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At this point, I'm going to say work. I have enough systems that do what I require, for any given genre or style of game. I recently got the Shadows of the Demonlord bundle of holding, because I've seen so many people saying really good things. I've read through it, but find myself reluctant...

It's just occurred to me, but the heir-to-the-kingdom ranger (who definitely WAS NOT Aragorn) from Sword of Shannara (which is NOT a plot-point by plot-point rip-off of Lord of the Rings) always fought with a sword and dagger (or sword and shortsword; it's a long time since I read it). Could...

Having re-read the Ranger rules in the PHB, I'm inclined to agree with those who think this isn't that bad. Given the severely limited number of spell slots Rangers get, especially at lower levels, having a weaker version of Hunter's Mark that doesn't use them up is still pretty decent.

I own the 3 core books, Xanathar's, Volo's, Mordenkainen's and the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. I think only one of those (Bladesinger) is a duplicate of something I already have. I'm really happy to be getting all of these without having to buy books for settings I have no interest in.

As a sort of aside, the free basic rules for 5e just have the Champion Fighter, Life Cleric, Thief Rogue and Evoker Wizard, and you can run a perfectly good game using just those classes and the different backgrounds. For me, a STR-based fighter with the Acolyte background is thematically close...

Granted. Monk should probably be a subclass of fighter, or possibly even rogue.

I'm in the camp of fewer base classes with more subclasses. Barbarian and Paladin as subclasses of Fighter; Ranger and Bard as subclasses of Rogue; Wizard, Sorcerer and Warlock as subclass of Magic-User; Druid and Monk as sub-classes of Cleric.

Two ongoing campaigns. 1. The players are helping restore the young Queen Anna to the throne of Harrowhold, which she fled as a baby due to a violent revolution. The kingdom has since become a brutal, totalitarian state at least as bad as the old monarchy. 2. The party are adventurers on the...

I really don't understand the whole "invincible PCs" thing people seem to have with 5e. I've had plenty of characters die, and when I ran Lost Mines of Phandelver a player party of 4 had 6 character deaths between them. If anything I've been impressed by how lethal 5e can be!

My Everywhen wild west game wrapped up last Sunday. I was trying to set up a classic high noon showdown with the bad guys, but instead the PCs snuck round to the bad guys' saloon the night before and threw a stick of dynamite through their back door...

I own the SCAG, but I wasn't going to buy the Eberron book for one class, or any other setting books just for a new subclass or two,so I'm really glad that they're doing this. I'm also really looking forward to seeing the finalised versions of the class feature variants.

A lot of the city names in my homebrew world are actually pharmaceuticals. The only one I can remember off the top of my head is Corgard.

To copy and paste my response from another thread: My personal fix for the ranger is simply to let them add their proficiency bonus to weapon damage vs favoured enemies. It's not a huge boost, especially at higher levels, but it makes the feature feel relevant in combat. For beastmasters, I've...

My personal fix for the ranger is simply to let them add their proficiency bonus to weapon damage vs favoured enemies. It's not a huge boost, especially at higher levels, but it makes the feature feel relevant in combat. For beastmasters, I've just said they can command their companion as a...

My Wild West Everywhen game is now three sessions in and going really well. Plenty of trope boxes ticked. So far they've got into a brawl over a poker game, held up a stage coach and burnt down the corrupt mayor's ranch while rescuing a kidnapped girl. Next game will start with them trying to...

How did it work out? I've been thinking I'd like to try running WFRP using BoL.

We played a WHFRP 4e one shot yesterday, and this week I'll be running a Wild West game, using the Barbarians of Lemuria (and Barbarians of the Aftermath) rules.