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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 6922878" data-attributes="member: 16814">All you're offering is a tautology, though.  "The DM picks monsters and that affects the effectiveness of abilities in the game."  This is true for everything in the game, and everything after "DM" is just restating the definition of DM.  That's why I say it's trivial and uninteresting -- you're just stating the baseline definition of how the game is played as if it's profound.  We all know this, it's not profound and it doesn't say anything for or against the effectiveness of the feats in commonly obtained situations in most games.  It's trivial that one game may have accidental or naive choices that have the effect of reducing the effectiveness of the feats. It's trivial because it doesn't speak to the general case, and for every game that has accidental and naive choices that reduce effectiveness, there will be one that increases it.  So this idea washes out in the long run and isn't useful for general consideration.  But choice does become a factor if it's not accidental or naive with respect to the feats, but that brings in intent, as I have been saying.  That can and does skew things, because, as it's not essentially random, it doesn't wash out.  And that wraps right back into my argument that pushing moderating the feats into the DM's overhead isn't a good solution.  It requires the DM to be aware there's an issue and to make good choices to offset it while not punishing others.  That's a big ask for neophyte DMs. Well, in this case, you did take that statement out of context and it changed its meaning, so it wasn't at all baseless.  Further, it doesn't break the rules of the forum to take things out of context, so your suggestion of reporting it just adds work to the moderation staff, so no thanks.  Letting you know I dislike it, however, gives you the opportunity to correct the behavior, if you so choose.  It appears you do not so choose, so I shall remain vigilant for future out of context quoting.I can't possibly conceive of how it could have been a threat.</blockquote>

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