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I actually like how she doesn't have a lot of spells. It doesn't look like she needs them. She doesn't need any offensive spell or defensive spell. She can do 8 different types of damage (some at range), flies, regenerates, has legendary resist, spell immunity and magic resist. Really, what...

Isn't MotRD intended to let DMs adapt Ravenloft monsters and adventures to 19th century Earth? If it was set in Greyhawk or FR, what exactly would you be adapting? If you take MotRD, add back all the demihumans, take away all the firearms and trains and telegraphs and real world history and...

I think it would be awesome if a nuke couldn't wipe out a stone golem.

I don't see any cons to the living rules idea. I DM with a small group of close friends so I find it very easy to say "let's just stick to the PHB" if I need to. But like any game we need some house rules, errata and clarifications. So it is nice to be able to go online and find those things on...

Average damage is 28. That seems excellent to me, but I suppose it depends on the enemies you face. Either way, I can think of a lot of low level wizard spells that an enemy might use legendary resistance on: Slow, Fear, Suggestion.

I don't see any reason why gods shouldn't have hit points and be killable, especially in a polytheistic world like typical D&D. Diomedes, Achilles and Hercules could all injure gods. Freyr was killed by a fire giant and Thor died from poison.

I love everything I've seen about the DMG so far, except the pictures. It really does seem like a huge waste of space. Art is cool, but a picture of every magic item? Imagine if the PHB had a picture of every spell. But overall, I'm very excited.

If I wanted to run an epic-level game I would just increase the required XP to go from levels 17 to 20. I would also let the PCs find ridiculous items and fight ancient dragons and whatnot.

Weapons are mixed in with miscellaneous items? That's a first.

But there needs to be a significant advantage to using area attacks against a stand. If I cast a cantrip at a stand, that actually represents me casting it ten times over the course of a minute. That why the damage affects the entire stack, instead of just 1/10th of it. That's abstract, sure...

This looks like a very interesting system, and frankly it seems to be better than mine. Thanks for the link! This would be the very first time mass combat rules have made it into the DMG, correct? But what would happen in this system if I cast a fireball at a stack of 10 orcs? I suppose they...

Here's a way to resolve mass combat that keeps combat simple and uses existing combat rules (for the most part) so that players of all classes can use their regular abilities to turn to the tide of a massive battle. This should also prevent the feeling that the DM is simply deciding the outcome...

It would take as few ancient dragons as you would like. The lair actions and regional effects are supposed to suggest that the dragon can do whatever it wants; it could make a volcano erupt and kill 10K dwarves if it wanted to. It could poison the water with sulfur, cause an earthquake, etc.

I've seen a lot of early Tibetan/Indian artwork of demons and gods that were clearly the primary inspiration for the Marilith, and they never have tops on. And this stuff is in art museums. Just sayin'.

Monster Manual II Tome of Magic (anything with more spells) Birthright Manual of the Planes Destiny of Kings (my personal favorite module) Arabian Adventures (I would prefer if Zakhara had nothing to do with FR)

The mammoth and the earth elemental both have 126 HP, the air elemental (the druid's best flying form) has 90 HP. So the druid has a 130 HP/round buffer on the ground and 90 in the air. The ancient red dragon (CR 24) can do about 90 points of damage per round, maybe 100 in its lair. That won't...

I actually really liked this preview. It shows three important things: 1. The deck has the same cards. 2. The cards probably all have the same classic effects from AD&D. 3. Magic items in general may even be more hardcore than in AD&D. Note that you can draw as many cards as you want. And if...

If the DM doesn't explain why only certain classes and races are allowed, he's doing himself a disservice. If he doesn't say "I don't want any Dragonborn/Tiefling/Halforc/Monk/whatever because my campaign is based on Arabian/Norse/Sumerian/Celtic myth or Tolkien or Vance or Howard or GRR Martin"...

I think it's totally reasonable for a DM to have house rules on resting (especially since it is such a radical change from classic D&D) or any other game system. But he should probably tell you this before you pick a character. In my campaign I made the healing rules a little more AD&Dish, but...

Other than limiting to CR 1/2 at level 2, I actually would not recommend going further to nerf the moon druid. By the time he hits 4th level, the druid no longer seems to be superior to other characters. If the moon druid can turn into a grizzly bear and be way more awesome than everyone else at...