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I like this better than the last one, but I still think it's incredibly misguided to try as hard as they are to avoid making new character classes for appropriate themes. At what point does it become better to have a full class instead of 500 half-baked subclasses? This is something Jeremy...

I have mixed feelings about it. There's definitely a part of me that feels the Prime Material doesn't need to deviate that much from the actual universe and that it's fine letting mostly act like normal space. On the other hand, I like the creativity of the phlogiston and crystal spheres and...

I understand your point, and maybe I presented this poorly, but what I'd be looking to do would be incorporate spelljammer into a new setting in a way that doesn't discard established canon/lore around spelljammer. The CS would provide the mechanics and general SJ lore you would need to run...

Except this is enworld, so his audience with this article is DMs - not canon writers. To me it came across more as an admission that while DMs technically could do anything they wanted, they should be careful not to deviate too much from the published material for a list of...

Except that is how they tried to position it in 4e.

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I like Eberron substantially less than FR, but this is everything. They do the FR more harm than good by treating it like a comic book story and forcing the timeline forward each edition with contrived, over the top plots that just divide fans. And it wasnt just 4e that did this - it's happened...

They left it a little bit loose, but, in a nutshell, they simplified the planar cosmology and conceptually merged it with the idea of a "universe" through the way they depicted the Astral Sea. They then positioned spelljammers as being ships used to traverse the planes and, specifically, to move...

Personally, I don't think so at all since they're moving in the direction of making the prime material the universe as depicted in 2e spelljammer instead of just a single world. It just creates a bit of wonkiness with how they positioned spelljamming in 4e as a way of traversing the planes...

I think at some point you have to recognize that as much of a cult following as it has, spelljammer in many ways failed as a setting and that's part of why Planescape came along and became a dominant force in D&D a few years later and why spelljammer stopped getting developed and struggles to...

Agree with this. HP is too low at 1st and gets too high later on, something I find weird they didn't address in playtesting. I use the same " roll or take a fixed number" system but the fixed number is one less than what's listed in the PHB, representing the rounded down median, and it also...

Why does this come across as a retcon to you? I don't see it as a retcon as I'd be keeping nearly everything about the original Spelljammer. It's more like an expansion of the concept that makes the setting a lot bigger than just the ships themselves.

Thanks. Yeah, the name of the setting should describe the actual setting and not simply be "spelljammer"

I feel like Spelljammer should get updated for 5e, but in a different way than it was originally published back in the 2e days. Specifically, what I'd love to see would be a sci-fi themed campaign setting developed from 80s retro-future nostalgia that spelljamming was incorporated into rather...

I just mostly prefer to keep them separate. I'm mostly okay with the level of crunch we're getting, but I don't love having to buy huge lore books I'm mostly uninterested in because I play in the FR just to get bits of crunch that I would maybe want to use in my campaigns.

Am I the only one who dislikes how they keep mixing small amounts of crunch with large amounts of lore for random campaign settings in these releases?

My preference is to view HP more in the abstract that represents something closer to battle vitality than it does actual injury. I think using optional injury/madness rules is a better way to increase grit in the game than making HP healing really slow.

This is pretty much what I do. Instead of using fiddly encumbrance rules, I expanded the "minimum strength" system from armor to weapons. So, while a Longbow still relies on Dex for attack rolls and damage, you cannot be proficient in Longbow with an 8 strength.

I think WotC was burned with 4e so they are proving to be too conservative with 5e. Other than that, I actually like the rules-light approach of 5e. I also grew up with the FR so that makes it hard to be into any other system/world. It just needs more willingness to add modular subsystems for...

For your specific example in #2, I don't necessarily see that as a bounded accuracy problem, but more of a problem with the d20/ability score system in general. I actually like bounded accuracy, but I also think this touches on why a lot of people find the skill system a bit unsatisfying. For...