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Well, I don't know if I would describe wizards as artists. If artificers are engineers and mathematicians, then wizards are scientists using the tools and formulas developed by the engineers and mathematicians. Wizards care more about applied magic and artificers care more about magic theory.

My book should arrive tomorrow, but can anyone tell me if there's a way to have more varied degrees of skill proficiency, sort of like skill points?

Yes, I agree. None of the existing classes have so much of their focus on casting spells into items rather than casting spells into people. And barely any classes ever grant features that have you craft something. An artificer subclass with the right feel and flavor would require too many...

This isn't anything more than my own preference, but I personally don't want the class lines between the core classes to blur. If all the classes had a mechanic similar to spellcasting, then choosing a class with that mechanic would feel less meaningful. I had a fun time playing 4th edition but...

Yeah. Makes sense. If you know stuff about magic and the things it can do, you might know about creatures that it is used to create.

Oh! I thought of something! What if activating Legendary Resistance lets a monster take a Legendary Action, or maybe just a regular action, right before the effects of the thing it's responding to occurs? A sort of reverse-reaction. The idea is it uses the action to attempt to block or avoid the...

About the need for a gaming magazine, does anyone know anything about Gygax Magazine? All I really know is it has Order of the Stick comics in it (continuing the Dragon Magazine continuity) and it's sort of like Dragon. I know you guys said Dungeon, but maybe Gygax Magazine has some of the...

Yeah, I don't know. This is kind of cluttered, visually. You try to take in the scene as a whole, and you see... a castle tower with a gigantic disembodied head perched on top.

A properly-bookmarked PDF of the rules can be a magical thing to have, especially for things like looking up spell descriptions quickly. The Basic Rules PDF does not have bookmarks that go into this level of detail, though. With only one bookmark for each chapter it's pretty hard to check back...

Aww, that sucks. I guess you could cut out the signed part and paste it into a new copy? Unless they signed the inside cover or something. Who signed it? Do you think it's possible to get him/her to sign it again somehow? That defective print run they had was really inconvenient for everyone...

I see Legendary Resistance as more of a DM tool to make the fights more intense. Really devastating magic that is powerful enough to make most problems go away will not make a legendary creature go away. But casters who make clever use of less scary spells will be able to sneak in their damage...

Isn't "advice on making your own house rules" sort of the whole book, though? The variants and optional rules are pre-made house rules. The things about making your own race, class, spell, monster, etc. are each advice about making specific kinds of houserules. There's not much general advice...

That's cool! My book fell apart too, and I got a $5 coupon code for DnDClassics.com. I used it to get this neat 2e Ravenloft thingy about a supernatural carnival. It was mostly lore, so I should be able to convert it to 5e fairly painlessly...

Sure, but now we've created terminology we can use to give someone a quick, general idea of what a particular setting or campaign is like. You can say stuff like, "so this one is sort of a dark fantasy mixed with intrigue in a wuxia-themed setting. Wanna join in?"

I don't have the DMG, but based on what I saw when I skimmed one in a bookstore more than half the things on the list I was able to find in it. So it included at the very least 10.5 out of the 17 list items. Maybe someone who has the book can find more that I missed? Include tactical combat...

Y'know, a party of three rogues, each one a different archetype, sounds pretty fun. You could plan tactics based around strategies that rely on everyone being good at stealth and subterfuge that a more diverse party couldn't pull off. But everyone could still take on different roles in the plan...

If you run in, attack, and run back in the same turn, your opponent won't get the chance to mark you, I guess. So it adds a grey area in between "completely engaged in melee" and "attacking from a distance" where OA's are less of a risk with hit-and-run tactics. I don't have the book, though...

Well, I can't give you many suggestions without testing this out in full, but I can comment on the ability to craft homunculi. I actually convinced my D&D Encounters DM to let my wizard make himself a homunculus at 2nd level, given that A) he was a transmuter, B) he had proficiency in...

I wanted to look at the art in the book directly, but unfortunately I had to mail it back to be replaced. Incidentally, that is my biggest complaint about this edition so far. A book shouldn't lose all its pages within two months of its purchase. BUT! I was sneaky about this. I only mailed back...

Well, clerics only have one cantrip that deals damage. I'm sure there are situations when sacred flame isn't as effective as a mace. There really should be more damaging cleric cantrips, though. There's something wrong with a class feature that slightly increases the damage of, at most, one...