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We have gone over adjusted skill lists for 5E since 5E first got released. I change my skill list every time I run a new campaign when there are skill effects that I wish to highlight. Also, because I use the 'Alternative Ability Score' variant, that changes what skills I need to have and use...

I'd like to run Curse of Strahd again. I ran it for two groups simultaneously soon after it came out, and now that I've seen how they both went I have new ideas of what I would do differently. The only issue is that I'd want a group of entirely new players for it to keep things fresh and I ran...

When the Taskmaster gives you a task... you have to do it.

Taking the use of the word "excited" in the thread title at its word... my vote was 'None'. Reason being that I do not get excited about gaming products. Are there ones on the list I might pick up? Sure. Most likely the Eberron book, and the FR books I will glance through and see if I want...

Easiest reason why cities and nations would allow the existence of magic markets? Sales tax. Same reason why any government allows the proliferation of the sale of standard items to the general populace. Every sale brings cash into them. So of course stores would exist for expensive items...

For me the point of the Invisibility spell is that it grants the person being "heavily obscured" no matter where the person is standing. If the person is out in the open but invisible it's the equivalent to the person having found cover to be behind. It just gives the hider more opportunity to...

I believe it is "Using someone else's rules even if you don't like them, rather than just using your own." :D

I have a basic system I use. You want to hide from someone? Get out of view of the person you are hiding from (mechanically-speaking get behind 3/4 or total cover, or be heavily obscured relative to that person), and then use an Action (or Bonus action for a Rogue) to make a Dexterity...

Yeah. Choose any of the other seventy-six "fixing stealth" threads that have been made since 5E's release back in 2014. ;)

Balance all six abilities? Yes. You just need to: Have an equal number of skills under each ability Have an equal number of attacks that challenge the saving throw of each of the six abilities Have an equal number of classes that each use one of the six abilities for their attack rolls Have...

If a publisher thought that a product of theirs that they made in the decade of 5E14 was no longer generating the type of revenue they thought they might still get out of it... assuming cost was not going to be onerous I don't see any reason why the publisher wouldn't produce an updated second...

I don't trust a single person's opinion here on EN World that they know how to improve Dungeons & Dragons. :) They can obviously improve THEIR Dungeons & Dragons... but D&D in general? Not a chance.

I refuse to believe you actually think TSR and WotC have been producing new editions of the game for the last 50 years just to try and "fix things" and "get things right". No one is that ridiculous so as to believe that's why they make new editions. I take it on faith that you are just being...

Good thing you didn't buy the books then. The rest of us who have been adjusting encounters to fit our players and tables these entire 50 years are using the new books fine.

So what? Those who didn't want the new books didn't buy them... those that were fine with the $150 did. I don't know why you have such an issue with people who are perfectly fine spending $150 on D&D material doing so. I mean, are you just mad that you didn't get to spend $150 yourself...