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I agree it's more like a concentration spell requires some small amount of your attention, nothing more. It seems like the requirement is that you just need to be conscious and can only have one concentration spell up at a time (the former for verisimilitude and perhaps a result of using the...

Thanks, I"m checking it out now. Linking to it here for others.

Bought and downloaded the pdf for the boxed set from dndclassics. I was talking with my son the other week about running a campaign that was a cross between D&D and the video game Civilization, and he was interested. Of course Birthright is a perfect fit to build that and Cerilia is a great...

I'm a fan of Birthright, sadly I no longer have the books. One of those campaign settings I always wanted to run but never had players for. I like the human subrace idea, and all the racial stuff really.

Not sure what was wrong with the term "Stunned" from 4e.

Nice report, thanks. Love it when the players and the game itself surprises me. Especially when they solve problems that I didn't think they could solve. Many times it takes a few heads together to work through these things and as only one person I can't see the solution before they do.

I have to agree with Jadrax, and feel that your points seem irrelevant to anyone who feels that an animal companion in 5e should be more durable. To someone interested in a viable animal companion in 5e it doesn't matter what was in earlier editions. What matters is how it works within 5e. If...

I touched on this, but you really did a good job of explaining why durability is important from the player's point of view, and you're right about AoE being a problem. Definitely something I'm fixing with house rules...just too bad I have to. Probably I'll give them improved evasion on top of...

Now I have the urge to roll up an awakened bear as an assassin and use it against my players.

I think we're on the same page there. Mostly what I meant was short bits of fluff, nothing long; I just want it to be an interesting read and not too dry. Some sidebars or flavor text here and there would be enough.

One thing that appealed to me about 5e was the promise of a modular system. What I'm hoping for is some of that modularity, particularly in the form of optional tactical rules to add some 4e elements to the game. Variant rules are fine too, but I don't want it all to be Unearthed Arcana stuff...

I agree with you and others, but the term isn't the problem. Using the term RAW in a D&D rules forum makes sense to clarify what you're talking about. The problem is when people don't modify the rules or interpret the rules to meet the needs of their table. But merely talking about RAW sort...

Though I'm not sure on the math, I very much like this approach if the goal is to increase power outright. Doing it in a way that makes the ranger and companion feel like they are being rewarded for teamwork appeals to me more than just effectively increasing the number of attacks; the latter...

Hiding and stealth is probably the one thing that comes to mind as a commonly misunderstood area; the rules aren't bad, but they're spread throughout the book making the learning curve harder than it should be. MerricB has some good posts on his blog clarifying it, and plenty of other good...

I can read that both ways...for instance you could interpret his comment as that the mounts should be treated more like the animal companions, so that they cannot act independently while being ridden, just as a ranger's animal companion cannot act independently while the ranger is present and...

I'd like to see four things with regard to psionics: 1. An open playtest, just like for 5e. 2. A free PDF of Basic psionic rules before Dark Sun comes out; support for wild talents, a psionic class, and psionic monsters. 3. A release of a comprehensive Psionics Player's Handbook, preferably...

Not all players want to roll, even if others are. Some love to. I let them roll once and then if they don't like their rolls, use the array. Gives them all a chance to roll 18's but keeps things relatively balanced.

Except that a henchman typically gets 1/2 share of XP, per earlier edition rules, not something you'd expect of a class feature. I don't think giving the animal companion their own actions is the solution; the martial powers version of the Beast master in 4e worked fine using the same mechanic...

The whole "buy a mastiff and train it to fight" thing is an interesting argument. Forget that the beast master is in the game at all for a minute. Would you let a player buy a mastiff and train it to fight? Maybe; I could see it if it fit their character concept and they wanted to spend the...

It doesn't say that it does so I'd say no. It should say specifically that it inflicts the poisonous condition and for how long, like the description of the pseudodragon's sting. I expect we will see more poisons in the DMG that do inflict the poisoned condition, but it's possible that it's...