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I suggested two 5e initiative systems for the face to face games i was playing in to speed up turn transition and reduce order tracking time: 1 Everyone rolls init normally but the order goes from highest first then around the table in seating arrangement order starting with them so it is...

I find that usage die mechanics would often be more cumbersome than actually tracking individual arrows if you are adding a roll after each bow shot and then possibly needing to adjust your supply rating. Again with my high level fighter shooting five arrows a round five extra die rolls and...

My friend was in Wisconsin where I went to college, but I have been on the east coast for the last 27 years and none of my local groups here had any overlap besides me and would not have gotten any references. His big character in the game we played in was Gimle the high level dwarf fighter who...

The sources I have from 1e to 3e never really covered how Iuz the Old became a demigod either with a mostly mysterious past. 5e is weird in calling him both a demigod and full god and then making distinctions about demigods not granting spells but listing him as a full spell-granting god on...

Also these 5e battlezoo feats are based on and compared with 14 5e feats and not the 24 origin and other type feat categories and baseline of 24 5e?

I remember that PF2e remastered dropped a bunch of D&Disms like alignment and chromatic and metallic dragons along with the OGL, were demons such as mariliths in that dropped group as well?

That is only 24 5e for sorcerers and wizards where they get all simple weapons, in 14 5e they only got light crossbow proficiency and not shortbows. Warlocks got all simple weapons in both 14 and 24 PHs.

I think that raises a different problem. Some games have a lot of one shot death potential and they make combat much more tense with big consequences. Low level D&D particularly older D&D, lots of save or die in old D&D or potential rocket tag in high level 3e, WFRP unless you are designed as...

Thanks for posting the MM and DMG sections. I am getting my sources from the post I was directly responding to and the threads on the Greyhawk lore in the 24 DMG. I don't have direct access to either of the 24 MM or DMG lore (I only have the 24 PH and the 14 MM and DMG). So the posts I had...

My condolences. I had a friend from college who I played in a D&D game with who died as well but it was a number of years ago and I did not incorporate him in my games. Options that come to mind though. Did you do an ongoing campaign in college where he had a signature PC who could become an...

How so? Most mundane ammo tracking analogous items like daily rations in number of meals are not super useful for a lot of contexts. Are you talking about basically giving everyone summon appropriate individual minor item abilities?

The problem with leave lore for setting books is that there is no baseline lore a setting can rely upon or diverge from. The 24 DMG provides no monster lore for its sample Greyhawk setting and relies upon the MM or the DM to fill in its blanks. Greyhawk and Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance and...

It always seemed feasible in my view for D&D archers to run out of arrows in an adventure, though less likely in a single fight. AD&D archers shot two arrows a round from level 1, and specialists could get off a third with an opening strike. 3.5 archers really got going with iterative attacks...

Eh, kind of. 5e Bonus actions are a renamed 4e minor action, which are a renamed 3.5 swift action, which were developed in later 3.5 to more systemetize the action type of the once per round quicken spell metamagic which granted a spell a casting time of free action instead of standard action...

Ships of War 3.5 Undead: ?

That's a pretty big lore change for them, particularly for Iuz the most famous exemplar of cambions in D&D and an important figure in Greyhawk. Does it say anything about Iuz's origin as a cambion now that it is not son of Iggwilv and Grazz't?

I think combat pacing is generally big for player engagement and fun during D&D combat. Fiddly mechanics that only sometimes come up in relevance are a drag on pacing because you kind of need to pay attention to them to implement their effect even if it is normally not that relevant. 3.0 D&D had...

It has been a while since I made a character that uses something with limited ammo. Mostly I have things like at will 5e cantrips or one off throwing weapons that I do track or go full melee. That is fairly by design because I like those types of characters and so I don’t have to track ammo. As...

The tarrasque I like the new 24 one better, more details and more hooks to go off of. It is also a longer description than the 14 one, which second hand seems an exception to most 24 versus 14 descriptions.

Thanks! Reading both for the aboleth I prefer the 14 description overall. 24 it starts off sounding like they maybe just consume brains for food like illithids as a psionic predator thing until you get to the second chart entry that says it is a method they can use to learn about the world. I...