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I suppose that entirely depends on whether you want those feats to mean he is getting as much as a 50% or even 75% bonus to his success. The -1 for each doesn't sound too bad but then again three feats would instantly guarantee a 1 every time that player rolls a D4.

I've really been tempted by trying different variables and making ranged combat different, but my main roadblock has been my reticence to add a bunch more variables to the system. It has worked so well for us in part because you don't have to remember so many different categories of things in...

Advantage makes more mechanical sense as -5 to your result would be way too much, it would even trivialize the system. On a D20 rolling with advantage is the mathematical equivalent of +5, but +/- 25% success chance isn't something you could represent with a +/- 5 modifier. Advantage on the...

You're right, it is pretty similar to the DMG there but there's a very important difference: practically all of the interesting and often weird alternatives presented in the DMG are too noodly and too well defined. To me narrative leveling basically means the opposite of thinking there should...

DND Reborn nailed it on the head here. It really is entirely up to the players and how accustomed they are to using the rules. The part where they're actually rolling becomes second nature and takes no time it all. The only time consuming part is the strategy but really it's just segregating...

A couple of months ago, we decided out of the blue to ask: why are feats only something you can pick up every four levels, and why make it a choice between them and ability scores? I mean I guess it's obvious why, if you think CR should mean something and you think "well a PC that is level 2...

I'm not sure I understand why it's a problem that D&D is a level based system. My players level up just like any other person playing the game. We simply don't use XP in order to determine when they achieve a new level. They must actually achieve a new level in the narrative, and are rewarded...

While I love looking at these kinds of things and will gratefully check out the thread you've referenced, I have to admit that a lot of the other things that people propose sound too noodly to me, and appear as if they might slow the pace of combat too much. The last thing I want is for an...

I'd like to offer an apology in advance for the less than ideal quotation format here, as sadly I don't have a good device for replying directly to your sectioned response like I would normally prefer. In lieu of that I'll be responding to each respective section with my own segmented sections...

When discussing this subject in different places, I've heard all kinds of responses. But the weirdest of the common responses is that playing evil characters is bad, and if you want to play an evil character you are a bad player. It's really the most bizarre thing. I mean they do understand...

Thank you very much for that, Morrus. The strangest thing happened and when I went to find this information again, and find the game developer's name, I couldn't because it appears Matt Colville took that video down? It's nowhere in his Running the Game playlist and I couldn't search YT for it...

Some time after I first tried DMing 5th edition, I ran into a video by Matt Colville in his Running the Game series on YouTube. In it he mentioned a really cool alternative to initiative that one of the creators of 5E came up with: D4 for ranged. D8 for melee. D12 for spellcasting. +D6 to move...

While I love your example because Eberron has a more dynamic world with more room for morally grey characters, it doesn't even begin to accomplish what Greyhawk did in this respect. Why do I say that? Because in the original core rulebook and then Greyhawk, the first official supplement, there...

Probably the main reason is that there's a cultural clash between the "old guard" who are normally familiar with multiple editions, and the many new players who only have experienced 5E because D&D never exploded onto the mainstream until after 5E. There's the sense that these new players are...

I'm not entirely sure you understand that I never meant that this was the standard way I run combat. And that's very probably my fault. The whole point was variety, and in both cases it was the players finding ways around what would otherwise have been normal combat encounters. Now when it...

We've all played around with different XP tables, fast progression, slow progression, and asked ourselves: what do I award XP for? However, how many stop to consider that XP might be a part of the rules of D&D but it never completely made sense for a TTRPG? Pretty much every mechanic in the...

These are good examples given in the poll but I don't really know everything I've awarded xp for. When I used xp at all (I don't any more), it could be for anything. At least, anything in game, I don't care who brings pizza or whatever, that's weird. Never saw the point in being in any way...

Definitely, there are players and DMs who are that way. In D&D everyone wins, every session, because the point is to have fun and the only failure state is not having fun. The players "winning" or "losing" makes it into a situation where there is some level of antagonism between the players...

You normally can't sell anything to anyone who isn't already predisposed on some level to like it. But these are things you can mention if you know newer players who seem as if they would be interested in a more alternative system such as Greyhawk: Tell them it's a big shift towards the world...

Here's the best personal example I can give about D&D being 100% up to the players and DM when it comes to the amount of combat: So in our current campaign, during the second session, I abducted the party and left them underground in essentially a testing arena for the pirates who they are...