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Because I always found 5E's Perception skill too overused in the beginning, I made a very switch very early on in all my campaigns that...

Every published adventure I’ve read uses perception to notice traps. In my opinion, that makes perception too much of a catch-all...

Note that this is true in 2014 as well, and there is an example of play in the DMG of just that: " Foiling traps can be a little more...

I go even further than others with the assumed value of coins. I treat 1 copper piece as the conceptual equivalent of $1 USD. That means...

IIRC the reason in some TTRPGs (maybe Torchbearer?) is that.. there's something "wrong" with them, mentally- they're not the typical...

Mostly 3 for me. Some of the PCs are just sitting on their accumulating cash, while I'm constantly feeling low from luxury cosmetic...

You can sometimes be surprised with throwing it a little bit of "cosmetics" into the game for the PCs to spend their money, especially...

I say turn it from a punishment into a reward. When a character rolls a 1 on a Weapon Attack or Spell Attack, they can choose to break...

This is the second in a series of articles attempting to answer the question: How much D&D stuff is there anyway? In the previous...

@tomedunn , I could use some help with some of your calculations. After further analysis, I believe your method of calculating a...

I love Tiamat. There's another character that has gotten smacked around by editions like crazy.

I was actually considering doing something like that! Maybe say that the Zariel in Bel's backstory was "Zeryel" or something instead...

Tiamat rules the 1st Hell! It says so right there in my MM, and nothing WotC says will ever convince me otherwise!

Thanks all! Fun ideas! After thinking it all through and trying to grasp exactly what I did and didn't want, this is what I came up...

After 1e they decided to ditch Tiamat as the ruler of Avernus, and I kind of get the impression it was more of a retcon than a...