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My last D&D game (set in the Primeval Thule campaign setting) had nine gods (known as The Nine Powers) each of which champions one of Shalom H. Schwartz's universal values. Mithra, God of the Sun, Lord of the Sky, King of the Gods (Security) Kishar, Goddess of Grain, Mother of Rivers, Queen of...

Yes, this is a must-have feature. All screens should do this. I have inserts for the player-facing side with artwork and hints for D&D, Apocalypse World, and Conan 2d20.

Very seldom. I played a Fighter/Thief multiclass in 1E and I was never more than one level behind. When the single-class characters were level 8, my character would be 7/7, 8/7, or 8/8. Never 6/7 or 6/6. Of course, the single-class characters varied as well. The XP for a level 8 cleric put a...

Beware, though, the hinges between the sections are very weak. I've had two screens that seperated. One turned from a four-pane screen into two two-pane screens. The other turned into one three-pane screen and a single pane. You can repair them with something like duct tape but that looks ugly...

I'd go with three stats (though I'd prefer 6). Physical, covering strength, agility, health. Mental, covering memory, study, knowledge, sneakiness, retention. Social, covering charisma, leadership, centredness, self-confidence. There would be two types of spellcasters. Learned casters get...

I don't play evil characters or put up with evil companions, so for me it was: BG1 (EE): Imoen, Branwyn, Minsc, Dynaheir, Kivan. Sometimes Glint, sometimes Neera, sometimes Corwin. BG2 (EE): Imoen (d/c to Wizard), Minsc, Anomen (d/c to Cleric), Neera, plus one of Keldorn, Mazzy, or Sarevok (in...

Agreed. PDF is a terrible format for reading on a device because it is a represenation of a printed page, in other words, fixed. I am currently dealing with a vendor whose documents are all A3 landscape 2 column pdfs. Reading those on a computer screen sucks. You have to keep scrolling down...

Environment A fight with goblins in a cave is OK. A fight with goblins in a cave crisscrossed with unjumpable chasms is harder. A fight with goblins in a dave crisscrossed with unjumpable chasms belching vision-blocking smoke is harder still, especially if the smoke moves from round to round...

For me, rolling 1d4 for each missile is as strange as rolling 8d6 for every target in the fireball. :) Essentially, magic missile is an area of effect spell that can affect some targets more than once. This means that some feature (like alchemical savant) make magic missile a lot more...

I have a player who continually gets on the map with a ruler, measuring mm and comparing it to the scale. …and then complaining when I say "the journey takes four days" but he thinks it should have taken 2½ days at the party's travel pace. He doesn't get that (1) distance on a map doesn't equal...

Keep the initiative running - don't stop and reroll. If the players have their characters just look at the door, not opening it, have the characters hear muffled voices, moving furniture, sounds of running, and so on. Just because the characters stand in the passage doing nothing does not mean...

Extinguish the candle, apprentice, so that we may See. In my experience, the most misapplied rule is "disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks in dim light". If I had a dollar for every time a player has asked "why am I at disadvantage, I have darkvision?" I'd be able to afford a steak dinner.

I'd vote for Hieroneous, Boccob and Iuz.

For players - "Learn the rules." From a recent game where we are over 20 sessions in but one player still doesn't know how to make an attack roll.

That's an interesting assumption. 8 rounds of combat total between short rests? I've seen games with 8 combats between rests. That's also assuming you never give any party members bardic inspiration. How do they feel about that?

I'm not sure I'd use "clear goal" and "Curse of Strahd" in the same sentence. The game I played in was just characters wandering around at random, being beaten up outside towns and ripped off by merchants in towns. The closest we got to a clear goal was helping with the revolution in one of the...

I'm the other way around. I wish I could ban digital devices at the table. It seems that three quarters of every turn is scrolling on the smartphone or tablet. I also look around the tables I play at and always see at least one screen showing a game or social media site. No wonder turns take so...

You are allowed to use more than one sheet of paper. Seriously, use more. Use lots. Use them to write down what your talents actually do, instead of asking "What does brutal criticals do" every. single. -ing. session. Use counters or beads or stones to track resources (rages, sorcery points...

My problem with BG3 is that I am the only person in a game who hasn't played it. The other players keep saying memes and stories and laughing, and I don't get the joke.

I implemented the "Drink a potion as a bonus action or action" rule simply to encourage players to use more potions. My first 5E game ended with the characters hoarding massive numbers of potions. The players said that it it was a choice between using your Action to attack or cast a spell or...