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My gut feeling is that there are still more newcomers champing at the bit to play D&D than there are jaded people who fill in surveys.

Yeah, a Gloom Stalker is notorious for having a near broken ruling on its stealth. Try to see it as someone using stealth in darkness against a creature without Darkvision. You can still hear them and see them move in dim light. And about disarming traps, once you know there’s a trap...

If your fun is in making players suffer, then yeah, 5e is not it for you. Try to find the enjoyment in making your players feel awesome. Paralysis is already bad enough, giving auto-crits. Why not let the rogue enjoy their features? Don’t we want to reward players for that? As long as the...

I just hit act 2 on my second run, this time tactical. It’s about as easy as the first time, since I have gotten better at it and I already know the broken combos. I was surprised to find how much I missed in Act 1, and really enjoyed going through it again.

I would like to remind people that revealing new MtG cards is something WotC does with their community. They give people cards to reveal through social media to generate hype. The people who reveal the cards get additional boost to their engagements. This is a pretty win-win kind of...

If they wanted reasons they would just open ENWorld.

Always keep an eye on the clock. Take a break after each hour and a half of play. When the final half an hour of the session arrives, make sure you either slow down the game or speed it up so you can end on a cliffhanger or suitable end point. Don’t be afraid to call the session to an end early...

Art! Good art sparks my creativity and makes me want to use things for my next session.

Is CoC succesful? Obviously not on the scale of WotC, but I know little about the publisher. I think you are both right.

removal of multiclassing removal of damage resistance to nonmagical weapon damage no longer using ability scores, just the bonuses removal of counterspell heavy rebalancing of magic items according to their rarity different identification/attunement rules per magic item rarity

I think what you have realized is that you and your players have a different preference for TTRPG's, and since you like playing with them, you are catering to their preference. Now from what I am reading it looks like you are still changing the game to make it less fun for the players. More...

5 years without me knowing this. Thank you!

I hate it. It is so frustrating when you run a published adventure and you decide to trust the designers to do this right, and then as soon as the door opens, you realize that they can’t possibly have tested this. But yeah, why would large creatures ever live in a place that is just too small...

I am confused as to what you mean. Spell-like abilities have been there since the beginning. It’s just been added to some wizard NPC’s that really ruffled some feathers.

The next Monster Manual is to me very interesting in many ways. First off: monsters are easiest to design and use. Almost every fandom has had someone enthusiastically make stat blocks for a BBEG, or for 600+ Pokémon. There are also multitudes of 3rd party monster books. Kobold Press books are...

We already got erratas, and this definitely is more than patching a few things up. Then again… looking at the results so far I can understand why you say that. There are less changes than I expected, and then again more than I wanted. Let’s wait and see what the books are like.

At the risk of derailing this thread, what is so bad about their polytheism? I have never heard this was a problem before, and I am curious what I could improve about if for my own campaigns.

Wow! Interesting to see the numbers on this poll! I’m actually excited to get to use some new books, while still being able to use my old ones with it. Most important to me is the community around it.

I have had the pleasure of finishing 4 campaigns as a DM, and I have gotten a lot better at giving them a proper ending. The key is calling back to earlier moments in the campaign, and giving the players the final agency. For instance, my finale of the Theros campaign had the champions of the...

I am fully expecting BG3 to have done wonders, but can we say the OGL didn’t have a meaningful lasting impact? Or do we not have info for that?