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Plus, even then, the sharpshooter is only picking off at most a number of hobgoblins equal to their attacks/round. That gives them a fair bit more time to make the front line PCs' and the big flashy wizard's lives difficult.

Why did I design this? It's not specifically for my Mystara campaign - it's for general use. It's because dragons are totally sweet. It's because the Moon Druid drives me insane (Wild Shape isn't as good as Polymorph, the class as a whole just doesn't work very well, and the first draft of the...

I hadn't planned on them doing so, but another GM could certainly rule they did. I don't see a balance reason not to, so whatever suits the campaign it's being used in.

Yeah. If a group of low-tier monsters are all clumped together, you might as well remove their XP from the encounter and instead figure out what the XP value of Fireball is, because that's all it's going to take to get rid of them. If they're spread out throughout a decent-sized encounter area...

So... when I press Backspace while editing a line of text, my cursor is often jumping to the end of the previous line instead of deleting the character before its previous location. This has mostly happened when I was copy-pasting a block of text (my two subclass designs) then adding italicized...

Another Tia special from my Mystara campaign - a Warlock tank subclass! This one's built on the arrival of the Giants (I imported them as an idea from Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved, which is probably the best game of the d20 Boom era and definitely worth checking out), who have started to...

I need to polish up the fluff of this one... like, by a LOT. But here's the basics. It's for my Mystara campaigns. The Red Curse of the Savage Coast kills all those who contract it… save the lucky few. Some children catch the curse early, and most of those die, but a tiny percentage of them...

I loved the Warlord in 4e - it was my favorite class in the first player's handbook, and one of my favorites through the run of the edition. The only tactician class I've ever liked better was Iron Heroes's Hunter. But I don't think it really needs to be a full class in 5e. I could see...

The dev team was already so disengaged from the forums that I didn't really notice.

The group XP multipliers really only work when the enemy has a lot of mobility and/or ranged attacks - a group of orcs with bows under bounded accuracy are an actual add to the difficulty of a fight with a Challenge 5 fiend, but a group of bandits with clubs really isn't because they can't bring...

Dragon+, though, is fairly awful. I've got the app on my phone... it's basically all marketing stuff. Nothing I don't already know from a dozen other sources by the time it hits.

I wouldn't have much trouble with rules that make D&D more deadly if D&D were a game that made retreat a viable option. It doesn't - opportunity attacks and matching-if-not-faster monsters almost always mean that pressing through and hoping for a lucky break will give a better chance of survival...

Because the primary designers of D&D are, and basically have always been, mostly Anglo-Saxons? In other words, people of Germanic and Norse descent. Can't appropriate what's already yours.

There's a better chance of OA appearing than anything Mystara or Oerth-related appearing. At least Kara-Tur is on Toril, the one planet I see us actually getting material for in the next few years.

Yeah... WotC dropped the ball here. A running theme of my understanding of 5e-era WotC is that they have the best designers - and by far the best game - D&D's ever had, but their corporate structure, outreach, and community engagement are a horrible mess. The closing of the forums is the most...

Well... apparently I'm here now. Huh.