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It's been observed that in many old D&D ventures (like Keep on the Borderlands Era) that the NPCs are sometimes overwhelmingly male and the few ladies that do exist are often relations, sometimes nameless, of male NPCs. This may be an attempt at balance that veers towards over-correction (if...

Humanoids can be evil individually or through association with a group like a political organizaiton or cult, but they seem to be avoiding making any humanoid evil as a matter of species identity. It's not that humanoids can't be evil, it's that humanoid races shouldn't be evil because the idea...

Honestly the bigger problem logistically is that a 10-foot pole is highly inconvenient to carry. It scrapes the ceiling if you wear it on your back, it doesn't fit in a bag of holding, and if you make it collapsible then it's probably gonna be structurally too weak to do much of anything. So...

That's entirely fair. My window into isekai anime is just Mother's Basement videos on Youtube so I fully confess to some ignorance on the topic.

I'm not saying that some of the changes aren't also motivated by story reasons. But none of these things are happening in a vacuum. It's not like this sort of thing is even unique to 5.24. A5E already just made most creatures not have an alignment trait, so that it only applies to certain...

Right and look what Arcane magic does there! We should be thankful our Arcano-divine overlords allow us to responsibility participate in their gifts!

I mean it helps that 4E only had four creature types: Animate, Beast, Humanoid, and Magical Beast.

Honestly I feel like most people who comment on schools or 'cultures' of play only know the other schools and cultures from stereotypes and thus any conversation is at best useless and at worst counterproductive.

To avoid stuff like this I think it would be good to word it 'when a creature hits or misses with an attack' instead of 'makes an attack'.

Maybe if it's made of neutron star matter

The rules actually do sort of account for this; if you have the Keen Hearing trait, that's advantage on Perception skills involving hearing, and that would cancel out the disadvantage from it being in the dark and make it a flat roll.

Hm. I'm not saying you're wrong and I don't really watch isekai anime... primarily because as I understand it's not very wholesome and generally has some pretty messed up sexual themes. It just surprises me that 'wholesome' makes anyone think of isekai anime and not something like Delicious in...

Why does the pronunciation guide say 'Yee-ga'. I've always heard 'Yah-ga'

I mean that's possible but I'm not sure it's an obvious conclusion. There's loads of downtime and just 'hanging out' in the Lord of the Rings too.

Generally speaking passive Perception is supposed to be something to keep from accidental spoilers. You roll against the players' passive perceptions instead of checking actively so the players aren't tipped off to a surprise encounter you asking for the perception check. I wouldn't use it for...

Unfortunately there's confusion about what the letter of the agreement actually means, which I do think it leads to an abundance of caution. I recall discussing with one creator who believed that she wasn't allowed to use a character she created for a DMsGuild product in a non DMsGuild product...

I can't really comment on Shadowdark and Demon Lord because I don't have copies of them but like I said I think the core engine of 5E is: The D&D staple mechanics of Ability Scores 3-18 and d20 resolution rolls Proficiency bonus with limited scaling that applies universally to anything you're...

It shouldn't be surprising to hear that each edition's design is strongly influenced by the shortcomings, real or perceived, of the previous editions. Though given I still hear complaints about 4E having 'hostile marketing' it seems like being open about that can potentially backfire.

Dragonix too. Got all his Monster Manual Expanded books and now his non-DMS Guild stuff is on my wishlist.

Aside from the stuff that D&D has always used, like the 1d20 + Modifiers, the 6 Ability Scores, Armor Class making you harder to hit, etc... the stuff that makes 5E itself is: Proficiency bonus with limited scaling that applies universally to anything you're proficient with Bounded accuracy...