@InsightCheck @TreantmonksTemple @DnDShorts @DnDDeepDive! I've started giving some thought to house rules that I want to use for playing with the D&D 5R rules.
This is a WIP posting, really just a some info I want to have handy when I get around to actually writing my rules.
So, I am playing in a game and one of the players is new to playing a caster. The group is small projected to have a Barbarian, Monk, and Bard. The Bard will be a Fairy (playing Wild Beyond the Witchlight) and her player asked if I could provide any guidance. That's exactly what this post will attempt to do.
The 5E rules for aquatic encounters were smeared over a number of locations and generally left me with a lack of useful understanding. The result was I avoided encounters in the water so I could avoid the puddle of rules that defined aquatic encounters.
The 5R rules have made pretty big changes. I'll dive into how it is defined to work in the newest iteration of the rules in this post. As usual, I'll copy teh relevant rules snippets into this post, after I walk through what I think the rules mean to me and my games.
Grappling, in my experience, has long been a mess as far as the rules go. It's just been hard to remeber the rules and to use them at appropriate times. Often it is easier to just swing a weapon at a target rather than use the sometimes amazing grappling technique.
In D&D 5E 2014 (known as 5E to me), there was an opposed challenge to start a grapple which repeated. No big deal other than having to figure out what ability each particpant was using make a pair of rolls add mods and compare. Well that's all changed in D&D 5R 2014 (known as 5R herein).
