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5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook The book is very well laid out, the art is fantastic, and the game itself is fun to play.

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual I really like the evocative art and monster fluff.

When I last ran it, one of the families was related to one of the PCs and sent word to him to come check things out because they thought something weird was going on. Of course, they were converted by the time the party gets there. "Hey, sis, so what's the problem?" "Problem? No problem...

There's a magic item on the list that's better than another one? Stop the presses! Who want's a +1 sword, when there's vorpal, amiright?

I'd call it medium-light. No where near 3e or 4e, closer to AD&D. B/X is the fastest D&D, of course. It's tough to compare to story game PCs. The back story and integration to the group of story game PCs is a lot more important than the stats (thus why they are easy to make, mechanics-wise)...

It also depends whether the player is blind/mute or if he has eidetic memory. Point is, compared to other RPGs, 5e is relatively quick, all things being equal.

I had a good campaign running Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. It took a bit of hacking on my part (though I don't run any published work as is), but the factions within the temple playing off each other made things dynamic rather than a room-to-room bashfest. Very memorable game.

I was with you up to that last sentence. While getting shut down for the fight in round one is lame, is making a PC in 5e really that rough? I could come up with something I could play in 10 minutes and then flesh it out after the session.

How is this not arguing semantics? Good times.

Nullify? Once again, for the third time, even, I'm not saying PF had no effect. I'm saying the problem exists without it. But I can imagine that if I need to respond again, I'll likely just need to reiterate that again, so I'll just bow out now.

That's what I said. PF made it worse, but it wasn't the cause. If someone driving drunk on a icy road has an accident, you don't blame the icy road.

Would these guys have happily went along with 4e if the OGL and PF didn't exist? That doesn't seem likely, and there still would have been a 3.x/4e split. The existence of PF sure didn't help the situation, but it doesn't look like the cause.

I look at the options of the poll and I thought a couple house rules means I pretty much stick to core rules. Major changes, to me, would be like changing skills to a percentage based system, throwing out AC and HP, or playing the game without a DM. So I picked option 1.

If a player wants his PC to basically be a sidekick to the PCs that give me something to work with in the game, they can certainly present me the "loner-without-a-past" character. It's up to them, I won't force anyone to play what they don't want to play. But they might be better off in a...

I tell my players that what they know is what their PCs have picked up from teachings, rumors, stories, etc. They aren't allowed to look things up, of course, but if they know that trolls can be defeated using fire and/or acid, I ask the player to tell me why his PC knows this. And, of course...

Pulling interesting info from adventures is nice, but I would use it as is if it was more something more like Savage Worlds' Plot Point campaigns. Lots of story hooks, a metaplot or two, and the players can go at it however they want. Much more fun for me than being the go-between for a...

Yeah, I don't remember any promises about it being updated for the final time this winter, just that it was going to get an update.

Except everyone is getting that info for free now...so that's an odd thing to complain about.

I like it because it's "generic D&D". If I play D&D, I want to play in a D&D setting. If I want to play in a not-D&D setting, I'll not play D&D, but play something else. Too many great RPGs out there to just keep trying to reinvent D&D by trying to stick it in a non-D&D-shaped hole.

Impatience is helpful? Queue Queen's "I Want It All" :)