Recent content by Shiroiken

The decision to remove the half-elf and half-orc was a stupid ass decision, so I've elected to ignore it. Half-orcs use the orc species and half-elves use the elf species... at least until a good version of them is made for 5E24.

And some can use hats.

Reputation as a DM makes a difference too. I've got a reputation as a "killer DM" because I let the chips fall where they may, obliterating careless (and sometimes simply unlucky) PCs. This causes my players to be cautious; always ready to run if things start to look bad. This works well for me...

IME "I always wanted to do that" and "that's interesting" are typically just polite ways of saying they don't care. If they actually wanted to, they'd ask if they could join (or at least watch). As for people laughing... I'm a geek, so I'm used to it. TTRPGs, boardgames, and vintage video...

There's tons of really good, if niche, TTRPGs out there. While I love 5E, and feel it's the best version of D&D, I still don't think it's the best overall. However, I'm playing a weekly 5E game and haven't played any of those other games in years. D&D is a monolith, and no matter how well...

Something that was suggested to me that I thought was crazy, was to organize it by creature type. While it seems nuts, I feel like it would actually work really well. You could break it up by chapter, with an introduction going into the description of each type. It would help the OP's situation...

The only time I was on the D&D forums was during the D&D Next Playtest. I don't know if that was Gleemax or not, but it was really toxic during the playtest. Everyone got super divided on different things (damage on a miss and martial healing being the biggest), and if you disagreed with...

Are they as bad as the old WotC forums?

I've allowed PCs to carry each other, both with and without flight as part of the equation. Earlier editions used to limit how much a creature could carry and still fly, but 5E doesn't have anything like that. Because I like to have flying monsters periodically grapple and try to fly off with...

The removal of PAM's reactive strike and Sentinel's halt combo was almost certainly intentional, and a good thing IMO. The change to the disengage action is interesting and I wonder if it was intentionally changed to not work with reach weapons. Personally, I could see changing the wording to...

As someone about to DM a campaign with an illusionist PC, I've been thinking a lot about how to manage illusions. My general view has always been that in a world of magic, most creatures aren't going to assume anything is an illusion without cause. This makes illusions strong, since this...

I technically didn't start with D&D... because my brother wouldn't let me play. So I made up my own game based on what I'd remembered from the 1E PHB. It didn't have the rules of how to play in it, so the game wasn't very good. My friends didn't mind, and we had fun for a few weeks until my...

RAI becomes tricky, because even the official rules guru for 2014 was wrong about how Passive Perception worked. He made the mistake of carrying over the way it worked in 4E, when the rules were written completely differently. One could argue that as the rules guru his interpretation was correct...

Passive Scores are used when you don't want to reveal information by calling for a check. You still have to take the Search Action to use Perception, per the PHB. I've deiced to edit to go into more detail and show my work. In the PHB, under actions, it talks about doing anything outside of...

Cool. As someone who runs old adventure's, I love this idea. Quick clarification: the characters that don't use the Search Action and succeed on the check would be surprised and have disadvantage on initiative. If no one succeeds at this, then the frogs have advantage as well (per the...