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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 5679373" data-attributes="member: 2011">Barbarian? Oh yeah, feat tax. Warlock?You consider profiency at Chain being proficient to melee fight in an encounter? The bottom line is that one type of PC requires an ability score or gets crappy AC, and another type of PC does not. Yes there are often options, but they are not always good ones, or they are costly ones. Do you need both legs to walk?To me, it's common sense that one needs both arms to climb, even if someone is using their legs. Using one arm might be possible, but I'm upping the climb DC as a DM. Ditto for Swimming.There are players (and DMs) that "in the name of RAW", throw common sense out with the bathwater. And actually, this wasn't the first time that this type of thing has occurred. The player had seen it multiple times in the past, she just zoned and then was annoyed when I played the game consistently as I had in the past.To me, this is no different than the DM adjudicating any other skill DC. Do what makes sense.Similar to: the PCs are in a tavern. A fight breaks out. No, the Fighter doesn't have his shield strapped to his arm or his weapon out unless he told the DM ahead of time that it happened. And, PCs aren't wearing their backpacks at the table either. The backpacks are there, but they are leaning against the table or a chair and if the PCs rush out of the room, I'll remind them that they were not getting a drink with a 40 pound backpack on their backs. Verisimilitude should occur at least some of the time. And Thieves often make their Stealth rolls while other PCs are spotted. Your point? Pros and Cons. Some PCs are good at something, others are not.I don't buy into the argument that WotC is omnipotent and their ideas of what can make a game fun necessarily must be whatever is designed into the game.No doubt. I have no problem with that. I just want the players to roleplay, not rollplay. Wearing armor every second of the day is rollplaying.</blockquote>

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