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I've only run/played medium-to-long term games with D&D 3.5, 5E, and Genesys. I've got a few systems I've done one-shots in: Fate Core, Chronicles of Darkness, Age of Rebellion (FFG Star Wars in general), Rogue Trader, Delta Green, and Savage Worlds. Delta Green and Fate Core only didn't end...

Having started with 3E and not having a whole lot of experience with TSR-era editions, I figured I wasn't qualified to judge how much change there was between those editions. Makes sense, though. The game had 25 years to change from OD&D up until 3E was published, after all.

Yeah, every edition is a different game from 3E on. The only 'upgrade' was from 3E to 3.5, where certain parts of the game were revised and changed. 3E was completely different from 2E. 4E was completely different from 3E. 5E, likewise, is completely different from 4E. That's just part of the...

I'm convinced that the Deck of Many Things has irrevocably altered (or killed) more campaigns than any other magic item in history.

Personally, I'd leave the ability modifiers alone for simplicity's sake. The proficiency die, though, is a fun idea. The proficiency die is easy enough to use: +2/1d4, +3/1d6, +4/1d8, +5/1d10, and +6/1d12. The issue with also using those dice for ability modifiers is that it's a different...

I'll be doing a cross-planar franchise: the first Acquisitions Inc franchise in Eberron. Or maybe in a Spelljammer setting, since those are my two most-often run settings these days.

I need this as a poster for my game room.

Try to get it in a place where it can't fly, maybe. But figuring out a way to get everyone acid resistance is a smart way to start out.

1. Any resolutions on things you want to do? Several. I need to finish my Spelljamming rules, get all my Spelljammer setting info and rules organized, convert a Pathfinder adventure path (likely Strange Aeons) to 5E, and play at least a one-shot if not a mini-campaign at high level (15+). I...

This doesn't seem like a problem with Shield so much as it seems a problem with refreshing everything at the end of every session. If your players want to blow all their spell slots on Shield, then that's offensive or utility spells that they're not casting. Up the difficulty of your encounters...

On the other hand, Acererak is a multi-dimension lich of impossible age who is siphoning souls in order to create a new divine being. If anyone is going to have a new spell the party hasn't heard of, it's him.

Because Tomb of Annihilation is set in a jungle and deals with death, green and black for that one. Storm King's Thunder cries out for blue and gray or white, for sky colors. Dragon Heist, definitely gold. Maybe purple, since that's a 'royal' color for wealthy folks. Red and black for Curse...

1. D&D Firefly. A group of misfits has a Spelljammer they need to keep flying, so they take on jobs of dubious legality and morality, all while dodging their respective foes, rivals, and outright villains. 2. Morgrave University research team. Hunting for artifacts, the team always finds that...

Yes. Humans are also boring and feel very generic. Just because you desire simplicity doesn't mean WotC should make races simple without the option of subraces. Halfling subrace for Dragonlance. Doesn't bother me any. If half-races need to have mechanical representation, yeah. That'd be a...

So I've been thinking more on this as I read the thread, and I realize at least part of my problem with half-elves in particular is how utterly boring their stats are in 5E. The only option they're given is "pick two skills." No subraces, no big choices. Same with half-orcs, except they don't...

While pondering my Spelljammer setting I've been working on, I decided to ditch half-orcs entirely, to be replaced with full-blooded orcs, and I'm very, very tempted to do the same for half-elves. Granted, I'm using half-orc racial stats, because they're better than orc racial stats, but that's...

Not in 5E. The intellect devourer's statblock states that a character with Int 0 is stunned until they regain at least one point of Intelligence. So can't take actions/reactions, auto fails Dexterity and Strength checks, and attacks vs. stunned creatures have advantage. Basically useless until...

Good to know. I just missed seeing this Kickstarter in time to back it, so if I could preorder through Backerkit, that'd be awesome.

Holy crap. Bookmarked and saved.

I can see removing darkvision from half-elves; their vision is lessened by their human heritage. Elves ("What do your elf eyes see?) make sense, for me. They're from Faerie, ancestrally, and I assume Faerie has some incredibly dark areas. If I was going to rewrite the dragonborn (and I want...