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Anytime the DM is even thinking about giving players the option of rolling evil characters, it needs to be very clearly stated at the outset, and player feedback considered. I personally will always bow out of such a campaign because dealing with this type of behavior is not fun for me.

In practice, this is not usually how it works out. You don't end up casting shield nearly as often as you might expect. I'm not sure what you mean by "other defenses." Protection from energy? Also doesn't come up very often, but extremely useful when it does. I wouldn't hold my breath for an...

Small consolation for anyone who paid good money for the first printing. It does not speak well of a company's ability to deliver quality product when errors as big as these have to be caught by the customer. Should I therefore wait until the second printing of everything gf9 produces?

^ Exactly what Thyrwyn said. Combat begins when one side takes a hostile action. In this case, the first hostile action is opening the door with murderous intent.

Not long into my campaign, I realized that my players do not need any external motivation to roleplay or try to do awesome things. So I dumped Inspiration altogether and started using Hero Points. Now I don't have to remember to reward behavior that's going to happen anyway, AND it's a little...

I'm not convinced. He had a pretty long list of other, non-D&D problems he's had with them, and it painted a rather vivid picture of a company lacking professionalism.

You forgot spellbook cards (also by gf9), which completely ignored concentration and omitted at least one spell that I'm aware of.

The owner of my FLGS told me that the gf9 DM screen project was such a train wreck that WotC took it back and did it themselves. Apparently gf9 has a long history of unprofessional behavior that shows no sign of improving.

I greatly dislike online-only content because I try very hard to keep electronic devices away from my table. And before anyone mentions the obvious, a printout is not nearly as satisfying as a professionally bound hardcover book. So yes, I'm disappointed. I wonder if this has anything to do...

Yay, another crazy, divisive thread built entirely around a trivial semantic designation! It's like the Internet breeds them! BOTTOM LINE: If you are the sort of person who enjoys thinking of RPGs in terms of combat roles, those roles can easily be achieved using the 5e system. If you are the...

I always assumed that a werewolf who wanted to kill another werewolf would know enough about lycanthropes to find himself a silvered weapon.

Yeah, no matter how you slice it, retrofitting the Spellcasting feature is always going to be weird and convoluted and far more confusing than just explaining the 5e Spellcasting system as it was written. It's a very elegant system, but 4e-ifying it makes it look like it was invented by slaadi.

I've honestly never known a player to want to use a bank in D&D. Seems a bit too dry and simulationist, I guess? We just convert coin to gems when we need to lighten the load. And, of course, real estate, vehicles, servants, etc. Carrying around large amounts of cash can be dangerous, yes, but...

I very strongly recommend that your DM look into some of the countless threads about problems and errors and general design complaints about this particular adventure. I'm not trying to warn you off of the adventure (not very hard, anyway), but you'll all have a much better time of it if the DM...

This. It's easy to pick and choose the bits of 5e that are easily reformatted, but there are plenty of things that simply won't translate. The basic structure of the game really is different, and I'm not sure you'd be doing a diehard 4e fan any favors by leading him to believe it's the same.

I don't think it's healthy to expect designers to cater to the desires of a person or group of people who self-define as being completely unwilling to compromise.

Your ability to envision and express the essence of madness is somewhat chilling. Bravo!

I must be some kind of math prodigy, I guess. It takes literally less than a minute for me to add up XP at the end of a session and for the players to add it to their totals. I've never heard anyone grumble about gaining XP before.

Did WotC create the screen themselves, or is this another outsourced masterpiece?

I was level 3 or 4 by then, and had already chosen my pact. (Also, as a good-aligned party, stealing the spellbook from someone who has never wronged us isn't really an option.) You see what I'm saying? I chose the pact BEFORE I met the wizard. When I chose the pact, I had every reason to...