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I own the physical books, and I don't touch them any more. I use an iPad at the table when I play, and a laptop web browser with a bunch of tabs open when I DM, and it's made things easier and faster to find for me - I just create 'saved tabs' for any adventure or character and I have it all at...

My god is it so hard to believe that a different table might have different ideas of what constitutes fun? It's not like we haven't had truisms like 'Different strokes for different folks' in the language since forever. And here are people saying 'MY fun is right, YOUR fun is not, you should...

It was fine when the game was a puzzle / logistics / grid-based tactics game with faceless characters that took 5 minutes to build. Now, with personalities, backgrounds, flaws, goals, and substantial pre-game investment? Nah.

You need to edit the data in the javascript files that are bundled within the PDF. That generally means using the full version of Acrobat to edit the file. You generally have to have some experience with JavaScript to not screw it up, but some diligence and trial and error will work too.

OK, fair enough; Gygax never published fan fiction of Mordenkainen schtuppig the goddess of magic. If he wrote it any? I'm gonna try to forget I even had that thought. I mean, the purple prose...

Our table basically uses Milestone XP now to solve this issue. We're mostly in our 30's, all with professional careers, and a few with children. So, to make this viable, as adults, we have to be OK with people coming and going. We can't be sure that everyone will make every game, so it's...

OK, an update: -- The content for the 2.6 launch is solid. I've done several rounds of QA, and several mistakes were pointed out by other people. I also found a few that were relatively obscure (i.e. a few spells where I didn't put in the 'consumed' cost attribute for material components...

Gygax never wrote fan fiction of Mordenkainen :):):):)ing the goddess of magic. Try again. :-)

He's worse than a Mary Sue. He's worse than a DM PC. He's a game setting publisher's PC. That's beyond exponentially worse.

I'd be careful about that, try the default game first for a while to see how it works first. Since this is the overall best-designed version of D&D that I've ever played (and I've played since 'blue book' Basic), I'd do my best to learn default game until you have a feel for it. Even though...

I've seen this a bunch and IMO it's well-intentioned but bad. If you look at ASI's and Feats, they happen in 'dead' spots in character progression. They all show up at levels with no new spell levels, no increase in Proficiency bonuses, and no other significant class features. They are meant...

You know, occasionally people can build things that appeal to other people more than you. It ALL doesn't have to revolve around you.

I'm glad you are here to be the absolutely unquestioned authority of a genre that you didn't invent, publish in, or otherwise influence This is such a useful thing to see over and over and over and over again in the thread Please, keep arguing every point strenuously, with so many words It's...

I've been fortunate enough to travel. Istanbul and Tokyo are mind-blowingly huge. I've also done some games in Planescape. I think the right city can just about provide everything. Even isolation, if it's in a part of it that's been flattened for some (awesome campaign) reason.

The thing about Wizards, is they do a LOT of customer research, with solid methodologies. They know for a fact: forums users are not typical, and keeping us happy doesn't mean a better product. We often bitch about stuff that isn't even a blip on the radar of most customers. And, seeing as...

An unfortunate side effect of this is the different classes will have different levels of effectiveness depending on how that 'story' plays out, instead of being balanced consistently. When our table started enforcing the rest/encounter rhythm, the 'martial' characters immediately noticed - the...

Awesome! Internet high 5! Unfortunately, you have to open up the PDF with Acrobat Pro and edit those things in to be selections in the pulldown menus. The PDF doesn't auto-populate those from the JavaScript, it can only really populate text fields. Would you mind PMing me the SCAG stuff you...

Yep. I usually need to allow one long rest every two days of game play. We get around that by having a house rule that says 'for balance reasons between classes, we'll have the equivalent of 6-8 encounters with two short rests between long rests. That means sometimes in the narrative you won't...

Ah, maybe I'm misunderstanding you here, but I'm not the original poster, I just proposed an idea that I thought would head off the major flaw with the current rules as I see it at my table. I want to dissuade meta thinking that players use to manipulate the action economy that kills drama. I...

I've done a lot of coaching with new players in this regard. One of the motivators was 'we do Milestone leveling at this table, and one of the indicators that you're ready to level is that most of you are fluent in your current characters, and I don't have to look up things in the middle of a...