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Casting times spilling over into the following round sometimes serves as a bit of a brake on casters. If they go right from one spell...

Given that a common complaint I hear is that 5e combats tend to go on too long, this all sounds like a solution rather than a problem...

By looking at and comparing the actual numbers in the statblock, along with the various extra abilities. If I'm running an NPC as a foe...

This seems pretty nonsensical to me and leads to gameplay where the rules cease to be connected to the fiction, in which case I don't...

I don't expect PCs and NPCs to all have identical abilities, but I do expect PC classes to have some reflection in the game world. Like...

Depends on the table, obviously. For me they very much are. I'll die on that hill.

The best for the thief/assassin cover story is he would always say he would check for traps, I would roll and say "You don't find any."...

Speaking of "Lord" level- should we count the generally better class of followers attracted by the Fighter as an advantage? Clerics get...

You blew your own cover, then. Should have come in as a "light-armoured Fighter-Thief". I've pulled that one before. Also brought in...

I have used AD&D psionics in serious games, and I like psi in my fantasy, but I won't lift a finger to defend the PH appendix version...

The current game I'm in I talked about? The DM is in her late 20s. So they still exist and aren't just all old grogs.

I'm not entirely sure about "many people," as I would argue you would need very small values of "many" for that to be correct. But...

In fact the segmented round is a very good idea, except it needs to be six segments (to line up with the d6 initiative roll) rather than...

This is true. Which is why I always try to write something about it in the disclaimers. It's in this one- -As always, if you get five...

As I've mentioned in the past, I had an unhealthy love of the illusionist class. Probably because of the illustration in The Rogue's...