Acquisitions Incorporated - Live Q&A with Mike Mearls (Part 3)
Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast
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4.4 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2012
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What exactly is advantage? |
| 0:02.0 | Because now do you have a system that is advantage and disadvantage, right? |
| 0:05.0 | Yeah, so one of the things we're trying to do is get rid of the modifiers that you're applying on the fly at the table. |
| 0:12.0 | Like, this is obviously still modifier like bonuses right your |
| 0:14.4 | attack bonus or string sure yeah yeah but you're saying things like C. A yeah exactly |
| 0:18.6 | that instead of adding a number you're you for if you have advantage you roll twice take the highest results |
| 0:23.8 | of making if you have a attack. Whoa! |
| 0:25.4 | And if you have disadvantage you roll twice. |
| 0:27.4 | Whoa! |
| 0:28.4 | What? |
| 0:30.3 | Okay. |
| 0:31.3 | This was funny so you ask you ask this question thinking that you knew the answer, but now you're going to Crazy Town. |
| 0:35.8 | Well, they changed that since that first person. |
| 0:38.2 | Well, I imagine it's all different than what you've seen. So you're saying, see because that's that's very table game type stuff so |
| 0:44.5 | if you have combat disadvantage you roll twice I take the lowest score oh that's |
| 0:48.3 | but if I'm like if I'm fighting a goblin and I'm up on the stairs and he's down a stair I have advantage over him right? |
| 0:55.5 | So this is one of the things where the DM a lot of it's up to the DM yeah |
| 0:59.5 | There are certain like spells and abilities. They'll just say you get common advantage in this situation |
| 1:03.4 | but a lot of it depends on on the DM so it's not just combat advantage now right I mean |
| 1:07.1 | it's the whole idea of advantage is just back against the wall is you know are you |
| 1:11.1 | right it's not just fighting it's also plastic skills wall is, you know, are you... Right. |
| 1:13.0 | It's not just fighting, it's also plastic skills, or any check. |
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