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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5995720" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>3 feet is about the same height as my 3-year-old nephew. Granted, he's big for his age, but it's still <em>very</em> small.</p><p></p><p>That said, halflings aren't small humans; they're <em>fantasy</em> creatures in a <em>fantasy</em> world. What's not to say they don't have the proportionate strength of ants?</p><p></p><p>But, yeah, you're right - that's definitely fodder for a petty complaint! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, fantasy creatures, fantasy world. Seems a bit silly to me, but also easy enough to fix. Good choice for a 'petty' complaint.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I agree - except that I don't think this qualifies as a 'petty' complaint. This is a <em>really</em> bad habit to be getting into, and is really not something WotC should be advising DMs to do. Might as well tell them not to bother with the rolling, and just decide the result entire.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eh. It was 8gp in 3e. I'm guessing it's probably just a holdover from that.</p><p></p><p>As for how realistic or otherwise the cost is, I don't know. I'm guessing it's something to do with Wizards transcribing spells, and so may well represent not just normal ink, but ultra high quality ink suitable for that purpose. Or something.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, good choice for a 'petty' complaint.</p><p></p><p>Now, my own contributions:</p><p></p><p>- I don't like that they've gone back to "natural language" descriptions for spells. Sure, they're more flavourful, but when the PC Wizard casts a spell in the midst of a complex spell I don't want that flavour - I want to quickly assess what happens in the game!</p><p></p><p>- Ability scores giving a +1 mod per 2 points, coupled with races and classes giving +1 bonuses is A Bad Idea. This is acceptable only if random rolls are the only way to generate stats (or, I suppose, if using the point-buy method also means you don't get the racial/class bonuses) - otherwise, it's a mix-max-er's paradise.</p><p></p><p>- For that matter, I don't like that the game seems to assume that <em>every</em> 1st level character will have an 18 in his prime stat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5995720, member: 22424"] 3 feet is about the same height as my 3-year-old nephew. Granted, he's big for his age, but it's still [i]very[/i] small. That said, halflings aren't small humans; they're [i]fantasy[/i] creatures in a [i]fantasy[/i] world. What's not to say they don't have the proportionate strength of ants? But, yeah, you're right - that's definitely fodder for a petty complaint! :) Again, fantasy creatures, fantasy world. Seems a bit silly to me, but also easy enough to fix. Good choice for a 'petty' complaint. I agree - except that I don't think this qualifies as a 'petty' complaint. This is a [i]really[/i] bad habit to be getting into, and is really not something WotC should be advising DMs to do. Might as well tell them not to bother with the rolling, and just decide the result entire. Eh. It was 8gp in 3e. I'm guessing it's probably just a holdover from that. As for how realistic or otherwise the cost is, I don't know. I'm guessing it's something to do with Wizards transcribing spells, and so may well represent not just normal ink, but ultra high quality ink suitable for that purpose. Or something. Anyway, good choice for a 'petty' complaint. Now, my own contributions: - I don't like that they've gone back to "natural language" descriptions for spells. Sure, they're more flavourful, but when the PC Wizard casts a spell in the midst of a complex spell I don't want that flavour - I want to quickly assess what happens in the game! - Ability scores giving a +1 mod per 2 points, coupled with races and classes giving +1 bonuses is A Bad Idea. This is acceptable only if random rolls are the only way to generate stats (or, I suppose, if using the point-buy method also means you don't get the racial/class bonuses) - otherwise, it's a mix-max-er's paradise. - For that matter, I don't like that the game seems to assume that [i]every[/i] 1st level character will have an 18 in his prime stat. [/QUOTE]
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