Search results

  1. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Is Monster Manual 2025 compatible with 2014 Characters?

    Try using one of them and see what happens. Playtesting the game is the best way to determine whether something can work for you. There's no reason to trust the opinions of any of us here, because we all run our combats differently and have differing opinions on what we consider "compatible"...
  2. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Magical effects in the MM

    I just use my own common sense if/when a question comes up. If/when someone wants to Dispel Magic on something or Counterspell something, or an Anti-Magic Field shows up... I'll make Rulings on various items/features/abilities as the players or the NPCs attempt to use them at the time. But in...
  3. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Where to next, WotC?

    If (general) you are a fan of Dark Sun... you don't want WotC to make a 5E24 update to Dark Sun. You are going to hate it. Make your own update. You have your old Dark Sun materials presumably... use all of that to make the setting workable for yourself with 5E24 (or 5E14 if you haven't...
  4. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Anyone Else Find It Interesting How Different The Approaches to Setting Books Is Between 5e & 5.5e?

    Naw, don't really find it that interesting. 5E14 was a small team releasing a game with an unknown audience size and an unknown possibility of success, so their release schedule was modest and pointed... getting the game revv'd up and going. 5E24 is a large game for a large and still active...
  5. DEFCON 1

    Second person plural pronoun

    Agree with Charlaquin here. They have the right of it for the possessive.
  6. DEFCON 1

    Second person plural pronoun

    Probably the best way to decide would be to write out a standard sentence that can use the various options and see which one looks / sounds / feels the most appropriate. Plus important to remember that if this is meant for a written document rather than one spoken out loud, it might change...
  7. DEFCON 1

    Second person plural pronoun

    If this is to be used in somewhat formal documentation, @TaranTheWanderer is correct that 'you all' is probably the most formal option. Guys, ones, folks, yous... all are informal (if not actually considered silly, like 'you lot' and 'yous' would be).
  8. DEFCON 1

    Second person plural pronoun

    You are correct @Yaarel that 'you guys' does get used quite a bit, but that 'guys' is still oftentimes a male connontation-- even though it has become more and more non-gendered over the years in its use as a group noun.
  9. DEFCON 1

    Second person plural pronoun

    I can't say it's a "formal" context, but for me when I refer to second-person plural, I usually use 'y'all'. One word, a contraction of 'you all', understood by pretty much all Americans. But it is exceedingly informal.
  10. DEFCON 1

    D&D General What would your "fourth core rulebook" be?

    To me the most logical book that could/would become a "fourth core" book would be the Manual of the Planes. It's the one book that has universal application and has been published over and over regardless of edition, meaning that it already has a place in the ubiquity of D&D tomes. So take out...
  11. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Wrapping up first 2-20 2024 campaign this week, some of my thoughts

    I suspect that the actions and results of this campaign will not be a very useful point of comparison or warning to 99% of the other tables out there. As for instance, just because the rules do not prohibit the wearing of 10 rings of resistance by each PC (resulting in like 50 odd rings of...
  12. DEFCON 1

    D&D General Anyone else notice this?

    "Look, if I argue with you... I must take up a contrary position." "Yes, but that isn't just saying 'No, it isn't'." "Yes, it is." "NO, IT ISN'T!"
  13. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2014) So 5E is the Successor to AD&D 2nd Edition? How and How Not?

    There is no difference between magic items and class features-- they are both just nothing more than additional game mechanics a player has at their disposal for their PC to use against the enemies the DM places in front of them. So whether or not one's game works better or worse with magic...
  14. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Above the Table Interview with Jeremy Crawford.

    Yeah, it's almost like Dungeons and Dragons as a game has been constantly evolving over its 50+ years of existence and that useful ideas can come from anywhere within its history. And that people who play it can find those bits and adapt them to their game at any point-- that they don't need to...
  15. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Why No Monster Creation Rules in D&D 2024?

    Then feel free to get your answer from someone else. You aren't required to listen to me. I'm fine with it. But you do have to accept that the answer isn't coming from Wizards of the Coast (as of yet) because the book has already been printed and the rules aren't in it. Plenty of other books...
  16. DEFCON 1

    D&D General Gear

    Then change it. You can give as little or as much as you like.
  17. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Why No Monster Creation Rules in D&D 2024?

    Or more unneccesary, depending on how you look at it. If you are the DM you can just give whatever XP you want. We do it all the time for finishing quests and the like. So what difference does it make how much XP one gives for some random monster they make up?
  18. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2024) Is Oath of the Noble Genie Green, Yellow, or Red?

    Voted Red. Bad narrative in my opinion. Paladins Oaths are not sworn to individuals and gain power from them... that's what Warlocks do. And what we already have in the Genie Patron. Paladins have ideals and their uttermost conviction and belief in those ideals give them their abilities...
  19. DEFCON 1

    D&D 5E (2014) So 5E is the Successor to AD&D 2nd Edition? How and How Not?

    You know, you could always just not read their posts or put them on Ignore. If you're going to completely stop reading EN World because of one person... that pretty much is an indicator you don't actually want to hang out here at all regardless of what that one poster writes. So they have no...
Top