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Honestly? Whatever inspires you. You'll have an easier time running if what you're running captures your imagination.

Using rolled HP makes you a bad person. Not really. It just makes you a person whose ideas of good design are utterly baffling to me. And baffling me is mean, and THAT makes you a bad person.

The only reason I don't do it this way - which I think is objectively superior - is that they will get my damage dice - whether I am a player or a DM - when they pry them from my cold, dead hands. Then they will find that those dice are coated in a contact poison I have spent years developing an...

I'm playing a Bladesinger in the next campaign I'm a player in. I'm REALLY looking forward to her. But I'm going to miss my current Abjurer's Ward and especially Improved Abjuration. She's basically able to swat down opposing spells at will while still having the slots to blast and remove...

Even if your combo were more powerful than just building a character - and people have kinda shown that it's not, this rule wouldn't help with it. Because the rule allows the use of the full set of mechanics necessary to enact it. Just like your 3.5 rule didn't help with 3.5 - what it did was...

WotC isn't in the business of selling RPG books, though they sell lots of books so that they can do the things they are (or at least their D&D arm is) in the business of doing - movies, video games (very much video games - have you seen the recent level of coordination they've put forth with...

I'll bite, because, while I agree with the ruling, this here isn't true. 5e sandboxes options from each other, and does so hard. Subclasses basically don't interact with each other. Spells basically don't interact with each other. Racial abilities outside ability increases (which are linear and...

This is not actually inherently correct, and 5e's basic design in fact vastly mitigates this. Why? Because it expands in ways that are generally sandboxed from each other. Multiclassing aside (it's both totally an optional rule and generally more trouble than it's worth), you get one class...

One thing I honestly enjoy about 5e's design is how space-efficient new options are. Each subclass in the book - of which there are a lot, each taking less than a page - is multiple player character concepts by itself. To be hefty, a book doesn't need hundreds of pages of crunch any more.

Nothing. Nothing my local game store does not also get. Except, perhaps, a restructuring of Epics so that smaller cons can do them too (as long as the only place for Epics in my region is PAX, I will never play an Epic, for PAX's people have made clear that they do not want my kind there...

There's also variation in length of adventure. I can run The Curse of Xanathon in about two four-hour sessions, probably with time left over. But Horde of the Dragon Queen or Temple of Elemental Evil might eat half of a years-long campaign. There's no standardized unit of measure in RPGs. But...

Yeah... in another game, I'd likely adjust it. Huh. Maybe some GM guidance on rules of thumb for adjusting downtime costs would be a good idea. "How many adventures should it take for a PC to pick up a tool/language their player really wants them to have, on average?"

Eh. I don't do jealousy. I think that having the stores able to give out all the certs would be good business and good for the health of the game. That I also think it is the right thing to do helps.

I've been to cons. They're fun, you get to do things there nobody else does, meet the designers of your games and actors in yoyr shows (I had drinks with a group of voice actors including Scott McNeil at AKon). In other words, going to the con is its own reward. Denying certs to people who...

Your last paragraph is pretty wrong. Gaming in general is actually not terribly inviting to... well, much of anyone, which is pretty awful. I've generally been lucky. I've dealt with very few problems - but when I've had a problem, it has been compounded by the general tendency of gamers to...

Hopefullt said certs will be available to the average player, rather than put behind a wall that would cost me abou three week's pay to climb.

Cities in general are relatively progressive. But when nobody actually shows up to vote, bad things happen. That nobody showed up to vote, though, shows the depth of a lot of problems. Trans folks are going to keep getting hurt if our allies (we make up less than 1% of the population; we...

Yeah. Somehow your name ended up in a quote of my post. Which he also totally missed the point of.

Yeah, but keeping my hopes up for years costs too many calories and I'm already having a hard time keeping weight on. :)

Heh. I'm kind of running around in my head on this one, because I'm a fairly firm believer in not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. So I'm going to say a few things as preamble. 1. Given the overall design philosophy of AL, this decision is really, really good. It's flexible and...