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<blockquote data-quote="Todd Roybark" data-source="post: 7894801" data-attributes="member: 6920677"><p>I’m with [USER=6987520]@dnd4vr[/USER] on this. WOTC should not have their PR rep tell USA Today that reducing barrier to entry rules was their mantra, when a dagger and a dart have identical stats but the Sharpshooter feat will never apply to a thrown dagger, but the extra damage from the Dueling Fighting Style would apply to thrown daggers, as long as you only have one weapon in hand at the time of throwing.</p><p></p><p>The 5e rules meander between natural language and category specific language so often, that rule parsing is made more difficult, than in more rule heavy editions like 3e and 4e.</p><p></p><p>How about Sharpshooter applies to ranged attacks, period? You find a way to toss the dwarf in your party and you have Sharpshooter, go ahead and apply the feat! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="✌️" title="Victory hand :v:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/270c.png" data-shortname=":v:" /></p><p></p><p>All rules eventually become ridiculous when trying to model ‘reality’, so might as well make the rules simple, clear, and ridiculously cool.</p><p></p><p>Why can’t a Pally Smite with a unarmed punch attack? It does not throw off balance, just delays the game with pointless arguments and rule lookups/ Twitter debates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Todd Roybark, post: 7894801, member: 6920677"] I’m with [USER=6987520]@dnd4vr[/USER] on this. WOTC should not have their PR rep tell USA Today that reducing barrier to entry rules was their mantra, when a dagger and a dart have identical stats but the Sharpshooter feat will never apply to a thrown dagger, but the extra damage from the Dueling Fighting Style would apply to thrown daggers, as long as you only have one weapon in hand at the time of throwing. The 5e rules meander between natural language and category specific language so often, that rule parsing is made more difficult, than in more rule heavy editions like 3e and 4e. How about Sharpshooter applies to ranged attacks, period? You find a way to toss the dwarf in your party and you have Sharpshooter, go ahead and apply the feat! ✌️ All rules eventually become ridiculous when trying to model ‘reality’, so might as well make the rules simple, clear, and ridiculously cool. Why can’t a Pally Smite with a unarmed punch attack? It does not throw off balance, just delays the game with pointless arguments and rule lookups/ Twitter debates. [/QUOTE]
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