Recent content by Maxperson

That automatically means that there is a meaningful consequence for failure. ;)

A small difference isn't meaningful and it all has to be taken into account. You can't just ignore the requirement that failure be meaningful just because there are other examples that also give it context. The context is in total, which means not only that there be a chance of failure, but...

I think what you are saying is the same thing they are saying, just from a different direction. If there is no meaningful consequence for failure, then there really isn't going to be a meaningful difference between success and failure.

This is an interesting exercise, but the only campaigns I personally know that well are my own as I don't run purchased campaigns. That said, I was gifted Strixhaven by one of my players, so I will go with that and cast Daniel Radcliff, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint...

I'm not sold on the bold portions being the case. I don't see equality being necessary because 5.5e. There's nothing inherent in 5.5e that I can see that indicated that should be the case. 1e, 2e, 3e, 3.5e, 5e, and 5.5e haven't given us language indicating that equality in this regard is a...

That's an interesting system. I'm not convinced it's less complicated, but it's certainly a lot less complicated than the standard spell point system.

It wouldn't matter if he was aware. You simply don't ignore the guy stabbing you to attack someone 30 feet away. That's a suicidal action. You fight back against the guy killing you in hand-to-hand even if you can't fight well.

I see nothing in the 5.5e PHB indicating that all races are or should be equally prevalent in a setting.

That's a very destructive attitude to have. It's a social game and if the way you have fun is by making everyone else feel their character is inferior to yours, that's not cool. Wanting to be optimal and make optimal choices is fine, though. If all you want is to be optimal, well everyone at...

It's irrelevant as these books were in the works long before they left. Books don't go through the process so quickly that they happened afterwards. We probably won't know until mid to late next year and see those books.

Immersion is my goal whenever I play.

How do they work?

So a bunch of phone numbers and gang names?

Why would you have to scramble to re-align? It really doesn't matter if something in the future says one evil Dragonborn company, because in your setting it has three and two are not evil. DMs are not beholden to what is written in a setting and never have been. If the PCs in my game destroy...

Or, like is fact, the Realms history is so vague and full of holes I could write historical impacts for several dozen new races covering thousands of years without contradicting anything. No retroactively changing any history. No existing with no impact.