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"Grim's the name, if you need to know..." says the half-orc with a condescending smirk and a hint of a nod. "As for moving together until we know anything useful, that sounds reasonable to me. Now the question is, where to?"

"What a lovely welcome party for four guests summoned among such amenities and decor, and yet no host of sort around to be seen..." Grim moves towards the heavy wooden door to take a closer look, a bit annoyed by the dust and stench in the air she pulls up her neck scarf a little over her mouth...

It's very difficult to know, not only different players have different preferences, but also the same player might have a difference preference depending on the mood of the day... a really good DM would have the skills of sensing the feeling around the table, and make something unplanned...

After a moment of daze, Grim recovers her lucidity and instinctively reaches out for the pommel of one of her daggers. She quickly glances everywhere to assess her new location as well the people around her before the thri-kreen breaks the silence. "I summon no-one, and neither I like being...

@Nordom thank you for allowing Grim into the game. I didn't catch how you would like to calculate hit points, should we roll or use average? Also, I ended up not spending the extra GP, Grim already has the best non-magical weaponry she can use, and we agreed not to have any magic items...

Name: Grim Race: Half-Orc Class: Rogue (Arcane Trickster) Background: Acolyte (Luthic) Alignment: Chaotic Evil Level: 5 Ability Scores Strength: 10 Dexterity: 16 (+3) Constitution: 11 Intelligence: 14 (+2) Wisdom: 14 (+2) Charisma: 10 Proficiencies (prof.bonus +3): Armor: Light armor Weapons...

Monk or not, even though I recommend fixed array first (mainly for beginners, standard or variant) and point buy second (if you don't spend ages making your decision), I would allow rolling for stats. But stats rolling should be used only by people who enjoy randomness AND the challenge of...

I think that's what WotC said, but it's inconsistent with single class characters who don't have any requirements. If they really wanted to protect beginners, they would have put minimum scores for each class. Reality is that probably this was a byproduct of bad playtesting politics which...

Currently brainstorming a bit on the following player character: Grim race: Half-Orc OR Orc (I have Volo's Guide to Monsters, so I could use that version) class: Rogue (Arcane Trickster) OR Wizard (Enchantment) alignment: Chaotic Evil (not the extreme sociopath/psychopath type, she is Chaotic...

Checking-in here as a reference, but I just posted to the other thread.

Interested. It's been a long time since I played or run any PbP. I love Planescape but I can't say I'm an expert. My knowledge is especially messed up by having played PS adventures with lots of DM-made ideas, so when think I know something, I can't tell if it's canon or homebrew. But I don't...

I think pretty much always I've left PC's families unspecified or faded into background. In an adventuring game, a family is a liability. Note how rarely a BBEG has one. For that sort of fantasy fullfilment, I would rather look at a non-violent RPG, if they exist at all (I have never played a...

It's a fun idea, but setting thresholds is complicated because the total bonus is only a first-order statistic so to speak... meaning that it would be better to take also the actual distribution into account, as a character with a +2 in all scores is actually worse that another with a total...

I grant checks. My players have learned it's better for them to not ask to roll dice. If they tell what they're doing, I often might simply tell them they succeed. If they ask to roll the dice, they certainly have a chance of failure. And it's not symmetrical, asking to roll the dice on...

Yeah, I really laughed when I read "invisible" under hiding. It's just going to spread doom to other parts of the game. But I am quite sure it won't survive the playtest. I completely agree. Hiding is so situational, that only a fool believes there can be rigid rules to handle it well in all...

Everything that the PC don't interact with regularly is irrelevant in my games. So commerce works perfectly fine behind the scenes, and I need no explanations given to the players. Should a player ever decide their PC wants to start a commerce business, it'll be greatly simplified into...

I could say that what I think are commonly expected etiquette rules when playing/starting a new game with strangers, are mainly a general level of politeness/respect (including not being rude, not using excessive language...), and a good spirit of playing along with the DM and the rest of the...

Well, I only have 2 monsters books of this edition, the MM and VGtM. The MM has been widely criticized (by me as well, back at the beginning of 5e) for failing to deliver enough monsters abilities and variants, as were promised during the DnDNext playtests. We got way too many monsters with a...

Good thoughts... Three sacred cows that come to my mind that I would have liked removed since 3e, are (in descending order of importance): druids cannot use metal armors and shields divine casters know all spells on their list only Wizards can add more known spells at a cost