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I mean, I watched that trailer like 10 times, and I’m not even a huge nerd, that view count isn’t uniques.

Impossible period. Only truly impossible things are now impossible. If you’re a weirdo and are gatekeeping things behind a DC 30 check you know full well no one in the party can pass, you’ve allowed that rolls are possible, before everyone would fail, but now everyone has a 5% chance. Edit...

No, any character has a chance to succeed at possible tasks. Impossible things are still impossible. Pretty big difference.

Sure, you can play that way, but that’s not the spirit of the new rule imho.

It has changed. Now anything possible for someone is possible for anyone. It’s only things that are impossible for everyone that don’t get rolls. DM can decide that while forcing this door is possible for someone, it’s not possible for this party and deny the roll, sure, but new RAW, if it’s...

I’m sure exploding dice are some statistical thing I’m not familiar with, but if their not, f-yeah, I think exploding dice would be the best solution to all rolls! Ok I know what they are, and that would add drama, but we’re only going through this dungeon once, taking things below a 5% chance...

Yeah, no. New rule says if it’s possible for someone to do it, it’s possible for anyone to do it, so in your example everyone gets a roll. Like Mom lifting car off their kid in those apocryphal stories, 5% chance of anyone doing a theoretically possible thing. If it’s just plain impossible...

It surely doesn’t matter whether you do or not, but being able to goose up a couple preferred stats makes people happy. Make people happy.

The players always “win“ in the end. This is kind of the default D&D way. Game is about finding out how they finish the adventure, and truly, death is but an minor obstacle in their path to victory. So I’m way on board with surprise crit’s from monsters. It’s a bitch, but since we all know...

Yeah but Guardians didn’t have to carry the burden of being a fantasy movie. LotR movies have blinded people to the fact that, generally, these things are box office poison. I wish them all the best but I think there’s a world in which the movie is both awesome and a failure. Or, what I...

That’s their estimated number of people who have EVER played. But fair point, they need all active players to go see the movie and only bring 5 friends.

Any race, class, or background can get to 20 in any stat they want to regardless of where these 3 points go. Just have players stick them wherever they want to, it doesn’t matter in the long run. Now capping some races in certain stats below 20 is really what would make “sense” in the Halfling...

The movie is a $100 million plus bet. It’s going to need to succeed on its own merits, any tie-in RPG products will be pulled by the movie, not push it. To be successful they not only need everyone who plays D&D to go see it, but to bring 10 friends. Sort of like the Guardians of the Galaxy...

So, it seems that WoTC design philosophy is very much going in the direction of letting players do whatever they want in creation of their characters. Imagine a character, we’re writing the rules so you can implement that dream w/o obstacles. And while I’m not opposed to this I wonder if...

I have one odd question on the art though. So many monsters are 1/6 or 1/4 the page. When commissioning the art, is the cost dependent on used size? Or do you get an art you can use at any size? Wondering cause some of the monsters are great and could use an expansion. I saw the same thing...

Hey, just wanna say, got my PDF and it’s great. The updated higher resolution one is much nicer Zooming in on the art. Fixes some of my thinking these monsters look foggy Thoughts. Still only 46MB. If you can do even higher resolution on the art for 100MB not a bad idea. Any way, just also...

I dnno how I define it, but when it comes up, I usually just say, ”sure, you can try, roll a d20”…and often don’t even know the DC. “Oh what’s that, 15+3?” “uh, yeah, that succeeds”.

Also, I just wanna say that in my world, darkvision is useful but not essential. All intelligent monsters living underground have physically or magically illuminated their home places with low light. People always forget that darkvision just lets you see badly in darkness. That’s no way to...

I‘ll just go out on a limb and say Dwarf only, plus some but not all Elves. Dwarves All the time underground even if not Duregar. Elves are so diverse, so ok some, but not all unless, not fighting it, you just wanna rule elves magic eyesight. All others I’d give darkvision to where...

Also, even random languages that you, as DM, don’t think will matter, can surprisingly pop up as useful. Current campaign, one of my PCs had a sidekick that had taken a vow of silence due to a past crime, would not speak to anyone and only communicated by hand signals to his main Character...