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In combat, a lot of it has to do with people picking what they are doing before their turn starts, and rolling dice and doing math quickly. At high levels, it can be a swing of 2 minutes for a single person's single turn in combat. The same also applies to the DM. On a more campaign level...

I recently started a Baldur's Gate II game, with some more extensive houseruling of some things to give it a bit of a 2e feel. I ran everything by the players in session 0. I don't think anyone has suggested any other changes to me; I'm the only one who hangs out on forums and thinks about...

Taken with lots of grains of salt. And some salty responses! Ages of people I've sat at a table to play with in the last month: 40 (me) 54 56 50-ish 25-ish 17

It depends on which levels, too. level 1 to level 2, level 2 to level 3 are huge jumps. Level 15 to level 16 is not such a big jump.

Can anyone do it easily? Don't roll. Can an average healthy adult do it some of the time? 10. Does it need someone strong/skilled/trained? 15. Is it pretty hard and require an expert to likely succeed? 20. Is it superhuman? 30. The only time I used a DC 30 with a skill check was following...

Much faster than 3.5, especially when using D&D Beyond. When making NPC statblocks that use PC abilities, it's faster for me to use DNDB to generate all the base numbers, then type them into the MM format than it is to calculate from scratch.

Session 41: 4/1/2023 The party is escorted directly to the leader of the Yuan-ti village, who is happy to see them…they are important, and Teador is trailed by a number of people as he carries the Ssword of Sseth. It will take a few days to find someone who may have records of the Teleport...

"Ok, it's 3 hours before. Who's about to cancel on me unexpectedly?" "It starts at 7:30. It's 7:35. Nobody's here. Are they coming?"

I ended up picking a halfling once or twice for one-shots when playing at the FLGS where some people use critical fail rules. Crit fails are a terrible houserule, and halflings are immune to them.

Are they planning to fix the stuff in D&D Beyond that hasn't worked for years, like making basic spells or class features like Mage Armor or Barbarian Rage actually show up on character sheets when they are in effect? Edit: Just realized this is a "WOTC update" not a "DND Beyond" update. My...

Before Tasha's. Tasha's has some good stuff in it, but it also has a lot of stinkers.

And yet most reviews of WOTC adventures seem to include "This needs work" or "This only makes sense if the party does X" or "This could be a lot better."

Pointing out that horses drastically improve strategic and tactical mobility is... well, historically accurate. It makes me want to make them more useful.

He just needs to take a long rest.

I'm currently running a high level game (Against the Idol of the Sun, campaign log is posted here and GITP). It has been my experience both with that, and with a one-shot with 14th level characters, that most PCs at high level can get hit by multiple fireballs and prismatic sprays and...

They keep getting HP at a fixed amount after 10. By 20 with 16 con they have 10+3 (1st level) 13 6*9+3*9 (2-10) 81 3*10 (11-20) 124 The plan is also for this to be higher magic in terms of item availability (Baldur's Gate II) so the fighters will probably have a couple of resistances each...

Almost all save-boosting abilities belong to martials and half-casters (Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Artificer). Diviner and War Wizard are the only full-casters I can think of who have ways to boost their saves on demand. At level 20: Con 14, Average hp using a d6 to 10, +1/level after that: 72 Con...

I'm cutting HD growth after level 10 in my next game. Too many things end up as non-threats when you have 230 hit points.

They made the right choice.

That is a great post. 10/10 well organized. Please link the follow-up whenever it goes up as well.