Recent content by James Gasik

Life circumstances have given me a lot of free time. Sunday I begin the first session of my new game. I've been converting old D&D modules for 5e play (but this isn't really a 5e or even a D&D topic). Last night I finished up what I hope will be the fifth adventure. Not the fifth session...

Really? I mean, let's look at some old modules where the party enters a room with say, two orcs. Even back in the day we called them "cannon fodder".

Sure, but at the same time, the Monster Manual defines everything as a monster.

Oh it's a kind of Warlord all right, and one WotC already created.

Or, worse, doing it better. Aka, "Clericzilla", something 5e was actively designed to prevent.

So what's the minimum information here? Can I say that the Priests of Arkhan in my campaign setting have a cantrip that deals force damage? Do I have to say what it's target area is? Do I have to say what components it has, or what rider effects it has? Let's say Firebolt wasn't in the PHB...

It's only a limit of level 5 if you don't use option 1 for character generation.

It's actually Octarine

My problem with Rage in 5e is the same problem with Rage in 3e. Never knowing when I should use this daily resource. WTF are martials doing with daily resources in 5e anyways, lol.

Uh the 2014 one? Exhaustion. You use your bonus action attack, you get hit with Exhaustion levels that are difficult to get rid of and can eventually kill you. This wouldn't be bad in of itself if the other Barbarian subclasses didn't give you cool features that don't have such a hefty...

I think we have 2e to blame for Fighter being a "big tent" class to cover all possible variations of "fighting man who is only supernatural by association". There was a push to get rid of "extraneous" classes- no longer were you an Assassin, that was a job title! The Complete Fighter's...

Well, to be fair, the 3e Psion does have noticeable differences with the 3.5 Expanded Psionics Handbook Psion. They might look the same, but six subclasses of the same class with a different casting stat was a bit eye-brow raising. Heck, I had DM's giving me the hairy eyeball for playing an...

FOMO, sure, but we know most of the PHB spells are pretty good! As I copied from Xanathar's, it's ultimately up to the DM what new spells to add to the game and to decide how players get them. This thread seems to be centered on "DM deciding what spells to add is OK" but "DM deciding to not...