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How excited are you for the new 2024 edition d&d? *This is not like that other poll that asks if you will buy. This is about excitement. You might buy and not be very excited or be very excited but not buy.

Simple question. What are the best VTT’s for running 4e D&D?

We’ve started looking at this game. System seems really interesting and flexible. I think I’ve got a decent grasp on the basics now but will be having some questions about certain rules and interactions. Also just some general advice. Anyone else have general thoughts on the game - I’ll get...

I’ve started playing chess again. Wondering if there were any other chess players lurking here.

I'm starting up a new Solasta campaign and having some decision paralysis around my 4th PC bring. For those that don't know Solasta is a CRPG that fairly faithfully follows the 5e D&D ruleset. It has all the 5e classes except artificer. However, it has mostly custom subclasses. Races are SRD...

I believe they offer a monthly subscription for all D&D One / 5e content. This will be low 5-10 dollars and works out monetarily because they are getting every member of the group to pay instead of just the DM buying the new books. Approximately 1 60 dollar book per year for a group of 5 vs...

I'm curious if there are any perceptions about WOTC promising certain things in regards to One D&D and then back tracking. Whether they cite a design philosophy or justification for a particular change only to change something else in such a way that flys in the face of that design...

It seems to me most all rpg theory discussions eventually start talking about authority over the fiction, who has it and what process or rules provide that authority. However, I would suggest that just as importantly as understanding fictional authority is understanding what restrictions are...

Are you buying less 5e material?

What is overkill? It's damage you could have dealt had the enemy had more hp than it did. That said, there's also a similar phenomenon with multiattackers. If you kill the final enemy of an encounter before your final attack there was damage left on the table that you otherwise could have...

Simply cap spells known to 4th level or less (maybe 5th level or less). Casters can keep the slots. Thoughts? Possibly create magical items that allow casters access to higher level spells for atunement and sufficient class level.

I know very little about anyone here. This is an introduction thread for us to learn more about each other. Hopefully it's fun and entertaining while also helping us remember that we are all people behind our Avatars. I'm from rural Virginia (U.S. for our international friends). My dad was...

Edition change is right around the corner. Will you buy 5.5e/6e PHB?

Hopefully a simple question.

Today I'm thinking about a Party HP system where instead of tracking individual hp for characters instead hp moves up to the party level and maybe at 1/4, 1/2, 3/4's hp the next player hit can be downed. Have any games used a similar system? What would be your thoughts on such a system?

Suppose a GM has created an encounter based on what's in his notes. It quickly becomes apparent that the GM misjudged the encounter difficulty. The GM then modifies the encounter (buffing enemies/bringing in reinforcements/etc) to compensate for his misjudgment of the difficulty. After making...

I’m starting to DM more again for our group and thinking about buying the roll20 versions of a few different books so I can get easy access to their monsters. What are the top 3 monster products (5e) for roll 20 you all would recommend?

D&D Combat is fictionless. But Frogreaver, "What does that even mean?" It means that D&D combat is incapable of representing combat fiction the way we want to imagine it. The turn structure gets in the way. Instead of having the goblin and fighter charge each other and meet in the middle...

I'm curious if anyone has played a warlock that's focused on the Tasha's summoning spells. Can you describe your character, his build, personality, effectiveness. Etc? White room it seems the build would be pretty effective. Summon Fey + EB Spam seems like a pretty good combo most of the...

A fairly typical way of playing 5e is to never/rarely have enemies target downed and dying PC's. There's a good reason for this style becoming common - something feels unnatural about having enemies engage in what everyone knows is currently a non-threat when other PC's are there trying to kick...