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Ah, you mean in exchange for it being harder to disrupt a caster initially, 5E has made it easier to recover from harmful effects without outside aid? If that's the case, I definitely agree. I have heard some people complain about the ease with which characters and monsters are able to recover...

I actually really like the idea of WotC only releasing subclasses in the following books they put out. It makes it very easy for players to grow comfortable with the list of classes in 5E, and helps keep things under control. Instead of 20+ different classes by the time 5E's run is over, we...

This makes a lot of sense to me. I suppose it's all in the wording. Even IF movement was an action (which the above posters have convinced me it is not, thank you for the explanations,) just stating "I'll shoot as soon as he moves 5ft closer to me" would be enough to shoot before he reaches you...

So with the examples of Readying an action, and now knowing that the Readied action occurs after the triggering action, I wonder if this means Readying an action based on movement is a bad idea? If the Ready action occurs after the trigger, doesn't that mean you don't get to say - shoot an arrow...

Okay, yeah I can definitely see that. Have you had any games you played in where that was the case? I know should a caster choose to do so, they can expend almost all of their points on nothing but their highest slots, which does ramp up their power quite a bit, but I always hoped that there...

Yeah, I definitely see those. I admit at first when I read your comment I thought about a player feeling hosed if they auto-failed, but in coming up with examples and thinking about it, I think I see your point. It would just require tactical thinking on a player's part to know when using...

Greetings fellow forumites! I profess to be the kind of player (and DM) who fell in love with spell points long ago when first reading them, but has never gotten to play or DM in a campaign that used them extensively. I have gotten the chance to play 3.5E D&D Psionics, and power points fill the...

I can definitely see times where you would allow it to succeed without a roll, such as in a crowded marketplace and no one was directly watching the PC, or there's just so much distraction there's no worry about sound. However, could you give me an example of times where it would fail without a...

In the spirit of keeping the class/subclass system uniform, I would suggest making new classes. As it is, players can pour over the book looking at classes for a general idea of function, then look at subclass for a package of unique abilities. We know that all characters of the same class have...

I can see this working in the event that the optimizer gets lower rolled stats than the other players, but this will only be the case sometimes, and potentially not at all. Though now that I think about it, I assume your style of rolling requires you to either assign as you go, or roll in order...

I really want to echo this sentiment, as well as what Hussar brought up. Every time I see people start talking about rolling vs. point buy, it starts genuine enough. They talk about their systems for rolling, whether it's 3d6 in order, 4d6 drop lowest, dice pools where you roll 24d6 and assign...