According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a human should be able to fly.

But you’re not correcting me. I am using a rule correctly and you don’t like it. You’re not being helpful, you’re being entitled.

I was in the middle of a monologue, and you tried to divebomb the BBEG. That’s highly disrespectful, but I’m accommodating and give you a chance to succeed using the existing rules. It doesn’t work out the way you want, so you tell me not to use those rules because they’re dumb. And you call ME disrespectful for calling you out?

There’s a lot of things I can say about this. To summarise:

• Just because WotC wants you to use a new product doesn’t mean the old product is outdated.
• If WotC supports the Pinkertons, I don’t support them. But have fun letting your morals fall apart so you can consume product.
• The Tasha’s rule expands on a rule from the DMG. If the rule were to be updated, it would be in the DMG, not the PHB.
• Most tables don’t have the DMG either.
• The new PHB doesn’t have most subclasses. The only reason stuff was omitted was because there wasn’t enough space or time to add them in.

All of that hardly matters, because you responded to a DM ruling by saying “nope”. No shit we’re incompatible. At the VERY least, I want my players to respect me.

Yes, but the only people with the power to stop them have a conflict of interest too.

In that timeline, Loraine shot Biff, causing old Biff to slowly fade once he got back to 2015. It wasn’t explicit in the final cut, but you can see him in pain when he leaves the Delorean.

So, is Melania going to shoot Trump?

No matter what the real world laws of physics are, the GM is the final arbiter of the rules. That’s not an ego thing. That’s just how it works. Everyone’s roleplaying game works the same, even if they have different rulings.

Now, let’s quickly picture this scene where the GM instead rolls 14. The BBEG is making his speech, then a shadow falls over him, he looks up, and gets crushed by a brontosaurus. He’s resiliant, having taken only half the fall damage, but he’s knocked prone and at a serious disadvantage as everyone rolls initiative.

Would anyone complain about the optional rule being used? Would anyone argue there should be no shadow because “the sun wouldn’t be there” or “I hadn’t transformed yet”? And if they decided to make that check to transform right before impact and succeeded, would they complain about the high DC due to the high speed?

I don’t think they would. I think they’re only complaining because the GM didn’t give them what they wanted. They don’t care about the game, they just care about getting their own way.

I agree. I am not compatible with that playstyle.

To continue the quote, physics are what I allow them to be.

Going by the pure rules, you don’t have enough time to wildshape. You just splatter. I’m being kind by giving you the opportunity at all.

First of all, if I’m the DM, you don’t get to tell me not to use a rule.

Second of all, there will not be a situation where I use the 2024 ruleset. The 2014 ruleset is still around, and still usable, and anyone calling it outdated is an idiot.

Third, this is the only official rule given for this situation. If we don’t use it, there is no rule for falling on someone and we resolve it however I like. And since you just tried to interrupt my monologue, I’m not inclined to be generous.

This isn’t a physics sim. This is a roleplaying game. Physics are what I allow them to be and it’s funnier for falling creatures to have a drop shadow.

Nope. The rules for falling on a creature don’t factor in size, except for if it knocks the target prone. The check is DC15 to dodge.

At terminal velocity? You’re gonna need to make a damn good check to time that right.

“Okay, so he gets to make a dexterity saving throw… That’s a 16, so he manages to sidestep you and you take the full damage. …No, he doesn’t have disadvantage, you made a huge shadow above him, he knew you were coming. Anyway, he continues his monologue, using your actions as an example of the foolishness of humanity.”

Now I want the rule 34 version of the story of John Henry. Like, the next pokemon trailer comes out, and one NSFW artist has to put out porn of the new professor before the AI can generate it.

Jack Horner did that in Puss in Boots 2: “Excalibur! I couldn’t get this rock off of it, but it’s still pretty cool, right?”

The time taken for “a” typing monkey? We have infinite monkeys! Why are we putting the entire burden on just one of them? One of them takes Hamlet, another takes King Lear, two of them collaborate to write Twelfth Night…

To quote the theme song of a science show on BBC radio:

If infinite monkeys type every day
They may accidentally write ‘Hamlet’ the play
But they’ll probably shit on it and throw it away
In the Infinite Monkey Cage

I’m sure if Putin asked nicely enough…

I’m making a campaign set in fantasy Vegas, so I took the floorplan of a casino and made it into a map of the city.

Yeah, he definitely looks like someone trying to splinter the left to weaken support, then adding “I’m voting Harris” and “Free Palestine” in the way some republicans say “as a black man…”

Please respond to what people say and not what they could have said. Don’t respond to phantoms who aren’t in the room.

You don’t need to think someone is perfect to think someone else is worse. There are lots of people so disillusioned by the left that they don’t vote at all, thus allowing the right to come into power, and they need a wake-up call that, yes, things can get worse.

You are protesting genocide in a pro-Palestinian forum, directed as people who are also pro-Palestine, responding to someone saying “let’s not make Palestine worse.” You’re not a nazi (and I never said you were), you’re just useless.