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I did a Neverwinter campaign a few years ago. I had it so that the magic that bound the primordial had been created by a wizards guild (which eventually became the waterclock guild) that set up shop in what later became Neverwinter. Turns out that the massive ritual that they used bound planar...

IMO players have the right to read any book they choose. But they shouldn't assume that just because it's in a book that it's in the game or even if it is, that it works exactly like it does in the book. That said I am a bit of a rules lawyer in that I want consistency in the rules. A group...

I don't know what the folks here want anymore. Option after option for how to do a game that doesn't require a healer has been presented in this thread but every time they're dismissed as "obvious" or why would I do that. Short of kidnapping a designers and having them re-write the game just...

While a totally valid way of playing and enjoying the game, I think a character focused on healing is a relatively new concept to RPGs. It only really started in the video game subgenre as far as I am aware. Red box, 1e, 2e, and 3e clerics were all melee characters. Later specialty priests...

Personal opinion, but I think it does. Bards, Paladins, Rangers (Do they still get healing?) all get access to healing abilities. Plus, I'm pretty sure that there are feats and backgrounds that give more access to healing. It's a sacrifice the other players have to make though. Choose to go...

I haven't seen the "wasting your turns to heal" argument until 5e, but I'm pretty sure I've seen lots of numbers included in those posts. So I chalk it up to the white room math folks that like to boil the game down to the mathematically optimal course of action/attack/spell/ability/etc...

I'm on a government selected extended holiday in a third world country, so I too am waiting on Amazon to send it to me. Now, if I could just find a group...

I'm not trying to convince you of anything. I'm merely pointing out that your proposal of an alternate system that enhances the others when a healer isn't present could create the opposite situation where the group refuses to allow a healer because they like that feature. I don't think a...

There's quite a difference between hot coffee which would scald and cause 1st degree burns, about the equivalent of a bad sunburn, and coffee so hot that it causes third degree burns, as in burned clear through the skin and down into the flesh.

But now you've just created a separate problem where one player wants to play a cleric, but in doing so, everyone else looses access to that optional rule. This could create just as much division as the group that insists that someone play the cleric.

I think you can work together. So, 27 years for two, and 13.5 years for 4, etc. That would make it a bit more manageable.

Book of Erotic Fantasy if I recall correctly.

While increasing the allowable dex modifier is traditional, I think it would affect bounded accuracy too much so I like the route they chose for this iteration.

Or just say that dwarves can make thematically appropriate (or any) magic items. That's the beauty of 5e.

Give him a Rapier, fluff it to a katana then fluff the 2h wielding. If your looking for mechanical benefits, making it a versatile weapon wouldn't break the game.

The point that you are missing is that the default for bounded accuracy is NO magic items. None. Zero. Zilch. Nadda. This has been stated by the developers on several occasions. If a DM chooses to give out magic items then that DM is choosing to stretch or break the bounded accuracy. I...

I admit that I could be mistaken. Unfortunately I'm literally half a world away from my books right now so I can't double check. I swear that the treasure list in the DMG has values assigned next to each item. That could be the XP value though. But by my fuzzy recollection, XP and GP were...

I agree that it's a totally valid way of playing, but I don't agree that there is no support for it. We've been leaked a basic preview of costs by rarity. I think they met you half way. If a group wants a more detailed price guide, it's up to them to create it. I think WotC has struck a good...

To me, this is a table issue and not a game issue. The modules are there as options. They're not going to fully playtest and balance every option or combination of options. That would exponentially increase the development time. They've provided a working solution with the caveat that there...

So many good example of ways to spend gold. But they all have one underlying theme in common, a campaign. For the beer and pretzel style of game where people get together, raid a dungeon, spend their gold outside of the game, then get together for the next game there is no real outlet for that...