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Interesting question, but I honestly don't see any reason to choose one or the other. While playing a wide-eyed halfling ranger amazed at the wonders around her...I'm still going to bring the pain when needed, provide the party with valuable succor, and enter full-on homicidal psychosis whenever...

I enjoyed Minions, and have imported them into 5E to some extent. But, let's not jump into the gamism vs. verisimilitude tar-pit again! Only evil can come of it.

Lights! That looks awesome.

I play in a group whose DM doesn't allow anything except core (although he was persuaded to allow the UA Ranger, much to my relief!), and I haven't yet found any reason to disallow 3PP material. My next campaign will probably have Mercer's Gunslinger, for example. I don't know how I'd feel if I...

I play in a group whose DM doesn't allow anything except core (although he was persuaded to allow the UA Ranger, much to my relief!), and I haven't yet found any reason to disallow 3PP material. My next campaign will probably have Mercer's Gunslinger, for example. I don't know how I'd feel if I...

If you were to raise a poll, a I would report about a 5 round average. I have to say that combat length in 5E has struck a good balance between the blink-and-you-miss-them fights of AD&D and the overlong, condition-strewn fights of 4E. Both extremes have their value, and you can still achieve...

Do you think that stigma is rooted in its history, or just part of the general aversion to nerdiness suffered by much of the population? I had an interesting night at a friend's birthday party over the weekend. He's a passionate roleplayer, and our entire group was invited. As I got talking to...

I'm usually on during the working day, GMT. I'd be happy to nuke obvious spam when I'm around. Edit: Actually it just occurred to me I only really visit the 5E forum. I would guess this is a role best suited to someone who visits more of the site.

Well...I would have to agree with you to provide you that bullet. Which I don't. :)

No...it is just a very old, tired trope in threads like this. :(

I think WotC is perfectly happy for you to buy 3P material, else there wouldn't be a SRD. Besides which, if you're buying off the DMSG, it *is* money going into their coffers.

Oh you *so* lose this thread. :)

They're a great tool for off-book character bonuses, as other posters have mentioned, which are in turn excellent ways to draw PC's into the adventure, or drop hooks for other adventures. 5E's codified downtime rules also give us a fine way to model the study of such tomes. For more immediate...

Hmm. It appears the community can ceaselessly complain they're not getting what they're used to (splats, MM2, PHB2, etc.) while simultaneously calling BS on Mearls when he says he's doing something different this edition. That is one delicious cake we're eating.

The article has some nice insight ("by building a D&D character, you're building yourself"), and I think all we need out of mainstream D&D coverage is this kind of positivity. I give it a thumbs up.

I don't rely on random encounter tables for much more than inspiration or flavour, and I don't see travel as just the thing that happens between adventures. It's prime real-estate for encounter design. You can expose so much of the campaign and its themes to the players by building encounters...

This is a home game? So session to session, the PC's can chop and change from a roster of 8?

I would have been happy with an MM2 of the same quality as the first, but this is exactly the book I want right now.

This is awesome -- please keep 'em coming.

Yeah I can see the problem -- no worries.