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Most of my influences for D&D have been movies, not so much books. My exposure to Conan for the longest time was the movie versions and Marvel comic (Conan the Barbarian and some of Savage Sword of Conan). I never started reading the actual stories until just last year, but Conan has always...

yeah, Lost Mines of Phandelver is a classic to me, but the follow-on Shattered Obelisk is a swing-and-a-miss - I may actually sell my copy. I'd like to root for Tomb having read through it now (the starting city itself is fascinating), but the way our DM ran it, I would have put it in worst...

Disco Wizard? Is this a real thing or just a "Disco is dead" reference?

These days my books tend to stay on the shelves a lot more than they used to, and I use Beyond for all my DM and play needs - even though I'm stubbornly clinging onto playing 2014. I will be sad the day the 2014 content is no longer available in this form*, but I will use the hell out of it...

Back in the 80s, the goal was to get to 20th, 30th or as high a level as you could possibly get players. It had been drilled into me you had to get to these levels as a rite of passage and prove your salt as a DM. If you didn't have games that regularly went to 20th level and beyond, you were...

I keep the basic rules as is. Bonus actions can be used for certain (custom) spells that affect weapon damage, so keeping basic 2-weapon fighting using a bonus actions keeps them from being stacked normally. Certain (custom) subclasses and feats can change it from a bonus action to just being...

1) Yes, he'll move 10 ft (flying) though. Dashing though, would probably break Stealth though I can't find any specifics about this. 2) Because of the invisibility, he can't be detected by sight. A mist is water vapor in the air, so he might possibly make a faint sound (like a faint "hissing...

Should have made this a poll, with the ability to select multiple levels :D For me, mid-level would be about 3-5.

I cannot recall the last time I played without minis in D&D. I've done mini-less in many other RPGs, but D&D for some reason is just not one I'd want to try without some sort of map & markers when any sort of significant combat breaks out.

NOT using it to buy magic items. Somehow shifting it for extra XP (as in training expenses) or actually having something worth spending it on (again, NOT magic items) would be the direction I would go. And, as others have stated, just giving out less of it so it is more significant would be smart.

Heh, though you could use a 1E PC in a 2E game, so 2014/2024 is closer to the changes in 1E -> 2E than 2E -> 3E. :)

Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with even real-world herbs, so Wolvesbane & Garlic is really the only one I tend to think of. There's a 3E era book by Bastion Press called Alchemy & Herbalists that had a great treatise about herbs and such, but it never quite caught on with me. It has a...

I think you could get a lot of use of the Faction and Turf rules/advice from Blades in the Dark for this sort of the game to keep track of all the political going-ons in the city and how/when various NPCs factions and individuals might interact with the group - especially boil-over points that...

It has a "use this in place of this" for certain humanoids, but I think what is desired is a "Creatures of this CR increase HP and damage by X% or <fixed number>" One of the other threads around here was looking at the hp/damage across the new monsters - I think it was by @mearls .

On ancient elves, dwarves, vampires and the like. I've come to realize that the older you get, the more you forget. I am fine with a few-hundred year old elf only able (or more likely, willing) to remember the most recent past couple of score years, let alone decades and how I handle it in my...

"Let them Fight!"

Been playing some form of D&D for 45 years now, it's too much a part of my life not to have it around. It is nice though, every so often to play something else for a bit. Same 'ol, same 'ol gets stale after a while - but it's nice to come back to it when you've had your fill of some other...

make the user a rogue, add their sneak attack to the damage.

I'm not overly fond of the whole process for the Ranger Beast companion first of all. RAW, I don't think sacrificing an attack + bonus action will allow it to attack twice. Otherwise, you could sacrifice both attacks + bonus action to attack thrice with the companion, and the wording seems to...

Our game night is tonight actually. I'm playing in my wife's 5E 2014 game as a human Shadow Sorcerer. I think it's the 2nd time in 45 years I've played a human character. <Edit> If it was my choice to run, I'd be having everyone try out my FrankenD&D - or B/X and the Lost City.