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I always figured the magic formed the particular type of creature you wanted similar to how magic forms fireballs when you cast fireball, or acid, or whatever other spell that creates some sort of effect. /shrug

The fact that I can take 5e which is primarily a theater of the mind game, and slap on spell points, use the advanced combat stuff with facing, use the speed factors and initiative score is pretty damn amazing. Wizards basically made final fantasy tactics at this point. It feels almost exactly...

I already emailed wizards. It turns out that It's actually possible to post in 2 places on the internet.

I think we need some errata. Page 14, under mapping your campaign the very last sentence in that section says to refer to chapter 7 for more information about creating and mapping wilderness areas. The problem is that chapter 7 is exclusively devoted to magic items. So is it a mistake or am i...

DM's call. I personally would probably never allow it either unless the character specifically stated in his background that he studied different types of animals in text books. Or rather, I might allow it once, but if it became a consistent thing (oh i know about this tundra monster, oh I know...

I'd also like to add this is probably the best way of advancing beyond 20. Like if they ever make an epic level handbook, I don't want new level stuff added. Just more boons and things like that. I think it's just about perfect as is.

For me definitely. It exceeds my wildest hopes. I love it and as of now it has dethroned the draconomicon (3.5) as my favorite book.

So I absolutely love variant rules and that being said the DMG is pretty much one of the most awesome books ever in this respect. However, I was surprised when I found that there was no stacking of advantages/ disadvantages as a variant rule. By stacking I mean, that each advantage adds to the...

I guess another MM because I feel that the PHB covers pretty much every possible thing you could want and the DMG tells you how to make the other niche stuff you might want. So MM I guess, but this edition I don't actually want any new stuff except campaign settings and modules honestly. Well...

That's exactly what I did and it worked out great. My advice is to get a sheet of paper and write down everyone and their initiative. Then make columns each turn and go down the list and ask what everyone is going to do . As they tell you write down the new initiative in the column based on...

Oh yeah we used prof dice as well. It actually allows the players to succeed a bit more, since the average of a d4 is 2.5, and your flat prof is +2. I like it personally.

Yeah I also figured that the resting options simply change the pace of the narrative more than anything. I can see how fighting 5 or 6 battles (or whatever) every day could destroy any game if you are using the long rest options. I mean that's what... 40ish encounters with only 6 short rests? Of...

I ran a session last night, I actually used sanity rules A LOT, and they were fun. I also used initiative score in conjunction with the speed rules and that was by far my favorite aspect. I hate rolling initiative, it just seems to bog down the game, so I enjoyed it. I also used spell points...

That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I can program, and to be honest I probably could come up with SOMETHING but it would take me so long, I might fiddle around with RUBY later and post something.

Uninspired? Really that's the word you are going to use? If anything I would call this game the most inspired of all D&Ds. Uninspired... what.. I just.. what!?

Basically topic. Since the DMG is being released today at WPN stores do you think we can expect an update to basic? Since all the juicy goods have started to trickle out of the DMG I'd love to see what would get in.

By definition, if your campaign has gods that make themselves known overtly, you simply can't be an atheist. If you choose to think about gods not as gods but powerful beings, then they aren't gods. If you call them gods thats fine, but you are using either the atheist term or god term wrong...

Starter set is one way to go. Otherwise you could be like me back in 2000 and just jump right in. My friends and I had no clue what we were doing, and it was one of the most fun nights I had ever had gaming. 5e is much more friendly so I say if you just really want to go for it, do it man.

For those who think that 5e rules are vague, I'd absolutely love to see you wrestle with 13th age. I mean, I'd probably pay money to see that.... ... ... probably not actually, but still it would be hilarious. I'm 100% pro vague rules btw, I play with a bunch of rules lawyers so this pretty much...

Yes!