Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Cure Wounds needs help or Healing Word needs a nerf...
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Asisreo" data-source="post: 8014311" data-attributes="member: 7019027"><p>It's a bit about balance, I do think the game is tightly balanced and I deeply respect the designers for how it's designed. But this particular case is about consistency. </p><p></p><p>I do houserule things but I establish them in session 0. Anything else is RAW. I don't allow BA being used as an action because the players already know what RAW is. They're fine with the death and they would've preferred dying than knowing their character was alive because the DM bent the rules. It's kinda like fudging dice, which I also don't do. So maybe the verisimilitude of the game wasn't broken, but the internal mechanism's consistency would be. The players would then have to double-check what rules I'm allowing RAW and which I'm going by the book and it can mess with their strategies. I'll also have to be impartial to this ruling, it's unfair if the Druid got to use 2 BA's but the sorcerer or cleric couldn't. </p><p></p><p>I do love corner cases, it's because while any specific instance of corner case doesn't come up often, corner cases themselves will probably show up every session. The players should intimately know their features and be able to adjust on the fly. If players aren't careful with these corner cases, a medium encounter could TPK the whole party.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asisreo, post: 8014311, member: 7019027"] It's a bit about balance, I do think the game is tightly balanced and I deeply respect the designers for how it's designed. But this particular case is about consistency. I do houserule things but I establish them in session 0. Anything else is RAW. I don't allow BA being used as an action because the players already know what RAW is. They're fine with the death and they would've preferred dying than knowing their character was alive because the DM bent the rules. It's kinda like fudging dice, which I also don't do. So maybe the verisimilitude of the game wasn't broken, but the internal mechanism's consistency would be. The players would then have to double-check what rules I'm allowing RAW and which I'm going by the book and it can mess with their strategies. I'll also have to be impartial to this ruling, it's unfair if the Druid got to use 2 BA's but the sorcerer or cleric couldn't. I do love corner cases, it's because while any specific instance of corner case doesn't come up often, corner cases themselves will probably show up every session. The players should intimately know their features and be able to adjust on the fly. If players aren't careful with these corner cases, a medium encounter could TPK the whole party. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Cure Wounds needs help or Healing Word needs a nerf...
Top