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Use only monsters from Monster Manual 3, Monster Vault and later. Earlier monsters tended to have higher hit points, higher defenses and lower attack damage. Control splats. It's hard to do this due to the Character Builder. Beyond the PH1, many of the newer classes were not balanced...

The biggest problem I had with mount rules in any edition of D&D was the action economy. If I'm riding a horse, I just want to be faster and to have more powerful charge attacks. I don't want the horse to attack. On the other hand, if I'm riding an owlbear, I want that thing to be mauling my...

This comes up so often. Does anyone have really cool, interaction-heavy maps? Some GMs will ask each player for an idea. I'm playing Cyberpunk and nearly every random encounter has elevation, cover, and random objects to interact with. Of course, a computer game can hold a lot of data.

You're probably right, but WotC will never do that. We still have rangers based on a single character (Aragorn) across 5 editions (only pre-Essentials 4e ever stepped away from that). The name alone is a problem. There's a huge difference between a non-mystic/religious martial artist, a sohei...

That seems like a neat Legendary ability, not something to go on ordinary monsters. The PCs are seriously more powerful than their level indicates, so you need to use higher level monsters. The "Challenge Rating" system had enough problems without this.

Yes. That character needs to replace four wizards, so they need to be four times more powerful.

I had my first significant experience with a 5e "solo" (legendary monster) on Sunday. We were 12th-level. I would recommend stealing that type of monster design, then flavoring abilities like PC abilities. (So a legendary wizard might still dish out Magic Missile, but it's an epic missile storm...

If you cast this spell on a pile of sand... (I always wondered at that when using the Telekinesis spell.)

Magic changes sieges drastically, and that changes with level. What level are the PCs?

I voted for commander because it's generic. Not all commanders are great tacticians, not all have the rank of captain (could be higher or lower), and so forth. It's more generic than warlord, in fact.

I don't like DMPCs but allies are fine if the PCs recruit them. Allies are always weaker than the PCs and are never in charge. They're not the same things, so I couldn't vote in the poll.

I certainly forgot that. But why does that rule exist?

One thing I didn't like in 3e, and it reared its head again in 5e, are the gulf in saving throws. This is just my opinion, but you are too likely to fail your "bad" saving throws. Another issue is "how many encounters per day", which might actually be a GMing problem, but if so, it's a common...

A Concentration check. I haven't played a caster in 5e, but I believe casters can make a Constitution check in this circumstance. IMO Pathfinder 1e handled that better by using the caster's key stat, but that's just my opinion. I agree. Also, in most editions (other than 4th) wizards could...

The target already gets a saving throw: it's double jeopardy if the caster has to make a skill check as well.

Drow are viewed as usually chaotic evil or neutral evil. Drizzt was one of the few exceptions. He wasn't neutral either, but full-on good-aligned. Drizzt's backstory was quite unique to explain how this was even possible. Drizzt became an outcast in the Underdark, an extremely dangerous place...

I started in 2e, and I believe D&D was moving past multi-character play at that point. The notion of having a swarm of hirelings, while realistic in a medieval setting, is alien to me. (I would handwave this kind of thing as as G.) Ironically I've done a little of that in Pathfinder 1e (one...

I approve of Rich Burlew's system, and I've used it in games. In 4e too. However it's not a full system, just a way of sensibly setting Diplomacy DCs. The only game I've seen that can "handle" a social system like that is Fate, since you can make it work exactly like combat, and characters...

The bard in my 5e game doesn't want to heal anyone who is above 0 hit points because it's less efficient. (Of course, the dropped character has to get up, but that's not as bad as in 3e or 4e, where it took your whole move action-equivalent.)

A Dungeonborn would be similar to a warforged, but created largely of stone. They wouldn't be restricted to the Eberron setting, since you can find dungeons in nearly any setting. Unlike warforged they aren't modular so they just get natural armor. Dungeonborn could speak numerous "monstrous"...