Recent content by Faolyn

I disagree. That would make players and DMs alike unwilling to ever relax them at all. If the rule is so strictly worded, then any change to it would be seen as something that, for whatever reason, would ruin the game's balance or intent or make things too easy or too hard or too dangerous. As...

In this particular case, because you might remember that pit fiends are really powerful fiends but forget if they're demons or devils. I honestly always have to think for a second to remember the difference between pit fiends and balors. In a case like dragons, there's the problem of them...

Agreed. I'd be tempted to create an errata sheet for the monsters or exploration challenges to add or substitute some of these conditions. For instance: Pixie: Add "the target is Vexed" and "the target is Manic" to the list of options under Faerie Curse. Shadow Dragon: A creature that fails...

Very nice! I've been thinking about making some more conditions--there are a few parts in my upcoming game that need ones different from the standard. I'm not sure this one works. I have a terrible memory (really bad ADHD), but it affects my recall, not my ability to do things--my muscle memory...

Well, that's why I've been suggesting ignoring the exact phrasing. Or using another, completely legitimate, actually primary definition of the word "know" that doesn't add the word "personally" to the sentence. Or focusing on the feature's actual purpose (the contact instead of the...

You mean the feature CRIMINAL CONTACT? Yeah, I have no idea why I'd focus on the CONTACT part of the CRIMINAL CONTACT feature. Are messenger and contact synonyms? Yes it does. It's a way to contact your CRIMINAL CONTACT. You know, the thing the entire feature is about. Which I have been saying...

By sticking to the exact phrasing, you mean that mamba and Oofta should have to not only use those features, but allow them to function everywhere, all the time. Right?

And yet you never show it. All you do is complain about the RAW. Except that, as I said, your background is what makes this possible, either with relatively little difficulty or at all. If you're not a criminal, other criminals have less reason to be willing to work with you and may refuse to...

They would not get the feature from the noble background by RAW. They would likely, however, get other benefits that may end up being identical to the noble background (simply because it's easier for a DM to grab the feature than to make up a whole new one). In fact, if a PC earns a title, I...

You were totally opposed to it every other time I brought it up, because it was still too unrealistic for you. It has everything to do with the feature. The feature is you know a contact, who in turn, will get in touch with other people for you. That's literally what the feature is called...

Absolutely nothing I've said has been a "wild excuse." That's your misinterpretation of what I'm doing, because you want to stick so heavily to RAW. Again, completely misinterpreting what I wrote. A criminal is going to be able to determine that someone else is a criminal. The DM may tell the...

I wasn't aware that I was supposed to agree with everything Hussar said. In fact, I thought it was pretty clear that I didn't agree on this particular point. However, I think we can both agree that there are a of of gamers who do need, or at least want, prompts for roleplaying. Especially...

Because the PHB very clearly talks about how the backgrounds are there for RP purposes. If they had meant for the features to be slavishly adhered to, they would have gone into many more paragraphs (or indeed, any paragraphs) of detail about how to use them, like they did with combat and magic...

But the DM still sets those odds, which means they can be one in a thousand to never to always. True enough, but again, it's a fantasy world. The above assumes humans and a human-normal world layout. There's no reason to assume that nonhumans would use the same methods.