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This is me, too. I am a veritable Victor Frankenstein when it comes to plundering adventures. I've taken narrative frameworks, dungeons, rooms, encounters, NPCs, etc.

No, that exacerbates the entire problem they're trying to fix. The solution would be to eliminate damage dice entirely.

Because modifiers reduce how swingy the damage dice are. If you're doing 1d8 damage and the opponent has 21 hp, then it takes between 3 and 21 hits to defeat the opponent. If you're doing 1d8+5 damage and the opponent has 43 hp then it takes between 4 and 8 hits to defeat the opponent.

On Reddit people were saying that there had been much higher than expected QC issues, and a significant amount of the print run was not something they could release. Whether or not that's true I have no way of knowing, but it's very sad if they're not going to do anything to fix the problems and...

We tend to make encounters Deadly or Deadly+, so I'd say we average 2-4. It's difficult to say, however, because we don't use conventional XP. We use what most people call milestone XP. As a result, I don't really know how far we get through the daily XP budget, which is really the information...

Artwise I think it seems better. I admit I've only flipped through it a few times, but in the 2014 PHB some pieces didn't seem to have the right geometry. Nothing seems to stand out like that in this edition so far. That's true, but round metal, glass, or stone pellets certainly predate ball...

I rather like putting the spell list in the class descriptions, but I remain inordinately frustrated that the table doesn't include the 🤬 page numbers of the spell description.

Oh my God. You went to a help forum, posted code that looked nothing like any code that anyone using that language writes—taking about 20 lines to accomplish what most people could do in 1 line—and then screamed at people for saying it was very hard to read. And they were still trying to help...

I'm so glad I swore off PayPal after they cost me $100 about 20 years ago. It's some of the best money I ever spent.

It's incredibly intricate for reasons I don't really fathom. I don't know why they seem to oscillate between TWF being extremely simple and extremely complicated. There's the Light weapon property, which is where the two-weapon fighting base rules exist now: "When you take the Attack action on...

Yup, and 2014's GWF let you reroll once, which meant a d6 had the values of 3.5, 3.5, 3, 4, 5, 6 => 25/6 = 4.1666.... That meant a 2d6 weapon dealt 8.333.... So 2025's GWF for a 2d6 weapon is an average damage of 8, meaning it's +1 damage. But 2014's GWF for a 2d6 weapon used to be an average...

#2 makes as much sense to me as anything. There has often been a tendency for DMs to complain that the game is broken, especially when (a) other people play differently than you, and (b) they're clearly having a ton of fun! I still remember how genuinely surprised I was reading 1e and seeing...

The last errata was December 2021: D&D 5e Errata There might be another printing, but it's probably identical to the December 2021 edition.

Yeah, I'm not really interested in Gygax's story. I'm interested in the hobby and that transition. Yeah, I've heard this part of the story before. By itself I don't feel like it explains Gary's apparent divergence from the rest of the roleplaying community. Or, I guess, his failure to diverge...

I never tried any of Gygax's fantasy novels. Given how I generally feel about D&D novels, I assumed I wouldn't like them. But I do agree that when Gygax was in his prime he knew what he was doing running the game. The 1e AD&D DMG at once contains both some of the most timeless and most absurd...

That's true for at least 10 of the classes in the PHB. That's not the design level. That's the play level.

But that doesn't mean it's "extra". 2014 Ranger's Natural Explorer and Favored Enemy were amazing and quite powerful.... for a character that would be involved in a campaign where wilderness recovery was difficult, and actual resource attrition once you leave town had real teeth. But D&D...