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And don’t forget about the multiclassing and spells all around to further handle “thief-like” needs. Invisibility, silence, fly, spells as rituals not using resources (except time), etc. I remember (“Back in my day…”) the thief character was the one who scouted ahead of the party to scope...

I voted “yes”. 1). In the old gold box and other DND video games, the games were built around the existing game system (or closely mirrored the existing game system, such that the stuff you could do in game you could do on the tabletop, without the RPG saying ‘nope’). Keeping in mind that the...

Two things come to mind with all of this, including some BG3 derived rules in the playtest: 1) I don’t see why WOTC doesn’t just do away with the whole prepared spell thing for all casters, I mean, it’s moving that way anyway, just drop it. (And I say that as a player who prefers hard limits...

Wow. So, now the counter argument to wizard being overpowered was ‘the overall power of wizards is being based on some wizard who somehow has the perfect spell for the perfect situation always ready’ - well, now they do… congrats WOTC. I just…🤷‍♂️

Or that one can’t abide any restrictions at all. We’ve seen that play out where the sky continues to be the limit, and ‘balance’ is achieved by giving classes more and more (usually spell like abilities), as a design decision rather than to rein things in. Our group cut our teeth on 1e, and...

Agree on the money element. We play OSE, and a wizard can craft a magic item for 500gp and one week of time if it mimics a spell effect (i.e. a scroll). With gold for XP, its usually worth the time investment for a couple of scrolls to take along. You need 2,500 xp to get to level 2, so...

When we played Basic/Ad&d, we absolutely played it as a combat sport, and the exploration was just an avenue to get to the next combat. But we were also 13, and figuring out the rules. Now, 40 years later, we have more exploration and social than combat, playing OSE/Basic, than in any other...

Gourmet pizza? Why? Pizza tastes best either in NY from a hole in the wall shop (no slight intended) or on a boardwalk by the beach. As intended. I mostly tire of the around and around and around of the same couple folks in the same couple threads saying the same couple things over and...

Over 40 years, we started with 1e (brief B/X look-in), but jumped at "advanced", even though we weren't back in 7th grade. As each new edition came out, we jumped onto that one, all the way up until 4e. When 4e hit, our "forever DM" got the books, and we tried it, and bounced off hard. Or at...

I need to break out my abacus. Let's see, 1982 or so, I was 13, 7th grade. I had the Basic Set in a pink box, circa (1980 printing). My friend got the Ad&d Player's Handbook, DMG, and MM, and so we used that. It was, after all, "Advanced", so had to be better, right!?! He was the always DM...

Not really. Scientifically, you can get "representative samples" for surveys or data collection and analysis with far fewer participants. Now, I'm not a scientist, or a pollster, but I'm sure there are those on these boards who could explain it. Basically, the numbers that WOTC pulls for...

Thinking more about it, I think we also at one point interleaved the attacks throughout the round (for 3/2 or 2/1). We did it two different ways: 1) the character with more than 1 attack would attack on Init for their first attack, then all other attacks at the end of the round (after everyone...

I think we did it the wrong way as well, and then did it the ‘right’ way, and then decided to let the fighter or character decide how they wanted to do it - in the first round of combat, do you want to swing twice or once? The following round, you completed the series and that was how you...

I don't interact with any company I buy from, usually. Aside from buying from them. They put out a product, I buy it or I don't. I follow the "community" usually on forums or blogs, or YT occasionally, and that's about it (and that is coming off of about a 30 year run of being in the "Games...

I walked away from a group I had been gaming with for 40+ years, just finally realized I wasn’t enjoying the games and the personalities that came out in the games (and I’m also sure I was a pita sometimes too, but I was trying to pay attention to it). Fortunately two other players followed...

I’ll suggest a couple of options, but I make no guarantees that this will work or that it might not eventually hurt or damage the model. 1) the first thing you could try would be to just use a black wash (many available from multiple paint manufacturers - Games Workshop, Vallejo, Army Painter...

But this, of course, goes both ways. And a lot of this - table style, approach, how disagreements are handled, etc. - should be discussed and agreed before hitting the table at all. I’ve had players do what you’re saying - start off hostile or argumentative, reject what the DM is doing or...

Playing it in a campaign, used the character playbooks and village creation processes/rules, and using the spell system, and have placed it in Greyhawk. We’re having a lot of fun with just exploring around the village and building out the world. Happy to discuss.

Right. But if you don't trust the people you are playing with, and particularly don't trust the DM, why are you playing? At our table, we talk at session 0, during the game, and offline about the rules, expectations, rulings or non-rulings, etc. When I DM, I'll point out things the party...

Well, it’s every weapon, regardless of class, so… They all do damage on a miss, under certain circumstances. But magic and other effects are much more subtle, so you’re not fireballing or having flashy big magic effects either. One could also ask why you need special features and ability...