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It helps because instead of just a default "... and Bobo the Cleric casts Guidance" on everything, now it's part of the RP experience. "Let Olidimarra guide you in disabling that trap." It's justifiable part of the fiction, rather than being a mechanical intrusion. Nobody has given any...

Approach this phase of the adventure as an investigation. How do you expect the players to find the ruins? As you mention, just having them stumble on it randomly is a recipe for a lot of frustration. So what you need are multiple "leads" that can all get them on the right track. Don't worry...

It's amazing how many people in this thread have failed their Reading Comprehension skill checks. Maybe they need a little Guidance... At any rate, two of the solutions here seem workable to me. Either replace the Guidance cantrip with a Cleric aura that grants +1d4 to skill checks (make the...

Really cool. The mechanics totally support the flavor and seem suitably legendary.

Ah, I see, then I didn't clearly understand. I suppose the literal interpretation of his words matches my play experience pretty well, which is why I think that's what he actually meant. At the end of the day, though, we're both just interpreting what he said.

Maybe I used too many words. The rules themselves are the crux of the experience.

I think you're being way too dismissive of what he actually said. When I played D&D, because the rulebooks are so opaque, a large part of the game was rife was subsystems, idiosyncratic approaches to microcosms of encounters, and exploring the game was about exploring these subsystems. This...

As someone who has done a fair share of camping on moonlit nights, I'll say that as long as you stay in open areas, you can see very well without any additional light. If you go into a forest, though, that's another matter entirely. That would definitely be dim light. Maybe the 5e designers...

All of my 4e books. I bought them hoping to get into the system, couldn't do it, and dumped them all at half-priced books for like 5 bucks. For a system I've actually used, either Savage Species or the Epic Level Handbook, both for 3e. They were filled with so much uninspiring, unplayable...

I have my 2e Spelljammer boxed set on my shelf in excellent condition. It survived my purge of 1e and 2e stuff back in the day because I loved the rules for ship combat, the visuals and themes of space exploration in D&D, and the boxed set has a bunch of really great resources to run a...

I agree, the OP is misleading, because it had actually been an ongoing discussion with people actively leaving the son's game because they were so dissatisfied. Also, the word "took" is misleading. He just moved the 4e books. They are still the son's and he has full access to them.

So to summarize the situation, there were two options: A.) Dad tells his son that he can't stand playing 4E anymore because it's crushing his soul and walks away from the game, leaving his son without anyone to play with. or B.) Dad tells his son that he can't stand playing 4E anymore because...

Thanks for posting that, it was a great read! It sounds to me like he's really just more overwhelmed with how big this thing got without him even realizing it.

You got me beat by about 10 years. Ditto. I remember the boards before this iteration. And I remember the boards before that as well. Morrus is just a Johnny-come-lately as far as I'm concerned. ;) I remember matt_colville from back in the day, and I'm sure there are many around here who...

Paizo-era Dragon magazines, without a doubt. There was just so much great stuff in these, from the Demonomicon of Iggwilv series, to the series on different religions, to Ecology of, these magazines are some of the most inspirational supplements I have.

Based on just the OP, this was a hugely dickish move. But there's some vital information left out of the OP. Namely that you showed your son where his 4e books are and gave him agency to use them or not, you have already had multiple conversations about how people would prefer 5e, and you...

It has been a long time since I've looked at B3, but I ran it a couple times early on. I remember having a great time with it both times. The Decapus, especially, was good for the shock value and for putting some fear into the players. Of all the adventures I've played, this is the closest...

Ok, and sure, that seems like a fair and probably interesting discussion. If people want to discuss that, then I say go for it! It just seems disingenuous to draw some implied conclusion from JC's statements and then try to argue in a vacuum against the validity of what he said based on those...

How does that skew the data? The data is the data (if we are to believe JC, which we have no reason not to). Most people don't use feats. I get the impression you have a story you'd like to tell, and this data is not supporting your story.

I'm not surprised at all. The people on these forums are a small self-selected group of a vast population of D&D players, and people here commonly believe that what's important to them should be important to everyone. I have no reason to disbelieve Jeremy Crawford, and in fact I find it...