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Shhhhh..... no one's supposed to have figured that out!

Good point. Of course, strictly speaking, you can want to run something that you are, in fact, running. But you're right it does imply that it hasn't happened yet. The reason I worded the poll that way was to exclude people who had already decided to skip 5e. I didn't want people posting...

We don't have a lot for homebrew DMs yet, but that didn't stop me from doing a homebrew one-shot a few weeks ago. Anyone start a homebrew campaign? While this is likely intentional, (and predictable, given that there's no MM or DMG out yet) I find the number of pre-fab adventures being ran very...

Very interesting...

I wouldn't. Adding class levels is, I think, unnecessary in monster & NPC design. It's much better, I think, to simply add those components to an NPC or monster the DM feels it should have. Let's say you want an Orc similar who's can fight with military melee weapons and cast spells. You could...

Dude, the Winged Kobold drops a rock on you. That's just awesome.

No class levels, but the MM (and DMBR) have a section for NPCs like Berserker, Cultist, Guard, Knight, etc... You can add racial trait to make them more like whatever. So, for a Kobold Shaman, I'd use Acolyte and give it Pack Tactics. Which is pretty nice when you consider that the Acolyte is...

Wow Halfling_rogue that's pretty awesome. I think the biggest advantage a battlemat has is that it can clearly convey a great deal of information. If that information is clearly conveyed verbally or through a smaller diagram, then the battlemat is easily done away with in 5e. In 4e, it's...

This isn't going to stop me from homebrewing in the meantime. I hew pretty close to D&D as it's presented in the PHB, which also has a few important variants and homebrewing tools in it as well. Beyond that, Basic has what I need for low levels. But this is just for one-shots. If I was...

I don't know what Cyberen is saying, but I can tell you that encounter maps are not included. Tactics (strategy, really) are included in the description of a given mission, but stat blocks do not have round-by-round tactics. For example, the Mill encounter doesn't have a map of the mill. Heck...

FWIW, he's not that much of a recurring villain. As scripted/intended he shows up at the end of Episode One, fights a PC, and goes off with the rest of the raiding party. His appearance in Episode Two is almost entirely up to the DM. In Episode Three, he's one of the Monsters/NPCs you fight in...

I don't think they've given us a specific date. Mearls has said that it's going to be updated up to the end of year. So, while we'll likely get one or more updates in the next couple of months they likely don't want to give us specific dates because the last one was late.

Challenge Accepted! (Note: in all the following proposed systems, ties go to the person who has the highest charisma. If they both have the same charisma, then go rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock) 1. Re-roll initiative every round! Person who gets the highest roll goes, even if they’ve already...

Ugh... I'm a jerk. (Is that a quirk? IDK, maybe it's a requirement.) I love D&Ds many, many dumb monsters. Rust Monsters Pulling things out of my bum Convincing my players that they are being railroaded when, in fact, I'm laying down the track right in front of them as the play the game. I'm...

So are the boss monsters slammers? I'm very, very, sorry.

Ha ha... I like group initiative for monsters, my players hate it. At least for 4e. First, spike damage. Second, there are a number of rules that key off initiative order that they feel like individual initiative is a must. Now, in 4e and 5e I use 5e's "groups of identical monsters go on the...

Both weapons need to be light, and rapiers aren't light weapons. That said... The only way you're getting that at first level is to go variant human which only gets you two +1 stat increases. Anyways, back to Unarmored Defense for the Barbarian. Barbarians can use shields and still get the...

Related question: is anyone switching away from battlemats to theater of the mind for their 5e games? Or from something else to theater of the mind? IRL, I know someone who's moving to theater of the mind for 5e.

That would be a good poll, I think. Honestly, I don't know enough about the different visual aids out there to make a poll like that. That said, I've used battlemats, various tiles made by WotC, and many, many poster maps from the miniatures game. I know how you feel. A couple of weeks ago, I...

Well, that makes sense. Dude, what kind of D&D are you paying? Like, is this in the play test for 6th? 'Cause if so, I want in. New house rule: if the sorcerer turns into a potted plant, they have a shamble speed of 10 feet.