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Back in the day when we were transitioning to 4E from 3.5, WotC did a great article about stat blocks and simplifying them. This was still in 3.5 mind you. They talked about all the stuff you could get rid of without affecting the experience at the table. I expect that would be something you...

I will cop to this attitude. But at the same time: who am I to say what you should care about as a DM or a player? I've never had a problem explaining monster powers, and I say that as someone who ran a lot of 4E and likes the design of those monsters a ton. My system of choice at the moment is...

Maybe? It depends on a lot of things about the different characters. I'd say a game where the potential exists for something like that would be better. But then, I like the Hero System where all of that is handled. But 5.5E is very far from that.

I would suggest the Hero system (Champions) instead of GURPS. Monte Cook wrote for them for years, and it had an influence on some parts of 3E. As a "fun fact" the lifting ability based on Strength is the same as the Hero system, for instance. I think that being able to describe "you take 1D8...

In D&D terms it does. In fact, almost any attack from any creature makes has the same results: you lose some HP. That's the kind of game D&D is. A hill giant smacking a halfling with a great club doesn't send them hurtling across the room. It does some HP. There are plenty of other game systems...

This is about the first time I've read something about 5.5E that actually excites me. Having monsters who can do more interesting things and aren't just bags of hit points ... that's a very good sign. Many moons ago, when I ran Curse of Strahd, I had to find a custom stat block for all of the...

I think in a game of "never have I ever," I would win with "Wonder how a monster does that." To me the whole thing is "Is this interesting." Obviously others disagree but if I had to choose between a fun and interesting monster that had wacky powers and one that was a bag of hit points, I'd...

If that's true, I think it's a very good thing. When I see a creature that's just a basic stat block with hit points, defenses, and a basic attack, I think, "Why is this even here?" It would be a lot easier to just have a generic "humanoid" stat block with a set of different names and levels...

Oh sure. The point is, I'm using these rules so as not to use WotC's. I sure can use their resources in conjunction with Tales of the Valiant, but that misses the point of why I picked it up in the first place. We'll see what they (and other companies) do, I suppose.

If you are looking for a basic 5E game that doesn't come from WotC and looks beautiful, this is it. It has support from Foundry, the VTT that I use and it has fantastic monsters. The reason I don't think our group will be using it, at least as it is now, is that there's not enough character...

I played a scenario with the designers and it seems to be an OSR based game, so heading back to the early AD&D days. It looked great and played better than AD&D did out of the box (in my opinion of course) so if you're looking in that direction, this was a good looking and well designed game.

This is one of the things that I find hard to understand. Let's say we had the "how to build monsters" and rather than add page count, they took out 10 monsters like you're saying. How would anyone even know? Unless WotC said, "Well, we could have had 505 monsters, but you wanted design rules...

This is something we don't know for certain yet, but it really appears to be the case. And if it's true, it really is a poor decision (in my opinion, of course). The basic rules used to design a creature are a couple of pages, and tell us so much about what the expectation is for monster stats...

I still have my AD&D screen and break it out at conventions. I can tell who the old farts are because there are always comments. It's useful for AD&D and works wonderfully for that. Nowadays, I use it as a conversation piece.

I'm someone who was always into pinball and love it very much today. There was a lull and the thought that it might be going out, but things never stopped. I am fortunate to live in an area where it never really went away, and some folks doing maintenance for the machines live. It is a big issue...

I'm not a slots person but I talked with one of my friends who's always heading of the Vegas and plays them a ton. Apparently there are all sorts of mini-games that open up as you play a machine. They play this game based on cows being abducted by aliens and there is a whole storyline that plays...

I guess the ship has sailed away a long time ago on that. I don't gamble, but I regularly get ads for betting apps or websites on those times when I can't use adblock. I don't have interest there, but I'm also an adult. And isn't D&D already associated with some kind of booze? I think it's all...

This seems to be an example of how different products will always find some people who get upset about it. I am in places with slot machines once in a blue moon. If I was there and saw a D&D slot machine, would I play it? Sure, on a lark. Am I really excited about this and going to go somewhere...

The way things work in Pathfinder, making three attacks is normally not the best option. For those who don't use it, for each attack after the first, you take a -5 penalty (typically, some weapons are a bit better) so it's unlikely you're going to hit with that third attack. Pathfinder also has...

Back when we first started 5E my group didn't have everyone with Bonus Actions, they were sort of unusual to see. At this point, I think everyone wants to have something to do with their Bonus Action each round. Times have changed.