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DMs Guild is like the publishing version of D&D 5E... it's like the baseline foundation for which new people can get their start. It's popular, easy to find, it sets everything up for you, and it lets you play in the exceedingly large Dungeons & Dragons sandbox. Is it the "best" method for...

Funny... I always find having game rules to follow at all detracts from the fantasy. :)

The unspoken answer is probably something like... "99% of the playerbase doesn't care one way or the other or won't even notice it... and the 1% that does can change the monsters themselves so they are all humanoid or all fey, if it really matters that much to them." :)

That's a one-time special case where what the image suggested worked. Which is exactly the kind of thing that comes from a DM Fiat decision that based upon everything that has happened in the game/fight up to this point... the DM narratively decides to have the antagonist surrender to the 1-HP...

Who said 'suddenly'? Faerun has had more than 10,000 YEARS to find Enlightenment. All while having the knowledge that Wishes, Controlling the Weather, Mass Healing, the instantaneous Fabrication of anything with the proper raw materials, Regeneration, planar travel, and True Resurrection were...

For 'wizard school' to be the equivalent of going for your PhD... that only makes sense if there was also Master's, Bachelor's, high school, and primary schooling available for citizens, in order to discover which people were able to go on for their doctorates. But I don't see any medieval...

That can can be true right up until the point someone else says "What are you talking about? What is written there is clear and works fine." At which point, it now turns into a subjective question of how much something needs to be explained and whether any one person gets to make the...

I would agree with this. I'm not one who thinks a lot of parts of D&D outside of combat need mechanical subsystems, and are usually better served by just roleplaying and interaction between players and DM. Exploration is another one... I don't think much is gained by having rules for and...

??? Which comment were you referring to? If it was my comment that started "They give super-precise descriptions for those things that they know almost all players agree on."... I was by no means angry when I wrote that, I was just stating what I think they do when they write certain rules...

You're better off getting MCDM's Strongholds & Followers. More in-depth and tactically expansive that the basic Bastion rules in the new DMG. Like most things WotC tends to include... the Bastion rules are fine for a baseline idea of how to run buildings and such in D&D (just like Ghosts of...

Your last statement wasn't you judging WotC... it was you judging ME. That I was "apologizing" for the method WotC chose to make their books. So yeah, my response was perfectly acceptable. I don't put people on ignore because more often than not people have interesting things to say in all...

I am not sure which people you are referencing with your comment-- the new players or the veterans? All new DMGs are primarily meant for new DMs, because veteran DMs already own one, two, four, six previous DMGs that they've collected over however many decades so they don't need to be retaught...

You do not get to determine what is and what isn't them doing their job. I've seen a number of your threads you've created recently with you complaining about what you found in the 5E24 books (which of course makes me wonder why you even bothered to buy them in the first place)... and I can say...

They give super-precise descriptions for those things that they know almost all players agree on. We all know how a lighting bolt is supposed to go, so they straight up tell us in the description. But trying to regulate stealth, traps, tracking, negotiation, stuff like that? Everyone runs...

In my opinion they make it vague because every single DM and their mom has their own opinions and rulings on how finding traps and then disarming traps is supposed to work. The more specific you make this spell, the more you piss off a larger amount of the DMs out there who now have a rule that...

Unfortunately, no. So if you don't already have the 4E products in hand, I don't know it's necessarily worth buying them just for the Nentir Vale material. But if you wanted to drop some cash to put things together, the 4E DMG has the info on the primary town in the Vale called Fallcrest...

Two products that I've used that are really nice and contained-- but also well-described-- are the Nentir Vale from the 4E DMG, and the Silver Marches setting book from 3E. Now granted... a lot of the additional Nentir Vale information has been spread out amongst a bunch of 4E adventures and...

Because they are more likely to provide further books in the future that will go over adventuring and adventures and adventure types, and less likely to produce any books about the planes. Thus this was the only place where that planar information was going to be given so they put as much in as...

I never pre-order anything. If I want something, I'll pick it up when it comes out. Better that than to pre-order something, finally get it, then come on here to EN World complaining that the products sucks. Well, why the hell did you buy it sight-unseen then? ;)

D&D Wiki and other spaces with supposedly unbalanced monsters will still work perfectly fine for those of us on the "Don't have a problem adjusting mechanics mid-combat" side of the fudging ledger. I know we are in the minority of folks around here, but I'll tell you it does save a whole lot of...