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I agree that spontaneous magic was taken from sorcerers. I will even go so far as to say it shouldn't have been. I will disagree they won the exchange. In our games EVERYONE picks sorcerer as THE better choice.

I still play them(though often as the OSR form of game) and I play 5E. Both are good games.

Making a game easier to win doesn't always mean better. Also you can still make a character far more effective than someone else,it's just the less effective character is still going to win against the typical threat. Some people like to play games that are hard to win for the challenge. Knowing...

5E is very easy and takes a lot of breaking rules or house rules to fix. The balance between pc's and monsters is VERY out of whack. Compared to many of the older editions. Basically the farther back you go the harder the game gets.

In older editions metamagic was a wizard thing. It was taken from them in 5E and given to sorcerers.

I do agree that seems to be the new way of looking at things. It's just that for a long time things didn't work that way. For this new way. It seems like they would have made new casters that used the magic in the new way. Why use the old way if you knocked out the building blocks for why it...

One thing I dislike about 5E is the blurring between these two magic types. There used to be a certain amount of Niche Protection. There was a clear way arcane and divine powers were not only used but gained. Divine Magic came from the Gods or Godlike forces and you had to have faith to use...

I love the OSR games as well. Mostly because for whatever reason I do not have to spend as much time making "encounters". I would love to play Swords and Wizardry or AD&D or even Castles and Crusades but my players have no interest in those. They pretty much just want to play whatever D&D is the...

What I meant by that is the D&D playstyle is far more popular. I like dungeon world, my players do not. That is often the case with games outside of D&D. I like them and talk people into playing for a short time but everyone wants to go back to D&D pretty quickly. From my experiences most...

Double is my guess. It really does add a extra layer of work to running a game,you can't just show players anything unless you have scanned it,uploaded it,made it into a useable form for roll20 and then make sure its in a good spot to use it in game. Heck there are times I can't even alter the...

I spent some time drawing locations. My group plays online so even when I use theater of the mind, I like to give the players at least a floorplan to look at. 5E tends to have more enemies on the board so for most battles I build a encounter map. Since I do not rail road players in general, I...

Most everyone would. There is a huge reason games like D&D are king and games like Dungeon World"a game I do like,just not as much as D&D" struggle to lift off.

So go ahead. Give us some advice on this subject grounded in D&D 5E.How should the players be equally responsible? In what way? I just spent four hours making my groups next adventure. How do I get each player to put in there four hours?What do they spend that time doing? How does a player...

Of course there is a burden on DM's that the players don't have to worry about. While DM's hopefully find that burden worthwhile and perhaps even fun, it's still a burden. Anything else is poppycock in a game even slightly similar to D&D. It equates to a carpenter spending days framing out a...

The DM is the MOST IMPORTANT PLAYER of the game so that the PLAYERS can be the MOST IMPORTANT people at the game. That is kinda deep and easy to get wrong but it's as real a answer as you can get.

I don't blame you. Back in the 1990's I felt the same way. Now,not so much but then now I'm fine with Dragonborn Tieflings and all the rest. My idea of what the D&D world looked like changed over time. Still not ready for Lizardman pc's though..... I don't think there is a right or wrong answer...

Only if you make it so. but even then...replace Elistraee with any good deity and continue.Shrug, im just saying there are ten thousand easy ways that make sense for Drow low level pc's just like what I describe. It's as easy or difficult as the DM wants. If you dislike the idea of Drow PC's...

A Drow Priestess of Loth fell in love with a male Drow adventurer deep in the underdark. Love blossomed and the hero melted her dark heart until they both fled the underdark and into the embrace of Eilistraee. After many trials and adventures ther ended up as heroes in a surface city and settled...

Obviously D&D overextended itself! Why is this even being debated? THE GAME HAS BOTH GNOMES & PALADINS! I have even heard that Perkins guy talking about Gnome Paladin's Declare Bold statements! Issue Dire Warnings! Bemoan possible Fate!

Gnome Paladins are on the rise!