[9:41 AM] Mr. Silver
Had a thought about Stealth
It's been this tradition since 1st ed that the Rogue has his chance, and later that another had his chance to spot.
Everything else has a DC now
Shouldn't we instead be assessing the difficulty and making the rogue roll to see if it's possible... and then they just do it?
"Hide? Here? Uh... DC20."
"Made it."
"Yeah, you figure out something that'll work."
DC to detect you is how much you made it by...say... minimum 5.
Because if it was that hard to hide, your options were really dicey.
None of this "They need a 30 to detect me because of my roll" when the options were a hat rack and a small potted plant.
[11:01 AM] Mr. Yellow
Well there are a lot of factors involved like how alert are the guards. if someone is not paying attention you could just walk quietly up behind them and slit their throat
[11:01 AM] Mr. Silver
Yes
[11:01 AM] Mr. Yellow
It becomes active perception vs passive perception
[11:01 AM] Mr. Silver
I'm just saying it's currently not conditions-based unless "impossible"
Guards are going to be looking
DC5 for them. It should be easy if the conditions are so bad yours was DC20
Hero's privilege could be argued
But the other stuff in D&D isn't, so why does Stealth get it?
Just seeing it as an artefact of previous versions
"Game Design Archaeology"
Like “Darkness” as a spell.
We played 3.5 all those years and “Darkness” was "it is dark"
It's just what we expected from earlier editions.
Meanwhile at the point we were moving on to other RPGs, I actually read the spell
And “Darkness” isn't dark
None of us ever looked.
LOL
You can tell it's magic because it doesn't make sense.
The 3.5 2nd level "Mood Lighting" spell.
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/darkness.htm
By 5e, “Darkness” is back to "it is actually dark"
[2:38 PM] Mr. Yellow
hmm
That is a lot of dark thoughts.
How does that make you feel?
[2:43 PM] Mr. Silver
I feel 20% harder to hit. And that 3.5's “Darkness” should come with a smooth jazz option and a fireplace
[2:43 PM] Mr. Yellow
😕
[2:44 PM] Mr. Silver
"I cast Darkness, Baby. Wine?"
[3:02 PM] Mr. Yellow
Hmm maybe a better spell would be prestidigitation: "Mood Lighting"
[3:03 PM] Mr. Silver
(current Bard trope) "The Seduction Special"
(Lamia) "Did all the fires just dim? Is that music?"
(party groans)
[3:18 PM] Mr. Yellow
lol
[3:30 PM] Mr. Silver
New spell series from Leomund : "Tiny Conversation Pit", "Steamy Hot Tub", "Low Lights and Music", "Secret Minibar"
Material components for that last one depend on how much you used during the spell and must be provided the next morning
[3:31 PM] Mr. White
The idea of Leomund coming up with spells to help his dating game is something interesting
[3:32 PM] Mr. Silver
Indeed
