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Studded Leather isn't necessarily made with metal studs according to the PHB. It might have metal studs, or it might have stone studs, or bone studs, or who knows what else. The metal studded version is a no-no for druids, clearly. The other materials would be just fine. Make sure your druid...

That brings up a good point. Are the tier lists mainly looking at combat effectiveness, or all around utility and ability to shape the story/resolve plots? If we are just looking at combat the fighter and the barbarian are quite good I think. I've found those pure martial characters...

I wonder if the tier lists could be examined at different level ranges. Say level 5, 10, 15, and 20. Or maybe 3, 9, and 17, or whatever seems to be milestone character levels for most classes. It would be nice for people to know what they are getting into for campaigns of different lengths. If...

I have no problem with builds coming on later, so long as you are sure the campaign is going to advance that far. It's something to look forward to, which is always good! I often plan out my builds all the way to level 20 to make sure the choices I make early on will work with what I'm getting...

This speaks much more about the poor way feats were implemented into the game, than it speaks to players preference. Feats should have been obtainable without having to pass up your ASI.

When I run games I often use the Forgotten Realm setting still. It's probably my favorite published D&D setting. I have the 1987 Forgotten Realms box set, and also the 1993 book they did for 2nd edition. I quite like the realms of that time period, and just don't bother with any further...

Easy, just take a quick pause in the game while someone breaks out the fluid dynamics math.

I have no problem with someone doing that! I just want a decent interpretation from the rules that accurately represents how much more difficult moving and fighting under such conditions are compared to doing so under normal conditions. Simply moving at 1/2 speed (as per climbing rules) and...

Thanks for the suggestion! The climbing rules are a good place to start for ideas. There doesn't seem to be any mention of climbing while hanging from a ceiling though (which is essentially what being a reverse gravity area is) or anything similar except under the description of the Spider Climb...

Reverse Gravity seems to leave a lot up to interpretation as for what happens in the rounds following the initial casting of the spell. Obviously, anyone failing the save falls upwards and anything making the save is able to hold onto something and keep from falling... but what happens next...

The only group I am playing with tends to be more story focused, and is also a large group (7 PCs). We tend to go 0-3 combats between long rests. I would say ~2 combats would be the most common number. Occasionally we get into big dungeon slogs that need more, but that is honestly the rare...

I prefer leveling up to be done Diablo 3 style where it is accompanied by a woosh of energy that damages and knocks back all enemies around you, and you immediately go to full health and mana. See if you can get your DM to go for something like this.

Yes, of course. I just don't like how its shortcomings are flaunted front and center in a system that lets characters heal 1/2 HP on short rests and all of it just from a long rest. Yes it's also unrealistic that resting for a week (in 3e) could heal these types of injuries, but since magic...

I find the "cure light wounds problem" to be the lesser of two evils. When your hero suffers numerous grievous wounds from a tough battle and just barely pulls through at least it is fantasy world believable that magic is what healed them up and is letting them push on to the next encounter...

Despite them playing *extremely* loose with the rules at some points (I mean come on, Perkins let Jim Darkmagic kill a monster using prestidigitation as an attack - lol), it was a very enjoyable session. Much more entertaining than their last couple games, in my opinion.

Twice a month on Friday night. We meet for about 5 hours but usually only end up getting about 3.5 hours of gaming in. Wish it were a bit longer sessions or more often.

The fantasy of the rogue being a character who stabs people in the back with a dagger or who uses small weapons to fight with speed and accuracy is *severely* outclassed by the archer rogue who just shoots a shortbow. Why would anyone ever play a melee rogue character in 5E? It is a horrible...

I think it's a cool idea, but I would prefer the rules for it fit to work against all creatures all the time, and also to work for Monsters fighting against the players. I don't like these type of rules that only work in some situations and only the PC's get to use them. Make it a rule that can...

This reminds me that I definitely don't want to trade out Feather Fall from my sorcerers spell list after level 14. That bad boy is going to sit there, probably unused, for the entire campaign just so something like this never happens.

This is what I was afraid of after reading the concentration rules :( I do really like the "only 1 spell at a time" part of it. Putting a lid on the massive buff spamming that was high level 3.x games is a welcome change. But the rolling to keep a spell up every time the caster takes damage...