Nikko882

You couldn't have written this on that keyboard. That keyboard has no a (or z).

I have never understood the grease argument. People seem to hold it up as some sort of ideal for creativity and playing outside the written rules, to the point that it has basically become a sort of shibboleth to sort who is a fun person and who isn't (like in this blog post), but most people I've seen know about the combo because they heard about it somewhere, not because they came up with this awesome original idea by themselves.

And, while the grease spell doesn't say it is flammable, it also makes no sense from a real-world application. Cooking grease at room temperature does not burn. the whole thing is more like the example of the flanking rule that is mentioned in the post. Everyone knows about the "setting fire to grease" thing, so obviously it's an actual rule.

And as for it's use as a shibboleth, I must admit that it works in my case. I am indeed, a no fun person. I like having rules to look up and will not allow much "creative" use of spells outside of what is written in them at my table. But, in my defence, I'd say that it is infact the other side, this strawman that I am now constructing, that is in the wrong. I feel like people at this point are basically treating spell slots as "plot tokens". "Hey, can I do this thing that normally I wouldn't be able to do? I'm willing to give up a 3rd level ~~plot token~~ spell slot for it." And there's nothing wrong with plot tokens, plenty of games use them to great effect. But spell slots aren't designed to be used like this in 5e, and it shows. It is (I think) one of the reasons why people think martials suck: They don't have any plot tokens to bargain with. If everyone had them it would be fine (Oh, hello, DnD 4e), but they don't.

No, I think spells should do what they say they do. Playing "outside your sheet" is fine and good, but you have to keep in mind what you are allowing when you do (and allowing creative ideas to be a great boon, but you can't repeat the same creative idea more than one is a good compromise).

It is truly a great style.

(Player character from Wizard of Legend)

The short text at the back of the book/cover that is usually a summary of what the book is about, I believe. Also often had some short reviews, like the op title refers to. (The stuff you look at when you are deciding if you want to read the book or not, generally.)

Yes, but then we are talking about this kind of high heel:

There is a big gap between this and the kind of heels that the op is about.

It's equally, or more, correct to say "female/male people". It's just like "poor people" is ok, but "the poors" makes you sound like an asshat. Including "people" makes the difference.

That would make sense, yeah. I suppose you can see that on the picture too, he's standing on the shield boss of one shield and the edge of another. It still seems like it would be very heavy for the guy at the top, but I suppose they don't spend that long standing there, maybe.

The way they are currently set up the bottom shield is in front of the shield above it, so that when it gets pushed on it is supported by the next shield (which is again supported by the next shield, and so on).

It feels more intuitive that the shield should overlap the other way (instead of the top of your shield being supported by the next shield, the bottom of your shield would be supported by the previous shield) because the final shield in the row has to be the heaviest to hold and the first one is supported by the ground.

Wouldn't it make more sense to overlap the shields the other way, to transfer the weight of the guy down and into the ground? I'm assuming they tried both ways and the other way has problems that I'm not seeing, but I'm not seeing it.

Sure, but it seems odd to be picky on the use of the word "tree" to refer to the banana tree rather than a herb, but then make the general statement that cows are "colour blind" when they can actually see colour.

Except cows can see colour. They only have 2 types of colour receptors in their eyes, compared to humans 3, (missing the red one, from what I gather with 30 sec of googling?) so their colour vision is much more limited compared to ours, but they are not colour blind.

I'm guessing they are refering to Dragon Ball (Goku). Whose original voice actress (in Japanese) is Masako Nozawa.