• SinkingLotus @lemmy.worldOP
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      Then later when they hit camp or eat a meal. Have them roll for constitution. Failure leads to spitting out a broken tooth and a future visit to the blacksmith to get it pulled.

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      Naw, unless they abuse it you’re just punishing creativity. The Constitution roll at camp mentioned elsewhere is a good idea.

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        I don’t think so, it’s possible to be creative without doing something you know is harmful to yourself. It’s punishing doing something stupid (although it might have the benefit of intimidating the opponent since you’re clearly insane.)

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          Yes, logically you’re right and if you have 10+ hours to think about it you can come up with a better, less harmful answer.

          However in the moment, as long as it isn’t abused, you give it to them.

          It they keep eating gravel, maybe they get sick, or maybe they become “PC Gravel Eater”, or maybe they accidentally eat some poison, etc

          But in the moment, you let them have it. One of the best parts of D&D (or any similar RPG) is that the rules are not written in stone. Rules are a general framework, but are open to interpretation. You want to encourage new, unwritten, discussion.

          But gravel? That’s rocks. Ostriches “eat” rocks. Why can’t a Dragonborn or Aarokocra? Or any battle hardened Barbarian or Fighter?

          You want your player, generally speaking, to try some weird shit.

          There was a conversation I read somewhere that said that the optional Flanking rules were terrible, because it basically forced everyone to just try and get Flanking. Flanking is advantage and that’s almost always the optimal move.

          It prevents players from trying to jump across a table and swing on the chandelier, landing on their opponents head. Why risk an acrobatics roll when I could just move 10 ft, maybe 15 ft if you include climbing a table.

          No one remembers “getting advantage on that one attack”, everyone remembers, “a backflip and cutting the BBEGs eye”.

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    In all fairness, picking up the handful of smashed tile and shoveling out into one’s mouth are a compound action that is unlikely to be “free”, but the rule of cool wins in this instance, for sure. Had the Intimidation roll failed however, I would’ve given the opponent advantage on their next attack against the geek as the tile chunks turned their mouth into hot chum.

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    DM: He wears an iron headband, like a crown.

    ME: Under or above his horns?

    DM (thinking): Under. Wearing it over his horns would make it to small.

    ME: So he cannot lose or remove that headband easily?

    DM (suspicious): Nnno?!?!

    ME: OK, Heat Metal

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      Now I’m starting to wonder… Are zippers a thing? Hell, I know piercings are. Thankfully you need to see the object you cast Heat Metal on. Otherwise I would pity the man who got a Prince Albert pierced.