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It's not that I don't like the default initiative or think it's flawed, I just have trouble keeping track of the list. I'd entrust it to another player, but every one of my players is bad at it too. What I do is shuffle and deal out playing cards (54 cards, jokers included) in front of each...

2. "up to" is the key phrase here. If your wizard pulls out the tangle of 50' rope to use for this spell, instead of a short section, you can just slap them. By reading the spell, 60' is the maximum length, there's no listed minimum, so you could theoretically hold a 1' section somewhere around...

I'm surprised nobody's brought up Time Stop as a spell that can facilitate healing*. Cast it, chug a couple of healing potions, and you've restored hit points. Whether Time Stop "heals" or "is a (direct|indirect) healing spell" is not related to whether you have the potions to chug or are...

Echoing all the previous advice to say yes, the Starter Set first, and play with it until you're sure you're ready to invest more. You could find it's not quite your cup of tea, or don't have enough friends willing to sustain interest. First, it's got a set of dice. Once you're in the hobby...

Immediately shoot down, even if it follows my list of rules I supplied before session 0? No. If I think it might cause a problem for the player, though, like if the player thinks the class or an option works a different way than it actually does, or picks complicated options without...

I could've sworn I saw somewhere that, once ordered to attack a target, the animal companion would continue to do so until ordered to stop. Unfortunately, not only did I not find a RAW source, I found a couple other sources citing it as a common houserule. So there goes that. There was this bit...

It's hard not to be excited for new product of my favourite setting, but I have mixed feelings. I've taken a lot of the 3.5e book, some bits from the 4e book, and hacked together my own take on the world. I don't have any of the other sourcebooks, so I've been filling in details myself, unaware...

Only thing I can think of so far that hasn't been mentioned is the prevailing use of Dexterity in a lot of builds. It can be used for attack rolls *and* damage rolls on most ranged weapons, on a few melee weapons including the rapier, is used for initiative checks, a lot of save-for-half saving...

I'd like some Setting love - even if not published in a large hardcover book, then at least opening DM's Guild up to more settings than FR and Ravenloft. That way if they see a particular setting related series of products is in demand, with examples of real money backing it up, maybe they might...

I've always found tracking initiative tedious, and I'm prone to missing characters' turns. So I took the initiative system from Savage Worlds, of dealing out cards to each major character. This lets me see at a glance the state of combat; specifically who's already gone, who hasn't yet, and...

Things I've seen new players confused over: Difference between ability score, and ability modifier, and why we even have two numbers. "If Constitution is 12 +1 why not just say 13?" Spell save DC, and to a lesser extent, spell attack modifier. I don't know why, but I run into new players who...

While 3e and compatible stuff seems pretty straightforward to convert, myself I'm interested in taking on the challenge of converting 4e stuff. Specifically, I have all the maps from the first 4e WotC published adventure, Keep on the Shadowfell, and thought it might be good to put those to use...

The starter set is very useful if someone doesn't know if they and their friends really want to get into D&D or not. It's a cheap turn-key solution (at least compared to other options) to get started. If he already knows he wants to get into D&D and he/you/someone is definitely going to invest...

I haven't seen anybody mention exceptions-based rule design yet. That was one of the big things I noticed in 4e, a list of general rules, and nearly everything of the game called itself out as a more specific exception to an earlier general rule. Such that it functioned more like a LEGO kit than...

I was ready to eagerly tell my friends with disposable income about Lasers & Liches: Tales from the Retroverse, but it looks like the Kickstarter has already been canceled. Their page https://www.lasersandliches.com/news has the full announcement, but it looks like the main thing is they...

It's not wrong to want to seek other things. I don't like the initiative system either - or rather, I found I like Savage Worlds's better, so I houseruled that in to my current game. I've never played or run a game where PCs got high enough level as to gain the power of demigods, and I likely...

I'd thought of it before, but PF2 reminded me of it. I might start level 1 characters with an extra racial hit die - d8(5) for most, d10(6) for sturdier folk like dwarves, d6(4) for elves/halflings, etc. Can choose only one starting hit die to be maximized, so an elf fighter would want the class...

The settings I've played in and/or run the most, in no particular order: 1. Generic nonspecific / PHB default. Not a specific setting with a particular big world, just scattered towns, forests, caves, etc. Any setting flavor, such as deities worshipped for cleric domains and such, were just...

I'm interested, but cautiously optimistic. For my own purposes, I looked forward to Starfinder but it turned out to be too complicated for me to figure out character creation just reading the book. I remember when they came out with Unchained, and I was wondering if they'd use that to...

Then you get subraces of Free Elf, like the Buy One Get One Free Elf, the Clearance Sale Elf... As to the OP: I'd greatly prefer just one elf, with no mechanical racial differences. I could be willing to expand into different cultures of elves, but it'd be more like "this group lived around...