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I am currently running an A5E campaign with modified rest rules and the martial characters, especially the barbarian (berserker), are terrifying. Only level 3 but I'm amazed at how good they are. The poor Druid and Cleric kinda suck.

I still have all of my cards but I stopped buying in the late '90s. The thing about having 12 multilands and a sol ring (no Mox) and the cards I mentioned is that they were cheap, cheap, cheap to cast. That was my mana and, I think, one City of Brass (from Chronicles).

I'm a nobody but I'll agree with Mearls. "The dungeon is the boss monster" is one of the most obviously true statements about D&D that I'm baffled I haven't read it earlier. Something occurred to me about D&D a few weeks ago. Your primary job as a player is to entertain everyone else at the...

Level Up also did this. As it's right there in the character creation section it's readily noticeable. It's probably my single favorite thing about the game simply because it effects every PC.

I'll second Call of Cthulu. It's the game you play when you want a bit of 1920s Earth history with your RPG.

I had a Red/White/Blue deck back in the day full of multi-lands and every counter for a specific type of card that you could cast - Stone Rain, Counterspell, Flash Counter, Swords to Plowshares, Disenchant. If you could cast it, I could destroy it. It was incredibly annoying to play against and...

New group of PCs to 5e some time in 2016. PCs encounter their first legendary creature at lvl 5. Monk uses his Stunning Strike thing and was instantly deflated when I said the monster used its Legendary Resistance to counter it. This after I spent a few minutes before the battle explaining a bit...

I have no love for the Forgotten Realms at all. But from looking at the Table of Contents I think they did a good job including a lot of useful information. Very impressive for both the setting book and the player book. I certainly miss the idea of the old-school gazetteers for the Forgotten...

An RPG I always wanted but I was 11 and poor in 1985. Great I can finally get it now.

The very first 5e PC I made was a variant human with Shield Master and then Sentinel. I think it was a Battle Master but, for simplicity, Champion is the choice. Both feats are easy and always do something useful in basically every party. And the build doesn't (or shouldn't) require a lot of...

When I don't know I like to quiz the player further on exactly what he's trying to find out and how. Even then, I had a PC want to specialize in Undead and I let him use Religion as the basis. He's a cleric. Wouldn't his religion have something about undead, at least insofar as it relates to...

In my current campaign where we've had about 12 sessions so far this is what they've actually used and how important it's been: TIER 1 Athletics Survival TIER 2 Animal Handling History Insight Investigation Nature Perception Persuasion Religion Stealth TIER 3 Acrobatics Arcana Deception...

Need to be? No. I've run a variant of one-week long rests and the major benefit is for narrative purposes. It's often irrelevant as the PCs might take 3-7 days to travel from point A to point B and then spend a few days in town. Maybe more. Some of the PCs in my current party (we're playing...

True at my table when I can get the players to describe a hit. As a DM I'll go out of my way to describe hits on PCs as not physical contact just to add flavor and difference to the game.

It's described as a parrying dagger but doesn't have the parrying property and we're not supposed to be confused by that. You can't parry with a main-gauche and you can't throw it, either, because you can't parry with or throw daggers. It's a simple weapon when you choose for it to be a dagger...