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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8796402" data-attributes="member: 59816">Interestingly, that's the part I felt like you were ignoring when you described what I was suggesting as homebrewing. I had meant for you to invoke this! If you find a scenario that you feel doesn't make sense without help working - let it work!I'm not sure that's the intent - I think the intent is to make each roll more important. That's part of why (AFAICT) they've been pushing the "don't roll unless there is interesting consequences". I think they're trying to teach DMs to be both more generous to player input, and also to not let a bad roll derail the story that's being told.I'm not sure there's danger in that happening. I can't imagine the designers ever intending to make the rules interfere with team building and teamwork. I mean, I guess it could happen with unintended consequences? I'd hope not.Absolutely. It would be a bad direction.True. As an aside, Help is an action and Flanking is "free" (with positioning). Both are pretty much narratively the same thing. I approve of the Help action in combat, but I don't like Flanking (which I also find more fiddly rules-wise than its worth).I get where you're coming from now. You just don't want any barriers to players using teamwork to accomplish goals. It's an excellent motive.Unless the DM says otherwise, yes.Fair. I think it's fine, but I guess I'd be fine to rule against it often, so maybe I'd rather it was changed. Another place where I'd probably rule against it is in situations where one skill might be complimentary to another skill (Like good-cop bad-cop in an interrogation. One could argue that one character's intimidation could give advantage to another's persuasion!)I think I understand what you mean, and it's a consideration to be sure. Honestly, there are a lot of factors involved and I'm not sure which are the most important. (I'm with you on "realism" it can be such a burden. What we need are more story-telling tools. It really doesn't matter if the story winds up "realistic" - it's more if it winds up any "good" - as measured by player and DM satisfaction!</blockquote>

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