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Any 4e book I bought in hardcover after I had the character builder sub. It was a fun system but the number of splat books made character building for most classes super clunky just going full pen and paper. For 5e specific I go back and forth on the DMG. It was a good read and had a lot of...

I am going to go with moar game systems is moar better. I would not be surprised if some new 5e material ends up being inspired by this new Pathfinder edition.

I largely if not actively ignore CR. It seems like it is more balanced for monsters you run multiple of, hordes of humanoids like orcs and goblins and such. 'Boss' monsters (dragons and such) tend to be underwhelming unless you build in some environmental gimmic for the players to contend with...

I have played every edition, but I think 4e hit the sweet spot of in college with free time and nearby friends/roomates who played this edition. From there it goes 5e, 3/3.5e, AD&D, and 2nd edition in that order. Unless you count time spent playing computer rpgs like Balder's Gate and...

The Equestrian Lacquered Coconut Halves This coconut de-husked and lacquered to a smooth milk chocolately finish to avoid arguments about the sourcing of the coconut and arguments about the speed and carrying capacity of fowl. When repeatedly clacked together by an attuned user one of the users...

The goblin digestive track can process literally anything other than broccoli. No one knows why.

When properly fermented goblin dung is an effective treatment for the slimy doom. When improperly fermented it is an effective way to give someone food poisoning. In either case it makes a powerful stink bomb.

For starters, Min-Maxers are not better at D&D, they are better at spread sheets. A lot of my players try to min-max, I usually just shrug it off and find unique ways to challenge there characters and/or accentuate their 'Mins'. It sounds like the cleric after 30s wants to break the fourth wall...

This is an interesting idea but I think finesse weapons would need a separate table. Also, I feel like this might end up overvaluing strength as the melee stat from a game play stand point, as you add your STR mod to damage, and attack, AND it determines the size of the dice you can use. What...

Looking at some of the replies, and am thinking of adding additional rechargeable resource cost to casting spells. The first thing that comes to mind is having casters spend a HD or 2 or 3 to cast 4th level spells and up. Exhaustion levels could be another option in this vein. Maybe this would...

I had neglected to take the number of encounters per day into account. Working around that or using the spells recharge after X number of encounters approach might help. To be honest I can't think of any time I designed an individual adventure based on number of encounters; I usually just do...

Have not played that adventure but you gave me bad mind pictures with that post.

I hope this one is a bit more upbeat than the last few. They had their glimmers but he seemed to lose a lot of the fun and swashbuckling feel the older books had. I for one hope some goofy dwarves accompany Drizz't Time Bandits style.

That was what I was trying to get at with the original post and what irks the players in question. Once casters get beyond, say, 3rd level spells, they it is like the casters are scrapping the inside of the 4th wall. I am inclined to agree with them, but I have been gaming with some of these...

More than one of my players has 4e nostlagia, it could feel a little more balanced between casters and martial characters, but I have problems going back to that edition for a variety of reasons. We got to level 20 in that 4e once, but it is hard to compare 4e power level wise with any other...

I really like that idea Ralif, and it works in my campaign pretty well. We meet infrequently so I tend to do more episodic adventures, I am guessing in most of their higher level campaigns they rarely had such time constraints.

I can see having more strategic utility for types of weapons, you could also build in social utility as mentioned above. In some cultures swords were symbols of status or impiled membership in a standing army. On the other hand the mechanics of weapon utility can easily get cumbersome and/or...

The Goblin alphabet has over three billion characters in addition to inflection and accent marks. Most goblins only know how to read and speak between 4 and 6 characters.

I am not sure if anyone else has posted this in eight pages, but the OCD part of me likes to line my weapon dice up with my class features when playing a class if possible, regardless of optimization. So my rogues always use short bows and short swords to match up with sneak attack and my...

My first character was a halfling fighter/thief using AD&D rules. Up until 5e rogues/thieves were my go to class, but now I play fighters with the criminal and/or urchin background. I just feel like I can buckle swashes and hood robins better as a fighter nowadays.