden and a creature with Blindsight or Truesight sees me, am I still hidden? No. Being hidden is a game state that gives you the Invisible condition. If a creature finds you, you’re no longer hidden and lose that condition, as explained in the Hide action (see appendix C of the Player’s...

Well, I mean, if nobody plays a Thief then obviously it’s a moot point. Yeah, seems like a simple, functional fix.

I like this a lot, but since this is part of the Tief rogue’s Use Magic Device feature, I’d want to give them something else as consolation for that formerly unique class feature now being available to anyone. Even if it’s just like advantage on the check or something.

Seems like a good mechanic for boss battles! I think people keep running into the problem that they want individual encounters to be challenging, and D&D is just fundamentally not designed that way. It’s built around the assumption of many mostly trivial encounters gradually taxing the party’s...

That is not even remotely what I said.

This. Language is for communication, and if someone uses any of these shorthands, I will understand what they mean, therefore they have communicated adequately. Personally, I tend to say “the 2014 rules” or “the pre-revision rules” for original 5e, and “the 2024 rules” or “the revised rules” for...

I think we agree, I’m just using more provocative language to express the point. Yes, some people are faster or slower learners at some things. But there’s no such thing as someone who’s great at something without continued effort. They might be ahead of the curve, but they still need to put in...

Yeah, calling Newton’s laws “lies” is certainly not accurate, though I think from context it was pretty clear that the term was being used for hyperbolic emphasis. The reality is that Newton’s laws are close enough to accurate that you can use them in most contexts that most people will...

That’s funny, I actually don’t think hard work is the most important thing, at least not in most cases. But I do think it’s always a necessary component. I doubt that your cousin had this ability as an infant. He gained it, through hard work and practice. Now, it sounds like your cousin is...

Yep, this is why skilled labor usually costs money. Art is a skill, and the production of art objects is labor.