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It also doesn't help that a lot of DMs are just exceedingly lazy, although they refuse to admit it. Tell them they would actually have to just merely remove the Animal Empathy or Scry ranks from the prestige class themselves to make it available rather than the book doing the work for them...

Well, it makes sense. At the time Mike et. al. were working on 5E no one at Hasbro really cared because they didn't expect anything financial to come of it. So it was all just the D&D team trying to make a game that would please as many players as possible. But now that D&D 5E is actually a...

Well, good luck with that. Hopefully other folks care enough to give that to you.

Useful how?

Using options together does not mean they are also balanced to each other. Those are not synonyms.

@Cap'n Kobold has most of how I interpret the rules so I think that's good to go. Although there was another scenario with the dual-wielding that they didn't mention that at least from how I am interpreting the rules seems like it could also apply: Taking the Attack action with a Light weapon...

The irony of course being all the people who stay within the curated walled garden of apps... and yet complain about the "official" apps they get given and how they aren't very good. ;) This is why I always tell people to switch to "Android" and then take a little bit of time out of their day...

If using Ability Scores actually matters to someone, then sure, try it out. If someone doesn't care whether the Ability Scores are "used" in any fashion or not, then there's no reason to switch.

I've done 10 minute short rests in the past, that way they match up to rituals and (for my games) the searching of rooms. So while casters work their rituals or the observational members look for secret doors, traps, or items... the rest of the group can rest and regain hit points and the like...

For me the issue was never about the '2 instead of 1' issue... it was always the problem of the duration of the spell. Having to give up a round's Action to cast the spell just hoping that the next round I'd still want to and would be able to make an attack roll of some type (rather than the...

Seems to me all you are really doing is giving your minotaur a standard aura type of Trait... except requiring the minotaur to hit with an attack roll and making the damage much higher than a normal aura might be. The Azer has the following: Heated Body. A creature that touches the azer or...

I would imagine your way of seeing how these two sentences interact with each other allows you to be good with how you are choosing to play, and that's cool... but I know for me when I see these two things you write, I don't see any appreciable difference. Fudging a die roll and/or easing up on...

This is why I roll both behind and in front of the screen. I don't care about the "board game". The board game is fun to play, but it is by no means the reason we play. The reason we play RPGs (rather than board games) is to experience our characters moving through the world, accomplishing...

The opening descent down the rabbit hole in the AD&D module Dungeonland involves shrinking the party (and then facing off against now-oversized animals in the interior lake.) I ran my group through that adventure over quarantine as part of my Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign during the pandemic.

I don't forbid it, but it usually doesn't occur unless a player sees their PC change in the course of the game to warrant taking on a second class. But that happens due to narrative reasons, not purely mechanical ones. If a player wants or should have a specific game mechanic that is...

To me there's one answer that seems to make the most sense: more people actually care about the stories their PCs experience, not the game mechanics. All the stories a player can experience can be told at any level of character. You want to experience an outer planar adventure like descending...

Absolutely 100%. Operating outside the WotC D&D ecosystem is going to be difficult for anyone to make a living. But for someone to complain that the WotC D&D ecosystem is bad while simultaneously being successful because you are within the WotC D&D ecosystem... that just feels disingenuous to...

The way to address it is to stop working under the D&D umbrella. Then it doesn't matter anymore how big or small WotC / D&D / DDB is. Make the choice to separate yourself and your game completely and earn your money strictly on your own.

Which is exactly why selling product isn't the only thing that matters... despite the naysayers who complain that everything WotC does is about just selling more books. Life is not that simple.

For anyone who is concerned about WotC and D&D Beyond being too big a dog in the game space and feels concern for independent publishers... the thing (general) you have to remember is that those independent publishers are making the choice to get into bed with WotC and D&D because they want to...