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My new plan (but don't hold me to it), is to take a break from the boards for the two weeks leading up to a new WotC book release and the two weeks after and to take the last two weeks of December off every year too.

Yeah, the trick for me is I either play with my wife (she not as into video games but does play occasionally) or I sometime play after she's gone to bed for a bit. But the reality is, since having a kid I have not had more than 30 to 60 minutes to play video games at any given time - and since...

Do they though? Presumably there is a more economical way to get such stats without buying a whole book just for them. Like using and/updating an older version, finding a version you like online somewhere, or best yet, making it up. Now if there other stuff that might also be useful in an FR...

Here is a PDF version of the section on new and revised spells for those who are interested. The doc is something like 67 pages long. Actual spell lists however, are listed with their classes (which is how it should be organized, imo). I have playtest ready versions of all 11 classes and 38...

In the process of creating my own Vanity Frankenstein of 5E home rules, I have taken from 2024 D&D in a few spots where the change seemed for the better (exhaustion, a handful of spells), but otherwise the basis is 2014 with some 2E and 3E thrown in.

This is where our last session started (with the PCs captured!). Luckily, they pulled out a victory and the session ended with two days of safe long rests getting HPs and HD back.

I’ve been running my own conversion of When a Star Falls but decided to check this book for gibberling stats and was surprised (maybe I shouldn’t have been) that they have been turned into fiends (like gnolls, I guess. And like gnolls, I guess I’ll be keeping them as humanoids).

3 hours. It is a slow pace but the players enjoy it. The focus for us is the characters in the world, and advancement is a by-product of that, not the goal. As you say, to each (group) their own, I guess. 🤷🏾‍♂️

“Your seats at the table” works for singular or plural. No need for “all” at all. 😂

pretty sure that was a riff on this older cultural touchstone

Yinz. But I’ve been living in Pittsburgh for nearly 6 years and visiting here regularly since I met my wife (who is from here) for the last 16. 😂

For the game online game I run, we use OBR for exploration mode but Zoom with a camera (pointed at the table) for combat. We also roll our own dice and use the honor system. The online game I play on is also OBR but with Discord for voice and using the dice roller (which I am not a fan of...

Other: In-person game (as DM): every 3 to 5 weeks on a Sunday afternoon (sometimes a weekday evening) Online game (as DM): every 3 to 5 weeks (Saturday late morning) Online game (as player): every 3 weeks. (Wednesday evening) So that comes to 3 times a month at minimum but sometimes 4 or 5...

Thankfully I’ve never wanted to be part of a target market or ever felt that buying anything put out by D&D’s publisher was necessary (or even conducive!) to playing D&D, except maybe for one person to have a PHB or starter set (any edition).

Warlock A warlock is defined by a pact with an otherworldly being. Sometimes the relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not one of the 13 Gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to one of the...

I play them how I think they would act in the world and situation while attempting to fulfill their goals (either short or long term), as is relevant (or they are capable of). To me that means, I play them to win, where "winning" means achieving that goal. Sometimes that goal is killing all the...

Definitely not the kind of changes I am into, so not regretting my decision to skip 5.5e, but also, even if I wanted to adopt the new player side rules (i don’t) that wouldn’t mean I’d have to use the monsters as written here. Heck, I haven’t used monsters as written since some time in the 90s!

I liked the mechanic/table for 3E the best and used it for various other channel divinity powers that weren't turning undead for homebrew "specialty priests."

Enjoying this!