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But by the same token... if the DM is using story milestones rather than XP... players still get a "progress bar" of sorts because they...

The bookkeeping of xp is about as fun as tracking ammo, water skins, and food supplies of old school D&D. Milestone and never looked back.

Yes. As does earth tremor to kill all low level creatures within thousands of feet from a party of 1st level characters. We're not just...

It's not some temp HP, it's gaining temp HP = to the creature it changes into. So each goblin would get 76 temp HP. Spells like this...

Not to overgeneralize, but I've seen that older gamers (like us) are used to houseruling and ignoring rules because AD&D was such a...

Absolutely not. Testing and Project management is my actual day job. I also happen to be a game designer. There are generally two types...

Ever? Dozens, over a hundred maybe. At this very moment? Two. There’s only so many days in the week!

They intentionally did add dud feats, for the same reason Magic: The Gathering adds inferior cards to a set, part of the game is...

I didn't say it was hard. I said that it was designed for people who weren't pushing the game in any sort of optimization seriously...

Finally! WotC is doing something about the relatively anemic power level of PCs!

Let's look at the first official campaign, don't even need to look further. At the very start. A blue dragon attacks Greenrest. A...

You are right. A bespoke "10th level spell" system (where everything is a multi-caster ritual that requires rare material components and...

I would have preferred if the system let the spellcasters cast spells they couldn't otherwise do, possibly including epic spells (which...

Upon first reading, I had really liked Circle Casting - probably the first time I've really liked a mechanical "subsystem" of 5e. Every...

Warrior of Intoxication Monk (formerly Way of the Drunken Master)… man, poetry is dead! Who named it that?