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There were rules in 3.x that you could use to build NPCs, nothing for monsters that I know of.

I also said I wish I had the rules. Both things can be true. I like ice cream, I don't need ice cream. And ... now that I write this I'm kind of sad there is no ice cream in the house. :( On an related note, did we ever have such rules before 5E? Something other than "copy an existing...

Not sure where you get the idea that I'm disagreeing with you at all.

I'm dissapointed that we don't have rules, I hoped we would. On the other hand a couple of observations. First is that these books seem to be targeted to people who have never played before or have had only minimal experience. For brand new DMs, you probably don't need or want to start making...

In all fairness the engineer that designs a train is not necessarily the engineer you want running the train. :)

I don't think the books should offer any guidance because it's going to vary so much. Personally I've never cared for the feeling in FR having an epic level NPC around every other corner. So 1 in a 100,000 or less being a higher level character to account for antagonists works for me, although...

I think they can make for fun campaign settings, but as others pointed out it depends on how long ago the apocalypse was. All those ancient, long forgotten dungeons have to come from somewhere. :)

To me there's a difference between post-apocalypse but rebuilding with hope for the future and post-apocalypse dark sun where everything is slowly dying and you know that inevitably everything is dead and desolate.

If it has to contain everything I would say that it almost needs to be some kind of nexus point, a crossroads of sorts. So not only have relatively easy access to other planes (feywild and shadowfell in particular) but also other worlds. If a new book comes along and introduces a new species...

I do that myself, it is quite easy to stumble into my versions of the feywild and shadowfell quite easily. An underlying theme of the last (and current) campaign is that the boundaries between worlds are becoming more porous as a result of some of the cataclysmic events that happened a little...

It's still vaporware with nothing in-game and still no release date; the teaser trailer didn't really clear anything up. It could be fun, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

I guess I've pretty much always preferred some variation on point buy since I've seen situations where one person had extremely high scores and another had extremely low. Neither one was happy with the results. Before point buy was a thing (the first variation I started using was from Living...

This one is funny for me because I actually told someone this a couple of weeks ago because we have a cat that does this ...

Tried to go last year, put a bunch of D&D games on my wish list and logged in to get my games 3 minutes after registration opened. Didn't get a single thing on my list and there were no D&D 5E games available for any of he days. :mad: Years ago when you signed up via catalog and had gotten...

I would even say that my style can sometimes vary depending on where we are in the campaign, the group, if we just feel like doing something a bit different. Have a long stretch of RP heavy politics and minimal or no combat? Maybe it's time to invade the enemy headquarters, chew bubble gum and...

I'm just not going to agree with your definition of a railroad if that means certain events and probable encounters or turning points are preplanned. The problem is with how you're categorizing it is that this is a public forum, I'm not telling you what to say or not of course, just pointing...

I read about some of these supposed "old school" ways of playing and while I can recognize that people played or continue to play in certain ways, it has little to do with my own personal experience. I know some people were always into the whole "describe how you find a trap" as an example, and...