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I think there are far too many people holding players up to a certain (arguably quite high) standard of improvisational acting. Ok, it would be awesome if all the players could fully embody the characters they're playing and immerse themselves in their roles like De Niro can, but I don't see...

I had the same trepidations with the illusion school. We've only played a few sessions but the gnome illusionist in the new group I'm DMing has been really entertaining so far, but he seems to be a very creative player. So far, he's only used the illusions to trick the other players as they've...

I agree with pretty much everything DEFCON 1 posted. I'm not too bothered about point number 2 though. I really agree with his point about the BIFTs area being on the front if possible. I'm especially interested in this sheet because one of the players in my group is dyslexic and he likes the...

My first instinct was that whatever happens, the new character should just be at the same level as the rest of the party, but reading this thread has got me thinking that it could be quite interesting to go back to square one for any new additions. How would you play it in groups that don't use XP?

*Puts hand up, jumps up and down* Me! I care! In an industry that's generally seen to be male dominated, with a product that many wrongly think is aimed solely at men, I think it's great that WotC are hiring women and pushing diversity.

Yeah I'm with you on that. I think some class names definitely lend themselves more to an actual title that people would use than others like ranger, druid, monk, wizard, etc., whereas others seem a bit more abstract like fighter, rogue, barbarian. There's no doubt that someone might call them...

The class names are just arbitrary tags that we, as players, use to identify the specific set of abilities that a character will have. There's no reason a fighter or a bard or a rogue or whatever would ever have to be identified by those labels. They're more likely to be identified by their...

It seems weird to me for an adventure to be released in hardback form. I think with an adventure book you want to be able to lay it flat on the table, which you can't do as easily with hardback books. I've never bought a hardback adventure, it's just the impression I get...

Some people would very much like to create their own but they don't have the time...

Well it might not officially be the default but there's a definite leaning towards the Realms, and all of the adventure material has been for the Realms so far. :)

I'd also be most interested in adventure paths and adventures and least interested in splat books. I really like D&D 5th as it is right now and find too many character options to be a bit off-putting.

I don't really understand the problem. Surely in combat it makes sense that sometimes you swing your weapon and it either doesn't hit or it doesn't connect enough to actually do damage. Either the enemy dodges out of the way, or you connect with a particularly well armoured part of their body...

I guess the problem with Greyhawk is that nothing really exists for it outside of the game books, whereas "generic fantasy D&D setting #2", AKA Forgotten Realms has video games, novels, comics, board games etc. using it so it's more likely to entice new D&D players, and it's generic enough for...

Yeah exactly! I'd say that there'd be a chance that someone other than who they were trying to pray to might answer with whatever nasty consequences that might have!

I'm a new DM and a bit of a "yes man" DM, but if a player wanted to do this I'd probably think about whether they were a character who'd shown themself to be particularly pious, think about whether the person they were trying to save "deserved" to be saved and then take into account how well...

Have any of you worked to expand the various quests in The Spider's Web? I feel like Wyvern Tor, Old Owl Well and maybe even Agatha's Lair could be expanded to multiple encounter dungeons. Maybe the orcs could have more of a hideout with more orcs in different rooms, the necromancer at Old Owl...

I'm not really very familiar with Greyhawk (so apologies if I'm way off the mark here!) but I get the impression that it wouldn't really be different enough from Forgotten Realms for it to make any sense releasing it as a separate setting. Something like Dark sun or Eberron seem a lot more...

I'm actually the DM so d'you think that I should be triggering a surge whenever they've used up their Tides of Chaos ability?

sidonunspa - Obviously it's a matter of opinion but I don't think they're very good at all. I found the mechanics to be very clunky and the adventures tend to end up spiraling out of the players' control very quickly and easily. Don't play them expecting them to feel anything like a real game of...

Ah yeah, that's actually a really good way of putting it!