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Thanks, but I was specifically asking about the four in the new edition.

Does anyone have a sense which subclass is the power gamer's choice? Asking for a friend. :whistle:

September 17, the day the new book comes out, will be the last day of our current campaign. One week later we will have a Session Zero for the new campaign. October 1 we will begin playing the new campaign.

I personally have found mid-Tier 3 is about my limit. Beyond that I start getting overwhelmed by keeping track of everything my character can do as I always play spellcasters. I did not enjoy the small handful of times I've played in Tier 4. Probably my ideal campaign would run from Levels...

"Slacker" is a character background. The world is filled with an unusually large number of magical Symbols of Hopelessness. Many monsters cause magical depression. Characters on antidepressant medication make this saving throw at advantage.

I feel like the stereotypical Gen X would have worshiped Shar (at least back then). "Smells Like Teen Spirit," "Black Hole Sun" and "Feels Blind" sound like hymns to Shar.

You can't get Gen X to do anything because it is all pointless and nothing matters. And it's probably a scam.

There is a great detail of detail in character generation so every character can be a special snowflake. After each session everyone gets a participation trophy no matter what happened.

Interestingly little of this is true for me. 2E was the edition of my teens and early 20s. It is not my favorite. My favorite is 5E -- an edition which came out when I was almost 40! I admit I have a yen for 1990s music. I do not consider the 1990s to be the best movies. Fantasy movies...

Let's Read the 4E Monster Manual: lamia 5e returned the lamia to the attractive half-human/half-beast that it had been in 1E-3E (which is similar to the original Greek mythology origins). The scarab swarm was an interesting idea for a monster but why they called it a lamia seems nonsensical...

Weird that the day before this thread began, 4E appeared in my life again. Our current DM (running a 5E game) said he would like to take a mini-break and have someone else run for 2-3 sessions. One of the other players offered to run "lair assault" which I had never done. And then he said it...

Most times I didn't make a conscious decision to stop playing D&D. Usually the group I was in evaporated and I was too busy with other things to find another one. But there was one time I deliberately stepped away from D&D. This was in the dark days of the edition wars in the late 2000s. I...

I tend to see the inclusion of an ancestry in the PHB as the result of popularity rather than the cause of it. If it is in the PHB it was already resonating with D&D players and/or wider nerd culture.

Totally random comment -- Princess Peach was by far my favorite character in Super Mario 2 because of her ability to float in the air for 2 seconds. It more than made up for the fact she couldn't run and jump as well as the others.

I remember that in both campaigns the person whose rolls got picked was not mine. The first time we did this I remember one player rolling badly and his set of scores were disregarded immediately, lol.

We have five players. Most of the time we use point buy. But the last time we used this method the group voted for: 17, 16, 13, 12, 12, 11. The first time we did it the group voted for: 17, 15, 14, 13, 11, 10.

All the players roll a set of six stats and then the group votes on which set the entire party will use. That way everyone is using the same numbers but the arrangement of the stats is up to each individual player.

As an older gay gamer I don't think the prejudice against being a D&D player was as major as being LGBTQ during the 1990s. That said, being a gamer wasn't something I was completely open about back then either. The stigma was real. There were venues like my FLGS where it was fine to be open...

I am a late 40s gamer who first played D&D in 1986. I think it is critical that D&D adapt to the changing times. That is part of why the game has lasted 50 years. I have no desire for the game to be preserved as a fly-in-amber from my formative gaming years in the late 1980s and early 1990s...

1. Cleric 2. Sorcerer 3. Wizard 4. Warlock 5. Bard 6. Druid 7. Paladin 8. Fighter 9. Rogue 10. Barbarian 11. Ranger 12. Monk Numbers 9-12 are theorycrafting because I have never played them in 5E.