My character that got most close to broken was a Master Of Many Forms druid, though I was playing with a group with two well skilled min-maxers who were ridiculous from the outset at level 3

Wish can’t make you great, it can’t do much more than the equivalent of about half a level, you need a broken character design from the start

Of course there’s also support for epic level progression taking you beyond level 20. A druid at level 20 could face an army and win

D&D 3.5 characters can scale pretty high

I use keepass, it’s a little more work than many closed source ones, but it’s only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything

My “smart” bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you

I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi

Its app hadn’t been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again

You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms

If everyone is aware. If the player knows the DC and the GM knows the players character sheet

…ignore the concept

I call it following the rules. 1 as an auto fail is a common house rule, it is not the rule in d&d

If the sneaking person rolls a 13 +12, yeah it would be DC25 to see them. If they rolled a 1 the DC would be 13

Nope. 1/20 is much less regular than 5/20 or even 19/20.

What do you mean here? Any roll is as likely as any other

Do you mean 2-20 is more likely than rolling a 1? Of course it is, but an invisible rogue sneaking at +15 shouldn’t be seen by the monster who’s -4 to spot 1 in 20 events, or if 20s are also special, 1 in 10 events (one for the rogue getting a 1, one for monster getting a 20)

That’s the only way I’m willing to house rule this. If 1 fails regardless, 20 succeeds regardless

But I prefer to call things easy or impossible

A simple knot like the bowline you’d tie around a sturdy tree before descending by rope into a hole

That’s exactly the sort of thing a DM would set as DC10

Swipe typo. Corrected now

Isn’t that okay for easy stuff? Skilled characters also see harder challenges, disarming a dc20 trap for example

Why should they fail to tie a simple knot on a +5, dc5 use rope check 1 in 20 times?

Yeah and free parking jackpots break monopoly by making the game run for hours

Failed skill checks on 1 break d&d by making skilled people fail regularly just as less skilled people do. I also play in the Palladium system where skill checks are on percentile dice and also don’t fail on a minimum roll

One of the things I don’t like about BG3 is that the rogue with godlike sneak can’t get far with greater invisibility because everything they touch gives a 1/20 chance of being heard

When I roll a d&d skill I call out the total. A 1 might be 6 or 10. I’m not participating in rewriting the basic rules of the game

When you’re +12 to stealth a 1 isn’t that critical

I got let off in my game (second session tonight). I found that I belong to the party’s pack yak. He’s a holy yak and my monk is his protector. Party needs its yak.

Maybe as autocorrect becomes more LLM powered it will get better at correcting spelling of similar words

I feel like it’s really hard for people who learnt after smartphones. When autocomplete gets it wrong they don’t notice

Obviously the way of remembering which is which is “you’re” is short for “you are” (hence the apostrophe) and “your” isn’t. But they also need to practice while keeping that rule in mind

English as a second language people seem to do better than first language users

3.5 also allowed my druid to become a Master of Many Forms which is quite OP

That game petered out, I wouldn’t mind a one shot set in its future: that character and it’s other overpowered party members aged and seeking a death in battle to trigger their contingent spells to reincarnate

BG3 only lets you use revivify on characters in your party. D&D says it only works on those who wish to return (player characters always have unfinished business) but some dead NPCs definitely had something to live for, but are screwed

That is correct