@NautArch Same reason they didn't let us keep a country of non-savage non-evil Orcs. Salvatore needed them to be evil so his little do-gooder tanned-too-much elf could kill them without remorse
@Axoren that's one option, but you still get the OA when something comes into your reach and then have option to use your battle rager bonus attack OR go for the grapple + dmg.
@ErosRising Summarizing all of our statements: "Use a glaive/halberd or lance at range". "After your grapple you can 'punch' people with your Battlerager armor (if you go battlerager) as a bonus action". "Or reskin a dagger, but you won't be able to do double grapples"
Omg, I never knew it was so hated haha, I used it once thinking it would be kinda bad... Our DM had made only corridors, and I had the feat that reduces speed of enemies to 0 if you OA them...
Can I use the Ready action to ready dropping my Glaive and pick up a quarterstaff when the enemy gets within 10 feet so that my reach changes and then get two Opportunity attacks with my polearm master when they get within 5 feet
@NautArch Tunnel fighter is fine in an open field because the idea is that you're limiting movement in a "through you" direction. So yeah, you ARE the tunnel and you're closed.
@Helwar I don't hate it... I think it is really powerful though. I just think it is weird the way it is written and there is a reason it hasn't been published in the 3 years (I think?) since it was published in UA
@Axoren RIght, but readying an action is just readying either your action or your Movement (you don't get both, and I'd rule you don't get free interactions for the same reason)
t"You can also interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or your action. For example, you could open a door during your move as you stride toward a foe, or you could draw your weapon as part of the same action you use to attack."
@DavidCoffron I usually hate ready action questions, but this one at least is not asking about triggering or timing so it is actually quite refreshing lol
Example situation:
You're on the other side of a door. You have a spell slot available for Magic Missiles. Can you ready an action to, on the Rogue's signal, open the door and cast Magic Missiles at someone behind the door?
Two situations are possible:
You can use your free interaction as part...
@Axoren Is the readied action being taken On Your Turn or as a reaction? The answer is no unless the readied action is being executed On Your Turn. Your free interaction happens on your turn.
I reserve that since Readying comes later on in the book, and it's such a poorly thought out implementation of the mechanic, they probably didn't realize the ramifications of naming a section "Things you can do in this surprisingly niche situation."
A majority of the game does not take place on your turn.
@Axoren that's where reading the rule books and becoming familiar with them is (IMO) so important for any DM. I got down voted for telling a new DM that they need to know the rules; one of the most bizarre interactions I've had on this site, and the cause of a load of grief from a number of members.
@Axoren I'm gonna agree with @KorvinStarmast here. Reading and knowing the rules is incredibly important for both following the rules AND making decisions to not follow them.
@DavidCoffron We had to settle whether or not the title of a section counted as rules text by crosschecking with the social network page of a designer.
@DavidCoffron No reason to appologize. I just find that when we start talking about an issue that is not well-defined, things often go off rails in poor ways. I deleted my comment since @Korvin had already said not to go there anyways.
@DavidCoffron No worries; this answer was good advice, in particular as I read the question as the DM being a newbie and the other players taking advantage of them; but that may not have been the case. And Dale's answer was a lot better anyway.
@Rubiksmoose I'm still on the fence about it. It's an inductive rule, where it tells you all the things you CAN do on your turn, but doesn't disqualify things you can't do on not your turn.
@Axoren And I'm honestly not sure why people keep citing that tweet... JC was just making a very obvious statement about how sentences often explain the ones coming before it.
@Rubiksmoose I tend to agree that it won't, most of the time, break anything, but since the action economy is what it is (for all that bonus actions have some notable quirks) it is simplest to go with the economy as presented.
@Axoren the book would be a thousand pages long if for all of the text they have to add "but you can't do this" for all edge cases. Not gonna be easy to sell a book that big.
@Rubiksmoose I quote that line because it reinforces the principle of plain reading (a more hyper-literal reading would ignore anything not directly tied to the specific rule)
@Axoren As a general rule: any site that is engaging in mass copyright infringement (as dndtools once did, its sole purpose being to circumvent any need to buy the books) should never be linked to anywhere. Any other site is fair game to link to.
@Axoren I understand; I am a fan of the KISS principle. I did not understand the action economy at all the first time we played; I had to interact with the rules a bit to get a feel for how it worked. I hadn't played much 3.5, so it took a while to go in the books and try to piece together a framework to understand action economy.
If he actually ever said that, then it would be relevant. But he hasn't. And be careful about making out that he did because there are plenty of places in the rules under plain bad headers that can lead to wacky rulings. See mounts, barding.
I still don't understand how you're supposed to be expected to ride a horse down a 5-ft wide staircase, make two 90-degree turns at the bottom to go down the reverse direction staircase, and then avoid triggering traps or collapsing bridges.
Like, what do you do when half of your class features are made useless because of where you have to go?
^ Some class features are absolutely useless, even if you build a solid foundation, simply because of where your character ends up or who you end up fighting against.
@DavidCoffron in a new game I'm starting up, a player has chosen to be wood elf ranger with Humanoids as their favored enemy. Seems kind of cold to choose that :)
@KorvinStarmast because it combines my three least favorite non-feat features (out-of-game handling wise): arcane/natural recovery, full list of preparable spells, and subclass specific spells
@NautArch heck yeah; background IMO is best done collaboratively between DM and player. That helps you both get a feel for the character and who he/she is.