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Oh have the other group of heroes succeed. Showing the world doesn’t revolve around the PCs makes it feel more alive, and it lets them focus on running a tavern or whatever else they wanted to do.

Or maybe the other group of heroes meets at the tavern the players opened, and their skill in running a tavern somehow ends up being vital for that group of heroes’ success. Maybe they just overhear the heroes talk about nearly being defeated, before succeeding because of something the players did. “We were nearly defeated at the last fortress. If the Dark General had been there, we’d have been toast.”

Or maybe the baddies take over a country, which has some effects on the players’ clientele and the drinks they serve.

Here’s a biblical scholar talking about it. The bible specifies small boys, so definitely not in their 20s. Not that having bears eat adults for making fun of your bald head is any better.

You’d generally want blind rolls whenever a player is trying to find something out, like check for traps or see if someone’s lying.

with both triggers explicitly on a failed roll and refunds if the extra dice if it doesnt make it succeed so you cant even include mystery if the reroll made it a success.

It works fine as long as they don’t try to use the extra die until after the actual result is clear. So it’s fine if they’re trying to reroll checking for traps, but not if they’re trying to reroll whether or not some creature successfully laid eggs inside them.

Relevant xkcd

A pureblood elf that looks like a human is raised by dwarves, learns to fight, befriends goblins, and gets super rich.

Kenkus can only use words they’ve heard before. This implies that other races aren’t limited like that, and automatically know all the words in their language. So you can’t just make up words.

So I’ve heard. There probably are other languages that could work. ChatGPT says polysynthetic languages like Inuktitut, Mohawk, and Chukchi do. I don’t have time to double check, but I’m sure if ChatGPT’s wrong there are other examples where it’s true.

Unfortunately, in 2025 they closed the loophole. You only can use the listed commands. And I notice the loophole didn’t work for sending in either version of 5e (or in 3.5). It specifies a “short” message of 25 words or less, so while you could compress an arbitrarily long message into a single word (though possibly having to use some Morse code-type deal) it wouldn’t help because it wouldn’t be a “short” message.

One could argue that it’s only indirectly harmful. It’s not jumping out of the window that hurts you. It’s the sudden stop before you reach the ground. Or more realistically, you could argue that even taking a little falling damage, you’re in a way better position than fighting for your life, so on the net it’s not harmful.

Or you could just use it on a Monk.

The really long words are nouns, and commands are verbs: calm.

But then you have to give up one of your attacks to move or do anything else that takes an action. On the other hand, when you have different types of actions, it feels like a waste when you have one you haven’t used but there’s nothing even slightly useful you can do with it.

Pathfinder deals with it by giving you three actions, but the second attack is at a -5 penalty and the third is at -10, so you’re not giving up much by using one of your actions to move. It is a complication, but I think it’s useful. Though I think I’d prefer something a bit lighter on the rules.

when combined with actual eye injuries

Doesn’t take much for memetics to kick in

That alone is enough to explain our observations (the trope).

So, to summarize your point, if this happened but not very often, it wouldn’t leave any evidence. We have no evidence, therefore it must have happened, just not very often.

It’s still a huge stretch to go from “this could possibly work, but there’s no evidence that it was ever used besides sailors often being drawn with eyepatches” to “ever single sailor on the ship wore an eyepatch, and everyone forgot why and also depicted most sailors as not having eyepatches for some reason”.

Related question: What’s the difference between an airplane and the Plane of Air?

They used their free object interaction to pick up the tile. They’d need another action to eat it. Though going by that logic, they could just eat it at the beginning of their next turn with the same result.

Everyone remembers the part in Mythbusters where they proved this is possible. Nobody remembers the part where they found no evidence of it ever happening.

Also, the eye patch trope was originally for sailors in general. Which would make sense if this is what it was used for, since all sailors would need night vision, but that just means it’s even crazier that nobody would bother to write it down.

They used deck prisms to see below decks. That would give you plenty of light during the day, and during the night your eyes are already adjusted to the dark.

You fill their lungs up. It was creative the first time, but it’s a very well-known shenanigan at this point. 3.5 had a specific note in Create Water: Conjuration spells can’t create substances or objects within a creature.

I wouldn’t call those homebrew. They don’t have new rules that are consistently followed. It’s more just allowing Rule of Cool. I really hope typical D&D allows the occasional shenanigan.

but you won’t call that being “genderfluid”, as having a “locked” gender may seems weird to them.

And I would say that someone who has always been female and happens to have a male body as having a “locked” gender. I just use “cis” to mean that your gender matches your sex. Not anything about whether or not your gender is fixed.