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Yeah, MerricB and evilbob have the right of it. Whatever dungeonscape is or isn't, the beta version is not anywhere near ready to take the place of a pdf. I'm an optimist holding out hope, but near term I can say with confidence that consumer demand for a suitable electronic D&D reference...

Whereas I think it very well might be. Stats are a permanent advantage that will last over the course of the campaign; but a level advantage is a huge short term advantage that will all but evaporate as the xp to level up increases. (Depending on how your group handles leveling and xp...

Nevermind! Posted in wrong thread.

Not sold on this at all. In a game that uses XP, how many points from your max stat would you be willing to pay to start at level 2 while the other players start at level 1? Or, in a game that uses XP, how many levels would you be willing to give up in order to get at +2 bonus to your highest...

As it's always been with these "war story" threads, it pays to remember the above before competing who can make the best joke at the other party's expense. That said, I'd take a serious look at my life choices if I wound up continuing to play with such a group as the OP described.

Are you including racial bonuses in these arrays? A raw 13 looks fine to me.

My all-time favorite forum game! 13, 8, 12, 16, 10, 8 -->Wizard, of course. Needs a rough and tumble background to explain his unwizardly physical stats. 10, 13, 7, 9, 7, 11 -->Thin, reedy monk. Liable to do stupid things and get the party into trouble.

I've been rolling with the rules as they're written for now, just to establish a baseline for what this edition is meant to feel like. Personally, for our game style, I've found that full hp overnight isn't really problematic--it's the recovery of HD that changes things. (Reason: if they have...

For my mock-up warlock, I went with a psuedodragon with an eruption of tentacles for its head.

I'm certain the current role of stats in 5E is intentional, if that's what you're asking. However I may not understand what you're getting at--I don't think I implied the designers had promised stats would matter less. (To the contrary: far as I know, they have not.)

Fortunately, I think this problem can be solved completely by houseruling the stat modifier bonus/penalty chart, since these bear all the mechanical weight in 5E. I'm giving 5E one campaign without houserules just to see how it works--then it's off to the cutting board.

I don't have an "argument," since that implies I'm trying to persuade someone of something whereas stat generation is patently a playstyle preference. But I prefer rolling both as a player and as a DM because: I like rolling stats, and watching my players roll stats. It feels exciting and...

And the only thing better than two quaggoths is a spellcaster ... who summons quaggoths.

I'm not going to lie; most of this is way more thought than I usually put into a monster's hp regeneration. If the monster is wounded, I just ask myself whether it's using this time to rest, or to hunt down the PCs. If the answer to this question is "rest," then I just restore half its hp (more...

Natural selection happens.

You can undo a laugh by pressing the frown button.

I've found over the years that the probability of me enjoying a given designer's game, has no correlation with the probability of me agreeing with their opinions. Take Gygax: love his game, wish he'd have kept his opinions to himself. Another example: love Heinsoo's insights and thoughts; wish...

I've always seen it as very apt that the same fictional in-world organizations responsible for preventing the spread of diseases, are also responsible for preventing the spread of the undeath.

I like the idea of giving mechanical benefits for campaign-specific accomplishments, and prestige classes were in theory supposed to be the mechanical hook to hang that particular hat on. Of course, it didn't often work out that way in practice, and I'm all for looking outside the class/level...

Does a laugh grant xp as well? Can a person's rank go up because their post got laughed at?