More D&D Rules EVERYONE Ignores

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of this series all of you have been vocal with more D and D junk everyone's always tossing aside so I figured it was about time to collect all your comments and draft up a part two players in DMS usually prefer to stick to rules that have a regular impact in their games which means other rules get forgotten about just by being obnoxious to find understand or keep up with the fact that we had to wait 3 years for rules that explain how fast Things fall in DND D yeah something that generic and that it was printed in a separate expansion book almost three years later might be the best example of why people might tend to ignore or make up the existence of certain rules so yeah let's just go over a bunch more that you all suggest that I bring up hope you will enjoy electrum pieces nobody cares about electrum they apparently look like this but whenever I imagine them I think of Mr Krabs as giant crusty green dime It's just sad that because electrum exists in official 5e modules they had to include a tab for it on the official character sheets but I bet for most of you this section has the least eraser shaving scratch marks out of any other one electrum is worth five silver which ruins the coin order of everything and angers everyone every coin takes 10 pieces to make up the value of the next except electrum which is worth five silver and takes two pieces to equal one gold in the official rules it states that shop owners usually give people trading an electrum the side eye because of the money's Origins but I'd sooner just say they hate counting it if electrum wasn't some ungodly half breed of a currency then every denomination of wealth could have been 10 higher than the next but nope let's make a garbage currency that complicates everything that nobody's ever heard before because we have to be special if one electrum was just 10 silver I doubt we'd have this problem but here we are everyone ignores it and the world is a better place because of [Music] that coins have weight most real life tables handwave the weight of all your pocket change since it's obnoxious to keep track of ready to jot down the 0.32 O of weight that a single copper coin adds to your load me neither the weight of coins is already stupid though because quick Google search will tell you that gold is almost twice as heavy as silver making the fact they're all the same make no sense at all trading coins on the regular also makes keeping tabs on your money a nightmare as you pull out a calculator after every purchase to recalibrate your carrying capacity and the general house rule is that so long as you don't have an unreasonable amount of coins on you there's no need to keep track of it at most DMS might pause the game to give a smug grin to their party asking how they plan to haul an entire dragon's horde of gold back to their base but at least then the weight of the money becomes a unique challenge as opposed to being an inconvenience encumbrance out of the fryer and into the oven people don't just ignore coin weight they usually also just ignore weight entirely examples of people ignoring this rule are XP to level three in his weird variant encumbrance rule I don't even remember how it works anymore but it's funny to make fun of and then everyone else ignoring the endless rule book flipping tracking weights and just eyeballing it not dwelling on this one people ignore the rule and just go if it feels reasonable to carry for a person of my size and strength can carry it ignoring encumbrance indirectly Nerfs players that spec into strength just like a bunch of other Niche rules that tried to exist to make strength characters viable but when did dndd ever care about those guys am I right ammunition arrows bolts bullets if your DM is really nice nobody tracks these things because just like most of the other rules so far scratching at your character sheet every time you shoot one is annoying arrows also barely cost anything and the first bundle you get will probably last you the entire campaign until you either realize the mistake you've been making or upgrade to magical ones the issue is just that they're cheap plentiful and feel like a chore to keep up with a common theme with a lot of these rules dark vision nobody ignores Dark Vision in fact every other D andd player is going to be the nerd Emoji who bursts at their seat to mention they have it the moment a DM says the room is dark everyone's so gung-ho about the fact they can see in darkness though that they ignore all the other rules that apply to it dark vision turns pure Darkness into dim light letting you wander through dungeons while having a general idea of where things are around you but do you know what everyone forgets about the fact that dim light gives you disadvantage on perception checks so sure you can see 60 ft around you but your vision is going to be terrible and there's a much higher chance of Gremlin can get the jump on you this is where the Good Old Reliable humans and dragon born come into play they're rolling up with their lanterns to illuminate the entire dungeon not only to help out with the perception roles that nobody cared about but also to make it so everyone can see color another rule that DMS forget when reading out the colors of things in Pitch Black rooms 90% of the time tldr Dark Vision in darkness is disadvantage remember the triple D Rule and that's not an innuendo lifestyle expenses the fact I can't just dive into why lifestyle expenses are ignored goes to show the lack of people who even care to learn about the rule basically you could tell a DM how many days you want to skip in game say how comfy you want to live it up and get the number on how much gold it'll cost to skip through that amount of time from the levels of sneaking into Barns and sleeping on diseased hay to snobbing it up for 10 gold a month in the aristocratic Lounge the only difference that's made up is how much each category costs and the types of stories a DM might want to narrate once your break is over the lack of influence players have in things besides the cash they're willing to spend and the fact that most DMS decide it's fun to screw with players by stealing their stuff half the time is what makes people try to sweep this one under the rug that with the fact that xanathar's guide added fun little mini games in the form of downtime activity that people enjoy way more so handwave the living expenses and get right into narrating how the Barbarian spent his entire month battling to the top of an underground pitf fighting tournament subscribe if you're new Blain but never simple and I'll see you all in the next video [Music]

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Published: Fri May 03 2024