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Yes, that’s what makes it so nail bitingly fun for my group. Being at 0 isn’t just an inconvenience to be wiped out by Healing Word, it is a terrifying experience that often forces a massive change in the tactics of the fighting you want to save the party member.

Been running this house rule for 3 years now. Players love it and so do I. When you drop to 0 HP you become Dazed instead of unconscious. Dazed means you choose 1 action or bonus action on your turn, speed is cut in half, and you can’t concentrate on spells. You make death saves and...

But keeping the number of players stable requires selling books. That’s the whole point. WotC isn’t as interested in retaining players as creating new ones. It’s cheaper to create and market to new players than to keep finding new product to sell to existing. We saw it in sales throughout 5.0. A...

5.1 would have made a lot more sense. And I agree that I don’t think we’ll see major changes to the game again that require abandoning all of the old material. WotC has figured out they are better off selling PHBs to new players rather than to old. The metric of success for 5.5 isn’t how many 5e...

So what will the next iteration on the D&D rule set be called? 6e? Isn't that even more confusing if it is once again fully compatible? Or does the switch to 5.5 mean that the plan to keep 5e evergreen is dead? Or does the edition/version number fade into the background in the same way...

Exactly. 5e has been about selling PHBs to new players for the last 12 years. 2024/5.5/5.24 didn’t change that. And it’s the major reason they stayed backward compatible. It’s a huge advantage to haves big catelog of pre made adventures to appeal to different tastes ready to go when you decide...

For that, the best way is probably to have the players add the NPC or monster to their companions under 'Extras' on their character sheet. The token will then appear in the token browser under Compaions. They'll be able to see the entire stat block in their Character Sheet, but unfortunately...

Honestly, I think the Daggerheart engine is a much better fit for Sci-Fantasy than 5e. I ran a baller one shot with that theme, but the conversion was too much work for the table so I’m keeping my eyes on a few KS projects meant to turn DH into a full on Sci-Fanatsy game. Space fantasy I think...

In settings toggle on the ability for players to control monsters.

Guess we just have fundamentally different views of how goods product Maps is. You see it is a limited and flawed piece of software, I see it as a game changing tool for the way I run and play D&D online. I went from hating prepping for online play with Roll20 to it being a breeze. And also am...

Dice are finally rolling on Maps! Can’t wait to see this in our session Saturday. Have been waiting patiently for a while for this :)

Didn’t mean to be pedantic about semantics, I was just going off what you quoted them as saying. DDB is a BIG reason Sigil was scrapped. It was already doing everything Sigil wanted to do (bring in new users) but at a fraction of the cost. Maps has been an incredible new feature that people...

There is a pretty big difference between saying that you 'need' to do something and that you 'are' doing something. This announcement falls into the later. And the WotC DDB team has been absolutely excellent in developing Maps so far so much so that it's success killed the Sigle 3DVTT. I...

This is the way. I’ll also add, most of the time I just call it D&D.

In the AMA I asked about whether there are plans after the rebuild of the engine to create (or integrate) a DMsGuild like maketplace. Seems like one of the advantages of the rebuild is that people should be able to more easily create content, whether PC facing, monsters, magic items or full...