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I understood why they made the choice, but I really wish they made at least one DLC to expand the level range (to 15 or beyond) and also reincorporated stuff like the scrapped upper city. But I honestly can't blame them given how WotC and Hasbro have proven themselves to be unreliable partners...

That is hilarious. Imagine going to the other end of a continent after your homeland was conquered by Nordic/French warriors, you serve a completely different lord... And you have to fight these Nordic/French warriors again!

But how am I supposed to feel smug and morally superior in my cynicism by typing "Well a company's duty is to maximise the value for its shareholders, you're an idiot for demanding anything else ever" for the 100th time?

Dude is everything alr- Oh. Carry on, interesting tidbit indeed!

Also, in terms of highlights as in "the best books of the era", I think the run of books from March 2016 to May 2018 was a great time to be a 5e fan. Back to back, we had: Curse of Strahd, still one of the most popular 5e modules, Storm King's Thunder, a great adventure, Volo's, a significant...

While many people rightly criticise 5e's "natural language" approach as well as the vagueness of its rules right now, I think those were the right moves to make in 2014. Sure, 5e is still a complex game, and the designers ended up iterating on the "natural language" in a way that it no longer...

How do some of you people find the time to post all the time? The best I can do is sporadically check the forums at work, but some people are up 24/7, adding 5 pages of posts to threads that are as long as essays, all throughout the day. Do you not sleep?

I don't know about Wyll, but what I heard is that Shadowheart sneaks in to your camp if you don't recruit her, and if she dies, the artifact gets on your hands regardless.

My approach to social mechanics has a similar basis regardless of the system I'm playing, but I do modify it slightly. It takes the Reaction Roll as a basis, which I think was a really ingenious invention that modern D&D lost: A bell curve to determine the general disposition the opposing side...

Right there on Fey Ancestry, it says "magic can’t put you to sleep." However, I like the idea from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes that Elves can go to sleep (and dream) if they like, but they don't like how their subconscious takes control during that time and gives them dreams with complex...

seconding @MNblockhead and asking if you could PM me a link. I'm really curious as to what the deal is.

Mind you it's an optional rule at the DMG - but I think it was obvious to the designers as well that having more than, say, 8-10 stat blocks of moderate complexity as minions and roll damage for each of them would be too much to ask for a DM. Level Up also has a similar thing where it transforms...

I think the mass monster attack rules from the DMG can be useful in those cases. You say that a certain number of them automatically hit depending on their attack bonus, target AC and the number of attackers. It's a bit less elegant, but it can at least make it so that the lower-CR monsters...

My understanding of TSR-era progression is that it's a growth from someone who fumbles a lot to someone who almost always hits. This is in direct opposition to 5e's design philosophy, where you're expected to succeed at what you're doing 65% of the time at any level (as a general measure)...

As much as I respect your view on this conversation, you can't first say something obviously subjective like "My argument is why many people don't really enjoy 5e's combat even in games like Baldur's Gate 3" and then ask for raw data. You're also working with vibes. Personally I greatly enjoy...

Um, I appreciate the comment but what you are explaining seems to be about 3.5. I was more interested in TSR-era D&D (so AD&D 2E and earlier), since I felt like the magic item curve for 3E onwards is fairly well explained.

Sometimes I see that people are interacting with someone I blocked, and I check what they're interacting with. It usually reminds me why I put them on the block.

Just out of curiosity, are there any official sources on the "expected magic item curve"? When trying to grok TSR eta D&D, people tend to say that characters are supposed to progress via magic items (because class features are more sparse), but they never mention what kind of items or in which...

I honestly think d4 is too much in that regard. d6 (how B/X used to do it) or d10 would make more sense.

I recently started Frieren and I think it's an excellent anime. You can definitely see the B/X influences on the JRPG genre as a whole, and the world (despite being basically Fantasy Tropes: the Setting) feels like a well-thought out, fun fantasy setting. I also think the titular character is...