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YMMV, but I see a different moral. Greed is bad. And potentially self-defeating. I think that D&D getting big did increase the risk of it being managed in the interests of greed, but I also think that was a risk that would approach but never actually reach 100%. Had it been managed by people...

I had no issues with OneDND. I was cautiously optimistic about the VTT, and quite optimistic about 5.5. Whether or not I adopted the VTT, if you had asked me in December whether I would buy and play 5.5, I would have said it was all but guaranteed. Sadly, after the OGL debacle, that's no longer...

Yeah, I've allowed plenty of player facing options over the years (albeit, only after careful consideration and sometimes a balance rewrite). I also use plenty of DM facing options. For my current campaign, I've been using A5E's Monstrous Menagerie instead of the Monster Manual, because I...

I would agree with a lot of the other posters. Some factors I haven't seen discussed much: System mastery applied to both sides of the table. A DM with strong system mastery of the system could create encounters that could absolutely steamroll any non-optimized party, without ever straying...

Something to consider is that, assuming that the players suspect there's a teleportation circle in a certain vicinity that they want to go to (say the fortress of the BBEG, or the lost library of McGuffin) then rather than trying to discover the sigils for the circle, they could attempt a brute...

Well, the player could choose to dance however their character would, in which case it would be RP. That really applies to almost anything in game beyond rolling dice without any description. If we're RPing a conversation with an NPC, I can choose to say what I think would get the NPC to do...

Alternate-universe level dependency, perhaps. As I said, the player opted to have an actual dance off with the DM, rather than rolling, so it was effectively level independent. Though it would have admittedly been level dependent had we opted to roll.

One of my DMs once had a skeleton challenge the party to a dance off. The DM gave us the option to either resolve it as a series of checks, or to have an actual dance off between the DM and one of the players. One of the guys opted to have an actual dance off. That same DM came up with a mini...

Like I said in another response, my PHB does not have the line designated as 2 under Polymorph, only for True Polymorph. It's possible that it was errata'd, but I was going off of what's printed in my copy. I already stated that in the case of True Polymorph, you would gain access to the...

I see that text in True Polymorph, but Polymorph is phrased without that last part (at least in my PHB, you might be correct that it's errata). I agree that if you're True Polymorphed you can use any spellcasting abilities of the creature type (such as the aforementioned Ki Rin). I'm not so...

I read it as: 1. Can't speak. 2. Can't cast spells. 3. Can't take any other action that requires hands or speech. But like I said, the language isn't as clear as it could be, so you could read it as: ... can't cast spells... that require hands or speech. Which would support your ruling.

I agree that the wording isn't as clear as it could be, but my reading is that it's explicitly prohibiting the casting of spells. You still technically have any spellcasting you had, you just can't use it while polymorphed.

Absolutely, the paladin is still a paladin. Otherwise, you could break your oaths every which way while polymorphed, but be treated as not having broken them. Whatever happens in dragon form stays in dragon form? That doesn't work for me. However, as per the rules of true polymorph, you can...

IMO, the simulacrum qualities are the result of the spell that created it, rather than its creature type (which would be that of the individual it was created from). Therefore, it retains any properties of a simulacrum regardless of the form it is changed into. It's similar to if you summon a...

It's up to the DM, but I rule that NPC stat blocks like the Archmage aren't creatures in terms of a spell like True Polymorph. That is to say, if you tried to polymorph someone into a human Archmage, you'd end up with a basic human (not an Archmage). Similarly, you can polymorph someone into a...

I don't think they'll remove the ability to have older content on DMs Guild (otherwise, as soon as this went into effect, DMs Guild would have to stop selling all the old content, which would not be in WotCs best interest, since they make money off those sales and would alienate their creators)...

Possibly. I think the direction I would go with something like this would be to use Fighting Stances, rather than weapon. Martials would start with at least two stances, and gain more as they level. For example, a dervish inspired Cyclone stance might allow you to target DC, and build up...

I like that's it's AC/DC. Rock on! That said, I feel like this weakens martial characters without adding much in the way of interesting choices. Best case scenario, the martial is capable of both attacks. They either intuit the best one to attack or try both to determine the best. After that...

Yeah, it can be the case at high levels. At 17th level a Fire Bolt deals 4d10 (22) vs Magic Missile at 3d4+3 (10.5). That said, there could still technically be uses for 1st level spells over cantrips, albeit situational. Burning Hands is AoE, while Magic Missile can't miss (for example)...

@DND_Reborn I haven't read the entire thread, but you asked for examples of casters punching well above their weight class, which I'm happy to provide. Admittedly, I tend to play more bards, druids, and clerics (I've usually been the guy in my group who'll volunteer to play a healer if no one...