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Actually, I really like that. I imagine players won't often take the option of lingering injuries (especially if there are still healers up and active). But if you've failed two death saves (or rolled a critical fail), you will almost certainly opt for an injury if the alternative is a 45%...

Just wanted to get people's take on the Lingering Injuries optional rule in the DMG (p. 272). Background to the question: initially, I was well-disposed toward this rule, because I like grittier, AD&D-style combat (and injury recovery rules). Not because I'm mean (well, I am mean), but because...

To piggyback on Sacrosanct's comment: What purpose is served by the above statement? Does it increase anyone's enjoyment of the game? Does it increase the number of gamers who want to play D&D specifically? I'm not exactly surprised by how many people voice this attitude, but it grates on my...

Either that, or we need the exposure! ;)

I wrote this as a 1st level intrigue module that I'm thinking about putting up on RPG.net if I reformat it and maybe find someone to do illustrations. The adventure is primarily political (with the amount of combat largely left up to player choice). It's also supposed to situate new characters...

Does this poll refer solely to PCs, or are NPCs included as well? I haven't done much PC creation for 5e because I mostly GM. The PCs I've made are kind of hybrids of folk tale, media, and real world archetypes, I guess. I have a disenchanted rock gnome toymaker who's fallen in with some...

This is from on high: http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/05/28/beastmasters-beast-attack/ I'm guessing the reasoning is probably this (though note that people seem to houserule it the other way, too)...

It's not a reinterpretation, it's just an interpretation, simply based on the fact of where they live, the fact that they contest the same space with e.g. orcs, and the fact that they adopt the kinds of battle tactics (raging) that more organized forces eschew. No, not because it was SCAG...

They live in the mountainous north, close their borders to outsiders, and one of their main domains is described as being "more mine than city". That's pretty congruent to regions that have been defined as "barbaric" (rightly or wrongly) in the past. But you are characteristically missing the...

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that (the pervasive Scottish accent of dwarf characters in films and other popular media notwithstanding), it's not contemporary Scotland, or its clans, that FR is modeling. If for no other reason, than Scotland's "feared warriors" today represent...

"Dwarf barbarians are famed and feared warriors among the fiercely proud clans that have reclaimed territories like Mithril Hall and Gauntlgrym." (SCAG, p. 121). One - That wording seems to jibe with the "story" told in the PHB about barbarians seeing "civilization [having] no virtue, but...

I actually have no problem with "little adjustments to the story of class" - I - at any rate, have allowed all along that it is fuzzy around the edges. But the argument that I've seen all along is "if the fits with the mechanics, the fluff is irrelevant". That's not about class - at all. That's...

I think you'll find that other people were saying "fluff isn't rules" quite frequently. That's a worthwhile point. There is, of course, the optional "training to level up" rule, which, if followed, would mean that while training, you are hobnobbing with others of your class, which would make...

In both versions of the (less-than-aptly named) Oriental Adventures, the katana is statted differently than the longsword. And the scimitar and its permutations always are, also. Although there is no katana yet in the current rules, precedent seems to suggest that it will not qualify as simply a...

With scimitar as currently written for 5e, you don't have to - it's a light weapon, and can be dual-wielded without taking an extra feat. And tulwar and sabre (unclear on katana) have been subtypes of scimitars since 1e. But the key point, again, is whether a tulwar or katana can "fill in" for...

But it can be used one-handed with a shorter weapon, whereas a longsword, as a one-and-a half-handed weapon, really, cannot. Your point is equally applicable to a scimitar, which is not a weapon you can generally wield with another (that allowance was made for a certain drow, who is also the...

According to the current classification, katanas and tulwars would be classed as scimitars. They are significantly lighter than a longsword - katanas can be used with another weapon, and longswords are versatile, so are usable two-handed (they are really what used to be called a bastard sword)...

To my mind, 5e has cut down on the time characters stay at low levels too much (though I understand the designers' motivation), especially for those of us whose mindset was formed by, well, AD&D, in my case. I like low fantasy settings, and I dislike the 4e healing surges (which have survived...

The way I think of Robin Hood's rangerness is that he was the protector of the Sherwood Forest game preserve - not for the King (that was the Sheriff's job), but for the "common people" (it was more complicated than that , but for a D&D context, it will do). I should note that the parallel...

Here is a list of various class configurations I threw together, partly building on what's already been done here. The list is obviously incomplete (and has only one entry for some classes simply because that's all I thought of when writing it, not because I think it's the only possible option)...