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I recognize that this is the D&D-specific forum but would you be open to running Call of Cthulhu? I can't think of a specific scenario to run but CoC can easily revolve around a missing person and another dimension. And it would let them play regular humans against a monstrous, unfathomable...

Right, right. That makes sense since all of your attacks are on one action. I was thinking each attack was an individual action.

A few thoughts after looking at the revised version: "For each reaction after the first you must forfeit a weapon attack on your next turn, and once you do so you must take the Attack action on your next turn, even if you have no remaining attacks." I may be misinterpreting this but it...

If you ever want to see the drawing of that NPC, let me know! :)

Excellent post. It's great to get the players to do some of the heavy lifting (whether they know it or not). A few GMs in my group does this and it seems to work really well. They know when they want the beats of their overarching plot to occur, so drop them whenever suits them. But each...

I based my dwarven beastmaster ranger on the picture from a 2nd Ed. adventure of a dwarf NPC who was covered in spiders. My arachnophobic GM was not pleased with that concept.

If you wanted to reduce MAD, you could go the 4E direction and factor Int into AC with the narrative that this character reads enemies and situations faster, so can react faster. I get the mechanical rationale for encouraging keeping some hands free but narratively it's a little off for some of...

Yes!! It'd especially be awesome with 2nd Ed.'s stat rolling, which I think were: Str: 1d6+13 (I think a 19 counted as an 18(00) instead.) Dex: 3d4 Con: 1d6+13 (Maybe with a max of 18.) Int: 3d4 Wis: 2d6 Cha: 2d4 My half-ogre fighter, Ominous Ogrethorpe, from my ridiculous high school...

The first Sin City movie was a fantastic adaptation of the comic both visually and plotually.

I'd like to see the 4E pixies. They were chock full of backstory flavor and it'd be really nifty to play a Tiny character. On the other side of the spectrum I enjoyed the Arcana Evolved giant race--especially the PrC that could make you Huge. I don't know how well that would gel with 5E but I...

I like using it for any skill that's used to meet the team's objective. That's useful and thematic. I know you want to polish it up but since at least for the time being it's purely a homebrew, I think it's okay to use the informal "in your party". If you're playing this subclass the GM is...

One thing I always look for in a class/subclass are mechanical elements to interact in non-combat scenarios. I would like to see the bravura have some interesting non-combat abilities. Unfortunately I have no suggestions or examples at the moment.

Great article. In my groups I especially noticed that some of the GMs didn't read the DMG in the 3.x to 4E transition. Therefore many aspects of the 4E design philosophy for how to run a game were overlooked and we ended up with a clunky campaign that shoehorned 3.x design into a 4E game and...

I would like to see an alchemist class and/or a poisoner class like the 4E Executioner Assassin class. I appreciate the arguments that any character should be able to use potions, alchemical items, and poisons regardless of class or that this can already be achieved with the rules for buying...

I think that's a good start but if conflict or bickering is an issue I highly recommend having a frank discussion about it. Instead of guessing about people's feelings and desires for the game, ask them directly. If you and they are cool with the level of conflict, that's great--play like...

Awesome! I didn't realize there was an option. I'll have to give it another try with subtitles.

I tried the first episode and thought the story had promise but the English dubbing drained my interest in it. I would much prefer if they did subtitles instead. Maybe I'll give it another go but for the moment it's not drawing me back any time soon.

Quite true. From the player's side, if you dump Charisma accept the negative repercussions. From the GM's side, make sure you're not overwhelming with game with unnecessary skill checks because that will never seem cinematic.

I prefer to come to the game with a character concept (after having a session zero/group template discussion with the group) rather than roll randomly. I find I'm more invested in the character if it's a concept I'm enthusiastic about. The one exception is playing Call of Cthulhu. It's like...

Without a specific example of what you're trying to emulate, I assume you mean how big screen heroes often get a lot of what they want during social interactions. I've seen GMs ask for too many checks which doesn't emulate the flow on the big screen well. A way to better emulate what happens...