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This is great news! And that alternate cover art looks just beautiful to me! Quite evocative! I think this will be a priority purchase for me, from my FLGS - something to look forward to in dreary November, lol.

Cool! I own a ragged falling apart copy of 1st edition C&S, and several books of the 3rd Ed. I even ran a short campaign of C&S 3rd Ed.; we found the mechanics awkward and time consuming - however it was a nice change of FRPG perspective at the time. I certainly like the tilt towards greater...

Yes! I agree with your comment on niche protection in particular - it is why I am glad multiclassing is just an option in 5E. I loved BECMI from my youth, and enjoyed running 2E in the 1990s, but when I look at my vast library of 3/3.5E and related d20 books, I know that Third Edition was my...

As both an AFOL and a DM, I salute you! Excellently done!! :cool:

I think you touched upon somethng interesting: 5E lacks the summoning spells of previous editions. Perhaps there is a viable way to reintroduce them to 5E as rituals only? (Hah! My 420th post ;-) )

I cannot name an individual quirk so much note a holistic one: several aspects of the game have been simplified for the mass market it seems to me. For example, weapons and armor are do not offer enough mechanical variety and this diminshes cultural flavour options to me. Class and subclass...

I think awarding her an alignment of neutral good is a problem: slaughtering 70-80 thousand roman civilians and taking no prisoners is too harsh behaviour to qualify for that alignment - specifically, I do not think a leader who supports or tolerates that level of destruction can be considered...

Fascinating! I took the time to read the interview with Chris Doyle, and it sounds most promising to me. OAR1 Into The Borderlands was a great purchase and fun read, so all told OAR2 Isle of Dread looks like a "must buy" for me. :)

I agree. The game seems IMO... like we are in the shallow end of the pool. I would like to see some kind of advanced player's guide that offers more options *within* subclasses. Perhaps replacing the nice but boring ASIs with choices between distinct features that are effective and...

Maybe it is a good thing its limited to once every 7 days, but I find the Cleric's Improved Divine Intervention at 20th level spectacularly potent - any 9th-level spell (or equivalent) without cost or risk!. Even the Wish spell is more limited (unless the PC gambles by casting something beyond...

Yes, my re-editted reply suggests a larger range, but 60 ft. would be very manageable, and somewhat fitting.

I'm thinking the OP made a typo and the values in the chart didn't show up in the post?

At first glance I like it overall. The death saves applying to the Beastmaster's Companion was a nice touch, and I like the idea of using the Beastmaster's proficiency bonus to amplify the Companion capabilities. XP for effort :) Edit: As a DM I still have a problem with Primeval Awareness...

If I play, rather than DM, usually Class, then Race. (Which seems counter intuitive, lol. Shouldn't the origin of a character's birth, and development of background come before class, chronologically speaking? To each their own of course :). )

Yes to the question. If a player was absent for a stretch of several sessions we often had them "disappear into the PC fog", so no XPs until they return - where upon some negotiation occurs so no one feels burned. I'm not a hard-a** referee, my players are mature and easy-going, since none of...

For the games I've run for my friends, we treated the PCs of absent players as NPCs. They would be awarded half the XPs a PC would earn, they would be run that session by another (experienced) player, and as DM/GM I promised the absent player their PC wouldn't die unless the party was brazenly...

As a DM I have had no problem in principle with pets, hirelings, pet classes, the NPC derived from Leadership feat of 3.5E, and so on. So what if a cless feature, spell, or clever roleplaying means one or two players have an extra character/critter to run? These extras are part of the PC's...

Actually, speaking as a DM with respect to Dausuul's concern, many opponents aren't smart enough or too crazed with bloodlust to decline using an OA. As with morale, some critters have too low an INT/WIS score to learn during battle, and overconfident, crazy, or even controlled enemies won't...

Waaay back in 1979 when I was a teenager, a friend introduced me to the concept of RPGs and had me build a ranger with a blend of rules from D&D and Chivalry & Sorcery. His game failed to launch and shortly afterwards I discovered BECMI, which still holds fond memories today, and I never saw an...

The game rules specify to use +5/-5 if an effect or feature or ruling awards advantage/disadvantage on a passive check, such as on one"s passive Wisdom (Perception) score. I am not a wiz with probability math so +5 "looks" good to me for advantage.