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By far the best I’ve found is The Brain (https://www.thebrain.com), a mind mapping software. Unfortunately the paid version is pricy, but I’ve found it’s worth it. There are other mind mapping products out there, but they lack a key feature of the Brain and what, in my opinion, actually makes...

Well traditionally half-dragons would have been the offspring of a dragon in humanoid form. So no “dragon sex” and the dragon would always be the father (because the human/elf, whatever is giving birth), and only dragons that can take a humanoid form without a spell could do so, making most of...

Incidentally, I’d also change a sling to finesse, 1d4 for a stone, and 1d6 or maybe 1d8 for a bullet. This is more in line with the historical weapon.

It doesn’t need to be that complicated, and crossbows function quite differently. A bow isn’t really going to take longer to “load.” And it’s capable of a bonus based on its draw weight. For example, a bow (STR 15) would require a minimum of a 15 STR to draw, and grant a +2 bonus. Even if you...

Simple. Feign death spell. It makes you appear dead to physical inspection and spells. You can’t be “raised” because you’re not dead.

Ahh, good old Grimtooth. I remember when the first Grimtooth’s traps came out. The format changed over the years, but they were supposed to be system agnostic. It’s really a matter of determining DCs and damage ranges, really. They work best with an old school, “tell me what you’re doing,”...

Oh I had lots that I never finished painting too. But I know a lot of people that wouldn’t consider buying minis until they were prepainted. They had no interest in learning how to, and didn’t want them if they weren’t. I’m not saying everyone is that way, but the painted minis picked up a lot...

Another reason why as many people didn’t use minis at the time? You had to paint them. Collecting and painting minis is a hobby on its own, and there are still a good number of companies producing them. But the prepainted minis opened up the possibility to a lot of gamers. And the GW stores are...

Well I’ve already said I’ve used minis. I had thousands of them. Started buying/painting them c1980/1 I’d guess. My buddy who got me started had several hundred. I’d say that of my friends playing D&D, the ones that were regular DMs tended to have minis, and the players didn’t. But I also recall...

I’d argue with the “most campaigns” but accept “most campaigns that are combat focused and more so if the players optimize.” Your descriptions to me sound much more like 3.5e or even 4e combats to me in complexity and length, because 5e combat for us is lucky if we get past 3 rounds and 10...

I’m not sure I would call them “doing things wrong” posts. I think it’s a different opinion on what’s important, what constitutes a “trap” and things like that. First off, the only edition that’s been well designed to eliminate “trap” options is 4e, but only if your focus is on a balance in...

To me that sounds like a very “rules lawyery” way to read it. As in “I’m going to parse the language to my favor” rather than what is truly logical. And to me, that means you can’t look at only the final sentence, you look at it as a whole. Starting with: “When you have temporary hit points...

The PCs in my campaign come upon things they can’t do all the time. It’s not DM vs Player, it’s characters vs the world. Just because the come across an ancient unplundered tomb doesn’t necessarily mean they have the means to plunder it. They might not even be able to get in. If they want to...

The PCs in my campaign come upon things they can’t do all the time. It’s not DM vs Player, it’s characters vs the world. Just because the come across an ancient unplundered tomb doesn’t necessarily mean they have the means to plunder it. They might not even be able to get in. If they want to...

Yes, and one of the realities they face is that they could have done better with teamwork. If they choose not to, so be it.

Exactly. Not to mention getting 7 points of damage from the fighter with the bow. As far as we’re concerned, it’s not really about who does more damage. If you need to do 20 points of damage and one character does 13 and the other 7, the monster is just as dead as if they both did 10. Without...

Why wouldn’t it be a valid multi class? So many PCs can justifiable start as a rogue of some sort then move into a different class. The stereotype would be a street urchin/thief moving onto something more respectable, like the bard. I think it’s a great idea.

Ahh, didn’t realize this was the homebrew section. It’s not clear on the phone app. That’s different. I thought you were just updating to 5e. Change away!

That’s what I mean by “it’s ok to alter it for your world,” and I don’t really mean that you can’t/shouldn’t post it. But when you make a thread about updating an old monster, I think the expectation is that you’ll just be updating it to work with 5e. And part of me wonders, if you want a...

It’s not that it didn’t exist. It’s that the focus was different. It starts with “if” but that certainly wouldn’t apply to 4e, and a lot of 3.5e/PF for that matter. Furthermore, it’s far less rigid. It’s pointing out how you would arrange a certain number of opponents (or use it as an aid to...