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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8826960" data-attributes="member: 7006">And that's when that particular DM who has the issue decides to make the NPC mechanics into mechanics the new PC can use and take.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with that, and is probably a good design challenge for the DM to take on.&nbsp; To me... that's quite surmountable.But it's not something the designers of 5E themselves have to officially do for players, because it was not one of their design decisions when they made 5E.My own personal take on the question is that random new abilities just &quot;show up&quot; in the game world all the time, every time a new player's guide like Xanathar's or Tasha's gets published or a new monster manual is released.&nbsp; Which means there are always these &quot;background&quot; abilities out there being used, that just aren't being highlighted by the PCs or the creatures they are fighting.&nbsp; So there's no problem whatsoever for PCs to not have the functionality to take these features-- either because they are specific monster abilities from the MM... or because they are PC abilities they just aren't aware of yet because they will only finally show up when a new player's guide gets published.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8826960, member: 7006"] And that's when that particular DM who has the issue decides to make the NPC mechanics into mechanics the new PC can use and take. Nothing wrong with that, and is probably a good design challenge for the DM to take on. To me... that's quite surmountable. But it's not something the designers of 5E themselves have to officially do for players, because it was not one of their design decisions when they made 5E. My own personal take on the question is that random new abilities just "show up" in the game world all the time, every time a new player's guide like Xanathar's or Tasha's gets published or a new monster manual is released. Which means there are always these "background" abilities out there being used, that just aren't being highlighted by the PCs or the creatures they are fighting. So there's no problem whatsoever for PCs to not have the functionality to take these features-- either because they are specific monster abilities from the MM... or because they are PC abilities they just aren't aware of yet because they will only finally show up when a new player's guide gets published. [/QUOTE]

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