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Yeah, "Bounded Accuracy" isn't really used in 5e at all and where it does manage to show up, those are usually the areas that 5e fans all consider the worst parts of 5e. Bad defenses or skills that never go up at all, despite traveling with experts at said skills and lots of traveling downtime...

4e Druids can by default shift into Owlbears.

5e math is roughly +1/2 per level. i.e. 4e/2. And the 19th level caster nearly auto-hits the 7th level monster and takes it out with any control effect. And then you end up with things that are more easily handled than 4e minions by casters. Which is boring.

Bounded Accuracy doesn't exist. It is just 4e/2 math made deliberately obscure. You get +9 to hit instead of +18, +6 to important skills instead of +12. Having monsters transform from boss to regular to minion as the PCs gain levels just means that a 7th level monster is easy to use at...

Watching the trailer of Guardians of the Galaxy without spending the time to read any of the text because most people watching a trailer will not bother to do that — show, don't tell: What do they all do? Do any of them have powers? Do we see any scenes that reveal any major plot points of the...

The point is that regardless of whether or not you think anything needs to be explained, they are explicitly explaining the movie in the trailers. Stranger Things not explicitly explaining things is a sign of strength, of confidence that people will get the story that's being told. D&D Movie...

I think I would note two general issues: The trailers are showing too many 'cool' details that in a good film, would be great to see in the actual film — as a very specific point, there's a mimic in a trailer. On what planet do I need to know there's a mimic in the movie given that a point of a...

Yeah, the basic problem is this: WotC: "We declare the 1.0a license no longer authorized" Small publisher about to sink $1000 into writing/arting/editing say a PF2 supplement: "uh..." WotC: <glares legally>

There's a bunch of online 4e campaigns going on with the 4e discord server here — almost 4000 people now: https://discord.gg/ukj74hkT

Yup, all this. I think in general, Jeremy Crawford(or someone who works for Crawford) sets out design guidelines, and then R&D kind of follows them? Part of the problem of fuzziness in game design is sometimes no one is clear what one hand is doing — as an example, 5e's typical campaign hands...

If you have a high enough DC and attacking a bad save, odds are your target doesn't have enough options to get out of it because they're likely to be hit and then they are rarely making a saving throw. That's save or suck. And again, this is base 5e. Optimized parties tend to have a Paladin who...

Sure 5e is a rocket tag game. Most PCs/Monsters by default have 3-4 bad saving throws and at least 2 of the big 3. Casters have access to multi-targeting incapacitate early on and eventually, you get to the point where you can have very high odds of incapacitating an entire encounter with one...

I think this is an example of why a session 0 is a good thing and why it is good to get buy-in. DM: "I want to make the game feel challenging. I don't want to get into a game of 'team who goes first wins rocket tag' in order to challenge you. I'd also like to see everyone in roughly the same...

In general, the more straightforward way of looking at it is: How much damage do you do on average with a punch? Pretend for a second that it is 20 damage. Say you hit on a 5. So 15 regular punches = 300 damage. Add +1 = hit on a 4. So 16 regular punches = 320 damage. Can you do more than 20...

I'm the Andy listed at about minutes 9-11. But basically, the "typical campaign" of 5e says you get about 1 consumable per level and 1 permanent, number changing magic item every 4 levels. So if you're handing out more magic items than that, your campaign might have to really ramp up difficulty...

I'm the Andy Pearlman mentioned on 364 around minutes 9-11.

You just give a boost at every proficiency +1 step. So 5, 9, 13 and 17.

Right. Where 5e doesn't use 4e/2 math, it is usually something of a disaster within the system at higher levels. All saves should go up by +4 from 1-20, both on player and monster side, so levels 9-20 work better and less rocket tag.

The reason proficiency starts at +2 is so 16 mod(+3)+2 = +5 or hits AC 13, the standard CR 1/8-CR 3 AC, on an 8. Or 65% of the time, essentially 2/3rds of the time. Which is basically what 4e does. Just in general, 5e uses a ton of 4e/2 math. You can expect to roughly go up +9 to hit over 19...

I think, intelligence can definitely influence fighting style. Does someone have a tell? How do you use spatial awareness? D&D tends to represent that by level and experience, but... There's this great example of Andre Agassi owning Boris Becker on the tennis court because he realized Becker...