Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Yeah, pretty much. Worldbuilding.Because it's fun and people like it. Do you really think any of the narrative justifications included in the book were written to serve as guidance for adjudication?
Yeah, pretty much. Worldbuilding.Because it's fun and people like it. Do you really think any of the narrative justifications included in the book were written to serve as guidance for adjudication?
It's still pretty weak as explanations go. WotC 5e is just a pretty incoherent game, and a lot of its players just don't seem to care.
Define "Good". Because there is a lot between "Olympic level jumper" and "leaps tall buildings in a single bound"We’re not asking them to fly, flight isn’t part of the base fighter concept, we’re asking them to Jump Good.
This just means there is no Bladesinger version of Fighter. A fighter who can get into Wizardy or Clericy with Fighter resources.
Things possible in many forms of media. Nonmagical sappers, detectives, sages, and doctors exist. D&D designers are just against it.
Fair enough.Yeah, pretty much. Worldbuilding.
Fair enough.
I, personally, cannot imagine a good reason for there to be rigorously proscriptive worldbuilding elements in the player-facing rules document.
If DMs build worlds where spells come from friendly spirits rather than the weave, are they cheating? If Humans are not a Common race, does the game fall apart? If Battlemaster maneuvers are achieved through psychic manipulations, or Rage through the channeling of primal forces, does anything change about how the game runs?
Its far more nuanced than that.
Right. I wouldn’t expect the rule book to say what everything in the game is not. I would expect it to tell me what they are. If it doesn’t say they are something then I’d expect they are not that something.
As an example. The game doesn’t say a level 1 Fighter can cast Wish once per day. Does anyone believe that means the game is ‘silent’ about whether a level 1 Fighter can cast wish once per day (because he is a Fighter)?
What is the quote you have in mind?
If you are playing dragons seriously, not for laughs, how often do you think they have sex and procreate with himanoids?
The bard rolls to seduce the dragon is a tired, silly cliche, and dragons are immensely powerful egotistical beings. Why would there be a large amount of half-dragons around?
I expect there is value at both ends of the spectrum.Funny how we prescribe that to D&D but nobody bats an eye when an RPG like Shadowrun, World of Darkness or Warhammer clearly marry their lore to their rules. D&D though has to be all things to all people.
We can start at the former and build up to the latter.Define "Good". Because there is a lot between "Olympic level jumper" and "leaps tall buildings in a single bound"