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The most generalized answer I can find: I let them break anything they want, if they have the means and the time. I don't usually rely on the rules for breaking objects, they are never even remotely realistic, and as soon as you grant a roll to the players, you are putting the rules in their...

This. The core books of various editions typically suggested that classed characters are rare in the world, but published adventures always contradicted them. How many adventures do you remember where a local temple did NOT have a spellcasting Cleric? Of course that is not the only NPC in the...

All are good interesting ideas but I would rather change this one to be based on a strength challenge instead of damage, because spellcasters can typically deliver a higher peak damage, but don't have a higher strength. Then of course spellcasters can also acquire higher strength through...

Awesome! I always say DIY stuff is the soul of D&D.

I've seen a fair range of speeds over the years, but generally most of the games I played or run were probably more on the slow side. IMXP the slowing factors have been at different times very careful approach to exploration, very tactical combat, micromanagement of resources, or simple lack of...

Pretty much all 5e games I've run are PHB-only, with the notable exception of my family campaign, where we can use all books I have. I'm not banning anything, but I usually play with casual gamers who don't know anything about the current edition beyond core (if at all). If someone asks if they...

Pretty much all 5e games I've run are PHB-only, with the notable exception of my family campaign, where we can use all books I have. I'm not banning anything, but I usually play with casual gamers who don't know anything about the current edition beyond core (if at all). If someone asks if they...

Generally speaking, I think the original version of any fantasy setting is preferable, where the authors vision in intact and not adapted to a rules edition change. But I also think the 3e FRCS is possibly the best single book to start playing FR with. If you can afford to start with a larger...

They shouldn't. Rules tend to take the fun away from traps. When really bad, they can even lead some DMs to the idiocy of removing traps from the world, instead of removing the rules.

I could have written the same thing. I am probably very old-school now when it comes to a game's difficulty curve (not just a RPG), and it would make more sense to me that the game gets more difficult as you progress. So I actually do prefer to accept a cakewalk-to-challenge-to-nightmare...

Ask WotC.

Seriously? Successfully completing a quest is now railroading?? Look, my favourite campaign type is the sandbox, which is the opposite of railroading. And by the way I am not even myself using milestones XP but I defend the legitimacy of the method. You can anyway totally use milestones XP and...

If they do one thing and call it another it's their problem. Let's not back them up.

Yeah, "from time to time", for example, when you reach milestones, exactly. Which certainly doesn't have to be "whenever the DM feels like it" as you wrote. A milestone corresponds to a specific group achievement related to the story. It could be freeing a hostage, complete a journey, defeat an...

Nope, not in my experience. What is being incentivized is to stop worrying about levelling up as a primary purpose and focus on the rest of the game.

So it's been 4 months now, have you tested out your idea? How did it work at the gaming table? I'm curious to hear whether your players really find it less "boring", because IMXP multiple attacks are more interesting than single attacks when something changes between them (either the target...

Yeah, it has probably been done countless of times in the last 48 years :p You can keep using the D&D rules of your favourite edition (or any other RPG) and replace strict level-based character advancement with more granular advancement, the easiest way however is probably to still use levels...

I don't think Adam wants to play a game, I think he just wants to tell a story, that is why the DM (or the game really) is getting in his way. Maybe try to forget about D&D and just change the whole thing to cooperative storytelling, and change yourself from DM to simply roleplay NPCs according...

I've used StrangeEons to design "action cards" for spells, special abilities, feats etc., basically anything that isn't passive but requires a sort of action to be use, although I also made some cards which are action modifiers rather than actions themselves. My main purpose was to help players...