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Barbarian 5 You're cool. You can stay. Bard 14 Cleric 22 Druid 22 Fighter 21 Monk 15 Get out of my player's handbook! Out, out I say! Paladin 14 Ranger 20 Rogue 22 Warlock 20 Wizard 26

Artificer 18 Not core, but cool. So is the Warlord. :) Barbarian 20 Bard 20 Cleric 20 Druid 20 Fighter 20 Monk 14 The only class I'd remove from the PHB Paladin 18 Ranger 21 Rogue 20 Sorcerer 18 Warlock 20 Wizard 20

I have to say I have no interest in beginner boxed sets with tie-ins to Stranger Things or Rick and Morty. But I'd much, much rather Wizards produce those than something that would appeal to me. Because THOSE are what bring new players in the door. Those are the sets some 13 year old's cool...

As someone who has played every edition of D&D from Black Box and AD&D 2nd through D&D 5e: I want WotC, "core D&D", to be vanilla. To be friendly. Easy. Welcoming. I want it to be basic. I want it to be the training wheels and the basic chassis of roleplaying. I want it to be the freaking...

I supported the Thousand Year Old Vampire kickstarter and am awaiting my hardcopy... looks like it could be an interesting way to brew up new villains for my vampire-heavy 5e Midgard campaign. :)

Dwarf 18 Elf 6 Half-elf 6 Halfling 8 The wrong short race was cut. HALFLINGS SUCK Human 8

Damn. Well. I hope the lines have died down in five years when I take my son. :)

Now it's down to only the 2e PHB races... the way it should be. Dwarf 20 Elf 15 Gnome 11 The fun "short race" Half-elf 16 Halfling 14 The boring "short race" Human 19

In college I ran an SWRPG campaign that was set 800 years before the films... and the PCs (all Jedi) encountered a very reckless, but very talented young Jedi Knight... named Yoda. He was a troubled, berserk goblin with a lightsaber. (If you go by the stats in the SWRPG revised book, in his...

Dwarf 23 Elf 24 Gnome 16 Half-elf 21 Half-Orc 10 People only play you for the STR bonus, anyway Halfling 18 Human 25

Dragonborn 17 GET OUT OF MY PHB Drow 20 Dwarf 20 Eladrin 18 Elf 20 Gnome 18 "Not a core race" my foot! Half-elf 20 Half-orc 20 Halfling 20 Human 21 Tiefling 20

Also, while we're mentioning tips for keeping campaigns going: In my current campaign, I started by writing recaps after each session. But I quickly realized that these added a lot to my workload. However, there's a very gifted writer in my group who eagerly took to the job of being the...

I actually meant it as a joke - the guy is more like the Hulk Hogan of DMs. Critical Role is to Roleplaying as Pro Wrestling is to Wrestling - fun to watch, but scripted and not an accurate portrayal of the reality of the thing in question.

A 12 year old can play basketball, too, but unless you're the 12 year old's dad, you probably don't want to invest a lot of time into watching 12 year olds play basketball. You want to watch LeBron James play basketball. As a DM, I know that people are coming to my table to be entertained...

Having returned to gaming a few months ago after 14 years away, and loving it... -I plan to continue the campaign I'm running to a fitting conclusion - then start a new one! -Once my son is a few years older and I've finished the certifications I'm working on, I'll probably switch it up from...

Alternity was great and killed far too early. Still my second-favorite non-D&D/d20/OSR RPG (after WEG d6 Star Wars).

I've never found non-fantasy Science Fiction to be very satisfying to run as it always seems a little lacking in the power-accumulation side of things, which is part of what makes D&D so compelling - leveling and acquiring powers and magic items is fun! While you can add elements of this to a...

Where dwelleth the Prince of the Purple Worms? I think I just found my newest high-level BBEG. ducks

Hindsight is 20/20. Having been a manager or consultant with five small businesses/startups now, I know just how easy it is for everything to go wrong, and how many different culprits there can be. Building a business that ALSO creates a new industry or leads innovation in an industry is...

It was a bit disappointing to have my pet fan theory - that Rey was Anakin reincarnated - shot apart. Rey being Palpatine's granddaughter doesn't work quite as well... unless, as was implied in Ep 3 and Ep 9, Anakin (and thus the Skywalkers) was Palpatine's creation. In which case the final...