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What bugs me? Why can't anyone remember their AC? It's one number! It's at the top of your character sheet! If never changes (apart from special things like the shield spell). So, when I look at you and say "I rolled a 16, does it hit?" why do you look at me blankly then then scramble around...

For me, this comes under the umbrella of "acceptable metagaming". If a player is not present then their character is offscreen. They are present in the encounter, but they are doing their own stuff slightly out of view of the camera. Their abilities and items are not available to the characters...

As noted above, no, there isn't any such rule. You can cast many spells in a round (for example by multiclassing to fighter and using Action Surge). The only rule is combining bonus action spells and other spells. Did you cast a bonus action spell? Yes: All other spell this round must be...

I agree. It depends on the players, of course, but some groups are happy to have Stanley Tweedle and Zev in the same party.

Like Dragon Age RPG did. Then at the end, release a single hardcover with all three books, plus fixes and additions and extra stuff, and refuse to give previous purchasers any discount…

Give the weapon the same Antennae Action as a rust monster. The wielder of the weapon can choose to strike normally (using the Attack Action, doing damage) or trying to damage the weapon (using the Antenna Action, doing no damage)., Give the foe a DEX save to simulate them trying to move their...

My advice is twofold: First, focus more on the other two pillars of play. Second, make the spotlight explicit. If a scene involves one PC and the player of another PC tries to interject, tell them, "Yep, player X, I heard that, but right now the spotlight is on Y's character."

I'm strict, because almost all of my players think their characters have super-vision. :) GM: There is a figure standing at the far end of the bridge (already established to be over a 300ft river, and there is a long queue this side of the bridge that the PCs are at the end of) talking to the...

I read it as "drudge labour doesn't require a skill." Which I agree with.

Nice list! Note that overrun and tumble can be done as an Action or as a Bonus Action,

Possibly a silly question - why would an employer pay someone to use mage hand when they could pay someone to use their actual hands (which can carry more weight, use tools, aqnd do two-handed things)?

If you take out alignment then how do you have Evil High Priests or Evil Grand Viziers? (Warning, that link is a TV Tropes link. Your productivity will suffer.)

Do you consider lots of undead to be broken? :-) With this idea, a caster can spend half a day casting and have 65 zombies under their control. Three hours each day will maintain control over all of them.

Cue a very angry man. https://theangrygm.com/series/crafting-crafting/

I'm going to take a contrary, and maybe controversial, view. I want crafting to be expensive for the characters and/or the players. As a GM, I don't want to sit and watch players spend an hour doing crafting stuff, having their characters spend two months making an awesome sword/armor/whatever...

I've owned two of those. The first seperated into two screens within a few months, the second held on for about three years before seperating. The thin plastic between the individual screens is very, well, thin. Also, the pockets are very narrow. You can't put plain paper in them, it just...

Ring binders and bulldog clips. http://clashofspearonshield.blogspot.com/2016/03/diy-dm-screen-with-thanks-to-jeremy.html

On the other hand, history has never been accurate historically. :-) There wasn't any such thing as the "Greek pantheon." Every city-state and region had its own take on the gods. That's where we get Athena Alea, Athena Polias, Athena Nike, Aphaea and so on. In Athens she was the patron of...

The boxed set is beautiful. It is still on my shelf today. The game was a revolution to one of my players at the time, who had a lot of problems with not being able to roll. 'What do you mean I don't get to roll?" For some reason, the idea that his character might just fail (or might just...

Do not try to mix science with D&D. That way madness lies. Genetics is in the big set of "real world stuff that just doesn't work right", along with gravity, density (specifically the square-cube relationships that mean giants can't exist), plate techtonics (hello Underdark!), conservation of...