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For the most part, this just seems like a rediscovery of the Gestalt Characters variant. That variant straight-up confesses that Gestalt characters are stronger than the default and then tap-dances around how to handle it. Mucking with the XP charts to manage that balance seems like a straightforwar...

As someone only showed up to do a drive-by defense of 5E once a year or two ago, I think the reason you're seeing less drive-by shitposting is that 5E fans feel pretty comfortable in their cheer-leading for the game. That doesn't say anything about whether the game is good, just that all the people ...

Firstly, I'd just like to point out that Frank gave absolutely no details about how they set someone on fire; you just sort of arbitrarily invented your own situation and then started ranting about how the players couldn't have done that anyway so "fuck you it's not 5E's fault." You're cl...

Frank's original post, which railed against the fact that the 5e books don't have clear and easy to look up rules stands. His frustration that the books don't discuss the old chestnut of setting your enemies on fire also stands. Furthermore, Frank's gaming group made a ruling that was was very clos...

None of these questions get answered, and the answers your DM is likely to fill in for you are not answers that make Poison worth 100gp a dose. Poison, Basic. You can use the poison in this vial to coat one slashing or piercing weapon or up to three pieces of ammunition. Applying the poison takes a...

So rather than pick at each time you wildly switch between claiming the inputs and outputs are undefined, or insisting that a particular sentence is clearly an input or output; I'll just respond directly to the questions about what the system actually is: What is the prerequisite of attempting the h...

So we're doing line by line replies now? Okay fuck it, let's do that. That's right bitches! Lurking in darkness isn't the same thing as hiding. It is different from hiding, you're just standing around in a Heavily Obscured area. Just standing in a Heavily Obscured area still makes you an unseen atta...

Ok, you got me. I've been sucked into this argument. I've been reading this review and it's finally driven me up a wall. The 5th edition D&D rules aren't great, and stealth is a great example of why. But most of the answers are actually in the damn text if anyone read it with the level of dedica...