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The whole UK series was great and underrated. I especially like UK1 Beyond the Crystal Cave when I played in 1e and 3e. I8 Ravager of Time was also great but quite railroady from memory.

I am in two minds because I play with one group that loves 5E for a fun and fast paced game, and one group that prefers 4E because it has more detailed character building options and more tactical combat. Depending on my mood I either see a lot of problems with 5e (or missed...

Like: I really liked how they have placed the complexity into classes and backgrounds, rather than the system. I think they really nailed the cleric, bard, warlock and paladin both in terms of complexity but also the style of the breadth of archetypes. Dislike: Like others in this thread I am...

I view roleplaying as a function but of developing and achieving goals rather class role. Achieving goals is informed by personality, allegiances and world view (which may include some consideration of class function but could also include race or background). I see class role as more about...

This is a great overview of the editions,but the war game element has always been there in D&D (and perhaps stronger in 1e) and non-combating role playing has always been shaped by the DM. I see 4e more in terms of "mechanics everywhere" which back up long existing aspects of D&D, rather than...

Just to be clear are you are porting 4e into 5e - or the other way around?

This is very good advice. You have to think of 4e adventures like scenes in a film, because combats are so substantial. I would add that adding interesting/challenging terrain is important, as is having other goals in combat other than winning the fight every once and awhile (rescuing the...

This post captures my experience. I currently play both a 4e campaign and a 5e campaign. 5e is a great introduction to roleplaying and does a fantastic job of feeling like the previous editions of D&D but I feel like 4e is a better game with more challenging/interesting monsters and much more...

Surely necrotic should be physical damage? I like the idea of the mental -physical divide but in practice I am not sure it adds much - but I guess I would have to see it in action to be sure.

In all campaigns (except my first 1e campaign), we have levelled up after a rest. We all accept that the PCs have been learning on the job!

Yeah, I would vote for come and get it. I also like the ways powers in 4e combine, for eg come and get it in action is combined with an area of attack spell once the enemies are bunched up. Disruptive strike is a pretty cool ranger power which is pretty cool and useful way to prevent incoming...

For what it is worth I think 5e needs more backgrounds than classes or feats. I do not think the game needs more damn spells. But yeah the tradeoff between ASI and feats seemed like a really good gaming idea, but the reality is that our table is that it a loathed tradeoff. Players want to have...

We are all going to have a different view of this. I quite like the recent editions, so I see a lot of 2e and 3e in 5e (and only tidbits of 4e, unfortunately in my view) . But I guess we agree that 5e could be adapted to include other editions/playstyles. But was Monte a champion for 1e/2e? I...

Yep. This would be a far better name for a book of rule and game options which are not required to play D&D. Frankly I think 5e needs this kind of offering. I am not sure what the DM Guild will offer in this regard. 5e has such a broad space for rules, options, monsters and classes etc but only...

Yeah I remember a whole lot of of use of the term modularity. WOTC posted an elaborate blog post where they split D&D into basic, standard and advanced D&D with different styles and game systems (I cant find the article). But the eventual PHB and DMG essentially had a standard account with...

Agree. For me 5e takes a bit too long to create the character concept I am looking for (so a feat at first level seems to be a good idea). Feats are also so uneven and few in number/type. But the deeper issue for me is one of character progression (for martial classes especially): sometimes I...

I have a party with a cleric, druid, bard and paladin. They are all handy with healing, but I am a barbarian so when I rage I kind of heal as well because I only take half damage (But I dont share!).

I love 5e clerics - the various Domains give really distinct flavours. The Tempest domain is great - our Dwarven Tempest cleric is dangerous in combat and also the tank of the party. I have also been a life cleric and it was great. The only thing I kind of miss is that in 4e healing and general...

I should add that I would much prefer to play a streamlined version of 4e which has a background mechanic (which links PCs to the gameworld better than themes) and a few other things. But I see importing 4e elements into 5e as being much more likely that a revision of 4e, so my thoughts are...

I agree with seeing the 2e stylings. 5e feels like 2e with cantrips to me. But I think 5e could be the foundation for a more elaborate, tactical, high fantasy game ala 4e. With regards to the topic of this thread I think it would be easier to add in 4e elements to 5e than strip down 4e. Aside...