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I wouldn't balk at some transformation magic being available as low as 1st level spells, so I don't think it would be a problem. 2nd level for winged flight then; fly at 3rd level still has advantages.

Giving gishes weapons as implements is one of my first house rules. They gave it to bladelocks iirc.

I'd love a Setting Handbook, with overviews of 4 to 6 of the big campaign settings as half of the book and the other half as a setting design supplement to help groups make their own setting.

Hi everybody! Gearing up to start my first 5.5 game, and I'm gathering up my houserules (someone else us running a vanilla game, I'm the homebrewer in the group). I draw on a lot of prior editions and A5E in my games, and I started looking at Critical Hits. I've never liked 5E's "double the...

Players want some measure of balance between players and between their choices. If X is better than Y in every way, then players of X feel let outshined by players of Y. Likewise, if Option X is better than Option Y in every way, that's not good for anyone. I've seen this happen a number of...

Funny story, I was recently trying to get a straight answer on how far a badger could dig in X time. You think numbers like that would be easily searchable.

When I was playing Mutants and Masterminds a lot, I noticed some patterns in the system. There were some generic functions that let you take a -5 penalty on a roll to get a benefit. I reverse engineered that and started letting people mimic feats and other abilities by taking a -5 penalty on the...

Once, but I can't remember if they ran out or if they were stolen from them.

One thing I liked about the infinity engine games were the weapon slots, the quiver slots, and the quick item slots. The notion that you can have X items at close reach that don't take extra time to get out during a fight is useful. But yeah, me keeping 4 stacks of 20 arrows on everyone was a...

I'll check this out. I really like the sound of it!

D&D style videogames have been doing that more lately. When I played pillars of eternity for the first time, I for reals spent 30 minutes in the starting area trying to find an NPC to buy arrows from before turning to the Internet and finding out ammunition was handwaved.

I do actually like wizard and cleric subclasses being "generic". They're the base spellcasters and their core brings a lot of flavor already. "I study magic." "Oh, what kind of magic do you study?" "I spread the wisdom of my god." "Oh, what god do you worship?" I do find some of the fighter...

I'm not yelling at them. I'm just shocked.

Except like the encounter building assumptions, magic item distribution assumptions... I for reals miss 3Es era of making tons of books for DMs and World Builders. It's honestly what really got me into D&D. The DMG gives understanding of the balance of the game in the system, and understanding...

I found the DMG 2014 a little hard to reference to find a particular rule, but I also found it's layout to be sensible when you're doing the thing you normally do with normal books: read them front to back. When I got mine day one way back 10 years ago, I read it front to back. I've done the...

Multiple content creators have admitted to never reading it.

It's not an endless quiver, you still have to fill it and count your nits.

Wait, does the sun weigh nothing? 🤯

The fact that I've had to houserules endless quivers as simple magic items in, I think, every edition I've ran is WILD to me. So, what do we think? Hank's Energy Bow is in, but is there a basic quiver of endless arrows? Also, what are your favorite magic items?

I feel like the codified actions are gonna make play smoother for shy players who find it easier to say "Bob does X, y, and z", but I do worry that they may pull some people out of the game space. I already notice a difference with my two groups: one is real good about saying what they want to...