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I think the main problem is bonus action hunters mark. Maybe bonus action to cast it reaction to move it. Mixed in with any of your ideas.

Still better than 1980s lol. Ideal world sure. Let me know when the worlds ideal. Context matters. Drunk raging parent figure blowing was just another Tuesday. That's all I had to deal with friends got it so much worse.

I suspect a lot of people here are not playing 5.5 or are busy they crafting white room scenarios. Looking at the DMG vs what I've been doing it's not to far apart so I thought I would have a look at the numbers, compare with official WotC adventures and offer thoughts on what I'm doing. Also...

We don't know how common Gary blowing up happened. My neck of the woods that woukd be a nothing burger. Parents blew up at kids was essentially the default at least occasionally. Alot worse was also the default in a lot of homes.

Yeah some of those older posts are hilarious.

An alternative what if is 2E still gets released and they don't over print the stuff that killed them. 2E outsold 1E from previous year by a lot (not over all). Revisions tend to sell less than earlier product we have 3 samples of that. Juries still out on 5.5.

As DMs it's what we tend to find and remember. I've had 1 outright toxic player last 10 years he got booted. Turns out he was banned from multiple game stores. 3 more weren't toxic but we're chaos monkeys. I ended campaign in essence hooting them. They got bored from next 2 campaigns they...

For .e Gary was just the name in the front of several books and the fireworks in them. Gary seemed to be the type of guy you love or hate. Lorraine mild dislike I don't think she socialized much with staff vs Gary running games.

Good catch I would want to play either one.

That pictures casting a spell on your turn probably not as a reaction. RAW in 5.5 you're screwed casting shield without warcaster. Wizards generally have a spare hand. My EK builds good at it;) Shillagh plus using a shield another combo that doesn't work well.

I suspect to many here are theory crafting and lack experience in 5.5. In seeing more than work caster danage is basically crap relative to martials and hit points on enemies. Casters can shut stuff down fine but that doesn't win combats by itself. Eventually your spell runs out. Control...

Probably Tonb of Annihilation or a conversion of Savage Tide or one of the good Pathfinder APs. DM custom follow up to BG 3 perhaps.

How are you casting shield as an EK? Requires somatic. We're generally using jump instead. In effect it's +20 movement. You can also build around shillagh plus true strike. Use a staff as a focus, warcaster. Warcasters essentially required to cast shield.

Except you probably can't cast shield RAW. It's good before 7 due to spells like jump or expeditious retreat.

It's an old show. If you're not a trekking with a high tolerance of pain yeah. It's generally compared with TNG S1 or Voyager S1. Both of which are so much worse than DS9 S1. Roughly contemporary I woukld put S1 Stargate SG1, B5 and Farscape S1 over Trek 90s S1.

People generally know what you are talking about though. I dint generally use power builds just avoid the trash ones.

Level 1 is usually a session, 2 is maybe two at least how i pace it. Players usually get choice to start at 1 or 3. Only reason I started at 1 was new players tbh.

I think that's a fantasy tbh. I know you love 4E we never made it past level 7. Alot didn't make it that far or play it at all. It's not purely a game rules problem. It it is D&D (all of them) being a 600-1000 page rule set may be part of the problem. If 5.5 follows the traditional...

I've seen comments similar to this online a lot. Combine that with WotC saying 70% of games end level 7 or lower. A typical campaign might be 6 sessions (mine are probably 20-30). Going back further a lot of the 3.5 builds would be theorycrafting. 4E tanking I suspect was due to fixing...

You've served up a very biased account. Very few ex TSR alumni seem to have nice things to say about Lorraine. A few say something to the effect she wasn't as bad as the internet claims and she had sone positive points. She arguably drained TSR money herself with Buck Roger's. Gary...