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More things is nice. Looks to me they chose the number based on the number of backgrounds they decided to include. I agree we could have used another couple backgrounds. There is even room for 3 or so to fill out the ability combinations (not that that really matters but I do like symmetry)...

One thing I often see come up in these conversations is the assumption that the adventuring day is per game session not per long rest. At my table we play 3 hour sessions and average 1 long rest every 2 sessions. So just because we have many encounters per long rest doesn't mean we aren't also...

I don't think this is a change. The encounter guidelines were always about the risk of a character or the entire party dying. They just chose to spend their page count on that. I will wait to see how they talk about pacing specifically. It would be nice to have good advice there. People...

I think it is unclear if it is advantage or you can roll again after seeing your roll. It says you can roll twice but doesn't say they must be rolled at the same time. Not being a reroll also avoids the bad feeling of having a worse reroll. Roll a 4 on d12 and roll again and get a 1 you still...

Yeah Defense is actually quite weak. People like high numbers and defense lets you push your AC really high but in the game that doesn't do a lot for you. You are probably already going to be the last party member standing and then you won't last very much longer even with a +1. Interception...

I like this suggestion the most. Puts players in a situation where they need to be careful about how they attack. I could see the giants being too proud to call out for help too.

I like the design concept a lot. Origin feats are mostly well balanced but Healer is a miss. Hermit is a miss in general as medicine still shouldn't be a skill. Since crafter is attached to the crafting background I don't see an issue because the player will want that for their Artisan. I...

The DMG isn't even out yet and you don't approve of it. You like other games more than D&D so it seems to me that you don't like D&D as much as these other games and would rather play those. Is there a world where you would suddenly abandon those games you like very much and start playing D&D?

It seems to me that there will be a lot more ways to gain advantage on attack rolls than there were in 2014 so I expect to see a lot more critical hits. (Maybe things will change with the new MM but probably not). Also, the Champion works well now. In 2014 I had a rule where one set of dice...

Oh I see. So it's more that you aren't into D&D in general.

They actually removed quite a bit of DM content from the 2024 PHB and I'm expecting to see it in the DMG. I would buy it for just the magic items and corresponding tables too.

I've been DMing for 30 years and I bet I will benefit from it. There are things on the internet but they are more miss than hit and I don't want to go through all of it. The main thing is that it will be written with 5e 2024 in mind which will let me know how they envision the edition to be...

I think heroic inspiration solves this elegantly. In general, I'm happy to rule favourably for taking advantage of a unique situation. It isn't just dropping a chandelier, it is dropping the iron one with the big spike in it. That will only happen once in the campaign so it's fine. Even if...

The problem is that if there are paladins and/or clerics in the party then there isn't much of a challenge. And how does the paladin player feel about using their powers? It probably isn't very satisfying. And if there isn't now we're into some grim territory. It's great when a character's...

And if there were no paladins? Then we are into an entirely different genre where the party must watch in horror as the townspeople die around them. And if the solution to the problem resulted in the same amount of deaths then did the lay on hands make a difference? I think that's the problem.

To be fair, diseases were humorous in medieval times.

Adjectives don't describe an attribute they define what it isn't. A house can be any colour. A green house is green.

You can automatically hit something from long range behind 3/4 cover as long as you can see a bit of it. It's good at taking out escaping creatures, tiny low hp hard to hit creatures, really good at forcing enemy creatures to come to you if you have a way to scry ahead, and good at forcing...

One possible use is to see through the eyes of a familiar and then fire "blind" and as long as there is some kind of path to the target they will always be hit. Since you aren't casting through th familiar it would be really hard to find. Really, any kind of magic scrying would work too.

Sounds like a mistake to me. Sometimes automatically hitting is very strong.