This works for situations where exact positioning isn’t too important. When want to have AoE spells, move speed, flanking, and battlefield control, it generally because difficult to ensure that the GM and the players have the same picture of the battlefield. Even just drawing it out roughly can help a lot, but pure theatre of the mind really works best when you only care about distance rather than relative positioning and complex battlefield conditions.
Then the chart is just wrong (I know which book it’s in and it is intended to apply to DnD).
If it applies to DnD’s cosmology, than it has to mean with viable offspring, because half-dwarves canonically exist in the Darksun setting and they’re called Muls.
If you’re talking about anything that matters, even if it seems like it’s just personal experiences like love or exploring the world, it’s political to somebody.
Nah. Evil is where the harm your actions do to other people doesn’t stop you from doing it. Neutral is where you wouldn’t put yourself especially at risk or especially out of your way to help others, but you wouldn’t hurt them either, even if it benefited you. Obviously there’s a spectrum there, most neutral people would do harm to others if they had a gun to their head. Enjoying the harm you do unto others is sadism, which is separate from alignment. A good or neutral person can be a sadist, but their morality will prevent them from hurting others even if they enjoy it. In short, sadism provides a motive (of which there are many others), alignment provides the restriction or lack thereof.
Tl;dr if order a village slaughtered to take all their stuff, I don’t care how dispassionate or purely self-interested you are, you’re evil. If you murder people because you’re paid to, and don’t much care about the details, you’re evil.
I’d allow it.
It depends whether you want 00-99 or 1-100. Eclipse Phase, for example, uses 00-99 so that criticals (which are on doubles) are evenly distributed. It compensates by making success only on a roll strictly less than, not less-than-or-equal-to, your target.
If your PC has the ability to turn into a fly, then the game has deliberately given them some amazing stealth and scouting capabilities. I say this is working as intended.
In Pathfinder, Air Bubble and Life Bubble would be the best choices.
I remember the time almost an entire play session was spent arguing about how to get to an island in the bay. We were in a city, and to be fair the PCs were fugitives hiding from the regent of that city, but getting to the island itself was always meant to be just as easy as hiring a boat.
I really like how Razzira says “big bed” rather than “normal bed” here.
I mainly GM Adventure Paths, so it’s a bit different, but typically aim to prepare up to a whole book in advance. Which really is overkill, but it does mean that I’m never in a rush or panic over it, and lets me devote extra prep time to whatever I feel deserves it.
Play a Pathfinder 1e Unchained Monk, pick up Breaking-Down Koan, flavour your koans as devastating puns, and you can spend ki points on puns.
You can also pick up the other koan powers, but I think Breaking-Down Koan fits best.
Text reproduced for the curious:
Breaking-Down Koan (Su): A monk with this ability can spend 1 ki point as a swift action to present a paradox, riddle, or complicated question to a creature within 30 feet. The creature must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + 1/2 the monk’s level + his Wisdom modifier) or be confused for 1 round. This is a mind-affecting, language-dependent effect. A monk must be at least 8th level before selecting this ki power.
Yeah, Pathfinder clerics are kind of insane healbots even without compromising their other abilities, but then Pathfinder is—in my admittedly limited experience of 5e—generally a lot more generous with class features than 5e is; and that’s true whether you’re talking 1e or 2e Pathfinder.
Charisma is force of personality. Being hot is just a circumstance modifier to some checks.
There’s a funny thing about Darkvision, since depending on the exact game and edition you’re playing, it doesn’t always even work in dimly lit rooms, only complete darkness. Which gets a bit silly, sometimes.
Just drawing the situation out, even roughly, is already an enormous step forwards from theatre of the mind, and is doing most of the heavy lifting here. It’s also not “theatre of the mind,” like the original poster is implying. It’s a map, just one without grid-spaces or precise distances.