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I threw together a Google Sheet which did the calculations for a given dice pool. For each round, I calculate the probability that you've hit zero, one, two, etc. dice on that round, based on the probabilities for the previous round. I ran it out to 100 rounds, which seemed good enough. The...

Here's the average number of rounds and standard deviation for dice pools from 1 to 10: DICE AVG (MEAN) TIME MEDIAN TIME STD DEV 1 6.00 4.00 5.46 2 8.73 7.00 6.13 3 10.56 9.00 6.39 4 11.93 11.00 6.54 5 13.02 12.00 6.63 6 13.94 13.00 6.69 7 14.72 13.00 6.74 8 15.41 14.00 6.77...

1. Fix balance -- not just classes and species, but also subclasses, spells, feats, magic items, invocations. Trim the OP choices and buff the trap options. (There's a lot more of the latter than the former.) 2. Sort out short rests. I'd prefer 5-minute short rests 2/day as the official rule...

If I understand the rules of the OGL correctly, Wizards had to release the edited versions as open content, didn't they? That's the "viral" component of the OGL: If you use someone else's open content, you have to make it available to others under the same terms. I'd think that applies even if...

Yeah, that would be my ruling. The most rigorous interpretation would be that Careful Spell doesn't work on web at all; but I think letting it work on the first save is a reasonable stretch.

I think there is a pretty strong chance of the 3E and 3.5E SRDs getting released to Creative Commons. From WotC's point of view, there is very little downside to doing that. The 4E SRD might be a tougher sell, since it wasn't previously available under the OGL, so they're releasing genuinely...

What's interesting, though, is that "shades of gray" here doesn't seem to be a euphemism for "our hero is a murdering jerk but you have to root for him because the people he's murdering are worse." The Scylla and Charybdis of stories that delve into moral dilemmas are "Doing the right thing is...

Sorcerers can't do that combination, and the bonus action rule is why. I'm saying that if they get rid of the bonus action rule, there would need to be some other constraint to prevent this. Offhand, the only way I know of to throw two fireballs in a turn is to dip two levels in fighter for...

In the way that it confuses the hell out of everybody, as demonstrated in this thread. A quick fix would be to change it to "You can only cast one non-reaction, non-cantrip spell per turn." That would be easier to understand, though still a bit of an annoying gotcha. However, my preferred...

There's nothing in the flying rules that says you wait until your turn to fall. As soon as you stop being able to fly, down you go, no matter whose turn it is. The fall takes place on the caster's turn, so feather fall is prohibited. Strictly speaking, in fact, it's debatable that "misty step...

Mind control magic on a massive scale. I'm thinking of a ritual which makes everyone acknowledge a particular person as King or Queen of some region (size of region determined by various factors). It doesn't force obedience--you can still commit crimes--but the thought of trying to harm...

Please don't volunteer Jeremy Crawford (or anyone else) for this job. It is not our place as fans to go hunting for champions within WotC. If someone steps up, we can and should support that person; but we do not know enough about WotC's internal politics to identify a suitable champion, and we...

What that suggests to me is that the pro-OGL faction cared more about locking in its gains than about protecting a handful of names. That would be consistent with the idea that the pro-OGL faction is driven by people lower in the hierarchy. They do not normally have the opportunity to shape...

How would you implement these cross-system conversions? To take an example, pretend the various editions of D&D are games published under the ORC. Say you have a 10th-level fighter in 4E D&D, with various exploits: Cleave, Tide of Iron, Steel Serpent Strike, etc. How would your app go about...

It's a fan content policy, not "Introduction to U.S. Copyright Law." It's laying out the rules you need to follow in order to have your stuff considered "fan content" by WotC. That's the context for everything there. It is not, and does not claim to be, an enumeration of your legal rights. If...

CC-BY-SA makes no provision for holding back product identity as the OGL does. If any smidgen of CC-BY-SA content gets into your work, the whole thing must be released under the same license. I can't imagine many 3PPs being willing to use CC-BY-SA.

The OP's concern (stated in a later post): "Sometimes the party needs a short rest but it doesn’t make since story-wise to sit around for an hour. And it would put a hard cap on short rests before needing to take a long rest." The first issue is one I at least have definitely encountered. In a...

I agree with this part. Originally, the slow release schedule of 5E was making a virtue of necessity. The D&D staff was cut to the bone over the course of 4E, and they simply didn't have enough people to crank out material at the pace of previous editions. This part I don't agree with at all...

We've been using essentially this house rule for years, except we use a fixed 2/day instead of prof bonus. Works great to resolve the balance issues between short rest and long rest classes, without disrupting other parts of the game. It also reduces the importance of having a healer, since it's...

My main objection to WotC's fan policy is that it is groaning under the weight of all the "How do you do, fellow kids?" As for the details of the policy... as everyone else has pointed out, it's a policy, not a contract. And even aside from that, it would take a lot for me to get mad about the...