Search results

Yeah, when I hear "balance" I think of the ability of the GM to translate a desired campaign narrative into a design idea for a scene, and then... the scene plays out as desired. Balance is when the GM wants to plan an encounter to accomplish something and -- with minimal information about the...

As far as I know they did errata the Weapons table to remove Unarmed Attack from it. Like it's gone from current printings, it's not in the SRD, and it's not in D&D Basic. The whole weapon attack vs melee weapon attack vs unarmed attack vs attack action vs attack roll vs attack thing is some...

I agree with a lot of the design ideas they're making, but I have, overall, been very disappointed in their actual implementation of them. Fixing the power imbalance of summoning and shapechanging? All for that. Actual implementation? 😴 I can't swim until what level? I can't fly until what...

In this sense it does seem like MCDM is leading the charge here. Matt has said they're trying to design a cinematic and tactical fantasy adventure TTRPG from first principles. So they've specifically discarded as much of the 1974 game as possible. That said, I'm not sure what the hobby as a...

Maybe, but before it was totally worthless because the healer's kit was literally 10 potions of Spare the Dying for 50 gp.

The only new save I like from 5e is the Str save. We've always had "Str checks" in the game since at least 3e where your Str or Athletics score is a de facto saving throw. It makes sense to need it. I just wish 5e used it more consistently than it currently does. That said, every time I've...

"Trust me, just kick him in the head for me and he'll be on his feet in no time."

Page 1 of the SRD v5.1 CC-BY 4.0 is pretty clear.

Yeah, I'm perfectly happy with fixed stat blocks for Druids and summons. I hate when new monster books become new PC abilities. It just becomes "find the optimal damage per CR and then smash that button." Like that's not a deep or compelling strategy or tactic. Especially when its, "stop the...

Reading through the One D&D Paladin and Druid playtest, I saw this and laughed thinking of this thread.

Yup. WotC can't even publish a psionicist that the community agrees on. Dark Sun, as originally presented, is basically a total conversion of D&D. If I remember right, Planescape had like 20-30 pages dedicated to player rules, with the rest dedicated to lore and setting description. Dark Sun...

Rename it to a different game. Even if it's got the D&D IP, don't call it D&D. Let it be D&D adjacent. Heroes of the Forgotten Realms Champions of Cormyr Champions of Dark Sun Or just reuse some existing names: Heroes of the Fallen Lands Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms I agree with the 5e...

I think that's true, but I also think that different people get different value out of the OGL. Like one of the major reasons the community wanted the OGL was so that they could homebrew for it, publish it online casually, and not get a C&D from TSR's lawyers. Or so they could do play by...

Maybe not, but they're designed to be. They always have been, too. Old D&D capped out at 6th level spells. 6th level spells are the first spells you get beyond name level. They used to be so special that you got 5th level spells at level 9, and then you got 6th level spells at level 12. B/X...

I still don't understand why this problem keeps coming up. If whack-a-mole is the problem -- and, to be clear, I've only seen it a few times in 5e -- why do you allow in-combat healing at all? If it's just Healing Word, why aren't you banning or modifying that spell? What hill are you dying on...

So would I, if they had all been internal hires. That's not really the case anymore. Most Hasbro execs are general corporate executives. WotC's execs have tended to come from Microsoft, especially their Xbox division. The video game industry is a lot closer to the television and movie industry...

They are just so paranoid about losing total control of the brand. It really shows just how much they don't understand the hobby that D&D was built for. Matt Colville talked on stream a few weeks ago about working on Decipher's Star Trek RPG (2002). At one of the meetings with the Star Trek...

I haven't played it in over a decade, although I still do follow the game on streaming services. It was too expensive then, and it's even more too expensive now. The current set has twelve variants of a single card if you count the promos. That said, proxies have never been more popular since...

The fact that they could do that is why is why the reserve list is bad for business. Imagine owning a game and being unable to reprint the most iconic cards. The only people who it benefits at this point are speculators. Not collectors. They've mostly cashed out. Speculators. And I say this as...

Break the Magic reserve list then quit.