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Give a +2 to hit on your next attack roll if you get your turn done in under a set amount of time. A minute is good. No chaining immediates or OAs — if something provokes from you and you slide it next to another MBA person, they don't get an MBA also. Or if you do an immediate forcing someone...

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Yeah, I set up a horror scenario in a Living Forgotten Realms adventure I co-wrote. There's no chance of PC death at all and maybe even kind of obvious about it, but I used it to set up a choice.

Not for nothing, but if you're a D&D designer in Seattle, odds are you might have other options that pay a lot more than WotC... Greg Bilsland is now Head of Launch Marketing of Amazon Web Services as an example.

Yup and fast-talking the GM* too! *In baseball, GM = General Manager, and he got paid a lot of money to be a good offensive shortstop, bad defensive one.

Yup, all of this. Another good example from baseball is actually defensive play instead of offensive. As mentioned, baseball is a series of one on one events. Ball goes to point X, fielder in the area tries to stop it, do they succeed or not? Golden Gloves are typically given to the player...

No, it wasn't. Next was explicitly designed to work assuming no magic items and then without telling anyone that they changed their mind, they designed 5e to no assumptions of having the items you wanted, but you would have approximately certain values. And we can know that by how Champion...

Not very well? The assumptions in 5e are 1 good magic per 4 levels that changes the numbers and 1 good consumable per level. That created a lot of problems for Adventurer's League where 2.5 adventures to go up a level divided by 6 adventurers per mod = ~1 good magic item per 2 levels given...

Right. Having played since the '70s, both 4e and 5e have expected amounts of wealth and magic baked into the system.

Next has no assumed wealth or magic level. 5e does have those, they're just not very clear about it and by the time it becomes clear that maybe things are off, you're already in levels that are unlikely to be played at all. This ambiguity causes a lot of easy to avoid problems on the other end...

Living Guild isn't a very good example of treasure under 4e rules for the following reasons: Has approximately double the expected magic items found, possibly even quadruple if you use inherent bonuses. It is possible to find items of your level+7 which can also potentially be choice of any...

No, the guidance is not wrong. If the DMG recommends doing something a particular way and the DM decides to ignore that guidance, they should know there's going to be a problem. Which stunningly enough, there is. It is up to the DM to realize they're ignoring guidance and then realize they...

A DM should most certainly be designing their encounters such that not getting a short rest every 2-3 combats should be exceedingly rare. And to realize that if they don't do that, they are deliberately going against DMG guidance and a consequence of that is that it will punish primarily short...

I mean the basic problem here is we don't know what the party composition is. Have another primary melee person in the group? Have widely spread out combats? Have casters who force lots of Dex saves? Have casters who target other things? As examples: Have a great weapon fighter or hand crossbow...

How are you getting both double-bladed scimitar proficiency and having it as a finesse weapon at 5th?

I mean, if you go by DMG guidelines, you get to refresh your ki points after every 2-3 combats. And a Monk can very easily do this at 6th: I move up to target A and swing at it. If I hit, I attempt to stun. If I stun, I move to target B. If target is not stunned, either because I missed or it...

Some more current builds in an insanely high magic shared worlds living campaign game with typically only 2 combats, predictable rulings, and lots of refluffing: Mirrakkah — Blackguard|Invoker 18. Uses Longsword of Summer as an implement to make damage fire as well as something else. Lots of big...

Please don't put infinite time links for the Discord. People can continually ask, but this way we don't get spammed

Altered Blistering Flourish slightly to represent that some DMs think the extra damage stacks with itself if you use it multiple times. So an 18 Cha Monk who uses it twice would get +8 damage with melee attacks(and therefore FoB). Desert Wind becomes significantly more valuable in such a scenario.

Heinsoo is a huge soccer fan — as in he likes to play it a lot. Mearls was playing a ton of FIFA on his game console(the real CCG influence?). And the words Defender, Striker and marking are actually from soccer. Basketball has some similarities, but it wasn't the sport the designers were...