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I'm not the one who first used the term you are up in arms over me having mentioned. I'll take this deflection as acceptance that simply asking for said term to be defined in plain English without quoting the blog post is a very high bar.

Without quoting the blog post or resorting to jargon define it in plain English.

I don't think that bold bit is irrelevant and would very much prefer that inventory weight tracking/encumbrance had proper rules+sheet support not intended to nullify their own impact. Just that the 5e mechanics related to it pretty much makes it difficult for weight of things carried in...

Not looking to weigh in with agreement or disagreement on the snipped bit, but this deserves a 🔫🐈‍⬛🔫 🗞️🐶🗞️ type correction because it ignores the consequences of design that requires the GM to use it just to fix a conflict with "🤷‍♀️give players what they want🤷‍♀️"design intent. When the gm...

I vaguely remember similar but again it boils down to why they would dock there rather than some advanced industrialized area where there is a government like thay silvery moon or whatever Those crafting capabilities aren't exclusive to water deep. Thay and silvery moon both have high end...

When playing I use a form fillable PDF in an old copy of PDFxchange∆ so I can edit the parts not formfillable to plug in things as needed & take notes. As a gm I sometimes try to push a specific sheet but don't fight too hard because too much I'd want to see on the sheet is missing from the...

I think that's the 2014 math too. Needing 16 strength isn't that high given the characters typically lifting stuff. Beyond that is the fact that having linear∆ capacity linked to an almost implausible penalty and a character sheet they doesn't even pretend that it should be tracked leads to...

What was the nonspecified return from death? I'm going to second some of the comments made previously and add a suggestion of my own. As others said, healing downed PCs up should never be really a waste --UNLESS-- the PC in question wastes it. That feeds into the second & larger problem...

I've been wondering if the OP is looking for details about how ygg works specifically printed in old d&d targeted soucebooks where it interacted with The Great Wheel or does details on world tree form/function in non-d&d works of fiction that involve characters using it for plane/world/later of...

That might be his choice, but there is no reason that the system should try to do both

I read it yes. The trouble with it is that the article is a mess and presents rather system specific things as if they are broadly applicable to any game system and as a result a poorly defined term gets used to serve as some kind of enlightened I'll know it when I see it purity test

He's not wrong though. What you have been describing is attempting to cast aside I fight tooth and nail against the d&d rules framework to homebrew the class based 5e into one of the many point buy based systems like dyskami's anime5e. Point buy based &class based systems have a lot of...

I don't recall the bard class to have anything encouraging that sort of arson like the warlock class & various wotc names/faces does with being antagonistic towards a patron the warlock works against. That is what makes it a design problem magnified by the explicit removal of possible...

"region" is usually smaller in scale than the entire world. If one of the 9 dies or retires & delevels ☆ it frees up room for the PC to advance. The rest is assuming that those limits on druid monk(?) & so on were Dark Souls-like meatgrinder coinflips ☆ That was a thing back then but I don't...

I don't believe that describing an actual example of play relevant to the discussion is a complaint about the player. The relevant example of play with a player who chose to engage with the game world as 5e is designed to encourage & multiple wotc folks have stated as something that is intended...

I ran ad&d2e (or whatever) when that was still a thing for druids & such. It's also a misstatement of the rules involved I'm sure there were tables where it was some kinda Dark Souls style deathmatch but generally they were more likethe druid being responsible for a grove somewhere with...

Curious how citing a relevant play example is a mere case of "complaining". Is that sort of redefinition a bit of "neotrad" jargon for describing events at the table? I lived through GM'ing and wrote the original post6. It's talking about d&d5e where both the rules themselves supported the...

Trouble is the fact that knowing those kinds of consequence could be on the table was the grease & fuel powering everything else coming into play before that point. It says a lot that the folks defending the 5e-ism of consequence immunity by pointing exclusively to removing PVC power as the...

Let me help you on that bold bit milgram was about authority and coercion. None of your quibbles change it's relevance to the point made in 148 where it was not the only thing mentioned. The link was approaching the same "how did people allow that historical event happen" question by looking...

If creature type changes were all you saw templates for you would obviously find their poor returns less than notable. However those templates did more than change creature type. The value of templates was that they extended the level range of suitability that monsters and the...