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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Erechel" data-source="post: 7408082" data-attributes="member: 6784868">Improved actions as a whole improve the game, and you didn't address anything I've said. You also didn't provide any example of how to shut down a caster without killing it. And yes, they are fantastic dealing damage and being resilient. But then, if everything they do is dealing damage, it is in fact only one action: "I attack". And receiving it isn't even that, you are completely passive. Power wise, they are great. They have great stats, great number of attacks, great resilience. But if anything they do is attack, they may be drones for what I care.You tried to say that I'm somewhat breaking the rules with improvisation. I'm not. I've quoted the rules for that.You tried to say that this rule is prone to harm the players, and I've said that it isn't. Smart players will be aware of these possible tactics, and will take precautions to not being subject to them. Or they will just cope with it.You tried to say that choking someone barehanded is akin to negate rogues Sneak Attack by troll poultices, axing the head of the wizard to prevent casting, and throwing a bean to the throat to asphyxiate, looking ridiculous ways to "demonstrate" the unbalancedness of my tactic. I've talked about DCs and DMs assigning appropriate checks, according to the approach difficulty. Near impossible things have a DC of 30, easy ones 10. Choking is a contest, based on a grapple, and not a difficult one if you are strong enough and fight against a weakling. You never tried to say why it is unbalanced. Because you can't prove it. Yes,it may disable a caster momentarily, but also negates many possible actions for the grappler, such as the most powerful attacks (two handed ones), and it has a fair chance of fail, and a fair chance to escape,and doesn't render the caster useless, only suboptimal (in the same way that a disarmed martial). It doesn't trigger a Concentration check, so any ongoing effect keeps running.You tried to mock me and say that I'm deflecting your legit complains with ad hominem. I'm not, I've counter argumented everything you said, and you can't reply to that*, so you try to mock me and derail the conversation yourself.And then I've come to say that you object on principle, because you don't provide yourself anything "more balanced" to the same result. This is to say that you don't want ANYTHING near close that attempt, thus objecting on principle, or just that you can't adjudicate actions, and thus you don't  know how to fulfill your role as a DM. I choose to believe that it is a conscious decision, because the other result doesn't makes you any favor.*Disadvantage math proves that actually you have 80% chance to roll lower than 10, a 50% chance to roll 6 or less, and a 10% chance to roll a 1. So it is a big deal, specially in a contest. Also, advantage grants the same proportion but above 10.</blockquote>

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