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The rules forbid using a reaction for spell casting (that includes readying an action, because it uses your reaction too) if a spell with spell slot was already cast as action. So what your player wants to do in your example was in no way permissioned by the rules. The short RAI is: A player...

I backed it because I was a player in a City of Mist game and really enjoyed the systems - but I really hate superheroes. To see this system refined for fantasy made me very excited and I backed. The whole tag system and character development system scratches some itch in my brain I can't really...

I already hate long doorstopper books in printed form, especially as paperback. Omnibus editions are often paperback and remove the advantage of shorter books and aggregate them to my hated doorstopper format that is just uncomfortable to read. The biggest pro of omnibus editions and the main...

Why would you need to remember me of something I never claimed otherwise? Exactly what I described and what I want, physical hits that cause physical damage. So thanks for agreeing with me I guess? An Axe hit should be some sort of physical hit and not "you need to dodge so close that you are...

I dislike HP purely as Luck, because it doesnt make sense. HP loss can ALSO mean endurance, luck etc. But if a Barbarian crits the orc with his battleaxe I for sure won't narrate that the orc is now REALLY out of breath. Whatever makes sense in the narration. I also like the fantasy of heroes...

Can you elaborate? Because I have the feel your table and my table could look quite similar except I have numbers in front of them that represent dice rolls.

Isnt that almost like a random encounter, just you choosing from the table instead of rolling a dice? I personally love creating random encounter tables for dungeons/areas that represent the factions, monster type, environment etc. You can do a lot of worldbuilding in random encounters and I...

I have a different understanding of what a study is. This sounds just a thought experiment. The great filter of time travel. Not sure where the academic value lies.

hm for me fun to play depends on quite different indicators than the ones you state and honestly up until now every class I tried out was fun to play enough for me to not wanting to stop playing them. Maybe I am easy to please, I don't know. But stuff like "The Barbarian still is focused on...

Thats awesome! Although I always thought of the Habitha plains because halflings riding dinosaurs sounded too much fun

I read King for the first time this year and while I have a little break right now I definitely want to continue through his work - I was a bit surprised when I first read that this is a common criticism. I loved the endings up until now (I've read Carrie, The Shining, Dr. Sleep). Obviously I...

I thought that the nazis burning books would've made this method less popular with parents, but here we are. I never thought about the psychological aspect of being forced to burn your own belongings, thats interesting!

I first dismissed it as steampunk, which I was not interested in. Little did I know that the setting has so much more to offer! I love the pulpy vibes, I love the Dragonmark Houses that run the world almost like corporations in Cyberpunk, I love the take on religion and races and mythology. And...

If you are on one end of the spectrum, every other option looks like the other end of the spectrum.

If an event has only one rule in a complex system it will only have one event of ruling in most cases. I don't see why a rule should have one single simple resolution will a ruling has 4 events that needs to be resoluted? But maybe I am missunderstanding what you mean here? Yeah, so the DM will...