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Because the default version of play is Theater of the Mind, not running on a battlemap. Previous editions used to provide a random distance to start each encounter based on the terrain (pretty sure it's in 5E too) which are on average much larger than most DMs choose to use. You can still...

I'm sure it's a divided topic, as the flamewars about it during the D&D Next playtest were legendary. Personally I have no issue with it because I don't view HP as "meat." Since you don't actually take any significant wounds until half HP, per the description of HP, the idea that you'd suffer...

Rather than make a new thread, I've revived this one. I noticed the Invisible Ninja remain in the April playtest packet. Perhaps this is not a mistake and it was left off the survey deliberately.

Something that I just simply cannot comprehend is why people who likes 4E is spending all their time trying to "fix" 5E into being more like 4E. Why not just play 4E? My group went back to 2E during 4E for pretty much this exact reason.

I typically offer point buy or rolled, and the players universally choose to roll. For my playtest campaign I required point buy to keep things balanced.

Since we play on Roll20, I like to use the bars to give the players an idea of the status of the bad guys. This avoids the "I attack whichever is most wounded" argument, since they can look and decide for themselves. It's also hilarious when they deal damage to the BBEG and barely see the bar...

Tasha's was the beginning of the end. It wasn't quite the Jump the Shark moment, but it happened soon after.

There were two numbers for each magic item: xp and gp. The xp amount is what you got if you kept the item, while the gp is the amount you can sell the item for. The gp value was usually about double the xp amount, IIRC, so selling useless items for gp & xp was a pretty common tactic. I don't...

The prices for 1E were for players selling the items. Since magic items were usually random and treasure needed to be divided rather evenly, it was not uncommon for PCs to get magic items they couldn't use. They could either trade them with other characters or sell them. Selling them was the...

The "it" is everything that doesn't fit the game narrative. It can be a player who wants to play a race that doesn't exist in the DMs world. It can be a DM who wants to use a monster, but doesn't want to deal with having it exist in their world. It can be a useful tool, but when you separate the...

"You can just reskin it." I hate this advice with the burning fires of a thousand suns. While sometimes this can be a viable option, there's occasionally unintended consequences on both sides of the screen that need to be considered.

Uh... I said "non-magical treasure," i.e. gold/gems/jewelry. I mean, you can run a game without magic items, but that's not the topic of the thread.

Unlike prior editions, you can actually run a full campaign without non-magical treasure. However, there's always ways to spend gold. The two most common are Potions of Healing and expensive spell components. Potions of Healing can allow you to full heal after a combat without spending precious...

I'm going with no, because it's not being marketed as such. The playtest shows it's clearly based on the 5E chassis, so at best it's a half edition. You could play 3.5 with 3E stuff... with a bit of difficulty, which I expect to be the same with the Revised Edition.

Capturing magic users can be tricky, but hiring mercenary adventurers is a good way of doing it (plus an adventure trope). Once defeated, the easiest way to keep them is to blindfold and gag them, with hands bound. This takes away V, S, and M components, plus very few spells can be used without...

2E AD&D was largely just a revision of 1E AD&D. 3.5E was a revision of 3E. 1D&D is going to be a revision of 5E. Yes, they might be considered a "new edition," but it's going to be using the same 5E chassis (at least according to both what WotC has said and the playtest has shown).

Bad news for the tiny moon then. 1D&D is obviously going to be using the 5E chassis, and barring a complete collapse of the system, it's extremely unlikely they're going to put out another edition in less than 6 years. How so? While there's a lot of changes (mostly for the better), the core...

Just like D&D Next, 1D&D is a placeholder name. It's probably going to be something like Revised Edition (i.e. 5E revised) or Anniversary Edition in the final version. If they wanted to keep the 3X method, they could refer to it as 5.5E but I don't think that will be the case.

Because that would make sense...

Because people are slowly realizing that it's not 6E, but a continuation of 5E. The fact that WotC has been completely upfront about this fact seems to confuse some people, so they continue to push for ideas that are incompatible with the existing 5E chassis. When these ideas show 0 chance of...