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As far as being able to obtain the armor to begin with, I would say it's more than reasonable for a 5th level character to buy something like this in a major city. By the rules a 3rd level character could craft an item of uncommon rarity, so buying one at two levels higher seems fine to me. That...

Speaking strictly from my own experience I find that Evil or "morally loose" parties tend to work a bit better a more sandbox style campaign. In the past when I've run into this sort of thing I never went out of my to discourage it, but I made it clear that actions have repercussions. The trick...

I've luckily never had to literally walk out on a session. As other have said, there may be reasons I won't come back, but thankfully those are very few. The obvious would be social issues, rude, abusive and the like that don't need to be listed. It's a game we play for fun and more than...

I've only skimmed the thread because frankly once things devolved into people trying to argue the difference between "standard" and "optional" rules I couldn't stomach it. Regarding what I'm fairly certain was the original topic: flanking does not grant advantage or any other boon in my games...

I wouldn't refuse to play in or run a game that didn't use a grid, but it's hardly preferential. I started playing back in 2E and even then we used miniatures, even if not with a grid, to provide a better spacial awareness of where everything was during a combat. I've been the default DM for...

Speaking solely for myself, I wouldn't allow it in my games. Getting it that often would essentially allow them to use it in every combat of the day and the boosts that the various Oaths grant aren't anything to sneeze at. For the Oath of Vengeance that's advantage on at least one enemy for an...

First I'll say that I'm in the crowd that feels the Champion is fine as is, but this is just my experience and also not necessarily in the "spirit" of the thread so I won't belabor the point. In so far as your proposed changes go, I feel like you need to ease into them and not alter too much out...

My group is likely a four or a five. To be fair, they haven't actually killed anything that could be reasoned with. Most of their enemies thus far have been unintelligent undead or wild animals, and the party lacks the ability to speak with or "handle" animals so they had no choice in the case...

No fudge for me, thank you. If the dice are going to be rolled than they'll be abided by, otherwise what was the point? I understand, to a degree anyway, those of you saying that you'd prefer rolls be fudged if it's for the sake of fun, but to me it's this kind of tinkering with fate that pulls...

Pretty good guide and the effort that goes into these is always appreciated. Disagree with some of the rankings, but that's hardly anything new to guides and nothing worth quibbling over. I would however recommend some more proof reading and reexamination of the abilities. As a quick example...

I'm going to pike on with the group firmly in the "no" category. Both as written and as intended, in my opinion, Dispell is not there to stop a spell from being cast, it's there to dispell and ongoing effect. It's the entire reason there's a Counterspell in the first place. One serves a...

If I'm going to call for a roll of the dice then I'm going to abide by the result. I make all of my combat rolls in the open for my players to see, so there's no chance of fudging those rolls even if it was something I wanted to do. Social encounters may involve secret rolls because allowing...

The rolled stats are one problem. That's not to say it's a bad method of stat generation, it's a legacy method and one I still let my players use if they want, but it needs to be recognized that the game is more or less balanced these days based around the standard array or point-buy system. So...

I feel that part of the reason you may see a disconnect between players and a "world building" DM stems from misunderstanding the reasons for the restrictions a DM might impose. If players feel like a DM is creating these restrictions based purely on a personal dislike for a particular class or...

As others have said, it's all very specific to the context of the situation at hand with different variables to consider. For example, how exactly did Group A intimidate Group B? Was it a player simply saying "I want to intimidate them into giving up."? Or was it more specific where a character...

Because the worship of a deity, and more specifically, dedicating your life to that deity is different than being a someone practices a trade or skill related to the deity's "portfolio". Not every farmer is going to be a Cleric of your campaigns deity of growth and harvest just as every Cleric...

Firstly, let me say that a lot of these richer language systems some of you have come up with are pretty cool. I'm always fascinated with these deeper and more fleshed out systems, even if they're not my thing. For myself, I tend to simply use languages as a barrier when I feel it adds weight...

Baumi said everything I wanted to. I'd suggest re-reading the spell casting section of the PHB as well as the spell casting section for the Bard class. As to the actual topic, I quite like the Bard Instruments and wouldn't have any compunctions giving them out to my players, if any of them were...

There's no race like gnome, there's no race like gnome. Ain't that right gnomeslice? Because east, west, gnomes best!

Dwarves, always and forever. Tough as nails, serious & honorable folk... who can turn around have a have a good old fashioned drunken pub brawl when the mood strikes. Keep your fine wines and aloof attitudes and give me beards and ale and iron.