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As someone who was present for the original CaW vs CaS thread, I think some historical context has been lost. It was originally part of...

Good point. I think that the original CaS/CaW thread was largely influenced by the perception of D&D as a wargame (fighting simulator...

I let a Kensei monk in my current game have Weapon Mastery - it seems to work fine. She took Nick, of course. (I let the Battle Smith...

The Dragonarmy Corps of Engineers was able to find some female draconians and were raising them from childhood. They tried not to think...

I don't imagine we will see any major deviations of the core 5e kernel. We may seen redone classes and species, variations on the spell...

My takeaway here is that whoever Grok is, he shouldn't be trusted with making magic items.

Depends on how long you want the campaign to go on. Also, whether the players know the limit or not.

I'm OK with Cthulhu being killable - they do kill him in the first story - but not really. Just "defeatable". He goes back to sleep.

What if you offered the players a boon for submitting a suggestion that they're willing to tolerate? Like, an archer PC gets a bonus...

One of my players has a warlock whose patron is basically the Phantom of the Opera. Her eldritch blasts - and chromatic orbs - look like...

Nobody tell him - let him enjoy his blissful innocence. ;)

Sometimes people react before they really know what's going on and/or recover from surprise almost instantly. When I was in junior high...

I'd forgotten about that. I don't think my players ever used it.

I was just thinking about this. You could also allow a character to counter a spell with a thematically-appropriate anti-spell - like...

I wanted to play a warlock in a really low-level game whose Blade Pact was an evil butterknife. When play starts they've just managed to...