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If you find grammar and spelling mistakes (you will) - thanks for your patience, I'm not a native speaker. :) I homebrewed something for my version of D&D Next, and I'm sure I've seen something like this on this forum before. Basically I made the expertise dice mechanic a global mechanic...

If you got any news from the "What is the Sundering?" Gencon seminar, please share it here. What will this Realms Shaking Event entail? What will happen? Reboot? Retcon? Seperation of Toril and Abeir? Seperation of Pre-Spellplague and Post-Spellplague realms? Any news? Please post it here. I'm...

Given that skills itself should be an optional component, so that oldschool players could play without backgrounds and skills, how could the healing "action" (rolling wisdom to treat wounds, first aid) IN THIS CURRENT PLAYTEST work? Most of the mundane healing in the playtest is handled by the...

I know that we'll get rules for the higher levels in the future playtest packet pretty soon, but I just can't wait, so I'd like to speculate about later feats in the themes. With the mechanics that we got from the themes that had been given to us (slayer, guardian, lurker, healer, magic-user)...

How would you handle a ton of opponents (like more than 10) with advantage on attack rolls? Ten opponents with advantage means effectively rolling 20d20. 20 kobolds outnumbering the PCs could mean rolling 40d20s. Move them as one mob unit, then roll all d20s and then count the successes until...

The monsters in the D&D Next bestiary document have xp values. Has anyone calculated or playtested what amount of monsters of what xp values are 'appropriate' for a given 4 party adventuring group of a given level? Say 4 goblins (400 xp) are an 'appropriate' challenge for a party of 4...

In this playtest there is only 1 occurence where the slashing/bludgeoning/piercing damage mechanic comes into play and this is the skeleton monster. If this playtest package would have been a basic playset (covering level 1 to 3) I'd say that noting the type of weapon damage for EVERY weapon in...

Did we get our first look at the new Forgotten Realms... ....when Jon Schindehette posted this article? In this article we get this picture: and this picture: and this: What I'm seeing here are people from rasheman. Note the rashemi witch mask and their overall barbaric...