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I found out last evening that Rob had passed, and had a good cry about it. He was a family man, a good person, and friend. Rob was one...

I am deeply saddened by this news. I always enjoyed reading his reviews. Deepest sympathies to his family and friends.

Wow. Rest in Peace. I read alot of his work on this site and others. He will be missed.

Better idea: throw out the whole notion of CR. There's just too many variables that the designers can't account for to allow any such...

I feel like pretty much every "fix" 5E "needs" is because of this. (I put that stuff in quotes because although it is how I feel, not...

I would love to see WotC put out a 300 page book that contained all the major playstyles in it. They could devote 10-20 pages to each...

You may have already seen this, you probably have, since I'm always late to things, but there is a pretty neat free 5e product called...

I change the system to make it function the way I want it to. And again, a full rewrite isn't necessary if you're using a decent base.

I'm kinda between you guys. I think 5e monsters are weaksauce, but the sort of stuff @Zardnaar talks about still sounds rather...

When power gamers and optimizers write posts like that, many brain shuts off. We are very very different kinds of gamers. That’s fine...

Again, I think your view about what is power gaming and what is casual is skewed, or mine is in the other direction, to the point that...

As a modern player let me tell you right away: NO

I'll bite: How do you do 150 damage in one attack with a BG3 Fighter?

Pretty much true, and IMO the game was better for it. This kind of balance concern interests me not at all. TSR's method of using its...

Same here but I'd call it more of a "bored with bland content that WotC publishes" versus "exhausted by overwhelming amount content WotC...