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I’ve had romances between NPCs and PCs a few times, one between PCs that played very well despite being two straight dudes (one was playing a female), and one I randomly inflicted on two unsuspecting PCs when I time jumped the campaign to the gnome wizard and half-orc rogue’s wedding...

I'd say $500 will get you a few Dwarven Forge sets... if you want a bunch, add a zero to that number (spoken as someone who has a bunch of sets!).

I'll bet the 2 summer surprises with be DM Guild or UA releases of the Artificer and Mystic, which was hinted at earlier in the year, but the surprise will be that these 2 docs include treatments of the Eberron and Dark Sun settings.

Noice! Let the kid know he must follow the crowd and conform to what all the cool kids are into. It will serve him well when his friends get into heroin and white supremacy. Ahh, it reminds me of when my mother threw away all my 1E "devil-worship" books when I was at school. That really built...

I was invited to play in a Pathfinder game a year or so ago, and discovered I really disliked the system (so many things I had completely forgotten about from 3e...). Oddly enough my antipathy for the system probably makes me a bit more interested in checking it out, if only to see how they...

My own experience has been that most players don't start thinking about feats until they have a couple of ability boosts under their belt (often maxing out their primary ability). I think most campaigns don't run too far past 10th level, so I'd be curious to see how that data looks if you only...

This comes as no surprise from the vast majority of backers. I'd say most of us knew there would never be more products for 2 or 3 years. The galling part is the steady stream of lies from Sembieda since wave 1. If he'd been up front about all this back then, I think most people would have...

5 out of 5 rating for Xanathar's Guide to Everything initially I was uncertain about the slow release schedule. I’m glad they took the time to do it right. Great subclasses, and I like the DM goodies.

How would you rate the presentation of traps? I thought complex traps were tough to follow in the UA, so I’m hoping they improved on the layout. Along those lines, about how many simple and complex traps are in the book?

I think the articles makes a good point. Unfortunately, WotC wedged themselves between a rock and a hard place with this. The Forgotten Realms is over 30 years old, and reflects the sensibilities of the time and the generation of the creator and early contributors, so it's not surprising that...

I second the Eberron request... the main reason I'm picking this one up is that it seems perfect for Eberron.

After having some time to read though it and consider the article. I like the ideas of awarding exploration and interaction XP, but I'm not crazy about the change to the XP economy. The consistency for advancement has merit (but I can see arguments against it), the actual XP awards for combat...

I always use XP, and in 30 years of gaming, I've never once heard someone ask if anything was worth XP or kill things just to gain XP. Different player culture I guess.

Roll20 and FG are fine for online play (though I really dislike FG), but that's not what DDB is for. I don't need or want a VTT, and f I did, there are options. DDB is not for those folks, so I see no reason to complain that it it's not a better VTT. All I've done bet wanted are digital tools...

Given how much less I've spent on 5E compared to past editions (I'm pretty sure even broke, middle school me spent more on BECMI stuff from the bargain bin at the ghetto Walden's Books!), buying the books again in a new format creates zero angst for me. This is a much better deal than I was...

The adventure seems ok. The fact that is is set in the realms is disappointing, but hardly a surprise... though the entire concept (Indiana Jones with Dinosaurs) seems far more suited to Eberron, so maybe we'll at least get some conversion notes. The Guide to Everything is interesting (even if...

While I wholly reject the idea of a 6th editions, I'm not opposed to a 5th edition update... but not a "5.5"! I think 3.5 really ruined the idea for an official edition update: It was a new edition, they just didn't want to call it such. I think the differences between 3.0 and 3.5 were on par...

I think bonus actions are fine. The idea was a little tricky for my players to grasp at first (and conflated with minor/swift actions) but everyone gets it now. I certainly don't think we need a 6th edition anytime soon--frankly, in a lot of ways I don't feel like even fully realized yet (plenty...

I get the idea, but it seems like it will be confusing and slow to roll various dice every round. We already have a weapon speed optional rule, why bother with this? If I were to use this, I'd be inclined to just use the weapon's damage die, and maybe spells are d10 or d12 + spell level. Rather...

I think adding an option for a character's background to have greater influence on the outcome would be a good idea. Criminals and Charlatans might get advantage on one check during Crime, a Sage and perhaps Hermit gets the same on Research, etc. Or maybe a slightly lower chance of a...