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Yeah, I wouldn't use 5E to run even a lightly magical version of a medieval European city. It's much more suited to places like Sigil...

You can play it that way and many do but you can also give narrative weight to all of these actions. Think Hong Kong martial arts movies...

They were there - "I cast Magic Missile" was certainly one of them. So was "I swing my sword" There's only no narrative component if...

1. As a player it allows me to play the character I envision in my mind and inspires me with new ideas for characters. 2. As a DM it...

Many players in my group are about your age and go back to AD&D in their play experience. They really lit up when we first tried 5E...

In my "What I would do differently" doc. from the last 5e campaign I ran (like two years ago), I have "players must narrate bonus...

Other people have given some good feedback and I have some good news to add. You can try the game without spending a dime including...

I do not think it is that it is like video games, and I should add that I have been playing since the eighties. 5e is the big damn hero...

I'll also reinforce this, albeit merely with a single anecdotal data point, that I don't play videogames (like, at all) and I find 5E to...

It depends. 5E isnt complicated by modern D&D standards. It is complicated by pre 3E standards. Mostly it depends on what youre...

Another whose been playing since forever (Holmes Basic was my first) who really enjoys 5E. It feels like it has the right level of...

That's interesting. I used that analogy because--in my observation--you just press a button (or some combination of buttons) in a modern...

This is all really helpful, friends. Thank you for helping me think it through.

I've found Maps on Beyond much easier than Roll20 which I had been using previously. It's a simple yet very useful VTT. As I said in a...

Deep thoughts from Medford. Well said, Umbran.