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5E's poor handling of mounts, pets, familiars and the like grates on me. They've become handicaps that have to be poke-balled to work...

Darkness is a choice. A -5 to Passive Perception is a significant penalty, especially in an area where there are traps or monsters...

I feel you! I really do. If I ever get the chance to run Curse of Strahd again, I intend to either ban all races with darkvision or make...

And the Joys of At Least Occasional "Simulationism" There's an approach to rule-making that shows up in a few places in D&D 5e (and...

It's greater than the scope of this thread, but ever since 3e, there's been this sort of class struggle with regards to the agency of...

Ok so, let's say that, I don't know, 75% of DM's are good DM's who don't need to share authority because they're so good that their...

Well, when monsters can bring you from high hit points to 0 in a single turn, it's kind of necessary, or you quickly have a TPK. AC...

I was about to mention my pick for best-designed class, but then I remembered that just mentioning it's name leads to edition wars. So...

The 4e fighter had a support problem; there was too much content for it. So you could pick content that leaned striker, and end up a...

Can't imagine how it can be too awesome. The fighter needs to be able to shrug off magic. Rogue should have gotten slippery mind earlier.

Yeah as opposed to something that most of the time was useless. If you're bad at a saving throw, Indomitable won't help you. And it...

Wait why? Indomitable is awesome now.

How about the times you keep asserting that every other player is going to do that? That's why I keep going there. Because you keep...

Hard to say, but probably Humanity outbreeds everything else. Sort of like Rabbits. Doesn't matter how many you kill, they always come...