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My first RPG character was a magic-user in Basic D&D. I was very excited to play a character I envisioned as Gandalf or Merlin wading through foes with blasts of arcane death. The reality is that I hung out in the back of the party doing nothing for 90% of the fights. Once or twice a session...

I'm guessing if there is an official 5E book they will call out these races as being DM's discretion. It is easy enough to justify them if you want them in your game, but I can't imagine they would, say, have a dragonborn kingdom from another dimension just show up overnight. That nonsense...

Yeah this is why I am perfectly happy not to get a 5E version of Greyhawk. They would be tempted to update the timeline, and the odds of that being done well is significantly lower than the odds if it involving something like Elminster and Drizzt showing up with a fleet of Spelljammer ships to...

I think the cardinal rule of any RPG is: player's choices should matter. If the DM is changing things up so that any choice they make leads to the same outcome it completely undermines that principle. And while you can get away with this once or twice on the sly, I think it is something that...

The problem is WotC is the only one that can do 5E versions of the settings they own. So fans of the existing properties are depending on WotC for an update. Whereas there are probably a dozen plus "fresh" settings that have been put out for 5E by 3PP - including Matt Mercer's Tal Dorei...

The important bit to understand about trademarks is that they exist to protect consumers – if you buy a Rolex watch or Air Jordan kicks the trademark means you can be confident (at lest in theory) of the source of the products. (This is a major distinction from copyrights and patents which...

No. Just No. The problem isn't that this is a joke dungeon - the problem is it's a joke dungeon that's about as funny as Tomb of Horrors. IIRC (and I trashed my copy decades ago so I am reaching way back) much of the humor was pop culture figures translated into D&D - e.g. a hafling with a...

Specifically, its what sketchy dudes call a nude beach with an unfortunate male/female ratio. "Aw, 'cmon, where da ladies at? Man we must be near Waterdeep, 'cause this place is a total Sword Coast, know what I mean fellas?"

Uh...No. Per my argument, if Rise did well then it would be because JJ was riding on the coattails of Rian's genius. You seem to assume I'm trying to start some pro-Rise/anti-Jedi beef here but I'm not. All am saying is that the numbers you cite in the OP are only surprising if you assume...

From what I have seen the BO revenue on franchise movies usually has more to do with the previous installment than the current one. For pre-teen girls Frozen was basically Star Wars+Harry Potter+LotR+Citizen Kane all rolled into one movie. So yeah, Frozen 2 could have been 90 minutes of Sven...

I generally test for a party I am running. I am not sure you can safely assume a particular party composition as 5E - filling particular party roles seems less important than in earlier editions. I think the best you can do is try to figure out whether a particular ability or spell is going to...

I run Fantasy Grounds offline if I want to test stuff out. Because it is heavily automated one person can run (then tweak and re-run, if necessary) an encounter much more quickly than with pen and paper. If you are running map-based encounters, I think it is important to use maps when...

See this thread.

In previous editions characters could also pretty much heal up all their HP within 8 hours or so - it just required some in-game justification like the party clerics casting then rememorizing their spells, wands of cure light wounds, etc. If natural healing bugs you as unrealistic just come...

My roommate put a spoiler and ground effects on his Civic. Does that make Honda the Bethesda of car makers? My Grandma likes to make cookies using almond flower so my gluten-free cousin can eat them. Does that make Betty Crocker the Bethesda of cookbooks? I upgraded the video card on my...

I'd go with Warrior 19/Princess 1

They did this with Skyrim. It sounds cool but once the novelty wears off (petty quickly) its just a videogame with a terrible UI. Unless you are visually impaired or want to play a videogame while driving in traffic there is no reason to play a game through voice rather than one of the many...

With Eberron being the Hot New Thing I'll nominate Manifest Zone with Keith Baker, Kristian Serrano, and Wane Chang.

I'd strongly encourage you to give it a shot. I have been playing through VTTs for a couple of years now and it has really been a gaming Renaissance for me - prior to that it had been over 10 years since I had played IRL due to multiple moves, demanding work schedules, and having kids. Now I...

Have you checked out Esper Geneisis? It is a 5E based sci-fi ruleset and there are a free set of basic rules here. Personally I found it to be a bit too literal a translation of 5E - e.g., Engineers are basically just re-skinned clerics who do stuff through tech rather than divine power. But...