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Deep rectal itch

I counter with Bigby's Vibrating Finger

Warlock

Bard

Wizard

Laughs as I cast Tenser's Transformation

If Diviner Wizards could force reroll on the random encounter table, it would be the most powerful class in the game.

Druid: "Okay, can you explain what has happened?"

Druid Spell Target: "Oh, absolutely. But you need to do me one favor, first."

Druid: "Anything, just name it."

Druid Spell Target: "EXTINGUISH ME!!!!!"

5 hp left, but I've got 30 AC. What are they going to do? Roll 20s?

Ah, balls.

humanity is so crooked they’ll basically kill a man for being too good while praising and pardoning a criminal

That's also something of an allegory, in so far as Jesus's great offense involved claiming to be "King of Kings" in defiance of the secular laws (which the Pharisees and Romans had co-mingled with the regional religious faith). This was all taking place during a historic armed and militant uprising of Jews against Roman occupation - one that failed shortly after the crucifixion.

So then you have Peter and Paul effectively reconciling with the Roman government and creating a kind-of religious third-way for the Jewish state. One in which you could be both a good Jew and a loyal Roman citizen, because you just tell yourself things look like shit now but when you die everything gets reversed.

Eventually, the cult of Christianity becomes so pervasive that even Romans start believing in the post-death reversal of fortune. And this climaxes in the Roman Civil War in which a general paints all his shields with the crucifix to prove how he's God's Favorite Underdog and wins. And then Constantine says "Why wait until you're dead? What if Christianity gets its heyday on Earth starting now?" Kicks off the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. And effectively forms the bedrock of modern Catholicism as a globe-spanning 1700 year old organized church.

If they wanted a creation or a god, they could just come up with their own.

I mean, they did. And then Joshua showed up with his horn and his seven day parade march.

And if your DM is just looking at the die and saying, ‘yah’ or ‘nah,’ they shouldn’t be your DM

Where do you think DMs come from?

If your group has the trust

This is the heart of tons of table drama. The DM wants to tell a story and the players want to be heroic. The dice add randomness that can add drama, but they also cause chaos by introduction outcomes people don't want.

If you're just trusting the DM, why have rolls at all? Just tell GM what you're doing and GM tells you what happens. But then players feel like they've got less heroic agency. They're not pulling together a brunch of cool traits to do something risky and daring. They're saying "I leap over the battlement and drive my spear into the champion's throat" and the DM either says "Yeah" or "Nah". You need phenomenal trust in your GM for that to work. A bunch of 12 year olds at a table aren't going to have that.

Let them handle the mechanical elements of the game so the players can focus on the role play.

The mechanics are, ostensibly, there to facilitate the roleplay. The paladin's smite isn't just a set of numbers, it's an expression of their role as holy warrior and divine judge.

The change was made as a result of a lawsuit filed by Jack County judge Brian Umphress, who is challenging the State Commission on Judicial Conduct’s decision to sanction another judge, Dianne Hensley, in 2019 for her refusal to marry same-sex couples. That same year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott withdrew two nominees to the Commission, allegedly because they voted to issue the warning against Hensley; the Commission withdrew Hensley’s sanction last year, after she sued the body alleging they had violated her freedom of religion.

We call him Frank's Monster, for short