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I forgot how slow attacks of opportunity make the system. I found in 3e, 4e, and Pathfinder 1e players will spend a lot of time making their characters move to avoid these. In 5e they still come up, but rarely (since you can move next to an NPC without provoking an OA). I'm playing a 5e fighter...

1. Not inherently, no. There are many things that can slow down combat, of course. IME a "killer GM" will do so. Killer GMs aren't necessarily trying to kill the PCs, they may just be ramping up the difficulty because the group is steamrolling pre-generated encounters. As encounters get harder...

A kender has the mentality and appearance of a child. There is no way I would allow a half-kender, not even as an NPC. It's basically take the old stories of how half-orcs came to be and make it far worse. To kender, I say no. Even rewriting the rules will not work, as someone wanting to play a...

I think it's been this way since 3e came out. Having said that, I've seen this questions asked elsewhere. GMs prefer point buy. Players have a more mixed attitude. What the GM says goes though. I voted for point buy. As a GM I never allow stat rolling. As a player I don't participate if stats...

"XP" for missions, although for D&D it's more about giving levels for when enough missions have occurred. I used to use the old standby of "bypassing monsters is the same as defeating them". I started in 2e and never experienced gp = XP, and that's not something I ever want to play through...

Has the CR system changed so much since 3e? I don't see how CR 5 is an "overwhelming challenge". That seems to be something a 5th-level party could fight, and would be a hard (but not unbeatable) challenge for a single 5th-level PC. There is no set CR for a gladiator. I'm a fan of Dark Sun...

I am not taken with some of the very specific powers, such as Hold Person and Tasha's Hideous Laughter. I don't see why you need to replicate so many spells. For the illusion spells, for instance, those should be "purely mental" (phantasms rather than glamers) which means new "spells". For any...

As far as I'm concerned Wisdom is following tradition. I know it would make psions more powerful, but I think they should drop somatic and verbal components. IMO this should be a subclass power. I don't see why someone who is a master of Mind over Matter needs Telepathy. I have...

I don't understand this. This is a very common mechanic for swashbucklers but it just doesn't make sense. Porthos would get nothing from this, for instance. I also don't like double dipping stats. Couldn't they just get a flat bonus, perhaps +1 or +2 to start, that increases with level...

I didn't get to play it a lot. I got to run it quite a bit, though. I only briefly ran 2e Dark Sun. Great setting but based on 2e rules. Not balanced. I routinely converted 2e adventures into 4e, since many of those adventures had cool themes. Also, more balanceable. I liked the 4e version...

I don't think that helps. Players tolerate unrealistic swordplay, archery, and explosives. I don't want to become an explosives expert to control black powder, and I don't need to be an explosives expert to control swordplay or archery.

Unlimited? No. Magic items have expensive costs, treasure is limited, and magic can be controlled (Dispel Magic, Antimagic Field, etc). On occasion I hear about someone destroying the economy because they used some spell combo to turn dirt into gold or something though. (Hasn't happened in any...

I learned the hard way not to do so in d20 Modern. (To nerf d20 Modern grenades, give them a wider area of effect.) I saw a GM mess up in Pathfinder and allow stockpiled alchemist explosives (turns out that's against the rules, for good reason). In a campaign where the PCs could use a signaling...

Too many "person" powers. Obviously Hold Anything is not balanced at 2nd-level. Psions used to have somewhat different powers, for instance, 2e's Id Insinuation was weaker than Hold Person (no defensive penalties) but worked on anything with a mind. (I have no idea what 5e Id Insinuation is...

I'm a psionics fan. I have little faith that WotC can produce a psionics system that is significantly different from magic without breaking the game. I still have trouble playing psychic characters because of how badly 2e D&D's psionics system was designed. Flavorful but broken. I'm not saying...

My only long-term 5e PC is a dwarf fighter with the Sentinel feat. Nobody ever provokes opportunity attacks. Sometimes I get a free attack from Sentinel, because opponents don't know I have that ability, but opportunity attacks are a "known" quantity so nobody provokes. OAs are less common than...

Some years back I played in an RPG where our group (with pretty strong ranged attacks) were being attacked by barbarians. We had a few hours notice, but expected them to assault at dawn. Having read too many books on medieval sieges (and playing a character with high Intelligence), I suggested...

I would like to see a random terrain generator. Any time I plan "interesting" terrain it ends up looking the same. Generals do not normally create terrain, just exploit what's there (well, sometimes they create terrain, especially if they had access to magic, but typically not).

They have rules like that, but less detailed. Crodlus are fast while kank soldiers are slower but tougher, and their workers are basically goats (they can eat anything, and give milk... er honey). Also they're social insects, and I think their flesh is poisonous, but that might be edition-dependent.

I've always found mount rules a little confusing. I don't know how long it takes for a horse to get tired, the difference between horse walking speed (maybe not that much faster?) and running speed (far faster than a human),and it seems like a hassle to dismount. I agree with stealing the...