It’s impossible to make it perfect, but it’s trivial to make it better. For example, get rid of Silvery Barbs.

And we’d really hope with a large corporation behind it, they could do more than get rid of the obvious. They could do the playtesting necessary to properly balance martials vs casters.

But it is useful for someone to make rules that are balanced and lead to interesting gameplay. There are entire companies that make their business around printing rule books and selling them to people who think it’s worth the money.

Think of it like this: if you have a high enough GM skill, then you’ll pass whatever check God has and make the game fun. But with more balanced and interesting rules, you get a bonus. Even if it’s just a +1 bonus that makes your game 5% more likely to be fun, that means everyone who plays that system gets that bonus from one person making it. You’d be crazy not to do it.

Different things work for different groups. But some things tend to work well in general, and others do not.

I admit I’ve only played D&D once. We spent half an hour working out how to go through a hole in the ceiling when there was an unlocked door in front of us. I thought that was just part of the fun.

I think the problem is that it’s something not actually bad. Making a BBEG that’s just a punching bag for your believe that murder is wrong is perfectly okay.

We are not the same.

Centaurs have arms, so if you took the other half of each, it wouldn’t have arms.

It should just be a horse head on human legs.

My pact was that I gave a unicorn some carrots in return for a 1d10 cantrip.

You have to stab him with a dagger too and see which is worse.

I was thinking it was a grapple thing, but Huge is already big enough to grapple anything.

I think an awesome way to use them would be to have the BBEG be a planeswalker. When the fight starts, the DM pulls out a Magic deck and starts playing Magic against D&D.

I’m imagining someone switching to Pathfinder 2e, not telling anyone, and whenever it comes up they say it’s house rules.

How much trouble is it to keep learning different systems?

But you only gave them your name. You never submitted to control.

There’s often stuff in fantasy about knowing a being’s true name giving you power over them, so you wouldn’t want to tell it to a fey. But if they literally took your name, then that would make it theirs, and now you know their true name. Also, according to the forgotten realms wiki, most people don’t know their own true name. It’s not the same as the name you go by.

Isn’t that good? Now people can’t use Gate to summon you into a trap.

I’m terrible at coming up with backstories. I guess that means I don’t have any insecurities.

Barely. You can throw a potato to get rid of an orc. But this is only occasionally useful and only in the early game. Once it starts costing two or more potatoes to get rid of one orc, it’s a bad idea.

I’m assuming that even though the DM pretends to be annoyed, he actually thinks all these shenanigans are awesome and is bending the rules to let them work.

I want to see a campaign where you have to protect an endangered tarrasque from a group of aarakocra that are trying to poach it.

In 3.5, a high level wizard could take it down.

In 5e, you could have a mission to protect an endangered tarrasque from Aarakocra poachers.