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I am really glad they don’t define this stuff. It would make designing or improvising cool dungeons a pain.

I usually allow everything and then adjust the world to fit those choices. Usually my standard start to a new setting is "You are the only example of your exact class in the world. Other people use magic but they aren't wizards. Other people play music but they aren't bards." and figuring out...

Only a little. I’ve only come around on it recently and I’m not in a good spot to make a full-throated argument. Basically: There is a contingent of old schoolers who point out that in old school D&D EVERYONE was a thief. Everyone was always sneaking, trying to deal with traps and locks and...

So like... in an AL game, what happens if I DO try any of that stuff? Is it like a video game and the DM just says “no” or do they make a ruling?

I despise the way they lay these things out that you have to put legwork into playing a premade adventure

I’ve kinda slowly come around to the idea that Rogues actively make the game a little worse so I guess Fighter, Wizard and Cleric are the “essential” 5e classes to me at this point and that’s really only because I think there is something fundamentally interesting to me about Clerics as a world...

Yeah I dunno man. 99% of hand-wringing about 5e is very silly and honestly I think WOTC has a habit of making people into worse DMs by feeding into that hand-wringing. So I appreciate the idea that people should just look at the existing rules and make a ruling... But the 5e Ranger is boring...

Even as a military character I like the idea of maybe being able to grease wheels outside their own zone of comfort but honestly if that came up you could just be like “at this point it’s fair to assume you have a reasonable amount of spending money” Sometimes players find ways to use money as a...

This poll has interesting results. More women than I assumed to be honest. Probably skewed a little male by the nature of forums and how the hobby has changed and whatnot. Just as an anecdote, I know at least 2 groups of all women who came to D&D thanks to stuff like The Adventure Zone and...

I have found Chaotic Wacky to be the cousin of Lawful Bored. I don’t mean that as an insult, different people want different things. I wonder what he would outline as his ideal game? Then, on the other hand, some people are just try hards.

Literally any D&D book is more Planescape content.

...and they group source their content.

That’s sort of an odd question considering the possible variance between multiple medieval fantasy settings. I’m assuming it’s so different from the ones mentioned that it would be sort of tedious to discuss haha.

Yeah I’m not implying it’s a NEW idea. Just more interesting to me than many existing settings in regards to stuff I can steal from.

Honestly, I don’t care about MtG or it’s lore but a city the size of a planet is more interesting then 90% of the old settings IMO. And honestly, my games pull heavily from Eastern Europe so there is probably some good stuff to steal.

For sure! Makes sense. Just to be clear, I was suggesting an extra attack on a “1.” Probably not your thing but I wanted to make sure it came across. Adding say your Str or Dex bonus to a 1 isn’t so powerful but it would give smaller lighter weapons the chance to occasionally nova with...

I’m about to run a homebrew hack system where everytime you roll a “1” on your damage die you can do a “stunt” (ex: knock a foe back, disarm them, change spots with or get behind them, knock them prone” which I like as a way of making weapons feel more like tools. Tying your idea to the “1”...

Oh sorry haha. I just mean that the stuff I like about 5e is kinda specific. There are other versions of D&D that I think do a better job of cleanly incorporating risk evaluation and "punishment" for dropping to 0 hp. Rather than going hard in the direction of tying to make 5e a tougher on the...

At that point I would probably just play Into the Odd.

I once had Strahd stomp out a downed cleric to make the final battle more epic. Every other dead character we’ve had was from the Instant Death rule or people rolling a “1” on their second death save. I’ve never played in a campiagn where revivify came up. The more I play 5e the less...