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They talked about optional for flanking, forced movement and other rules related to battles using a grid, which is optional. They also talked about the downtime rules as including such things as a rogue going on a crime spree, or taking on an opposing thieves' guild, or a character crafting a...

Hearing the general concepts of design, the game sounds wonderful. But until I see the details and try it out it is hard to know if they succeeded in making a game I will love to play or run. For example, I worry that the optional grid/flaking/forced movement rules might not have been...

I missed the first ten minutes of the live Q&A. Can someone who watched it please let me know what I missed? I was able to start watching as they were talking about Greyhawk and From the Ashes. And by the way, I felt like I got a decent amount of information about the game from this Q&A for a...

Thanks. I must have missed when he said their level. It seemed like a fun game overall. It did seem that they got a lot of attack rolls though. That was of some concern as I thought they had tried to speed up combat by limiting players generally to one action plus a move. But if that action...

Approximately what level do you guess these characters were, given what we know of their spells, attacks and hit points?

I don't see the article on the Wizards of the Coast website. Is this an April Fool's prank?

Check out Dwarven Forge's latest spoiler video for the Kickstarter! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfmUeOCtZis&feature=youtu.be

To me it's already a good deal because I love the Caverns and these are looking even better than the original resin caverns, which I own and love. How much better of a deal it is by the end will depend on how many stretch goals are achieved to create more bonus pieces in the base sets. They...

I'm currently running a fourth edition game and have been for some time. My players' party right now includes a Halfling, a dragonborn, a tiefling and a kalashtar. So if I am to transition to 5th edition to give it a try, I hope they give me at least the all the fourth edition races from the...

What's most important to me in terms of ongoing support is that Wizards of the Coast provide high quality adventures and adventure paths for the game. In particular, I want good adventure paths with deep development of a locale, including one or more base towns or citys for the adventurers to...

I didn't see a thread on this here so I thought I should post one. This is an awesome, not to be missed kickstarter for the beautiful Dwarven Forge caverns. I lusted for these caverns for years before I finally splurged to buy some resin sets. Now Dwarven Forge is offering them at a discounted...

I have no problem with having more background, ecology, history, motivations, role-playing suggestions, adventure placement ideas, etc. for NPCs and monsters. I just don't need their stat blocks cluttered with a lot of useless information such as a dozen spell-like or other abilities that they...

This one is a deal-breaker for me if they do it in a way that makes monsters overcomplex. The reason I quit playing 3rd edition was because it was a nightmare of complexity to run high level game opponents with multi-page statblocks. I'm ok with some of the game design of 4th edition being...

As a DM, I want monsters that simulate the standard version of the monster with a PC class, but I absolutely don't want this simulated with rules for tacking on PC levels. On the contrary, the further we get from that way of doing things the better. I want simple easy to use monsters designed...

I think Bones 2 is turning out to be awesome! Shadow demon in smokey translucent purple, Demon Lord of Minotaurs, big dragons of various types and shapes, kraken! And I'm sure if we get over $3 million total pledges we'll unlock even more amazing things.

I'm excited about this second Kickstarter by Wes Otis for sound effects for tabletop games. The first one ended up having a nice variety of background loops to provide sound for fantasy and modern/sci-fi games. This Kickstarter looks like it will focus on monster sounds, trap sound effects and...

This one is turning out to be an awesome deal and we are only on day 1! I think it will turn out to be an even bigger and better deal than the first one, and that is saying something.

Yes but not +1" per character level as in 1e or 2e, but +1" per additional spell level slot used to cast the spell. That avoids the exponential increase in power for spell casters.

Ardaughter: Because every party is likely to have an expert, so if it is easy for experts to overcome challenges like traps, spotting something invisible, etc. then it is easy for the typical party to overcome these and it makes the available challenges a lot less varied and the game more...

Overall it sounds ok, and much better than doing away with skills from the core game altogether. Except for the Expert Bonus of +5, which sounds way too high compared to the other bonuses and will skew the DCs too much to make it either too easy for experts or too hard for everyone else. I...