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:rolleyes: No, that's not what I wrote. NPCs such as monsters that I assign levels? Sure. Bog-standard "monsters" (who I don't call NPCs, you know, its in the name - Non Player 'Characters') are not 'characters', they're monsters, and use the monster stat block. NPCs who will or may have...

Which should be hashed out before those people play together.

What does that line on the character sheet mean? Where did it come from? Does the game have an Honor mechanic? Does the culture or civilization the character hails from (or adventures in) have an Honor Code? Honorable or Dishonorable on a character sheet has to have some kind of context...

My NPC's were built exactly like PCs. Rolled stats, assigned levels, rolled HP, etc. The only time I didn't was when the module assigned NPCs stats and I was using that NPC.

Fortunately, for the folks I play with and DM for, we all have set out what a setting's social norms are, or what is acceptable and unacceptable as it pertains to magic, most often including enchantment/charm, and necromancy. So what the rulebook says as RAW doesn't mean a thing and isn't...

Oh Monty Haul, most of the early editions relied on magic items to increase a characters power and ability, since aside from a few items (ioun stones, manual of strength/fitness/whatever, wish) there was no way to permanently increase your stats. Whatever you started with was usually what you...

Two options present themselves (aside from just giving the Wizard the spellbook (which clearly is the intent) at first level: 1) the spell book at first level holds exactly the number of spells the wizard starts with, no more. That would require the Wizard to buy a ‘traveling spellbook’ or a...

Look at (most of) the drawings/art in the older (1e, 2e) books, MMs, and adventures: characters usually in abject fear of whatever was strangling them, chasing them, ready to pounce on them, or breath fire on them, usually with at least one character on the ground. (Take a look at Meazles...

One of your pictures is of a Slann from Warhammer, whose lore is almost exactly what you’re talking about: From Warhammer Wiki: The Slann form one of the core species of the Lizardmen race, created by the Old Ones to be the leaders, organisers, architects, and techno-mages of their society and...

I don't see it that way. What exactly is limiting your engagement as a Fighter in an older edition? The lack of "game-given" buttons to push? Action Surge? Second Wind? One pip better on criticals? My Basic Fighter has zero "skills" on my sheet, and zero bonuses to anything. Yet he is...

Yup, you're spot on. Kobolds, Orcs, and such have HP bloat, higher bonuses to hit and damage to compensate for the increase in player power. That being said, the CR as presented in the 5e books is worthless. All it has really done is make PCs feel invulnerable (they can still mow down orcs...

Here are my two characters for two campaigns I'm in: Basic with my long playing group: Lv 1 Fighter S: 12 D: 10 C: 10 I: 9 W: 9 Ch: 11 Hp: 5 To hit: 0 (Thaco 19). Damage Bonus: 0. Ac: 4 (16 in 5e) Stats: 3d6 seven times, drop one number, put where you want. Longsword d8, Crossbow...

I did some mock combats in Ad&d 1e (rolled up a Lv 1 fighter, and an orc). They spent about 4-5 rounds missing each other, and the hits tended to either do half damage, or down the opponent in one shot, so it was definitely "hit or miss". Pun intended. It was also a totally different feel...

I'm still trying to figure out how to remove those damage multipliers from classes to get at some sort of manageable baseline (i.e. removing novas) but its a lot of work to tweak a chassis like this. Things like removing the Paladin Smite ability, and allowing the Smite spell, maybe, last until...

In my mind, extra attacks (not that fighters don't need it, they absolutely do) begins to slow down the game (combat specifically), when a fighter type is attacking 2 and 3 times per activation, plus the potential of a Bonus Action, plus then maybe a Reaction based on Feat or Opportunity Attack...

We dropped HP across the board. With all the HP bloat, weapon damage was usually second or third to things like sneak attack, smite, and other bonus damage, etc. By dropping HP on characters and monsters, fights are shorter (less Bags'o'hit points to wade through), and monster attacks (CR 12...

Verbal, somatic, and material components are, for the most part, completely ignorable. Its a legacy thing for "flavor" and has absolutely no impact on magic in DnD, aside from the arguably small cost in GP (besides, what else are you spending gold on?). So the argument that Psionics is...

Yeah, poor choice of words on my part. How about "Became runaway popular when?"

I don't know how much of their success you can also put down to the pandemic. Lots of people (and gamers) effectively cut off from their games and friends, with lots of time, watching anything gaming related on streaming platforms, etc. If CR launches during "normal" times, it probably has...

We haven't found that to be the case. Quick encounters get met with Cantrips and the least expenditure of resources as possible. To actually get PCs to use resources, then the challenge needs to be higher than CR would indicate, then the combat slows down. Otherwise, focus firing down one or...