Recent content by Maxperson

Maybe from 2e? "Dragon Attacks: All dragons have a claw/claw/bite attack form and a breath weapon. The latter can be used once every three rounds."

"Dragons con attack by claw/bite or breath weapon. The latter can be used but three times per day, maximum. If a choice is possible roll percentile dice. Any score above 50% indicates the dragon will breathe. The breath weapon causes damage equal to the dragon's hit points (half that amount if a...

He is misremembering it slightly. The 1e general rule under dragons, before you get to specific colors, says that if the dragon has multiple different attack options, it breathes if it rolls a 51 or higher(not lower).

Apparently he just blocked me too, and I don't know why. There were pretty civil conversations going on.

You might as well just stab yourself, then. Taking your attention off of someone trying to stab you is a good way to die. You're better off defending yourself as you move to the caster. Just attacking the caster from 30 feet away makes no sense in any sort of realistic or semi-realistic...

Given RAW unlimited retries, barring some game element preventing it, the rogue will eventually roll a natural 20. That means that absent any pressures, if the lock is equal to or less than 20 + Thieves' Tools/Slight of Hand bonus, the DM should skip the roll and narrate an eventual success...

I'm going to push back slightly on that last paragraph. You might have unlimited tries at something and be guaranteed to succeed eventually, but if there's a gold piece cost, you could take damage on a failure, etc., that's meaningful enough to warrant rolling. Resource loss is a meaningful...

What do you mean by that?

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.