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The latter part :) And I wasn't deriding it, it's just looking at design from, like I said, more of a gameist perspective as opposed to simulationist. But you're in good company, that's how 5e's been headed since the late 2010's. I'm not sure where I fall on that gameist-simulationist curve...

Sounds like a 4e solution. Not that that's bad, 5e has gone in a distinctly more gameist direction over its development cycle, which heads more in the 4e direction.

Alter to need, ofc :D https://a5e.tools/node/1832

Yeah "modern" DnD, 3e and afterwards, has a lot more to keep track of. I play OSE with a group still, that we play purely Theater of the Mind no problem... but modern DnD has a lot of moving bits and pieces.

Ha well, my hurdle was just understanding how all the different notes + links worked together, were set up etc. That's why I mentioned wanting a campaign to reverse-engineer, just having a little generic skeleton of a thing with all examples of linkings etc; that's how I learn best...

I think this depends on a lot of factors.. what the GM likes, what the players like, what game you're playing, etc. Call of Cthulhu is distinctly a non-battlemap game. DnD can play sans battlemap just fine if the battles don't have too many enemies/moving pieces, but it can benefit from one. A...

Yes, re: Archivist AI. It seemed to remove chitchat well enough.

To be clear, you're saying that cover is neeldess/onerous and is usually ignored? It comes up very frequently in my games- all the time, in fact, if you're a frequent ranged attacker. I have, however, heard the same thing about height and falling damage, that taking features that...

I have a few players that turn off the music entirely, and a few that request it- there's no middleground, it seems. I mainly have it for me... mostly nostalgic stuff, like Baldurs Gate 1+2 music for combats and Icewind Dale music for exploration etc etc.

Yeah I guess I'm in some playtester account setup... whoops :'D I haven't used it in a while (it worked fine but I just never kept up with reviewing the session summaries so like many new shiny things, it fell by the wayside for my ADHD arse).

Wow, I did a playtesting for them when they were just getting started... looking at it, my account is apparently still on some free deal 🤷‍♂️ I don't even have the option to set up a paid plan when I'm logged in 😅

Appreciate reviews like these, I'm sure they're very helpful to a lot of folk here :) Obsidian.md's been a hurdle I couldn't get over... I couldn't grok it, and I didn't have an "Example DnD Campaign" to load up and reverse-engineer tounderstand what made it tick :( I'm jealous of folk that...

Wow, thanks for the info and thank you for writing some of my favorite DnD novels! edit: I really pulled from the Black Rose books when I ran Ravenloft- I even adopted Azrael Dak as an NPC that came to Barovia on behalf of his master, he had tasks for the party that would upset Strahd, and my...

I assumed that you get extra movement out of the maneuver, sort of like the Charge maneuver

@dave2008 is the resident dragon-master, have you taken a look at the 2024s and how they stack up? Ofc the 2024 characters are more potent as well so... 🤷‍♂️

Same. I ran RHoD, the party was level 12 near the end and it was supposed to be an Adult blue (in 3.5), I upped it to ancient.. they still rocked its face :'D

Appreciate the thoughtful reply :)

For duet play you'd figure they would inject a little more than More Inspiration and More HP. You can add a little extra, say give the PC a "legendary action" themselves. Simple and relatively clean.. they can choose to take an extra action at the end of another creatures turn. Bam. Or just give...

I think one issue, with dnd5e at least, is that ranged attacks can't (RAW) knock foes unconscious. It's always lethal. It needs to be a melee attack. I kind of wonder what the reasoning for this is. Is it just "realism?" Or is there a design choice behind it?

How does not allowing retreat with "known foes" such as Red Hand hobgoblins, or even outlaws, leading to the party becoming shunned and hunted outlaws?