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Melee weapon attacks use Strength unless the weapon used has the finesse property, or another feature specifies that a different ability score can be used (i.e. monk martial arts feature, or the details of the shillelagh spell).

I've been working on that as a DM too (and I mean not just getting the players to do this, but to remember to do it myself), especially since we just started playing the Scarred Lands setting (my favorite) and arcane magic creates minor environmental disturbance (heat, light, wilting of plants...

I'd be delighted if the big book-o'-crunch happened to have psionics done up in a way that is reminiscent of 2nd edition psionics, since that would save me the time I will eventually spend to do them for myself. I really don't have strong desires for any new this or that; my group still has...

It's an interesting approach you've taken, and I hope it works (which more comes down to your own group of players and their ability to handle 'his character does X and mine doesn't' than any kind of objective balance point). However, my approach to this situation would be "You want to play a...

For the most part, those of us asking for players to say how their character is doing something are really just looking for "I try to collect intel on X from partygoers through chit-chat" (or you could end the sentence 'by asking' or 'with implication something bad will happen if I don't get the...

I will preface this by saying that I've not found myself in the position necessary to feel the negative feelings that some have stated a warlord character in their party could give them - because I am so rarely a player, rather than the DM, and the few warlords that I saw in play during 4th...

Characters at my table get retired under only two circumstances: A) when their player no longer wishes to play them; B) when the campaign they are part of is over (which is never determined by character level - we'll play at 20th level for six years if that's how long it takes to finish the...

There is a design space for prestige classes, but it is a very tricky space to get into, and once into not unintentionally fall out of. In general, I like the approach for prestige classes in the Scarred Lands Player's Guide; there are some which are only two levels and are more like a "super...

Doesn't make the claim a reasonable one, though.

Some of those things you say there aren't, there are - they just aren't exactly like their prior iterations. But nothing in 5e is exactly like a prior iteration, so there really isn't anything wrong with that. Those few things in this impromptu list that aren't in 5e, maybe they will be once...

Why did you get that impression? What, specifically, in my statements do you believe to be the cause? Because if you can't point that out for me, I'll certainly not be able to make sure my statements don't appear entirely different to you than I intend for them to, and I will continue to think...

I think you've missed the boat on this one. I can't unpack what you are actually asking me. I can, however, rephrase my statement in hopes that it helps you understand it in case the reason I don't understand your reply is rooted in you not understanding me: Accusing 5th edition of malicious...

It is not necessarily true that what were core classes in prior editions will be best fit into a new edition as core classes. After all, the Illusionist class got moved from it's own class to being a sub-class, and that worked out just fine, right? Where as my perception has things looking much...

I think it is arbitrary to insist that a concept be attempted as a core class, rather than be attempted in whatever form best matches concept to design paradigm. I literally cannot stop doing a thing that I have not begun doing. I can see how someone might choose to interpret that implication as...

Or that they threw 3.5 fans "under the bus" by not having high ability score provide additional spell slots, or by making feats a one-and-done prospect rather than a collect-three-to-finally-feel-its-worth-it one.

Not in my experience. But then, I think the time-save approach is there if a DM knows where to look; pick a row on the Monster Statistics by Challenge Rating chart in the DMG, and fine-tune with flavor and quickly pilfered traits from other monsters, trending toward the lower end of the hp...

If your goal is to have the party rest more often (either because that's the only way they can remedy levels of exhaustion, or because dealing with levels of exhaustion spends resources they could have used some other way and now need to replenish sooner), I think your house-rule will achieve...

See this is evidence of the unbridgeable gap I was talking about. You can't even look at my view of the analogy and see the same thing I am seeing when I look at it, because what class the "the character is descended from dragons" sub-class is attached to has no effect at all in determining...

I don't think that analogy is useful. It presumes that anything less than a full class specifically dedicated to a particular sort of character cannot possibly be the best attempt at including that sort of character that WotC can muster. To flip the analogy around to try and better illustrate...

I think that spells have more metrics by which to measure usefulness than only comparing damage amount and type, and as a result it is not so easy to say that scorching ray completely outclasses chromatic orb. Let's look at a few possible metrics to compare the two in detail (because I'm coming...