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Founder and CEO of Larian Games, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 addressed some online discussion in is latest tweet. I think people need to realize that these are creatives. If you work on the same thing for 7 years (and support it for a little while more), you might want to move on to...

I am loving seeing people duke it out with math and graphs. Whatever the numbers might say, in my experience the power of PC’s scales far more. I do believe that is common knowledge.

Don’t you get it? They want material that is courageous enough to acknowledge them …or something?

Along with the greats I have been enjoying videos by DM Timothy who runs D&D for a living.

The last pc death I had was in Curse of Strahd. I forgot to adjust the encounter to only 3 pc’s being there, and then I got great rolls and their AOE spellcasters were taken out before they could turn the tide of battle. I think it would have been easy otherwise. But for the big encounters that...

I feel like this thread is more about DM’s struggling to change 5e encounters in a meaningful way. It is tough because CR has always been bad, and monster design hasn’t kept up with optimized character options.

My gut feeling is that there are still more newcomers champing at the bit to play D&D than there are jaded people who fill in surveys.

Yeah, a Gloom Stalker is notorious for having a near broken ruling on its stealth. Try to see it as someone using stealth in darkness against a creature without Darkvision. You can still hear them and see them move in dim light. And about disarming traps, once you know there’s a trap...

If your fun is in making players suffer, then yeah, 5e is not it for you. Try to find the enjoyment in making your players feel awesome. Paralysis is already bad enough, giving auto-crits. Why not let the rogue enjoy their features? Don’t we want to reward players for that? As long as the...

I just hit act 2 on my second run, this time tactical. It’s about as easy as the first time, since I have gotten better at it and I already know the broken combos. I was surprised to find how much I missed in Act 1, and really enjoyed going through it again.

I would like to remind people that revealing new MtG cards is something WotC does with their community. They give people cards to reveal through social media to generate hype. The people who reveal the cards get additional boost to their engagements. This is a pretty win-win kind of...

If they wanted reasons they would just open ENWorld.

Always keep an eye on the clock. Take a break after each hour and a half of play. When the final half an hour of the session arrives, make sure you either slow down the game or speed it up so you can end on a cliffhanger or suitable end point. Don’t be afraid to call the session to an end early...

Art! Good art sparks my creativity and makes me want to use things for my next session.

Is CoC succesful? Obviously not on the scale of WotC, but I know little about the publisher. I think you are both right.

removal of multiclassing removal of damage resistance to nonmagical weapon damage no longer using ability scores, just the bonuses removal of counterspell heavy rebalancing of magic items according to their rarity different identification/attunement rules per magic item rarity

I think what you have realized is that you and your players have a different preference for TTRPG's, and since you like playing with them, you are catering to their preference. Now from what I am reading it looks like you are still changing the game to make it less fun for the players. More...

5 years without me knowing this. Thank you!

I hate it. It is so frustrating when you run a published adventure and you decide to trust the designers to do this right, and then as soon as the door opens, you realize that they can’t possibly have tested this. But yeah, why would large creatures ever live in a place that is just too small...

I am confused as to what you mean. Spell-like abilities have been there since the beginning. It’s just been added to some wizard NPC’s that really ruffled some feathers.