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Sure I totally get that. However, you don't actually need to buy any book you don't want. Nobody is going to force you to buy stuff you don't want. Btw I love your user name, I'm a big 40k fan.

Pathfinder and 4E are by far my favorite editions of D&D, and I love to read so the image of a ton of books doesn't scare me. It just makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Thanks for that!

Umm...that's like saying "We already have the Fighter, why do we need a Barbarian or Paladin or any other class that can swing a sword? One class that can swing a sword should be enough" NO. Because diversity is a good thing.

I'll read what's in those links and see if that helps. I guess I'm used to running games with more rules to them, like Pathfinder and the Warhammer 40k rpgs. This was the first time I ever read a section on skills and thought "Huh??". Thanks for the help everyone!

Agreed. Expecting the developers at WOTC to intuitively know your preferred flavor is ludicrous. If you don't like the fluff, replace it with something you do like. Problem solved.

Ability checks I understand, it's skills that are unclear. Specifically, what skills do what. For example, what is the point of Investigation when there is a Perception skill? What is Nature used for? What skills are used to identify monsters? Skills are the one aspect of 5E that causes more...

Huh. So my approach of just handwaving everything and assuming they succeed at skill checks was correct? How strange. I only did that because after reading the PHB I still had no idea how skill checks were supposed to work.

Sounds good, but how do I know which skill is appropriate since the PHB barely says anything about skills? I'll give an example: one player wants to use Perception to look for something at a crime scene and the other player wants to use Investigation. Which one is correct?

Pathfinder has a few less skills, but yes pretty similar.

As a DM I absolutely despise two things about 5E: saving throws and skills. Skills is what's relevant here, so I'll only discuss that. Uses for each skill in 5E are described either vaguely or not at all. Assigning DCs is also extremely vague. I often don't have the slightest clue what skill...

I couldn't agree more. Psionics is not inherently sci fi and can be imagined to be anything. It could be mind magic, or manipulation of energies from the Astral Plane, or whatever. That "No psionics in my D&D" attitude seems to come from a lack of imagination and a general attitude of "I don't...

Isn't Pern a fantasy series?

See, I've never understood what psionics has to do with sci fi. I've seen alot more psionics in fantasy books than in sci fi books. Where does this idea that psionics is sci fi even come from?

I love psionics and hate magic, mostly because of the image. Psionics has the cool Professor X image of briefly closing your eyes and concentrating, then BAM! Something miraculous happens. Whereas magic has that Harry Potter image of some dork in a bathrobe speaking gibberish, waving a stick...

Well first, reach weapons really aren't worth using without feat support, either Sentinel or Polearm Master. However, both of those feats greatly increase the number of times you can OA. My favorite is Polearm Master because it lets you OA any time someone enters your reach, meaning when they...

Yes it still works the same way with reach weapons, unless you have the Polearm Master feat. With that feat, you get an OA when they enter your reach.

There are plenty of reasons to go Strength over Dex: 1. You can't finesse polearms. Polearm Master ftw! 2. Not everyone wants to use a glorified knitting needle for a weapon. 3. Not everyone wants to spend every session begging their DM for a magic rapier. Much less begging for a magic rapier...

I love me some psionics, but the Mystic need more work, it's not even close to ready. Frankly, v3 was a big step back from v2, not forward. We ended up with melee builds that are absolute trash and ranged builds that were stupidly broken. Needs alot of work, I'll wait patiently for the final...

I have a number of issues with 5E personally, but it's ridiculous to say that it hasn't been a commercial and critical success. I'm not a huge fan of the system and I only play it because my group wants to play it, but I'd never say that it's a failure or that 6E is just around the corner. Those...

I've played with this type of GM before and all I can say is get out as soon as possible. Once a GM gets a taste for nerfing a particular player's character, you become that GM's designated b*tch until you leave the game. I know because I've been in your position: where no matter how many nerfs...