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This is prevalent at the tables I play/DM D&D at. A lot of them get used with Charisma: Stealth for going under the radar at a soiree or in a crowd, Investigation to track down leads through questioning the locals, Religion to make a communal sacred ritual particularly impressive, and so on...

I agree completely- and this is subsequently a source of confusion for me. Doomspace sounds like a great concept - very similar, in fact, to my own plans for a darker Spelljammer campaign. Why then must we crowbar in an old campaign setting? Why not let Athas be Athas, and explore the...

I have put down cut out paper over the top of my maps. This worked pretty well, though once it's revealed, its revealed. Good for set-pieces and so forth. I have also built the map as I went along, adding in modular rooms. This worked fine, though set-up can be annoying, and the miniatures...

This has been an exceptionally useful read. Thank you!

Lockdown killed my game. Happily, it got better.

I guess this is just a difference in play style. All the tables I play/GM at consider investigating, learning lore and gathering information to be a core part of gameplay, rather than something that might take 'too much time'. We also like that the scholarly Bard will gain different information...

If you want to 'know about the saint' and want to know about her life and what she did, that is probably history. If you want to know what tenets of faith she espoused, that is probably religion. If you want to determine what magical abilities that she had access to, maybe arcana? I'd accept any...

About as much as someone saying 'I make a Perception check' as opposed to narratively describing a search! ;) It over-values Perception as a skill. It's like asking to roll Persusasion to tell a lie - it's not the right skill. If the DM is going to insist on detail about how I use a skill, they...

A pet peeve here, but aren’t you describing an investigation check there, rather than a perception check? Running fingers and methodically testing each flagstone seems much more like the 'you look around for clues and make deductions based on those clues' of Investigation than the 'general...

A Strength rogue can indeed use Strength with finesse weapons to still get sneak. It can be brutally effective with a dip into Barbarian for endless Reckless Attack advantage. To hit well with clubs and maces, but still be dexterous, you're better off being a monk. The martial arts/flurries...

I mean, Adventures in Space and Wildspace specifically began with a section on how to get your groundling characters into space, so from the get-go the assumption was that most parties would start on the ground and then discover a way into the Phlo (or the Astral, as it is now).

I think 5E's popularity stands on its own merits. A fun, accessible edition. If that makes it special, so be it. It's success certainly outstrips its predecessors, and the more people rolling dice and enjoying themselves, the better.

I think they missed a trick with Arcane Burst. It's a good, default spellcaster ability. Why not use it to clearly show the differences between casters? Why not use the various cantrip rider effects to do so? Necrotic Burst: Has Chill Touch's ability to shut down healing. Necrotic damage...

I think there are some interesting ways to spin this outside of Juggalos/It. I remember Terry Pratchett’s Fools Guild was headed by a legitimately terrifying Pierrot clown called Dr. Whiteface. I think going down the Warhammer Eldar Harlequin route might work too if you wanted something less...

Redcaps have a charge attack that is a Dex save (Ironbound Pursuit), so there is precedent for a charge without an attack. I’d completely agree with your player.

Death past the level you get revive dead spells in D&D is pretty pointless as a consequence, so no-death only really affects levels 1-5 unless the DM goes out of their way to disintegrate you or prevent a fairly routine restoration to life by a cleric. As a contrast, Heart is a dungeon crawler...

Looks like these guys have Forgotten the Realms of copyright infringement! Aaaaaooooooow!!!!!!

I go with the idea mountain dwarves live in the old holds in the mountains, hill dwarves are the more adventurous types who have begun to forge links with the surface (or left the holds due to overcrowding) and I guess ‘plains dwarves’ would be the ones who had fully embraced surface life. Not...

I used to buy pretty much every setting/compilation as it came out, and most of the adventures that interested me. Covid wrecked my regular games, and the result was that I reduced my buying down to zero and even reversed it, selling unused books once I had made peace with the fact that I was...

Definitely session related. I had one game I played in where the start time was advertised as 19:00, but the session didn't really start until 20.00 or even later because everyone was sitting on Roll20 yammering on. It's fine when your players are genuinely friends (and in person it's part of...