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Taking this with "the feels", I had to say Monk. I don't think that'd be my long term preference, but that was the class that caught my eye the first time I flipped through the 5E PHB and I haven't had an opportunity to play one, yet. I usually GM and the one chance I had to actually play in a...

The release of DnD Beyond reminded me that the official way of filling out the character sheet is to put the modifier in the big box and the score in the little box. This is like fingernails on a chalkboard, to me. It's probably just my age showing, but I wanted to throw up a quick poll to...

Because the Rogue is a skill-monkey class that has moments of greatness in combat. The Fighter should have a pretty level (but high) damage output. The Rogue should be lower, with periodic spikes that freak the Fighter out. Every one of those spikes should be accompanied by stealth, a trick...

I'm seeing my first 5E Paladin in play, right now. She's 5th level and no objections, so far. I'd like to see a bit more distance between the War Cleric and the Paladin, but I think that's probably more of an issue with the Cleric (IMO) than the Paladin. Put another way, if Cleric was fixed to...

Meanwhile, I'd consider any Rogue build that matched Fighter damage output with any sort of reliability to be a non-starter.

Overall, I like the Rogue in 5E. I have a vague feeling that it could benefit from some tweaks, but I don't have any specific issues. As close as I get to specific qualms is that the Rogue has become too good of a combat character. It's perfectly reasonable to choose Rogue if you want to be...

I've always loved the Ranger archetype, but was very dissatisfied with the 2E and 3E implementations, especially when TWF was baked in. The PHB Ranger is a bit squishy, requiring some tweaks. The UA Ranger is pretty darn good. I'm not opposed to one more round of refinements, but I'd be OK if...

This isn't online gaming. Yes, they've shown some Skype type of thing, presumably the Twitch client. I wouldn't know, for sure, because I have no interest in doing online gaming, either, even if real-time with video chat. I used the free info in the Compendium during play at the table and it...

I agree with all this. It comes down to the stats on the paper to determine success/failure (mostly). If someone really wows me, I'll probably give them advantage on the roll or some minor bonus. That's more around the player engagement, though. I'm much more inclined to hand out bonuses for a...

Agreed. I can't think of any way a pillow case gives more than a DC 15 for search. It's probably a 10, actually. The only thing I need to know, as GM, is whether the PCs are actually touching the bed and exposing themselves to any (theoretic) traps as well as giving an opportunity to find things...

That's a totally valid way to play it. As I indicated, it was pretty much the norm for AD&D. I was really making two points: 1) If the folks at the table are making rolls for something, and find themselves with a mismatch between what the players narrated and what the dice say, it's more than...

No worries. That was all done with a bit of a wink. I was genuinely not sure whether you'd seen my posts or just the vote. Wasn't actually concerned about breaking anything.

This. Even in the case of the pillowcase, I'd probably go for a roll to see just how well it worked. My 4 year old nephew might stuff it in there on top of the pillow with a nice, gem-shaped outline showing. I know enough to stuff it under the actual pillow. An accomplished Rogue might know a...

Sacrosanct, I started looking at these threads late, so my votes lagged. I added a late "burn it down" to the Barbarian and commented in that thread. I also changed my vote in Cleric (to "major tweaks") after I realized I could. I actually went looking for the option after my rant. I may have...

I like the Monk. It was the first class I wanted to play, after reading the PHB. Unfortunately, I pretty much exclusively DM and the only time I've been on the other side of the screen, I was a late add and the party already had a Monk. So, I played a Lore Bard (would have preferred Valor, but...

I think some of my pain is a hold-over from 3E. I have one player who learned with 3E and is very much in the camp of "I should have X magic items by Y level" and really didn't care for the fact that I didn't give access to a magic Walmart. Another player slides easily into rules-lawyer mode and...

There's a lot of truth to this. It only goes so far, though. I have my own goals in play. If the game/system doesn't support those goals, then it's a poor match and I'll walk away. If one edition of a game handles those goals well, I think it's totally acceptable to expect another edition of...

Truth. Some of us just like to tinker. If I ever found a "perfect" system, I don't think I'd be able to play it. It'd be imperfect in its perfection. I must house rule.

I'm overall pretty happy with 5E. I have some issues with a couple of the earlier classes, alphabetically, but those aren't game killers. Where I've really been chaffing is that I'm feeling somewhat constrained by the system, creatively. I'm very much an old-school, GM is God, GM-fiat makes the...

I would totally get behind another release of Aria. I was pretty heavily involved in the community, way back when, and some of us were working on a 2nd edition (semi-approved) to try to fix the playability issues. Sadly, the group was listserv based (yeah, it was a while ago) and didn't...