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I think I agree that it is open to interpretation how not retaining your mental statistics applies to tasks, and what can be remembered or retained etc. And I'm ok with the druid's wildshape working differently from polymorph. My only quibble is that the wizard is going to always have an...

It doesn't address that directly, but since you keep the same alignment, I'd say no. What annoys me about it is that the transmuter who polymorphs into a cat to spy on his arch nemesis could be ruled as not being smart enough to remember why he did so in the first place or understand the...

Never. My highest was a 12th level fighter in a 2e game; I remember captaining a Spelljammer and having crazy luck with the dice. As a DM, I don't think I've had a D&D campaign go past 9th level. Combat slowing down in 3e and 4e probably had something to do with it, but really the problem was...

Thanks, couldn't for the life of me remember. I think it's a good method, not for me, but I've had some campaign ideas that it's perfect for.

Sure seems like that is the primary intention. But I could see some circumstances when you could use it on yourself. And the wizard of the school of transmutation gets it solely to cast on himself. And I find it annoying that he doesn't maintain his mental stats when doing so. I suppose a...

There are also people who make 10th level (or other levels) the maximum for everyone, and give you feats as progression after that. (I forget the name of this but someone can perhaps remind me). The idea is to keep the campaign at the sweet spot, and makes a lot of sense for folks that don't...

But it wasn't actually WotC. Kobold Press wrote Horde of the Dragon Queen. My theory is that Kobold Press didn't have the finalized write up on the dragonborn race when writing HotDQ and decided instead of using evil dragonborn and possibly causing confusion by conflicting with the PHB, to...

So the dragonborn/draconian thread and some other posts got me to thinking about Tyranny of Dragons and Dragonlance. I've decided to add draconians to my Tyranny of Dragons campaign instead of half-dragons. I feel they are far more interesting, and the entire plotline of stealing the good...

Typically they have "death throes": abilities that trigger when they die. Perfect for an evil race of monsters, not so good for player characters. Raunalyn has converted some draconians to 5e here.

I'm not going to have very many house rules for 5e, but Potent Cantrip annoys me because it's obvious that the last minute removal of damage on a miss impacted the ability in ways there were unintended. I don't think evokers should prefer to use non-evocation cantrips, and I don't feel that...

Yes, I could also flip through the many FR books on my shelf. I don't want to because I'd like something more up to date and geared toward creating a campaign in 5e. I know that I don't need to have an updated map of the realms, an explanation of the Sundering, notes on the current pantheon...

Fantastic. I love this approach so much. Thanks for the reassurance. I do believe that FR fans would be well served by a PDF for the Forgotten Realms to bridge the gap between the Core books and the eventual FRCS release, and to bring owners of 4e and earlier FR material up to date on the...

I'm doing fantastic actually. I was going through a rough period there where my weight was out of control, and like the rest of my family I contracted type 2 diabetes, but now I'm super fit and controlling my blood sugar with diet and exercise, no medications. The last two years I've been...

BSF I'm flattered that you enjoyed them. I very much enjoyed writing them, but my day job and family responsibilities got to be too much, and so I had to stop writing. If I get into writing again, it will be only after I'm sure I can commit the time to do it they way it needs to be done...

You enter a 10ft by 10ft room. There is an orc with a pie chart. What do you do?

He learned how to use one weird trick?

No. It's worded as "When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack..."

I think the potential for harm depends on how factions are presented and the maturity of the players. In Tyranny of Dragons, it's clear that the idea is that factions who normally oppose each other (Zhentarim and Harpers for instance) are forced to work together against the Cult of the Dragon...

I was happy to see Tempest because I have a homebrew that I may run based on Norse and Egyptian mythology. Of course I need Death for all the Anubis clerics, so yeah, um darn.