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why bother with torches and lanterns when you can just set your enemies on fire to provide the light?

When it comes to XP, I've never had to dangle any additional carrots in front of the noses of players. They're playing a game after all...

Just because there is not a single number does not mean that people don't recognize imbalance. It's the same with the experiment they...

They ask a ton of questions related to D&D to verify that you know the game.

I use either mob rules or existing lower level monsters and give them a bonus to and/or advantage their attack mod and a bit of extra...

Mob rules!

Not in any games I've been running or playing with, for at least 2 decades by now. Everyone gets the same XP, always. Also, if a...

I don't really care about Putzy the Poor one time got lucky and rolled better than Grognard the Great. The only reason Putzy's story...

I have done things up where color matters because darkvision only gives you black and white but it's been a long time. I actually...

I like how Dolmenwood provisions "dark vision" for the like two cases to get it, explicitly calling it "Moon Sight" where those...

It's pretty wild how this thread has gone from "Are the differences between 2 distinct 27 point buy arrays meaningful for balance" to...

The bonuses you mention like advantage/disadvantage, lucky and so on. For an individual swing it may not matter, it significantly...

But all those extra bonuses should be applied evenly and, when it comes to the opportunity to take feats especially, that's not always...

It depends on the difference. Are we talking a +2 vs a +3 or a +2 to a +5? Especially when it's more than 1 or even worse for those...