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Lanterns are both a better choice and a worse one. They give better light (particularly the directional bullseye lanterns) but are...

Never got the obsession with torches. Lanterns were always a better choice IMO...

Sure, fair enough. I'd rather rely on the room write-up to tell me what's where in the room, though, and only reference the map to...

Cool! I've been doing this for years. I also do it for ceiling heights. I put a line under the number to indicate differences in...

One still-famous character from our early days was played as a mute, the backstory being that his throat was so badly mangled and...

To me, the second and fourth options here are the same: the entertainment and comic potential IS the gift that makes it more...

That, and IME players can take the simplest class and make it hella complex just by how they play the character or what they do with it. :)

While easier to balance, I agree that wouldn't make for a better game. :) This isn't harsh enough. Simply starting to cast a spell...

That it goes against 5e rules in any version is irrelevant to me. My discussion of xp awarding is edition-agnostic. That said, IMO 5e...

To a certain point, that's very intentional: I want to encourage characters who take risks and discourage characters who sit back and...

Why? It's a risk-reward paradigm, where taking risk = gaining reward (in this case, xp) and no risk = no reward.

The slide started with 3e, not 3.5, with two huge developments 1 - spells lost their casting times and instead started and resolved...

Difference between online play and in-person, I guess. The maps I use as DM are in theory meant for only me to see; if the players want...

That too. By 3e, a wizard fan has received most of what they could want. In fact what I would say is for the most part, wizards has...

There's a difference between map design (how to make good maps) and dungeon design (how to make interesting dungeons to be mapped)...