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Not sure if you are pulling my leg, Cleon! Fourth Edition came out in 2008. The final rules for Fifth Edition came out in July, and the statistics for many monsters using Fifth Edition rules were released this month. The full Monster Manual was given away to a number of people at GenCon...

Thanks, jodyjohnson! That's exactly the kind info I was looking for. I send you xp, with my thanks.

Anyone try converting monsters from the D&D Next adventures like Murder in Baldur's Gate and Legacy of the Crystal Shard to the final D&D Fifth Edition rules? I'm going to try running one or both of these adventures soon and will have to do some conversion, but was wondering if someone had...

I'm thinking of buying one of these to help me flesh out the Sword Coast region for a Fifth Edition campaign in a somewhat sandboxy style. Which would you recommend as having more detail on the NPC's, locations, etc. and potential side adventures that can be mined for side quests in the region...

How did you like the adventure, Defiance in Phlan? Was it fun? Is it going to be available for purchase eventually like Murder in Baldur's Gate and others?

I'm ok with certain rules or parts of the game having a lot of space for DM adjudication. But I don't want to guess whether a specific-looking rule is a result of sloppy wording or truly intended to be vague and up to the DM. In cases, like Hide, that the designers intend the DM to make the...

One of the adventure's authors said they didn't have the encounter builder XP/CR chart when designing the adventure (as it was not created yet and even recently was still in draft mode for the DMG). And several people who have run the first chapter as-is have complained it was too tough for...

I came up with this as a new background option for my players. Please let me know what you think and feel free to suggest improvements or additions if you think they are needed. Undead Hunter Hunting the undead is more an obsession than a profession. You have spent your life until now...

On the other hand, if you are trying 5th edition to see if you like it, I suggest at least trying it per the standard rules first to see if you enjoy the streamlined simplified nature of faster combats and more time for roleplaying and exploration in a session. As the others pointed out, your...

I like 5E bards better than all the prior edition bards. Before 3e they were too weak. In 3e and 4e the diplomacy skill became ridiculous with players thinking they could use +40 diplomacy to convince a king to trade his kingdom for a gold piece. I like bards, their spells and abilities, and...

What action figure is that? That makes for a very scary fire giant/titan! I think I'm going to create two types of giants for my games, Large and Huge. Maybe the Huge ones will be called "True Giants" or "Jottunn Giants". I will probably have the Large giants use the stats in the Monster...

For some reason, it seems that every edition we go back and forth about the size of giants in the game. In Fourth Edition, the few giants that were huge (storm, cloud) in Third Edition, shrunk down to Large. Now in Fifth, it looks like the giants that traditional were Large (Hill, Fire...

I keep seeing threads where someone claims that halflings are overpowered, or dwarves are overpowered, or humans are overpowered, or half-elves are overpowered. And I have three players running elves right now in a party of six, plus one running a half-orc who seems plenty powerful. So my...

Sorry but I can't agree. I hate the tiny feet. I can live with the ruddy faces and big heads. It makes them different. But the feet look so ridiculously tiny like they are about to topple over. I generally liked the art in the book, but hated most of the halfling art.

Thank you! I'll take a look at those.

Thanks for sharing your lesson with the rest of us. Sending xp your way.

I'm running Lost Mine of Phandelver and will be soon running Hoard of the Dragon Queen (I think I'm deciding it is 1479 DR) in the Forgotten Realms. What are the best resources for running a campaign focused in the Sword Coast region? I got Murder in Baldur's Gate for the info on Baldur's...

I can't imagine that they intentionally are trying to force the evoker to be better with non-evocation cantrips. That goes against the whole notion of an evocation specialist.

So I guess the way to fix this for your campaign without breaking the profit making guideline for downtime activities is to make the cost of the components more than 50% of retail, and decrease the crafting time. So for example, poison might cost 75 gp in rare ingredients to make, but only...

Something I noticed today. One of the NPCs in Hoard of the Dragon Queen has this ability but it works to do half damage when the target makes its save for a cantrip OR when you miss with the contrip.