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The farther from the native culture of a player or DM, the effort in required and a lot of requirements makes getting players and the DM up to to speed difficult, often enough that its simply not worth the effort. Ren Faire Medieval Europe is relatable and part of the native culture of...

5E isn't an advantages/disadvantages game like GURPS Mechanically my suggestion same as Iry is to not take Insight as a skill at start to represent typical difficulties in that area and slightly low stats in Charisma or maybe Dex .In some not all cases a higher Int would be suitable...

Talking sentient animals can be fun to play but come with significant challenges do to social status and lack of opposable thumbs . So long as these can be dealt with, it can be pretty fun actually. Also give this is D&D , there are some already in game options that might work. Winged cats with...

Who the frell includes those kinds of scenes in a tabletop game? What is this FATAL or something? More seriously, any decent game requires good communications skills and trust between players and GM. No amount of X Cards or any other gaming tools can make up for lacking that. Also , it used...

These spells ought to make players of conjurers pretty happy. The tattoos are alright I guess, pretty similar to stuff I've seen from 3pp back in the 3.5 days. Not bad all in all and the imprimatur of WOTC officialdom will make the magic tattoos a bit more popular. I did think it interesting...

I played B/X with my group a while back. It was fine, nothing special though the lethality gave the other players who had come in near the end of 3.5 some pause. Its not a bad game all in all though I prefer 5th or baring that 2nd edition to it.

I voted never as I almost never use or have used official settings and thus have little knowledge of lore. Also D&D is a big multiverse so for all I know there might be tens of thousand Torils , Ebberons Oerths or whatever.

Ah that all makes sense to me. I don't use SCAG all that often so I might have missed that nuance. I will say the flavor is all there which makes a big difference. In any case good luck with your game!

There are an awful lot of rather circumstantial "add proficiency bonus abilities." which while not bad don't quite feel right with the more "RP" focused ones or just better ones found in other backgrounds Also quite a few of these offer several skill choices which is non standard. Its not a...

This was probably a house rule from your group. The 3.5 SRD still here allows the increase in an ability score or quoting "You may try to use a wish to produce greater effects than these, but doing so is dangerous. (The wish may pervert your intent into a literal but undesirable fulfillment...

I don't use epic boons myself and am very unlikely to play to that high a level so its moot for me but its fair and R.A.W. so were I a PC in your game, I couldn't complain .

This is not directed at you in any way especially since you seem quite comfortable with high level play but your post gives me a good opening. Its just its not possible for player's to wreck a campaign only to behave in ways that take away others fun. Lost of fun can be had with high powered...

GM's who feel the need to twist the wish spell, not including demon or djinn wishes of course, really ought to ban the wish and spell entirely from the game. This way they don't have to be opposed to the players or act as opposition and can get back to the more neutral arbiter role of judge or...

Are your player's highly oppositional to each other like in Hackmaster or something ? Generally if the wizard got an extra spell slot this benefits everybody not just him. Typically D&D parties are cooperative with the occasional exceptional of the evil PC or an all evil party. All for one...

I feel much the same way though I assume that spell casters actually do use terms like "prepare", "spell level" and some of the others as trade talk.

And this is an excellent point.

It wouldn't be that cheesy to limit the power of a ring in some ways. That said a ring of three wishes ought to be something truly epic , once in a lifetime and if instead of saving your entire party, getting stupid amounts of gold or basically getting your hearts desire you want to spend it...

No one here, me included is suggesting giving them (Palpatine Voice) LIMITLESS POWER (Palpatine Voice) The question was would you allow a single ninth level slot for a wish. My answer is I would, some restrictions apply. You might not which is fine. If as a player, if I was told it beyond...

For me, 5E only slot one per spell, whatever they like however many they like with the standard 1 in 3 chance of losing the spell. Worst case scenario, maytbe they get 6 or 7 slots. Whatever A few extras spell slots isn't going to matter given the kind of magic items 17th and up casters...

Humor often fails on the internet. Sorry about that.