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@rush99999 Just because I don't like making assumptions; Are the javelins Brutrumukk is carrying of bugbear make?
Trying to determine what all about this little gnome who's just run up to Voth looks out of place before I write my reply.

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@Guardian Angel Haruki For the sake of my mental image when I write my introduction, has Voth wandered out of the mist essentially behind the group, within a matter of steps of them?
Or has he simply exited somewhere nearby, at a distance better measured in yards?

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...Yeah, Brutrumukk is definitely gonna think Hruggek and Grankhul sent Voth to taunt him with what he's lost.

@rush99999

And Voth is going to do negative work in dissuading him from that thought.

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Suppose it's time to introduce my boy.

Ready and waiting in the Characters tab, for all to see.

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Voth the Cleric

Voth

Name: Voth
Age: 26
Race: Bugbear
Class: Cleric
Level: 4
Background: Far Traveler

Personality: Voth is an introvert. He prefers the quiet of solitude to the company of others. Given the option, he almost always chooses to act alone simply because he prefers being able to make decisions for himself. It would be wrong to say that he finds the company of others actively upsetting. More so, he finds it a frequently unnecessary complication.
However, Voth is pragmatic to a fault. Far more prone to taking the path of caution, he recognizes the practical benefits of cooperation. He simply finds no benefit in social interactions for their own sake.

Backstory: The earliest years of Voth's life were spent with a constant sense of uncertainty. Bugbear society does not treat the weak or vulnerable kindly, and Voth was easily the smallest of his siblings. It took him years to work out that they kept him around because his eyes and ears were keener than most. That realization was not met with reward, though, as revealing he knew simply meant he was forced to walk at the front of the group on hunting trips.
One night, not long after he had figured things out, Voth saw a set of eyes staring at him through the trees. He heard someone whisper in his ear. They told him that good scouts were hard to find, and should not be wasted on those who could not follow. That night, he found a cave filled with a pack of wild worgs, and offered them a trade. He would lead each sibling into the worgs' den, one by one. All he wanted in return was his oldest brother's deck of playing cards.
When he returned alone, the deck of cards in his belt pouch, his tribe asked where his siblings had gone. They stopped asking, though, when they spotted the set of eyes he had carved in a bit of wood on his trek back. From that day, he was named his tribe's chosen of Grankhul, and was made to act as scout. The tribe's shaman taught him the rights of Grankhul's worship, and from that day he was given the job of scout for all the tribe's raids.

Stat Generation: Rolled and submitted to the DM.

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So, would anyone be willing to provide me with a brief synopsis of the events thus far? I would be very grateful.

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Greetings, all!

Figured I'd go ahead and introduce myself, as the plan seems to be for me to be joining the party.

I'll go ahead and wait to introduce my character until @Guardian Angel Haruki gives me the all-good. Not sure if the plan is to keep his details a secret, but I'll at least hold off on any details until I've gotten the all clear.

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@Guardian Angel Haruki If you're still looking, I would be interested in throwing my hat in the ring.

I know it's been a while, but hopefully you remember me fondly from our briefly shared past.

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I am quite curious why there’s so much aversion to the updated rules. Nothing drastic changed, it’s mainly making definitions and descriptions more clear. Not trying to change y’all’s mind about playing, just trying to understand a mindset I keep coming across online but not with in-person players.

@CajunRobinHood

I'm certain there are plenty of players who have moral or otherwise personal objections to the system. I would be lying if I said I didn't have a few of those, myself.

That said, even if those issues did not exist, the issues I have with the mechanics alone would be sufficient to convince me not to change to 5.5 D&D.

For me, the changes they made for 2025 fall into two camps; The changes I don't like, and the few changes that could have easily been an errata.
For example; I was never a big fan of the inspiration mechanic. It felt too arbitrary. In 5.0 D&D, you could basically ignore it, because it was barely mentioned. 5.5e makes it basically a mandatory part of the game, with feats and racial abilities that reference it. They also did not make it less arbitrary.
I do not like the addition of the special abilities for weapons; They generally don't seem to add enough to justify making combat go even slower.
I'm not against the idea of players getting a free feat at first level, but instead of just making that an optional rule - maybe including a list of suggested feats to choose from - they chose to tie them to the character's backstory. Instead of just fixing the background features mechanic, they tossed it out the window and made character backgrounds even less unique.

Be sure, this list in not exhaustive.

If these were just individual mechanics I didn't care for in an otherwise good, but unique, edition of Dungeons and Dragons I would consider trying it out. However, they're not; They're changes I don't care for to a version of the game I already liked. There's no incentive for me to invest time and money into learning 5.5e, because it's not different enough to justify making the change, with the little that is different being almost exclusively things I don't like.

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@CajunRobinHood Well, I'll have to bow out, then. I A.) don't have access to the rules for D&D 5.5 and B.) purposefully don't have access because I don't like the changes they made to the system from original 5e.

Best of luck, and let me know if you decide to go with a different edition.