That was epic! Still laughing.
Hmmm…the scientist part of my brain wonders tho…I keep seeing folks talk about “choosing” how to play…and I wonder how legit that argument really is.
A truly fair approach, to test how broken the mechanics are, would be to now play thru the same sequence by NOT using any of the homebrew and playing it as close to DnD 5e as you possibly can. I don’t know how possible that is..,but I would love to know if (on the flip-side) whether or not the mere presence of these mechanics destroy the dnd part.
Perhaps alot of work to try…but I wonder if anyone has done that?
This is a bigger problem for multiplayer than it is for single player. I try to have the "talk" with people before we start - no barrelmancy, no throwing NPC's - and if you coach it in the right terms "it's not clever, we have all seen it" then it usually sticks.
Otherwise I see a barrel in inventory I will take it and smash it.
But I am tired of having to do that.
