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Ah. Definitely a mistake by the people who made it, but had a good outcome for the bystanders. I can't help but think that the OGL crisis was similar: WotC made a mistake that cost them a lot of trust and some custom, but it is one of the better things to happen to the TTRPG community overall...

They didn't. But to torture your analogy further, they made it like a tractor bearing: simple and robust. You can use it in an aircraft engine, but you should probably get an aircraft mechanic to tweak it for that role, otherwise it will underperform.

No matter how tight the maths are, they can't compensate for the variations in the people who play the game. The reason that 5e CR seems to low-ball the encounter difficulties is because it is there as a tool for beginner DMs running encounters for new players with unoptimised characters and...

Initiative is only rolled when an attack or other action that starts the conflict is declared. The arrow is drawn back and loosed, the first words of the fireball spell are chanted, the sword clears the sheath and is swung etc. Now, it is unlikely, but possible that the character of the player...

I take it that you want to be a Beast Mastery Ranger who rides their companion? Rather than just having a horse, or summoning a steed? In D&D 2024, humans can be Small size. So you could ride your normal companion. Ask your DM to adjust the statblock of the Beast of the Land to make it Large...

"The Emperor protects" " . . . an' that's cuttin' me own froat." "Innit." "Consider that." "Wouldn't you say?" "No skin off my nose either way."

Decide the niche you want the spell to fulfil. If it is for dedicated gishes to boost their damage, scale it at +1d8/2 levels upcast. If it is to give spellcasters more melee/close up damage, keep existing scaling, but it only activates 1/round.

I very much get the impression that Advanced 5e, and almost all of the "D&D-like" games created at the OGL point are not trying to jockey for D&D's market position. From the advertising I've seen, they are not trying very hard to bring new people into the TTRPG hobby, but rather marketing to...

Ah. Yes - This would cause definite problems. Assuming a ~4 hour evening session, there is no way you can fit a balanced adventuring day in there. Unless your group are very efficient in decision-making and rolling during combat, you're not going to get nearly enough fights in , let alone...

Our AL club has a sign-up system where people who want to DM state the module they will be running and when, and this gets posted up on an event organisation site, and people who want to play sign up for those sessions. Some members DM a lot, but there aren't any designated DMs. DM burnout is...

Shields: Bonus action sounds good. Until D&D differentiates between different shield types, requiring a full action just to open your hand and drop something you were holding seems wrong. I'd be very tempted to give shields a Mastery property as well. Exhaustion: Agreed. DCs set by the stats of...

The characters might not be invested in "fighting against evil" for its own sake, but they must be invested in something. What do they want, and how might the cult activity be interfering in that? They might not oppose the cult just because it is evil, but they aren't going to allow it to stomp...

While Artificers can fit into any D&D world, it would be annoying to have to buy FR content and fluff in order to get access to them.

It was an issue with spells like Destructive wave, Find Greater Steed and Swift Quiver etc. The Bard used to not only get earlier access to those spells, but also cast them at higher levels if they improved with upcasting.

On the plus side, it also stops full casters like Bards from pilfering signature spells of the half-casters and being able to use them earlier and better than the Rangers and Paladins.

There are seven+ arcane gishes currently available via subclasses. The majority of these fall into the pit of having extra attack, so their playstyle generally revolves around casting a buff or two then just fighting in melee with weapon attacks or the odd cantrip. If I was going to create a...

A D&D 2024 warlock with those invocations and a build/spells to match is considerably better than "merely adequate" in melee. If a character sinking only half of their resources into doing something makes them almost as good as the class dedicated to that thing, there is a problem. If you want...

Another reason for concentration was to "throttle" spellcasting rate to reduce the prevalence of the 5 round working day. By preventing pre-casting of summons, buffs etc for a fight, the spellcasters would have more slots available for the next fight. Throwing up a powerful concentration spell...

More full translations of the core 3 books into other languages, and price on D&D beyond set based on locality.

You can still do this! Just get your blacksmith to dip 7 levels of Wizard.