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5e doesn't have a delay action, and ready doesn't move your position. Though it would be an easy house rule to implement, I suppose. I used index cards for a while, and the magnetic whiteboard also has the benefit easy order change. Butt also allows everyone to see who's turn is coming...

We had a crappy D&D movie. More than one. I'd like a fun, yet good one, please. :) Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey were high grossing, too. That doesn't necessarily equate to quality.

I get that. I had the exact same feeling seeing Spider-Man first swinging through New York and the LotR teaser trailer showing the Fellowship march across the screen. My goosebumps had goosebumps. I would just hope a new D&D movie, while being high action, would be a bit more cerebral than...

We use "going on a tear" in Canada, just not to be confused with "going for a rip," which apparently means going for a drive, but I hadn't heard the term until that hilarious song (which I won't link, as it's NSFW). Probably an eastern thing...

Just have the players say, "We're gonna need a montage!" That's code for downtime time!

That's fair, but I don't have trouble doing that without using the numbers, myself. And if, for some reason, the player is misinformed and tries to do something stupid unintentionally, I'll give him the ol' "That might not be the best idea," and reiterate the situation. But that doesn't happen...

Great. Thanks for that image. You're as bad as Bay, stop ruining my childhood! :p

Transformers would be a lot better turned into a 2-3 minute montage, true. :)

This is why I'm a little less gamist in my approach. I'll tell the player all the circumstances, but I'm not throwing out the exact DC. As soon as I do that, the player looks down at his sheet and it turns into a number crunching exercise. If I just describe the scene, it's more likely he'll...

Sure. Just not Michael Bay. Giant explosions with American flags waving in the background doesn't scream fantasy to me.

Only if it was directed by Michael Bay....

Don't get me wrong. Multiple threads interjected with posts saying "Ohmigosh, WotC is so very, very terrific!" would be just as bad. But if that's a problem, it's not nearly on the same scale...

Now, now, no need to take my winky-faced post as dour seriousness. I do not doubt you would have fun playing games with your kids and didn't mean to imply you couldn't. My bad.

Us board gamers are trying to change that to Catan, Carcasonne, Ticket to Ride, King of Tokyo, just to show people that games can be fun instead of mindless drek. ;)

I wonder how long before we can get a "no support" sub-board. It might be better for everyone if the no support supporters could have a place to commiserate together, rather than post their lamentations in every other thread here...

That's okay. HotDQ looks like the grill menu from Dairy Queen to me... :)

Have you considered a magnetic whiteboard? I've used one to track initiative and conditions since the early 3e days. I use a handheld-sized one that came with magnetic strips that hold cardboard tags you can write on. So each PC gets a tag, then I have "Enemy 1," "Enemy 2," etc, for foes, as...

It's the internet. If they included a $5 bill in every book, there would be some people that would complain it wasn't a 10 or 20.

I hop around different games, let alone campaign settings. But even during the years I primarily ran D&D, it was my homebrew, then Greyhawk, then FR, then Ravenloft, then back to Greyhawk, but earlier in the timeline than before, then back to the homebrew, hundreds of years later, then back to...

I decided early on (during the last days of the playtest), that I would be setting my game in the 3e era FR (circa 1372 DR). As everything is pretty much going back to the way it was, current material fits in almost perfectly. Even if one wanted to set it during the current day, the 3e FRCS...