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Grappling isn't exactly hidden, but I hadn't considered at first how powerful it can be in the right combination (e.g. Grapple someone, drag them to a window, Push them out; grapple and trip so they can't stand up; etc.

Only if you want it to. Even if you're looking at it from a simulationist point of view, that potion literally doesn't fix anything a good night's sleep wouldn't take care of. If you're talking about situations where someone falls off a horse and breaks a leg, that's not hp damage; it's a...

Yeah, move it to the forum for Unnamed Secret Game That You Should Totally Care About Because it Has A Good Character Builder If We Kickstart It.

Honestly most of these weapons are functionally just nice magic crossbows with cooler flavor text. Treat them like that and you're set IMO.

I think "swords and sorcery" = Conan books (everyone is a selfish jerk), heroic fantasy = Forgotten Realms (heroes try to save the kingdom), epic fantasy = classic Dragonlance (heroes try to save the world, hang out with gods), Hercules = mythic fantasy (heroes ARE basically gods or demigods)...

Interesting stuff - sounds like "deadly" encounters really do push the party! I'd be a bit cautious about changing the short rest time and not the long rest time with it - class balance (eg wizards vs warlocks) could get screwy if the warlock gets a recharge every encounter and the wizard has...

I agree the mechanic looks wonky - how is it working in play for people? I can't imagine they didn't do a lot of iterations on a spell with such a spotty history

How can the sun blade be a lightsaber? It doesn't have a laser cross guard!

So far I'd say kamizake midget's infusion ability (cast a spell into an object once/short rest), sort of an even broader version of the playtest arcane archer ability, is probably the coolest and most flexible artificer-style ability I've seen here. I think you could base an entire wizard...

Wow, they honestly sound like they have their heads up their butts. They seem to really think that people are "fans of Project Morningstar" rather than fans of a good tool for whatever game they're playing. Are they seriously trying to promo a character builder without mentioning the dang game...

Whatever 3.x book had those convoluted rules for epic level characters creating spells, with tons of math and so on... This is definitely way better than that was.

I'd say that you can pretty easily make a character with him over the phone or email beforehand. Since you're using the basic set, he only has four basic decisions to make (race, class, background, and stats). He can mix and match the first three however he wants without risking a really bad...

That's probably the most charitable read of the situation. I'd add that when they sat down to include stuff like alternate healing rules and spell points, having specific meta-terminology for rules "modules" and "sliders" probably didn't seem worthwhile.

There are a broad range of cool options for these boons, none of them particularly carefully balanced against each other or designed with the normal attention to class niches. One is proficiency in ALL skills, for example; another is that you don't age naturally; another is that you can turn...

I appreciate that you're trying to be conciliatory here, but since, as you've loudly proclaimed multiple times, 5e gives you 90% of your personal preferences, and you're still very publicly considering ditching it over that last 10%, the "why can't we all be one happy family" line seems a bit of...

Official rulings are useful because pretensions aside, I'm not a professional game designer and I'd rather have the people who made the game I paid for tell me how it's supposed to work than try to slap together something myself. (I'm talking here about actual rules issues like "how is x feat...

Why would hit dice matter on a monster?

This anecdote demonstrates the dangers (and potential awesomeness) of giving out powerful consumable items. Don't even get me started on the time I let a mid-level character enter the campaign with a scroll of shapechange...

No, dude. WOTC has no desire to "suppress" any particular play style, any more than the NFL is suppressing how you play tag football in your backyard. They've made it quite clear that they want to include all d&d players, and if you don't see an option you prefer, it's not an intentional slight...

I gotta say, while I generally am down with the more lax approach to technical issues with the rules, it's not always helpful to say "it's up to the DM." We already know that; everything is up to the DM. Many of the people asking ARE the DM. So when the rules say "one free object interaction per...