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Final Fantasy 2/4 came out in 1991. The healing system in that game (and nearly every JRPG after that) is the same as the healing system 5e has now. If one of your party members was reduced to 0 hp, you either cast "Life" (a low level spell) or used a "Phoenix Down" (a 100gp potion) to...

Back in the day pornographic films had story, and people though that the quality of the story was as important as the quality of . . . everything else. Modern porn has little to no story and is mostly described in terms of the attributes and abilities of the performers in the film. 5e Paladin...

An automatic 18 in your core stat, and then 1d8+10 for your other stats, arange to taste. Unless it was Dark Sun, then 1d10+10.

I think "Blade" best encapsulates my thoughts on going from 5e to 2e: Some MF'ers are always trying to ice skate uphill.

I love HP = Meat because it means every fight in D&D looks like a fight in Soulcalibur, yet those same people often get all huffy if you play D&D "like a videogame."

And at the end of the movie he realizes he gave up his original uniquely designed monster friends in favor of hit point bags that can occasionally cast spells.

It makes perfect sense to me. 4e was basically the unpopular overweight nerd who, upon learning he would be transferring schools, lost a bunch of weight, learned about popular trends, and bought a new stylish wardrobe, and gave himself the nickname 5e.

But it is still a shared experience, its just that one player is mentally replacing the word "greatsword" with the word "signpost of awesomeness"; the narrative remains the same, its just the mental picture that is different.

How do you possibly enforce that in a game of imagination. I feel like most players would just say, "ok, fine, greatsword" to get the DM to shut up and then picture their character however they please.

My players just summoned Gryff XX the other day. They are being more careful with him since its the 20th anniversary edition.

Garbage that usually makes the game less fun.

I highly recommend checking out OVA (the open versatile anime RPG). While OVA is my favorite rules light game, in the 90s I loved the TSR Marvel superheroes RPG which always felt pretty light.

You monster!

Short answer: Yes Long answer: Yeeeeessssss Longer answer: I play DnD to have fun and I want my fun maximized. If a DM proposes a new rule, I expect it to increase fun. A rule that decreases fun is a pointless waist of time. Just about every optional rule introduced in Xanathar's...

And that is perfectly fine, but in my case, the DM was a new member of the weekly RPG group I established a decade ago, that is hosted in my home, where my wife and I provide dinner. I made it perfectly clear to the DM that a sleeping in armor rule would not agree with me a month before...

I've never quit a game, but when I played in a ToA game that was AL legal so the DM could get AL DM rewards, Xanathar's had not yet been released. As I mostly DM, I was excited to finally get to play a heavy armor and shield using tempest cleric. At the beginning of the campaign the DM asked...

I felt like I was reading an article on the best DMing practices of 1986.

Classes are just mechanics, fluff is great but inherently meaningless. If the campaign has wizards then the cleric class just uses a different type of magic. Perhaps nano-machines from an alien civilization reprogram DNA to give certain humanoids strange new powers.

It sounds like a stand-using bear who's power is to summon a punch-ghost bear.

No matter how serious I think I want my campaign to be, it always becomes Borderlands. I have one question for you En World. Explosions!?!!!?