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What does that even mean? You have 27 classes and thousands of powers/abilities to choose from to create the character that does what you want it to do. The PHB also heartily encourages reskinning or reflavoring classes and abilities to get the character you want to play as. It's certainly not...

There are definitely options, just like how there were attacks of opportunity and feats in 3E... But I've personally found them wimpy. If I recall correctly, by 4th level you can have that style, maneuver, and feat... And then you really don't ever improve your stickiness. And short rests are so...

Is there any evidence against his assumption that 4E gave classes better tools to do the things they've always done? Mechanically and typically in the combat of past editions, fighters could try and defend their squishier comrades and be a threat on the battlefield, clerics supported and healed...

Different 4E classes and monsters had that ability. Parts of the Warlord was built around it. Different Leader monsters like the Duergar Raid Leader (standard action to have an ally attack) or Underlord (move and attack as minor), Fang of Yeenoghu (all allies in 5 square burst attack), and more...

I can't even tell what people are arguing about in this topic any more. As someone who likes 4E and Basic and hates 3.5, I don't even see edition warring... Just people saying "yeah, I don't like the way roles work in your system but I'm totally cool with you liking it" for at least the last 15...

I look at the mechanics because I'm potentially paying $150 for the rules to a game. I don't need a book to tell me how to roleplay, make up encounters, characters or a story, or anything like that. When I look at character classes, I want to know that the rules actually live up to the lore and...

I don't see why you'd punish a player or make her wait a ton of levels to earn the core ability of Captain America. Let her use shields as a d8, light, returning thrown (20/60) weapon that still gives an AC bonus. It's not like it's unbalanced compared to a sword-and-throwing-axe-wielding fighter.

This is a pretty awesome homebrewed class. I love how powerful all of the capstone abilities are, as well as the Fighting Style and Deadly Strike abilities. The consolidated list of maneuvers(especially stuff that gets stronger at higher levels) are pretty nice. The only thing I'm disappointed...

It's a sexist term for something that is is supposedly "simple and easy" for "less skilled" players to use and still be useful. IE, "My girlfriend is dragged to D&D games so I make her play a Champion fighter just so she plays something and doesn't sit there all night". I forget whether I read...

At least 28-point buy. It's not fair for one or more players to be permanently screwed over because of a few unlucky dice rolls before the game even begins. Our group likes stronger characters as well.

I will freely admit that I haven't deeply looked at 5E DMing yet (November's so far away...). I've played AD&D, but haven't DM'd it; it seemed "simple" enough, but I don't know just how vastly my first DM houseruled things to be easier/different. I think I got into 3E late enough that when I...

I wouldn't really call 5E monsters simple... The 3E/5E style stat blocks are still relatively complex, especially since the "natural language" makes it really hard to glean information at a glance and they've once again committed the cardinal sin of forcing DMs to look in the PHB for spells. It...

I've heard if you put have archive.wizards.com instead of just wizards.com you can get to all the old links you have.

There's no stores near me that broke the release date so I don't have the PHB for the latest rules, but isn't Knock a ritual spell (10 minutes spellcasting for no expended spell slot)? Also, how often does that drawback to knock actually come into play? Last night in a 3E campaign I'm in we...

It's not that we want every class to be optimized, so much as balanced and on equal footing. As an arbitrary example, it's not fair that the gal playing the high-level Wizard in a campaign has much more agency and impact on encounters than the guy playing an equal level Fighter (Champion...

DMing with 4E can be pretty easy to do. You have that neat list of DCs up above if you need to improvise some skill check, plus the math for generating combat encounters is really tight; you have an XP budget based on how many PCs there are, how strong they are, and how challenging you want the...

Why not let the player decide how she endures the trial? Using her strength of will to ignore the pain, or having the fortitude to withstand immense punishment without breaking, etc. If she fails, perhaps she takes some amount of HP damage representing physical and mental stress and let 0 HP be...

Unless the Eldritch Knight has changed a lot since the last preview it was in, it seems like one of the worst warrior/mage combinations in D&D history. It takes like 7 levels to both cast just a cantrip and attack, and around 18 levels before you can cast a spell and attack. Both are pretty much...

Talking about the numbers is important because that's pretty much what we're buying; we're paying for rule books. You don't need a book to tell you how to pretend to be an elf and have a collaborative story-making experience with friends. Rule systems help determine how the DM can set up...